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Just got this emailed today...

"Hello Sir/Madam,

My name is Engr. Kewis Kingston,



I am on island contract business, i want you to know about my son that
is doing his wedding on 16th May 2010 in london, UK. I'd like a
perform of suprises to them. Which is the reason am contacting you to
book your service for this wedding Ocassion.

Please contact me ,if you are available to perform the above
mentioned date so that we can continue our conversation through the
email because of my out of service network phone. I need you to
provide me with your performance date on the night before the wedding
and on the wedding service. Do inform me also if you accept payment
through credit card which is going to be my mode of online payment.


I awaits your response to confirm this booking,

Regards,
Kewis Kingston"

Yes. Delete it.

Barry

Ditto. Scam. Ignore.

I don't mean to sound Niaeve, but why is this a scam? I'm not disagreeing, I'm just asking why do we know its a scam?


Tom
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russpie wrote: Do inform me also if you accept payment
through credit card which is going to be my mode of online payment.

Yep! Scam!
You could always string him along for a laugh though.

A lack of grammar also makes it an obvious scam

Eshly wrote:I don't mean to sound Niaeve, but why is this a scam? I'm not disagreeing, I'm just asking why do we know its a scam?

Because I am a mentalist.

Also, run a check on Google. It's quite an old scam.

russpie wrote: I need you to provide me with your performance date on the night before the wedding and on the wedding service.

I don't even understand what he means by this!



Maybe you should tell him that there is an administration charge of £85 (UK Pounds) but he will be refunded this on the completion of the transaction as well as receiving a portion of £3,000,000 (Pounds UK) if he helps you to transfer it from the bank account of the widow of a General who was in charge of Nigeria.

Eshly wrote:I don't mean to sound Niaeve, but why is this a scam? I'm not disagreeing, I'm just asking why do we know its a scam?


Tom
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Tom, would you accept this booking, or would you question it?
With experience you will learn whats a genuine enquiry and whats a pile of crock!

Plus, if memory serves me right, didn't Lee post something like this a few months back?

Yup, it's a completely bog standard pile of old toot. Why don't these people at least try to put together their own words? Maybe they buy the scam from another criminal. If so, it's the scammer scammed!

every time i get a scam mail, i always reply and ask "please subtract the processing fee from the amount you have promised me...here's my paypal email..."

never hear a thing back...

my favourite though was a nigerian fella saying that the queen had given his majesty the king minister a special ATM card, just for me...and just needed to pay a release fee...

Weird. Gordon Brown emailed me with the very same ploy.

Mr_Grue wrote:Weird. Gordon Brown emailed me with the very same ploy.

Gordon's always doing that. He's a rotter.

you've gotta keep an eye out for Gordon...

Best one I've received was from someone claiming to be a UN Envoy to Nigeria. They'd been given 1 Million Dollars by the UN to reimburse people who had been scammed. Apparently I was one of them so if I sent along my details they would reimburse me. Bloody clever one.

100% scam. It's got "lad" written all over it. It's what's known as an over payment scam. Either the card is stolen and he wants to use you as a money mule. Or there will be some problem and he'll send you a stolen or fake cheque for more than you charge.

Here's how it works.

Basically he comes up with some excuse to pay you more than you want. Say you charge £200.00. He says he'll pay you £3000.00 as that's the set limit on the card or he has a cheque made out for that much that he can't cash for some spurious reason. He'll post it to you, ask you to cash it, deduct the rest and pay him back by western union transfer. By the time you find out the card is stolen or the cheque is fake it's too late.

Break all contact. Don't give him any personal details, and under no circumstances send photo id (which he will most likely ask for) as this gets recycled and used in other scams with your name and face to them.

If you check the IP's of these mails, 98 times out of a 100 they originate from the same part of the globe.