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Friday, October 22, 2010

Scam Email: James Peter

We've posted about this one before, but I received another one just this morning so I am posting it again. Nothing different about this one except instead of "Australia" it is "Norway". And scammers lately have been using the method of saying upfront they will pay by credit card - trying to convince people that makes their request more legitimate. But it is not more legitimate. The card will turn out to be stolen - even if it clears as good, because scammers use stolen cards and rely upon that short period of time before it is reported as stolen. But it will end up in a chargeback. Also some scammers say they will pay by credit card but then have some reason later in their emails as to why they will then send a check instead, getting their scam back to the more traditional format. In all formats, they pay more than is owed and ask you to send the difference back (usually to some non-existant shipping company) via Western Union (because once it is claimed from Western Union, there is no getting back or tracing who picked it up).

Okay, this one is short and sweet because he's waiting for me to reply (and I won't) to tell his longer story. The originating server IP is 67.220.201.146 [server.girlkw.com] out of Oklahoma but scammers often hack into servers from which to send out their hundreds of thousands of emails. So no telling on this one.

Subject: Order Inquiry
From: James [jamespeter147@gmail.com]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - server.girlkw.com [67.220.201.146]
X-Source-Args: /usr/bin/php /home/girlkwco/public_html/mailer.php

Hello,

I want to place an order in your store,and i will like to know if you ship to Norway and  my method of payment will be credit card. So please let me know if you can assist me with the order ,And please do not forget to include your web page in your replying back to my mail.I will await your prompt response as soon as you receive this mail.

Regards
Purchasing Manager

61 comments:

  1. I just received one like this. Only they want me to ship to their store in Spain. Only they are browsing my website from NIGERIA! (...thank you google analytics!). And thank you for this blog!!!!!!

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  2. This goes to show you how uncreative they are with these fake names - here is the same name being used on another scam approach - the one that me, it is hard to believe ANYONE still falls for:

    From: Mr. James Peter [adom233@att.net]
    Subject: Dear Friend, Pls Reply Urgent‏
    Reply-To: james.pt90@hotmail.com
    To: undisclosed recipients: ;

    Dear friend.

    My name is Mr. James Peter, a Senior Staff and Regional Branch Manager here in our Bank at International Commercial Bank Ghana. I got your information during my searcher on your Country Chambers of Comers. I am 47 Years of Age and Married with five Lovely Kids. It may Interest you to hear that I am a Man of PEACE.

    I only hope we can assist each other. I have packaged a financial Transaction that Will benefit both of us, as the Regional Bank Manager, it is my duty to send in a Financial report to my head Office in the capital City Accra at the end of each year. On the course of last year 2010 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Seven Million Five Hundred thousand United State Dollars [$7.5million] Which my Head Office, are not aware.

    Then I decided to place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without anyBeneficiary. As an Officer of the Bank I can not be directly connected to this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist me to receive this money into your bank account. I am willing to give you 40% of the total fund. Note there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is your honest and assist me to claim as the original depositor of this fund so that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account, I am going to programmed your name in the database of the Bank as the real depositor of the funds past 3 years ago and you want to close the account to be transfer back to you in your country.

    If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much. As soon as I receive your response I will details you on how we can achieve it successfully. Please for any further communications; get in touch with me through my Alternative
    email at (james_pt.h2@live.com)

    Best Regards,
    Mr.James Peter
    Cell 00233247126979

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  3. I got the norway one! Thanks for the heads up! It was word for word same email james 147. thanks

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  4. Anyone ever got something form James Peter regarding the estate of a long lost relative?

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    1. Yes, and asking for TELEPHONE number...which I declined. Who knows what they would do with that????

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  5. The scammers seem to draw from a list of fake names because after awhile, they are seem so familiar. And scammers will use these names across several types of scams. They don't limit themselves to one type.

    But the estate of a long lost relative is a very old scam and one, it seems to me, so easy to recognize as a scam. Typically because the amount they reference in their initial email is always so huge as to be ridiculous. They get their victims by asking for fees to "claim" the money or other methods of getting the victim to send THEM money.

    This is an easy one to just delete.

