Kathleen, I just found this online, as I received an email from Tricia Allen or whoever this person is. Thanks for taking the time to create something like this. Please add me to your email list.
Paul
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Showing posts with label tricia allen. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Artist Experience: Tricia Allen Scam Email VI
Here is an artist who just wrote in to tell me he had just received the Tricia Allen email. This one seems very widespread. Reports have been coming in from all over.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Artist Experience: Tricia Allen Scam Email V
Kathleen - it seems Tricia Allen is alive and well. Thanks for your blog posts about this scam!
All best, Martha
All best, Martha
From: Tricia Allen [tallencourt@gmail.com]
Subject: artworks purchase
Good day to you.
I am so excited that I came across of your work on internet search,I am interested in purchasing these creative artworks from you.....................
Black Diamond,Salt Mist,Meridiem,Lupine Brocade,Mettawee Valley,Island Dunes and Twin Spruces II
Let me know their various prices.and how much discounts are you going to give?I will be happy to have these selected artworks hanged in our new home in South Africa.As well,I want you to take out the shipping cost.I have been in touch with a shipping firm that will be shipping other house decoratives.
We are traveling from our Seattle home to our new apartment as soon as possible.On Paying for the artworks,I will be glad to pay you with a Money Order or Cashier`s check in US funds that can be easily cashed at your local bank,please let me know on how to proceed for the payment of the creative artworks.
I will await your advise on how to proceed.Have a wonderful day.
Take care,
Tricia Allen
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Artist Experience: Tricia Allen Scam Email IV
Kathleen:
I am an artist whose website has been up for about 6 months now and I've just received my first scam email. Fortunately, I'd read a bit about these types of scams already, so when I received the email, I was very skeptical right away. I did a quick search online and found sample scam emails worded almost identical to what I received. Then I clicked a link to your site listing the names of known scammers. The first name on your list was the name on the email I received. Surprise, suprise (not).
Just thought I'd include a copy of the letter (pasted below). The email address used on the scam email was tallencourt@gmail.com.
Thanks,
Conn
I am an artist whose website has been up for about 6 months now and I've just received my first scam email. Fortunately, I'd read a bit about these types of scams already, so when I received the email, I was very skeptical right away. I did a quick search online and found sample scam emails worded almost identical to what I received. Then I clicked a link to your site listing the names of known scammers. The first name on your list was the name on the email I received. Surprise, suprise (not).
Just thought I'd include a copy of the letter (pasted below). The email address used on the scam email was tallencourt@gmail.com.
Thanks,
Conn
Good day to you.
I am so excited that I came across of your work on internet search,I am interested in purchasing these creative artworks from you.....................
No More,Warrior Breeze,Over the Under,Buddha Me, Baby ! and 58 20 29
Let me know their various prices.and how much discounts are you going to give?I will be happy to have these selected artworks hanged in our new home in South Africa.As well,I want you to take out the shipping cost.I have been in touch with a shipping firm that will be shipping other house decoratives.
We are traveling from our Seattle home to our new apartment as soon as possible.On Paying for the artworks,I will be glad to pay you with a Money Order or Cashier`s check in US funds that can be easily cashed at your local bank,please let me know on how to proceed for the payment of the creative artworks.
I will await your advise on how to proceed.Have a wonderful day.
Take care,
Tricia Allen
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Artist Experience: Tricia Allen Scam Email III
I can never post examples of scam emails "too much". This Tricia Allen name seems like a common one. But it's always good to post again, particular ones that reference another email address and an IP number.
Here is an email I received today from an artist. Scammers beware! We are catching on!
Here is an email I received today from an artist. Scammers beware! We are catching on!
Hi Kathleen,
Firstly, thank you for your Stop Art Scams blog. I was immediately suspicious of the email I received from "Tricia Allen", however it was tremendously reassuring to easily and quickly have confirmation that it was a scam and a very mean one at that!
It looks like you already have plenty of documentation of "Tricia's" activities, but, for what it's worth, below are the details of the one that came to me.
Thanks again and have a great day.
Best wishes,
Louisa
scam email:
email address: tallenkourt@hotmail.com
IP Address: 41.155.23.190
Location: Nigeria
Subject line: artworks purchase
Email message:
Good day to you.
I am so excited that I came across of your work on internet search,I am interested in purchasing these creative artworks from you.....................
"We Are Here to Play","Highlights of Stakeball, David and Goliath" and "Racket Failure"
Let me know their various prices.and how much discounts are you going to give?I will be happy to have these selected artworks hanged in our new home in South Africa.As well,I want you to take out the shipping cost.I have been in touch with a shipping firm that will be shipping other house decoratives.
We are traveling from our Seattle home to our new apartment as soon as possible.On Paying for the artworks,I will be glad to pay you with a Money Order or Cashier`s check in US funds that can be easily cashed at your local bank,please let me know on how to proceed for the payment of the creative artworks.
I will await your advise on how to proceed.Have a wonderful day.
Take care,
Tricia Allen
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Artist Experience: Tricia Allen Scam Email Part II
Remember the artist who wrote to me about her "Tricia Allen" scammer? Here is her followup email today:
Dear Kathleen -
I emailed you the other day about being contacted by tallencourt@gmail.com. Well, I've been playing along to see how far she? would go. Today, she sent an email with a fedex tracking number saying the check was enclosed. Of course, she went into all this garbage about the shipper adding in his fee - so, she asked if I would give him the difference when they came to pick up the paintings. I did the tracking, and it was real. I got the fedex envelope - and guess what? It was empty. I called the FBI in Boston and reported all of this. The agent told me to let Tricia Allen know the I knew it was all a scam - they have so many cases on file, they don't know what to do.
