Wedding Spam Warning
Nikolai
Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
This was definitely not what I ws looking for when I subscribed to PPA and Portfolio. Nevertheless, that's the harsh reality of life.
Below is the original message from yesterday, my vague reply (I realized it's a total scam AFTER I replied) and their second message I recieved this morning. I forwarded the whole thing to spam@uce.gov.
HTH
Below is the original message from yesterday, my vague reply (I realized it's a total scam AFTER I replied) and their second message I recieved this morning. I forwarded the whole thing to spam@uce.gov.
HTH
Thanks so much for the response , there are few things we want you to know as regards our wedding , presently Latanya and i are still in iraq ,we will be back home in the next few weeks , we know this is going to be an amazing day cos none of us ever believed this will happen .
The Holy matrimony will starts by 10:00 to 10:30 am ,and the receptions starts immediately till about 12pm, we are expecting about 40 to 60 guests on that day. the event will be taken place at my parents house in Los Angeles CA.
package .... is within our budget , let us know if there are extra charges as regards transportation , we want you to try and be understanding as regards the prices cos its not really easy to organise occasions like this especially when you are making all the arrangements from abroad , we would also want to know if its necessary to make an advance deposit payment in order to secure the date , let us know if we need to sign any contract as regards the agreement ,before the wedding . Dont hesitate to ask if you have any further question ,
Thanks
George
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:08:39 -0700
> From: me
> To: georgeholmes42@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Photography !!!
>
> Hi George,
>
> What is your phone number and what is the best time that can I reach
> you at it, so we can discuss the details?
> On 10/24/07, george Holmes <georgeholmes42@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Goodday Nikolai Sklobovsky,
> >
> > This is Latanya and George , We are in the U.S. Army we met in Iraq
> > sometimes ago and we will be getting Married on Saturday , 17th of
> > November ,2007 , and we want you to be our photographer of the day .
> >
> > Let us know if you are available on that day and we would also love to know
> > your package prices .
> > we hope to get the best from you .
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Yours Sincerely
> >
> > Geoerge
"May the f/stop be with you!"
0
Comments
If you're certain, why not feed it a little? Might as well have some fun
Wedding Photographer Glasgow | Scotland
SWPP Pet Photographer of the Year 2010
Follow us on Facebook - Click Here
Google for it, like I did, you'll be certain
And, sorry, I have better things to do with my life than feed scammers...
Just curious, what did you google to figure out it was a scam? I am not a wedding photographer, but I am definately interested in staying one up on the scammers.
aktpics.smugmug.com
Note the different names and dates
Thanks, I needed the enlightenment. I would love to see a sting where they all got prosecuted...
aktpics.smugmug.com
Photos that don't suck / 365 / Film & Lomography
They didn't address his question of the phone number. A normal person would have given a number or if they were truely in the military, might have said something along the lines, I really don't have a number to be reached at but I can call you at xyz time to go over things. Most of these scams have a set answer response, that they don't deviate from because most of them don't speak english well or at all.
I had a series of suspicious emails and responses about shooting an event, but they never really asked for anything, so I couldn't figure out the supposed scam. After the thing got changed a bunch of times, moved back, etc I just stopped responding. Besides about 4 minutes of typing it wasn't a loss to me at all. And I spend way more time than that here at dgrin (no getting work done).