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  6. James is still at it. Received one of his emails just this week 01.11.11

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  7. And one more from jamespeter147@gmail.com received 03.11.2011

    Good day,
    We browsed through your web page and we are interested in ordering some of your products,we are located in Norway,we will like to know if you have the items in stocks,so kindly get back to me with the right contact person email,phone # and confirmation of website so that we can place my order quickly, and i want to know if you have your own personal shipper or can the order be picked up at your store,please advise so that we can proceed by going ahead to place the order.
    Regards
    Purchasing Manager

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  8. This was received 12th November 2011:

    Good day,

    Thanks for your response below here is the list and qty of items that our company needs let us know if you have this items available in stock at the moment or the ones you can supply us with at this time.

    [ACTUAL ORDER REMOVED TO MAINTAIN PRIVACY]

    Kindly calculate the total cost of our order so that we can provide our credit card account information for the payment of the order and the shipment. But about the shipment we will have our own shipper that will pick up our order directly from your location,we would have preferred to ship via DHL, but we don't have account with them anymore due to their high tariff,so you DON'T have to include the shipping fees,just give us the estimate of the order ONLY for now,So we will use our own shipping agent they will come and pick our order from your location directly.

    PLEASE NOTE: So as soon as we send our credit card account information to you,the payment of our order will be charged on our credit card account information and also for the payment of the shipping,So you will contact our own Shipping agent,once you are able to get the shipping cost from,you can also include the 5% Processing fees if required for the charge of the shipping fees. We would have paid the shipping fees our self directly to the shipping agent,but at this time they dont accept credit card for payment,as they are not yet set up to take credit card for payment for now,they are upgrading their credit card machine at this time. so what we want you to do is to contact our shipping agent so that they can figure out how much pick up and shipping would be,because we already have some large merchandise with them already which after picking our order from you,they will then send them together to us here in Norway,so please note all this and get back to us with the estimate of the order so that we can give you the shipper's details for you to contact them and find out the cost for shipping,so as to get our order processed and completed.

    Thanks for your corporation.

    Company Name : James Mall.
    Address: Universitetsgaten 47,
    N-0162 OSLO, Norway
    Telephone: + 47 25 42 02 75
    Telefax: + 47 22 33 71 77

    Best Regards
    Sales Manager

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  9. Further to the previous comment - he/they then replied:

    From: jamespeter147@gmail.com

    "Hello,

    Can you please email me with the total cost of my order and don't worry about the shipping cost because i have my personal shipping agent that will come for the pick up of the package in you stores and i have inform them about this and they told me the best way to come for the pick up in your store is for you to email me with your store address and the time the package will be ready for pick up with your convenience time and date, so please kindly get back to me with this details along with the total of my order so that i can give you my card details waiting for your swift response Warmest Regards."

    ABSOLUTE SCAM - STEER CLEAR. I truly hope that we manage to beat them at their own game SOON!

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  10. They certainly wrote out a long story, trying to head off all the questions that are going to come up as sounding "fishy". And yet it is still so fishy. Too many funky things going on in this story.

    Glad you didn't fall for it.

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  11. uhh just got one...bloody hell

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  12. I cant believe it!!!! I was about to fall in the trap today..Just received one exactly like the one above few days ago from Norway..I was completly intrigued as its a unusual way to place an order..when I saw that the shipping agent he asked me to contact was in Malaysia..I became more than suspicious, couldnt found any detail about its company and just typed james peter and here we are I found this page....Oh thank god thats the end of the road for this story....

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  13. By the way thank you very much Katie for posting this otherwise I would be still wondering....

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  14. Thank you Katie for your post about James Peter I also received an email

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  15. Scam! Scam! Scam!

    We are a textiles company (not art in the "strict sense"). Same scam. Same wording. Same address. Different name "Michael Mall". Malaysian freight forwarder may be legit:
    Freight Logistics Delivery
    175 Jalan Ampang
    50450 Kuala Lumpur
    Malaysia
    MALAYSIA

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  16. Even if the scammers sometimes pick the name and address of real freight forwarders, it doesn't mean they have any real relationship with those companies. This is just the part of the scam where they justify why their victim is sending money to the "shipper", via Western Union, because then it is just the scammers themselves waiting at the other end of Western Union to pick up that money and disappear.

    But you make a good point - some scammers will just make up the name of the shipping company and some scammers will grab the name and information from a real company that they have no relationship with.

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  17. I got the same email , and he sent 3 money orders that i was to cash it at my bank and send the money to india some where , dont fall for these scams !!!!!!!!!

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  18. He's still at I just got one today - wanting to order goods for his Company in Norway. I am so glad I checked this out before being totally sucked in. Thanks.