As a struggling artist, I find this to be the worst kind of scam. Is there some way you can post this on your website - and if you can think of a way to get this message out to other artists, I would be glad to help.
Sincerely,
Karen
Monday, June 7, 2010
Artist Experience: Tricia Allen Scam Email
Here is an email I received today from Rhode Island:
We want to remind artists - scammers make these names up and rarely is it a woman when it appears to be. And they are never from where they say they are from. They make it all up.
If you are able, you can view the "raw" headers of your email and often the origination of the email is in the "Received: from ..." line that is above the "From: ..." line but different email clients may display these headers differently. Once you have what looks like the IP number (not the ones that belong to YOUR server which relayed the email to you), you can use a free tool online to reverse look up the location, something like http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp . This only gives you a location of the server where the email originated and does not provide a whole lot of insight as to where the scammer themselves are. They hack into systems to send emails and most often - they just use free pretty untraceable email accounts like hotmail and gmail and yahoo. But sometimes looking up the originating IP number can provide yet another clue to help you distinquish the email as a scam.
In one case of an email I received myself, the "story" was they were moving from South Carolina to Canada but the originating IP sourced in Belarus. That was enough for me.
But good for Karen for recognizing her email as a scam before she sent either her artwork or money (which will always be an overpayment on the cashier's check or money order that they request to have returned to them, only for you to find out a month later the check was fraudulent). And its a great strategy, if you want to reply at all (I never reply once I determine its a scam), to remove the original email in your reply and then ask a specific question that they will not be able to come up with the answer for, because they send hundreds of thousands of these emails. Ask for the name of the artwork again. That has worked for me.
Thank you so much for posting the blog about art scammers. I was contacted by tallencourt@gmail.com. It all sounded a bit too good to be true because she wanted to buy 3 of my paintings and said she was moving to Johannesburg soon. She had the names of the paintings, but would not respond when I asked how she came upon them on the web. I am now waiting to see if she sends a cashier's check or money order - then, maybe I can nail her - or them.
Karen
We want to remind artists - scammers make these names up and rarely is it a woman when it appears to be. And they are never from where they say they are from. They make it all up.
If you are able, you can view the "raw" headers of your email and often the origination of the email is in the "Received: from ..." line that is above the "From: ..." line but different email clients may display these headers differently. Once you have what looks like the IP number (not the ones that belong to YOUR server which relayed the email to you), you can use a free tool online to reverse look up the location, something like http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp . This only gives you a location of the server where the email originated and does not provide a whole lot of insight as to where the scammer themselves are. They hack into systems to send emails and most often - they just use free pretty untraceable email accounts like hotmail and gmail and yahoo. But sometimes looking up the originating IP number can provide yet another clue to help you distinquish the email as a scam.
In one case of an email I received myself, the "story" was they were moving from South Carolina to Canada but the originating IP sourced in Belarus. That was enough for me.
But good for Karen for recognizing her email as a scam before she sent either her artwork or money (which will always be an overpayment on the cashier's check or money order that they request to have returned to them, only for you to find out a month later the check was fraudulent). And its a great strategy, if you want to reply at all (I never reply once I determine its a scam), to remove the original email in your reply and then ask a specific question that they will not be able to come up with the answer for, because they send hundreds of thousands of these emails. Ask for the name of the artwork again. That has worked for me.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Scam Email : Tricia Allen
Here is a scam email from a "Tricia Allen" using the email address "tallencourt@gmail.com". She found the artist who forwarded this to me via his website and used his contact form page to write to him. Here is the actual content:
It has all the features of a classic scam email. Poor formatting (even for a contact "form"), mention of actual artwork (usually following a bunch of periods where they are triggered to place the names in a templated email they use), mention of moving to or from a foreign country to some other place, mention of using a shipping company (for which they will eventually send you a check for more than the amount and ask for the difference back - the check will be fake and you are out your artwork as well as the cash difference).
Apologies to all the real Tricia Allens out there who have nothing to do with this. Obviously as these scammers make up names, they'll end up using names that actual real people use.
Subject: Visitor Feedback from Your Website
First Name: Tricia Last Name: Allen E-mail Address: tallencourt@gmail.com Comments: Good day to you. I am so excited that I came across of your work on internet search,I am interested in purchasing these creative artworks from you..................... Santa Agatha II Wayne County Sanilac County, August Michigan Lake, June Detroit Summer Solstice, egg tempera Let me know their various prices.and how much discounts are you going to give?I will be happy to have these selected artworks hanged in our new home in South Africa.As well,I want you to take out the shipping cost.I have been in touch with a shipping firm that will be shipping other house decoratives. We are traveling from our Seattle home to our new apartment as soon as possible.On Paying for the artworks,I will be glad to pay you with a Money Order or Cashier`s check in US funds that can be easily cashed at your local bank,please let me know on how to proceed for the payment of the creative artworks. I will await your advise on how to proceed.Have a wonderful day. Take care, Tricia Allen
It has all the features of a classic scam email. Poor formatting (even for a contact "form"), mention of actual artwork (usually following a bunch of periods where they are triggered to place the names in a templated email they use), mention of moving to or from a foreign country to some other place, mention of using a shipping company (for which they will eventually send you a check for more than the amount and ask for the difference back - the check will be fake and you are out your artwork as well as the cash difference).
Apologies to all the real Tricia Allens out there who have nothing to do with this. Obviously as these scammers make up names, they'll end up using names that actual real people use.
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