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p.1 #1 · Scams make me lol...


Received this gem overnight...

Hello good Day Happy New year and how are you doing and family Am happy to contact your service for booking and i will to know your availability day in January, 2013 just 5 hours service, and also i will need a portrait work done after the photography work is done and after the event .. i will like you to get to me with your availability day in February 2013 and its a my uncle wedding day party and due to am hearing impaired persona and i would like to you to proceed with me via email or send me a text 765) 215-2443 so we can proceed better and i understand like you to understand due to my disability am making my full payment with my credit card and i would like you to go ahead and get back to me with your working place address so we can proceed better

Regard Debra



Jan 05, 2013 at 09:46 AM
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p.1 #2 · Scams make me lol...


She must write that way because of her hearing disability.


Jan 05, 2013 at 10:12 AM
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p.1 #3 · Scams make me lol...


hahahahaha thats too funny


Jan 06, 2013 at 04:47 PM
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p.1 #4 · Scams make me lol...


Haha it's funny I've received a couple where they claim a hearing disability. I guess they think that will excuse their really bad English language conversion. It's fun to play along with it sometimes though. I always try to get them to send me a cashier's check for an insane amount but no luck yet.


Jan 06, 2013 at 06:40 PM
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p.1 #5 · Scams make me lol...


God help some poor real bride with a hearing disability who tries to book her wedding some day. Scammers wrecked her wedding haha


Jan 07, 2013 at 12:09 PM
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julieawhitlock wrote:
God help some poor real bride with a hearing disability who tries to book her wedding some day. Scammers wrecked her wedding


I've actually shot a couple weddings where the bride had a hearing disability!



Jan 07, 2013 at 05:29 PM
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I just received this one last night. For one I'm in Wisconsin. While I've traveled to Virginia Beach, and DC to shoot weddings, but New Jersey? Oh, and then there's the wedding being held on 02-22-2013. Today is 04-15-2013...

*sigh*

Good day

I am Miss Doris Clack from United state i am getting married to Mr Mcsmith Mazwel on the 22nd 0f February 2013 at

Location: 13 Vista Road, Montville, NJ 07045, United States

I need a special photographer| Dj | Wedding planner for my upcoming wedding event coming up by next months, i will like to know all what it will cost you to get to the location here and the actual amount for your service, i really need to know this so that i can contact my father about this because his the one paying for this photographer | Dj
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I googled Msmith Mazwel (really?) and found this:

Good day,
I am Mr Mcsmith Mazwel from United Kingdom i am getting married to Miss
Helen Christy on the 22nd 0f January 2013 at
65 Leicester Square.
City, London.
Country, United Kingdom.
Postal/Zip Code, WC2H 7LA
and i needed a special photographer who will take a place at the
event next months i will like to know all what it will cost
you to get to my location here and the actual amount to take a
coverage of 7hour from the church to the reception i really need to
know this so that i can contact my father in-law about this because he
his the one paying for this coverage await your
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Seriously, how do they expect this to work?



Apr 15, 2013 at 06:37 AM
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p.1 #8 · Scams make me lol...


You'd have to be special to be a photographer, dj AND wedding planner haha!


Apr 15, 2013 at 07:14 PM
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p.1 #9 · Scams make me lol...


And what exactly are they hoping to get? You pay them to take their pics? You send the money up front? I don't get it.


Apr 15, 2013 at 08:44 PM
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My assistant used to do wedding invitations. She worked with a deaf woman and her deaf fiancee and their written English was terrible. Like Nigerian scam bad. She was actually legit though and they met initially at a wedding fair.


Apr 15, 2013 at 09:26 PM
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p.1 #11 · Scams make me lol...


I hope one day to receive a cashier's check via international mail for triple my rate so that I can frame it and hang it in my office.


Apr 16, 2013 at 12:53 AM
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p.1 #12 · Scams make me lol...


What they are trying to get: you to take a fraudulent cashiers check. It is written for over the transaction amount and they need you to wire the overage somewhere. By the time the check blows up, your wire transfer is gone and through. Google 419 scams. But yeah, if you can get one of those humungous checks just frame it! Some people make a hobby out of scamming the scammers....


Apr 18, 2013 at 07:48 PM
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p.1 #13 · Scams make me lol...


That first one hurt my brain



Apr 20, 2013 at 10:28 PM
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p.1 #14 · Scams make me lol...


I've gotten on very similiar to that but it was a text!




Apr 24, 2013 at 11:14 AM
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Jun 08, 2013 at 09:33 PM
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p.1 #16 · Scams make me lol...


So what is the scam? What happens? They have to pay you so how do they get money? Someone enlighten me please! Man these scammers don't give up!


Jun 09, 2013 at 08:03 AM
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eephoto wrote:
So what is the scam? What happens? They have to pay you so how do they get money? Someone enlighten me please!



Read post #12...

Amazing the kind of things you can learn by reading before posting.



Jun 09, 2013 at 08:27 AM
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p.1 #18 · Scams make me lol...


Darter02 wrote:
I just received this one last night. For one I'm in Wisconsin. While I've traveled to Virginia Beach, and DC to shoot weddings, but New Jersey? Oh, and then there's the wedding being held on 02-22-2013. Today is 04-15-2013...

*sigh*




Haha.. Yes. Because when Americans give out their address to other Americans we always put "United States" at the end. Great research, scammers. Laziest scammers ever.

brad



Jun 09, 2013 at 08:32 AM
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first things wrote:
What they are trying to get: you to take a fraudulent cashiers check. It is written for over the transaction amount and they need you to wire the overage somewhere. By the time the check blows up, your wire transfer is gone and through. Google 419 scams. But yeah, if you can get one of those humungous checks just frame it! Some people make a hobby out of scamming the scammers....



I think most have moved on from the cashiers check. They now want your cell phone number. If you text them, they then set up a recurring charge for a fairly small amount - $9.99 or so/month. It doesn't take that many people to not notice the small bump in their mobile bill to make it worthwhile.


Don't reply to strange texts and don't go sending a text to some anonymous person/client.



Jun 11, 2013 at 11:49 AM





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