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  19. We just got this one too, we are in Canada with a small gallery, he wanted books. When I asked him to do a money transfer we got an angry reply back. thank you soo much for posting this!

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  20. We received one from joemark77@gmail.com company name & address: Joe Mall, Universitetsgaten 47, N-0162 OSLO, Norway saying his shipping company was:
    Freight Logistics Delivery
    175 Jalan Ampang,
    50450 Kuala Lumpur,
    Malaysia
    logisticsgoods@ymail.com

    email content:

    Kindly calculate the total cost of our order so that we can provide our credit card account information for the payment of the order and the shipment.
    But about the shipment we will have our own shipper that will pick up our order directly from your location,we would have preferred to ship via DHL, but we don't have account with them anymore due to their high tariff,so you DON'T have to include the shipping fees,just give us the estimate of the order ONLY for now,So we will use our own shipping agent they will come and pick our order from your location directly.

    PLEASE NOTE: So as soon as we send our credit card account information to you,the payment of our order will be charged on our credit card account information and also for the payment of the shipping,So you will contact our own shipping agent,once you are able to get the shipping cost from,you can also include the 5% Processing fees if required for the charge of the shipping fees. We would have paid the shipping fees our self directly to the shipping agent,but at this time they dont accept credit card for payment,as they are not yet set up to take credit card for payment for now,they are upgrading their credit card machine at this time. so what we want you to do is to contact our shipping agent so that they can figure out how much pick up and shipping would be,because we already have some large merchandise with them already which after picking our order from you,they will then send them together to us here in Norway,so please note all this and get back to us with the estimate of the order so that we can give you the shipper's details for you to contact them and find out the cost for shipping,so as to get our order processed and completed.

    Thanks for your corporation.

    Well done for making people aware of these scammers everybody

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  21. WOW! Same dude, different name:

    Powell Paul
    Company:
    Powell Mall
    Universitetsgaten 47
    N-0162 Oslo, Norway
    Different phone number

    BUT....SAME SHIPPING COMPANY! Coincidentally tho, the contacts name was none other than.... Robin Paul!

    A lot of thing should've tipped me off...what finally did was when they INSISTED I use their shipping company, (even tho I was quoted about $1100 LESS by another company) but that I needed to pay them thru Western Union....Funny, they couldn't wire the money for the merchandise tho, for that they wanted to email me a credit card number.
    WTF???

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  22. HAd Exactly the same as thins today. Getthese quite frequesntly but didnt catch on as its usually Japan and they were in Norway. I offered him free shipping but still insisted on using his shippers. Sussed them out when their shippers address was in Malaysia.

    Dodgy Time Wasters!!!

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  23. GOT ONE today!?! Gmail sent that straight to SPAM! Glad I did a quick search about this. This time is shipping to Norway.

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  24. I just received a second Email from this Guy! I think is easy to see it. The language and tone is totally weird

    Kindly calculate the total cost of our order so that we can
    provide our credit card account information for the payment of the
    order and the shipment.
    But about the shipment we will have our own shipper that will pick up
    our order directly from your location,we would have preferred to ship
    via DHL, but we don't have account with them anymore due to their high
    tariff,so you DON'T have to include the shipping fees,just give us the
    estimate of the order ONLY for now,So we will use our own shipping
    agent they will come and pick our order from your location directly.

    PLEASE NOTE: So as soon as we send our credit card account information
    to you,the payment of our order will be charged on our credit card
    account information and also for the payment of the shipping,So you
    will contact our own shipping agent,once you are able to get the
    shipping cost from,you can also include the 5% Processing fees if
    required for the charge of the shipping fees. We would have paid the
    shipping fees our self directly to the shipping agent,but at this time
    they dont accept credit card for payment,as they are not yet set up to
    take credit card for payment for now,they are upgrading their credit
    card machine at this time. so what we want you to do is to contact our
    shipping agent so that they can figure out how much pick up and
    shipping would be,because we already have some large merchandise with
    them already which after picking our order from you,they will then
    send them together to us here in Norway,so please note all this and
    get back to us with the estimate of the order so that we can give you
    the shipper's details for you to contact them and find out the cost
    for shipping,so as to get our order processed and completed.

    Thanks for your corporation.

