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Teachers, beware of spoof e-mails (payment by cheques)
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11 Jul 2006 Tue 02:36 pm |
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I just got another spoof e-mail and I decided to warn others about this. You see two of these kind e-mails copied below. They come with different stories but they all have the same things in common.
1. The person wants to pay you by cheque and needs to know your address and full name. 2. For some reason you are asked to send back some of the money after you clear the cheque in a bank.
3. The bank then realizes that the cheque was fraudulent and requires it's money back. Be warned that banks have the legal right to get the money back from you. This is actually why people fall into this since they don't know that banks can ask for money if cheque turns out to be fraudulent.
4. You end up losing the money you have send back.
On this page the cheque fraud is explained related to buying goods.
http://www.gumtree.com/seller_fraud_alert.html
Be warned. Don't fall into it. They choose teachers that have been registered with some websites etc.
Quote:
Hello
Good day to you over there, I need a tutor for my son (Jerry), i got your advert while surfing through the internet and i really want my child to be taught by you.Jerry is 17 year old and easily catch up. I was base in France.
1.CHARGE FOR AN HOUR....
2.TOTAL CHARGES FOR 2 MONTH THAT HE WILL BE TAUGHT 3 TIMES PER WEEK..
3.FULL NAME
4.HOME ADDRESS
5.YOUR PHONE NUMBER...
My mode of payment will be by CHECK.Looking forward to read from you as soon as possible
Regards.
Mrs Taquita Campbell... |
Quote:
Thanks very much for your mail.I'm very happy that you have Graduated.The
price is ok by me. 1 - 6 weeks a week is ok by me.
Kindly tell me how much it will cost my daughter for 6months to study with
you. Her native language is English.Formally he has a teacher sometimes
November but the Teacher lost his Wife, and he decided to quit teaching to
take proper care of his Family, after we might have payed him for
6months.After all said and done, he has agreed to make the cheque payment
to any teacher that we want to handle our daughter for us for the Turkish
Language. The Turkish language is very essential and important in my
daughter life.
I will like you to assure me that you are going to take proper care of my
daughter.As i'm ready to pay all her neccessary Expenses.
However, i will like you to get back to me with your mailing address where
the cheque payment will be send to. |
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06 Mar 2008 Thu 10:08 pm |
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Thanks to Erdinc. I got some e-mails like that.
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06 Mar 2008 Thu 10:59 pm |
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I got one once, telling me I had one €2.5m on the lottery. Knowing it was a scam I thought I would play along. So I started the ball rolling and just wondered how long it would be before they asked for money. Three emails later, they wanted me to send €20 so that I could claim my money! That is when I forwarded all the emails to the Lottery Fraud department hehe 
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06 Mar 2008 Thu 11:09 pm |
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Quoting libralady: I got one once, telling me I had one €2.5m on the lottery. Knowing it was a scam I thought I would play along. So I started the ball rolling and just wondered how long it would be before they asked for money. Three emails later, they wanted me to send €20 so that I could claim my money! That is when I forwarded all the emails to the Lottery Fraud department hehe |
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07 Mar 2008 Fri 04:14 pm |
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Now in the U.S. we are receiving emails from the IRS.."Internal Revenue Service". I received it at work and it had my company name address even my middle name. It said the IRS was scheduling an audit of my last years tax returns, I about died.  It even had a link to the IRS to see when your scheduled audit date was.
I decided to email the IRS and they said it was a fraud. They never send emails to an individual to audit. I can't tell you how relieved I was. 
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07 Mar 2008 Fri 04:49 pm |
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Quoting teaschip1: Now in the U.S. we are receiving emails from the IRS.."Internal Revenue Service". I received it at work and it had my company name address even my middle name. It said the IRS was scheduling an audit of my last years tax returns, I about died. It even had a link to the IRS to see when your scheduled audit date was.
I decided to email the IRS and they said it was a fraud. They never send emails to an individual to audit. I can't tell you how relieved I was. |
Probably a scam to get you to turn over your personal information...ie..social security/banking info. Thanks for the warning teas!! These days I won't think it was unusual to get an email from the IRS...especially since I file my taxes electronically.
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16 Oct 2009 Fri 02:26 am |
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That´s called advance-fee fraud:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud
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17 Oct 2013 Thu 03:17 pm |
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Thanks a lot, mate! Will be on the lookout for that.
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