Comments on: Email Scam Targets Photographers http://blog.focalpower.com/2008/02/06/email-scam-targets-photographers/ The Official Blog from the FocalPower Team. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:44:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Anthony J Howe http://blog.focalpower.com/2008/02/06/email-scam-targets-photographers/#comment-596 Anthony J Howe Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:42:37 +0000 http://blog.focalpower.com/2008/02/06/email-scam-targets-photographers/#comment-596 Yes, I just received a scam e-mail from a person calling himself Jeff Coleman and his wife to be Mary, who apparently live in Malaysia and want to get married in the UK. After agreeing to a date and a price for photography they then inform you that, some uncle has left them a wedding gift of £4000,00 and that the uncle will send you the check for you to deposit into your account and take out the amount for your wedding, and that yo are to help the couple transfer rest of the money to magazine publishers account as they want the images to be entered into magazines. It was stopped there, but no doubt what would have happened then, is that I would have received a check for 4,000 (forgery or fake) and I would have then put into my account. It would take a few weeks for the check to clear as it is overseas. But the check would never clear, it would just bounce. Before that happens though they would contact me to say there was a mistake of the amount, say for example, 2,000 paid too much and for me to send the dfference to them, so that they would pocket 2,000. No way. A total Scam. Yes, I just received a scam e-mail from a person calling himself Jeff Coleman and his wife to be Mary, who apparently live in Malaysia and want to get married in the UK.
After agreeing to a date and a price for photography they then inform you that, some uncle has left them a wedding gift of £4000,00 and that the uncle will send you the check for you to deposit into your account and take out the amount for your wedding, and that yo are to help the couple transfer rest of the money to magazine publishers account as they want the images to be entered into magazines.
It was stopped there, but no doubt what would have happened then, is that I would have received a check for 4,000 (forgery or fake) and I would have then put into my account. It would take a few weeks for the check to clear as it is overseas. But the check would never clear, it would just bounce. Before that happens though they would contact me to say there was a mistake of the amount, say for example, 2,000 paid too much and for me to send the dfference to them, so that they would pocket 2,000.
No way. A total Scam.

]]> By: photographyVoter.com http://blog.focalpower.com/2008/02/06/email-scam-targets-photographers/#comment-165 photographyVoter.com Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:23:46 +0000 http://blog.focalpower.com/2008/02/06/email-scam-targets-photographers/#comment-165 <strong>Email Scam Targets Photographers...</strong> Seems to be another email based scam going around the internet...this time targeting Photographers. All photographers need to be on alert!... Email Scam Targets Photographers…

Seems to be another email based scam going around the internet…this time targeting Photographers. All photographers need to be on alert!…

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