    Company Name : Micheal Mall.
    Address: Universitetsgaten 47,
    N-0162 OSLO, Norway
    Telephone: + 47 25 42 02 75
    Telefax: + 47 22 33 71 77


    Best Regards
    Sales Manager

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  25. I received exactly the same info today! in fact he's kept me going for a few days but all the emails are the same wording. The name used was Joe Mark, I think he slipped up as he also called himself Joe Mall in another email!... same shipper info too.

    i hope someone catches him and give him a smack!

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  26. Hi all-
    I got the exact same one today myself! Problem is, we ship via Canada Post, for free, so he's going to have a hard time convincing me to pay something to someone else - perhaps he'll also wish to pay by cheque...
    I'll look forward to what this scam develops into...
    Thanks for the heads up!

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  27. Got the same email from James Peters a few days ago. He wanted to order some of my photos. Exactly the same wording, same address in Norway and same insisting on giving me his credit card info.
    We exchanged emails few times but even after I told him that I can't order for him and he will have to do it himself he sent me this:

    Can you please email me with the total cost of my order and don't worry about the shipping cost because i have my personal shipping agent that will come for the pick up of the package in you stores and i have inform them about this and they told me the best way to come for the pick up in your store is for you to email me with your store address and the time the package will be ready for pick up with your convenience time and date, so please kindly get back to me with this details along with the total of my order so that i can give you my card details waiting for your swift response Warmest Regards.

    Damn scammers.

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  28. Just got the letter wanting about $30,000 worth of art to be paid by credit card by Mary James but they want me to contact their shippers in Malasia (same address as you mentioned). Thanks for posting about this and saving me alot of time tracking this down as another scam. Judith

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  29. HERE IS ANOTHER ONE... BLOCK THEIR EMAILS AND DELETE...

    DO NOT EVEN REPLY TO ANY OF THEM... JUST BLOCK & DELETE...



    THIS IS A SCAM... DO NOT ACCEPT ANY CREDIT CARDS FROM ANYONE...

    joemark77@gmail.com

    My name is Joe Mark,I want to place an order in your store,I will like to know if you ship to Norway .Do you accept credit card and i want to know if you have your own personal shipper or can the order be picked up at your store,please advise so that we can proceed by going ahead to place the order. Get back to me with your website/price list.I will await your prompt response.

    Best Regard

    Sales Manager

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  30. I too received a few days ago for Norway shipping. It seemed a bit wrong so I Googled "joemark77" and found your post from nearly 2 years ago. Obviously he is still going strong. Anyway I wanted to say thank you so much. The sharing of this type of information can prevent people losing time and money.

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  31. Ha ha ha, that's right, it looked to good to be true. But that fishy smell made me do some research. I got email from Jones Brown brownjones4@gmail.com , shipping to Norway.... They got smart, I did not even give them my site link, they knew items names I offer for sale. How can I make money on these guys and punish them? Ideas?

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  32. I just recieved the scam from Norway, but the name has changed. The company is called Donald Mall, same address (Museum of Art) and calls himself Donald Jones. Wish they could be stopped. Messes up my work flow and my website.

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  33. Just got this this morning 25th June 2012

    My name is James Peter,I want to place an order in your store,I will like to know if you ship to Norway .Do you accept credit card and i want to know if you have your own personal shipper or can the order be picked up at your store,please advise so that we can proceed by going ahead to place the order.

    Get back to me with your website/price list.I will await your prompt response.

    Best Regard
    Sales Manager

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  34. Just had this...


    My name is Brown Jones,I want to place an order in your store,I will like to know if you ship to Norway .Do you accept credit card and i want to know if you have your own personal shipper or can the order be picked up at your store,please advise so that we can proceed by going ahead to place the order. Get back to me with your website/price list.I will await your prompt response.

    Best Regard
    Sales Manager

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  35. I received the Norway one today regarding buying from our store! Thanks for the info!

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  36. Sadly, scams are rife and though we are in a recession; to receive an order with promise to pay pro-forma (upfront) and via credit card may sound appealing please look between the lines.

    1) The time at which you received your enquiry (out of working hours?)
    2) The lack of company profile and credibility at the bottom of their enquiry.
    3) Structure of enquiry
    4) Note; CREDIT-CARD payments can be revoked!
    5) Thus, the need to work diligently is critical at all times
    6) Note; the haste of the buyer to skip dialogue on key negotiations and instead head straight towards 'shipping'.

