Thursday, October 14, 2010

Scam Email: Daniel Andrews

This guy took his time getting to the core of his scam.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Andrews
wrote:
Your Name: Daniel Andrews

Your Email: d.andrews207@gmail.com

Subject: Landscape Painings

Message: Hello, I saw your contact while surfing via the
internet.
I will like to know if you have a Landscape or Seascape painting in
stock of
price range not exceeding $700. Get back to me if there is any available
for
sale. Regards, Daniel Andrews
next email after the artist replied:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Daniel Andrews [d.andrews207@gmail.com] wrote:
Hi,

Thanks for your prompt response to my request. I am interested in the one
called "Tokyo Tower" under the Kimono series. Please let me know if it is
available and the selling price?

Regards,

Daniel
and finally his real intent begins to emerge on the third email:
From: Daniel Andrews [d.andrews207@gmail.com]
Date: Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: Landscape Painings

Hi,

Thanks for your help. I will prefer to have it unframmed. As regards
the payment I will give instruction to my clients there in the united
states to send you a cheque in that amount. And I will be needing the
address, the name to which the cheque will be issued to include your
telephone number. So please get back to me soonest with all this
information. Once i am in receipt of the nessesary infomation we can
set up the transactions.

I will be arranging for a courier pick up at your location as soon as
the check cleared by your bank. That way the painting is secured. So
there is no need for shipping charges.

I await your response soonest.

Regards,

Daniel.
I think it's a thing about the software the scammers use to generate these emails that SO many of them are signed by their faked name with a period. Just a weird little niggly thing. Fortunately, the artist googled the name, found this blog and enough other emails with the same content to know that her email exchange was, in fact, not with a real customer. At least she won't become a statistic.
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16 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 15, 2010 at 8:17 PM

    I don't understand what the scam is. This guy has contacted us as well.

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  2. KatieMoeOctober 15, 2010 at 8:28 PM

    The scam is basically this: they do everything they can to try to convince you they want to purchase from you. At some point in the exchange, they let on they are using a shipping company to handle all their transactions. They say, typically, they will send you a check FedEx overnight (or lately they also say they will pay with a credit card) and the shipping company will come pick it up.

    When the check arrives, it is *always* for more than the amount owed - by a lot. Often over thousands of dollars. They will say they didn't know what the shipping company needed, so be so kind as to just send the difference back to the shipping company, via Western Union (or sometimes by check but not usually).

    There is no shipping company. You are sending the "difference" back to them. And once money has been collected at the other end of Western Union, it is permanently gone.

    They are never after your art or item(s). What they do with it, I have no idea. They are after that cash.

    Don't communicate with them and delete the email as you would any spam.

    People are still falling for this scam and I'm on a mission to reduce the number of victims.

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  3. KatieMoeOctober 15, 2010 at 8:32 PM

    oh... and silly me, I forgot to mention: the original check or credit card will always turn out to be fraudulent (even if the credit card clears it is often because it has not been reported as stolen YET and you can bet a chargeback is in the works when the fraud is discovered).

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  4. AnonymousNovember 5, 2010 at 5:13 AM

    This person also contacted me the only difference was the email d.andrews205@gmail.com. I am a massage therapist and he scheduled a 2hr massage for 6 weeks. the rest was the same he claimed his client had made out the check in the full amount due to him and wanted me to send amount over what was to pay me to him.

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  5. KatieMoeNovember 5, 2010 at 6:48 AM

    A whole bunch of massage therapist scam emails have been going out lately. We've been reported on them here. Search on the name Roberto Bocca on this blog and you'll see more.

    Makes me think clearly that the same individual (or small group) is responsible for all a *whole* bunch of these scam emails under all kinds of variations.

    Could be the problem is not wide spread but seems wide spread just because they send out hundreds of thousands of these at a time.