    To all businesses in UK & EU be alert at all times and listen to your gut feeling.

    ------------
    Thanks for your response below here is the list and qty of items that our company needs let us know if you have this items available in stock at the moment or the ones you can supply us with at this time.

    [order items removed to protect privacy]

    Kindly calculate the total cost of our order so that we can
    provide our credit card account information for the payment of the order and the shipment.

    But about the shipment we will have our own shipper that will pick up our order directly from your location,we would have preferred to ship via DHL, but we don't have account with them anymore due to their high tariff,so you DON'T have to include the shipping fees,just give us the estimate of the order ONLY for now,So we will use our own shipping agent they will come and pick our order from your location directly.

    PLEASE NOTE: So as soon as we send our credit card account information to you,the payment of our order will be charged on our credit card account information and also for the payment of the shipping,So you will contact our own shipping agent,once you are able to get the shipping cost from,you can also include the 5% Processing fees if required for the charge of the shipping fees. We would have paid the shipping fees our self directly to the shipping agent,but at this time they dont accept credit card for payment,as they are not yet set up to take credit card for payment for now,they are upgrading their credit card machine at this time. so what we want you to do is to contact our shipping agent so that they can figure out how much pick up and shipping would be,because we already have some large merchandise with them already which after picking our order from you,they will then send them together to us here in Norway,so please note all this and get back to us with the estimate of the order so that we can give you the shipper's details for you to contact them and find out the cost for shipping,so as to get our order processed and completed.

    Thanks for your corporation.

    Company Name : Brown Mall.
    Address: Universitetsgaten 47,
    N-0162 OSLO, Norway
    Telephone: + 47 25 42 02 75
    Telefax: + 47 22 33 71 77

    Best Regards
    Sales Manager

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  37. Thank you for this alert!
    I just received an inquiry from "Joe Mark" wondering if I ship my product to Norway ..... The grammar in his email raised some doubt so I decided to Google his name and saw all the scam alerts.
    Thanks again!!

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  38. Joe Mark strikes again. Please be careful, he tried to hit us too.
    joemark77@gmail.com

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  39. Joe Mark emailed me this morning and was very persistent. same shipper too.

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    1. He tried to do the same with our company.
      Please be careful on this guy!
      Here's a copy of what he sent us

      ***************************

      Hello,

      I could have sent them the payment by myself but i am currently out of town to a remote village to monitor my new construction and there are no western union point on site to send the funds to them and also western union does go through online in our location.I have enjoy their efficient service in the past and that is why i have decided that they should take care of the pick up and shipment of all my order.I wish to inform you that if my freight forwarder had agreed to accept payment by money order or check then i could have sent it to them but they have informed me that due to high demand for their service at this season they have decided to accept payment by wester union before making arrangement for the pick up of any order and their service will be done in this season in a mode that who pays first enjoy their service first.This is why i requested for your assistance in paying for the shipment of all my packages that is to be picked up by them through money transfer.the $1,865.00 shipping agent fees is for the shipping of my order plus other items i ordered from different countries such items likes generator, welding machine etc in japan and co.I will be glad if you can help me make payment to them by transferring the funds via western union TRANSFERS so that they can make arrangement for the pick up of all my orders immediately they received the funds.Once again,thanks for the assistance and we hope to do more business with your company in future.

      Regards

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  40. I received this one today (Dec. 28, 2012) from "Joe" joemark77@gmail.com.

    Good Day,

    I'm Joe Mark from Greece,i want to place an order from you. I know the difficulties encountered when shipping internationally,But that will not be a problem because i am registered with a shipping company which i'v used severally times without any delay nor damage.
    Before i place this order,i want you to notify me if i can make payment of the order with my Mc/Visa cards because as for now i can only make payment with my US credit card account information,so if it's okay by you kindly get back to me with contact details and please reconfirm your website so as to know if i'm right with the site.I awaiting your swift response so as to list out the items needed so you can then proceed with the order.

    Regards

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  41. I got today (28 of December, 2012) same email as above, said from Greece and absolutely same text... Seems,he doesn't know what he wants to buy... By the ways there's om eBay a member with same ID - joemark77. Might be same person selling the goods...