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  6. AnonymousNovember 7, 2010 at 7:01 AM

    THIS IS A SCAM. BEWARE!!! I was recently contacted by "Daniel Andrews from the UK" using e-mail address d.andrews202@gmail.com He contacted me to pre-schedule 5 massages during his upcoming visit to the US. I was very wary of his e-mails, which are nearly identical to the ones above re: purchasing art, except that he altered the subject. I just received a fake money order for several thousand dollars more than we agreed. And they are requesting I send him the difference. I have contacted my bank, and this is a scam!

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  7. KatieMoeNovember 7, 2010 at 7:22 AM

    The GREAT news is you made *them* spend a little money sending you the check and now you know it is a scam and you will not lose any money. Search on this blog for massage therapist and you will see a scam email is being targeted to thousands and thousands of massage therapists under different faked names.

    I am beginning to notice so many of these emails kind of ALL look alike and so many of the faked names and disposable email accounts they use seem to be pulled from a relatively small list. We keep running across small variations of the same names and email addresses (randomized with some numbers in them).

    If a small group of people are perpetrating the huge volume of scam emails we all see - it makes me wonder... is it that it is hard for authorities to catch these guys, or is it just not worth their time and resources yet?

    Good you caught yours as a scam! Congrats!

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2013 at 6:52 PM

    I am talking about him getting a gun at this email onesmanfood@live.com.... I think he is a scam for sure...

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  9. AnonymousDecember 30, 2015 at 5:48 PM

    Greetings Kathleen,

    I got this one today. I got a feeling about it. Scam

    Cheers

    Begin forwarded message:

    From: Daniel Lachlan [dannnslanhkkan@hotmail.com]
    Subject: Art
    Date: December 30, 2015 12:45:12 AM PST


    Hope this message finds you well,im Daniel from Maryland,was browsing through the internet and my eyes caught some of your works,i'm interested in purchasing some of your works for some spaces within my new house to make it unique and beautiful.

    Can I have few images of your recent works?i won't mind having your main website so as to explore more into your works.kindly reply with your cell number.Daniel

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  10. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2016 at 6:20 AM

    I got the same one. Only, "Daniel" was from Hawaii and looking for paintings to make his space there unique and beautiful.

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    1. AnonymousJune 2, 2016 at 5:05 PM

      I got exactly the same one above from Hawaiian Daniel!

      Delete
  11. AnonymousApril 26, 2016 at 7:20 AM

    Likewise, just got the same email from "dannnslanhkkan@hotmail.com".

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  12. AnonymousApril 27, 2016 at 5:43 AM

    Seems like "Daniel" are actively looking for art :) I also received this yesterday:

    Hope this message finds you well,im Daniel from Hawaii,was browsing through the internet and my eyes caught some of your works,i'm interested in purchasing some of your works for some spaces within my new house to make it unique and beautiful.
    Can I have few images of your recent works?i won't mind having your main website so as to explore more into your works.kindly reply with your cell number.Daniel

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  13. AnonymousApril 27, 2016 at 8:39 AM

    Got the same from dannnslanhkkan@hotmail.com. Looks like Daniel's search to make his home "unique and beautiful" is a wide one indeed.

    "Hope this message finds you well,im Daniel from Hawaii,was browsing through the internet and my eyes caught some of your works,i'm interested in purchasing some of your works for some spaces within my new house to make it unique and beautiful.
    Can I have few images of your recent works?i won't mind having your main website so as to explore more into your works.kindly reply with your cell number.Daniel"

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  14. AnonymousApril 27, 2016 at 4:41 PM

    Daniel's search to make his new home "unique and beautiful" is very wide indeed. I got the same from dannnslanhkkan@hotmail.com

    "Hope this message finds you well,im Daniel from Hawaii,was browsing through the internet and my eyes caught some of your works,i'm interested in purchasing some of your works for some spaces within my new house to make it unique and beautiful.
    Can I have few images of your recent works?i won't mind having your main website so as to explore more into your works.kindly reply with your cell number.Daniel"

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  15. AnonymousMay 2, 2016 at 4:32 PM

    Ditto Same thing today. Same Daniel.

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