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  42. Hi
    I got one from Pamela today....
    On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Pamela Jaeger wrote:
    Hello,

    Your items is most creative & desirable, so much talent! I am interested in purchasing some of your unique items to my shop in Norway,but before i do i want to inform if i can make the payment with my Master card because presently my best form of payment is via credit card,that is where i put all my money for any international transaction.So kindly reconfirm your website/contact details and get back to me with it so as to know if I'm right with the site.
    Concerning the shipment,my shipping company will be coming to pickup the items because i already have some merchandise with them in which they will be shipping together to me here in Norway.So you don't need to be worried about the shipment nor handling fee.

    Pamela-De-jaegershop
    Pilestredet 27 H
    0164 Oslo,
    Norway.
    Telephone: + 4773305801
    Telefax: + 47733078204

    Best Regard,
    Pamela Jaeger

    I wrote back saying bank transfer only and 'she' replied immediately urging me to find someone who would accept cradit card payments. Alarm bells started ringing..

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  43. Just received one from donjones147@gmail.com a 'Donald Jones'

    I told them to kindly f' off

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  44. 19 February - got one from donjones@gmail.com

    Wanted to ship to a Norway address that doesn't exist, but wanted his own shipper to collect

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  45. I received one this morning from wilsonanderson0@gmail.com.


    Hello,

    I want to place an order and I have a private freight agent that will commence to your location for the pick up. So you don't have any stress to face in the shipping arrangement to Malaysia,but I will like to know if you have machine to charge my VISA card for the payment ? If yes,then treat this email with good concern and include your website/current price list.


    Regards,
    Wilson Anderson


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  46. I received one from keljones147@gmail.com and her shipper was John Simpson man.cargodelivery@ymail.com in Malaysia! Same story, wanted me to pay the shipper and add the charges to her order - via Western Union! Shipping to Norway!

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  47. Hi Kathleen,

    You can add "Elena Simpson" to your list! The email address "she" used was blair.simpson20@gmail.com.

    Thank you for helping me confirm this is a scam!

    Jennifer

    Hi Jennifer ,
    It is nice to hear back from you. I will like to proceed with the
    purchase of the two pieces. I think they are lovely works and I hope to give them a good home.

    I am presently traveling for my Sister's wedding even though it comes at a time when I am preparing for a big move to Alpine, NJ but it means so much to her and I should be back in few days.

    Alpine, NJ 07620

    Meanwhile, can you pls get back with your mailing address and phone number so I can inform my husband on where to forward the payment. He can have one of his PA handle the payment asap. About shipping , you can handle it from your side to my new address above or I can forward your contact info to the local cartage company handling the shipment of all our house decors. They can arrange FedEx or UPS pick up of the artworks from your studio.

    I will look forward to hearing from you so i can know how best to
    proceed. Cheers.

    Elena.

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  48. Hello.... another James Peter (jamespeter22@gmail.com) engineer, working in BVI, widow with 2 kids.... is also a scammer..... Never accept him.... after 15 days writing lovely emails he asked me to send money.....

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  49. I got the same scam dating emails from probably the same guy since the details of his life and work are the same. Only a slight difference in the email sent from "jamespeterr22@gmail.com" he also told me the same story. I reported it.

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  50. I want to report here that I got the same scam dating emails from probably the same guy. Details of his life and work are the same as above with email address sent from "jamespeterr22@gmail.com". He also told me the same story.

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  51. here's another variation of this scam. a couple emails are quoted below.

    1)
    Sarah Blair
    Hope this message finds you well. I saw these creative works on your
    website and i will like you to get back with more details if they are
    still available for purchase.

    Motion Study #1373 (Hiroo) and Motion Study #4254 (Pompidou)

    I will appreciate an urgent reply.

    Best Regards,
    Sarah Blair.


    2)
    Thanks so much for your response to my query about those creative
    works. I will like to proceed with the purchase of both pieces . A
    lightbox with a duratrans. Small A: 12'' X 18''.

    Can you pls get back with what inspire you to make the pieces . I will
    look forward to hearing from you soon so I can know how best to
    proceed. Thanks.

    Best Regards,
    Sarah.


    3)
    It is nice to hear back from you. I will like to proceed with the
    purchase of the two pieces. I think they are lovely works and I hope
    to give them a good home.

    I am presently traveling for my Sister's wedding even though it comes
    at a time when I am preparing for a big move to Alpine, NJ but it
    means so much to her and I should be back in few days.

    Alpine, NJ 07620

    Meanwhile, can you pls get back with your mailing address and phone
    number so I can inform my husband on where to forward the payment. He
    can have one of his PA handle the payment asap. About shipping , you
    can handle it from your side to my new address above or I can forward
    your contact info to the local cartage company handling the shipment
    of all our house decors. They can arrange FedEx or UPS pick up of the
    artworks from your studio.

    I will look forward to hearing from you so i can know how best to
    proceed. Cheers.

    Sarah.

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    1. I did receive a similar email from "Sarah" with the same exact content. I did provide my address for the work to be picked up, but later looked up her email address blair.simpson20@gmail.com I found out that this is a scam. "She" sent me a check for an amount twice the amount and wanted me to send the difference back to her. I still have the check as a souvenir :).

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  52. i got the same scam from Sarah Blair and i just got another one from Adam Johnson

    here's the text of the email
    Hi,

    My name is Adam, I found your Work of arts to be appealing. I am very impressed with it and would be interested in purchasing it .

    Could you please send your website to me and let me know your available pieces,a price list and payment options . I'm an art lover/collector and I'm collecting for my personal collections.****.I want any art work at the range of $400 to $500.
    Regards.

    Notice that i have a shipper already and my method of payment is Check.
    Adam

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  53. the reason they use the same names alot is becasue they actually have accounts set up with thise names mostly in Nigeria and they have fake ID with those names on them as well for accessing these accounts. They are so stupid. Almost nobody falls for these scams anymore I would hope.

    Jeeezzz louise!!!

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  54. Hi, Kathleen,

    I found you because I put in an address on google from a potential client who says he lives in Canada and wants 3 of my art works. He is willing to send a certified cheque for more than my price so I can pay the shipper who is to contact me to pick up the pieces. The address in Canada matches the one sent by another person and my client is in Ireland with a sick son who has cancer. I've been uneasy from the first. I had another experience where the person demanded I send him $3000.00 or Jesus would smite me. And this had some of the verbage that set me off. I did incur some expense on the first one but this time I said I would require money up front before I did anything. I have 3 more emails from him. Am I correct in being suspicious of this guy?

    Here is the last email I got:

    Hello Julie,

    Thanks for your response to my purchase inquiry. I love your pieces of art and must tell you, you are good at what you do. I am collecting these items for personal use as I am an avid fan of art paintings ,sculptures and antiques.

    Presently i am out of town spending sometime with my son who was recently diagnosed with Cancer but there shouldn't be a worry as my shipper can come for pickup from you after payment has been finalized and fully cleared your account. I will be sending payment in form of a certified cheque for $3,520 and will need your mailing address where the cheque can be mailed to. You are to deduct the cost of the paintings and disburse the rest to my shipper who will handle the pickup of the piece(s) as well as my other furniture's for my newly acquired property in Oklahoma.

    For invoicing/filing purposes, my contact information is as detailed below:

    2405 Queen Str. E,
    Toronto, Ontario.
    M4E 1H6.

    I look forward to doing business with you.

    Kind Regards,

    James.

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  55. Hello,

    I found your blog and website and was grateful for all of the information that you have collected. As soon as I read the e-mail I was extremely suspicious and your website confirmed my suspicions. What really tipped me off is that they didn't send the e-mail to the e-mail address listed on my website, but instead to my school e-mail. Which makes me uncomfortable to think how they found it. Regardless here is the e-mail so you can add to your list.

    Regards,
    Lenore


    On 14-07-17 4:12 AM, "Sarah ARCHER" [louiseatethan@gmail.com[mailto:louiseatethan@gmail.com]] wrote:

    Hello,
    I am emailing to inquire about availability of artwork for sale in
    your gallery, if you can ship international and also if you are able
    to process Electronically Visa and Master Card Number/Expiry date/Cvv
    as payment. Let me know so that i can communicate with you on the
    artworks that interest me,you can also indicate to me which of the
    arts are sold and which are available on your website.
    I will be looking forward to reading from you.
    Sincerely
    Archer Sarah

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  56. I have received sever real email from this Sarah ARCHER, she wants me to use PayPal from my mobile phone and gave me a link to the ap (which I did not open). She will not give me her address so I can calculate shipping charges after being requested 3 times. And says she has had problems with paying by PayPal before. Hmmmmm, I thought since up front she said she uses credit it might be legit since that scares off most of the scammers. I guess not.

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  57. Im recieving emails from peter james from the dating site badoo i know hes a scammer so waiting for him to asked for money

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