Beware of this wedding email scam

[Hillbilly]

THERE HE IS!!! Wonderful to see you step in there...

I feel srory (even my fingers do not want to write that)for these guys, but heartily dislike them. too..they are like vultures...

HB

[MikeFisher]

and they are sorrily outtha all the time.
i get such kind of crap in the dozen per week,
my spamfolder is packed with such blocked e-mail addresses, lol.
pita's
Mike

[sandra vancouver]

Thanks for the info, everyone.

I reported the emails he used (two) to abuse @ etc.

I have been a "hobby" wedding and conference planner for many years, just doing it for organizations I belong to and weddings for my friends so I decided now I have semi-retired and live half the year in Cabarete to do it as a paid sideline.

I am not easily fooled, as my main business (since 1982) has been owning a private college teaching people to work for veterinarians. We have, of course, our own brand of vultures in that business and I can weed out the non-legit prospects in a second, not to mention tell instantly when a student is lying to me.

I would of course never have put out one cent of my own money for him nor would I accept a credit card payment for more than my fee, but there is always something new to learn in this life, eh?

By the way, I have also been severely sanky-pankied (I think) but who knows, anyway I did it of my own accord and again learned a valuable lesson. I had two years of magic, paid for it, and luckily I am in a fortunate enough position that it did not cause me any hardship except for feeling humiliated which I guess never hurt anybody in the long run.

Sandra

[sandra vancouver]

Hi there:

Anyone want to help me have some fun with this guy? See his email to me just received. Any suggestions welcome. I do love the previous ones about asking for his pic for a special "reception" at the airport, also the idea of getting his height so as to measure for his coffin. An ancient Taina Indian custom, I presume? I am also dying to offer a donation to his "work" in Iran if I could figure out how to scam HIM in some way.

Sandra



John Clarke to me
show details 2:06 PM (3 hours ago) Reply



Complement of the day to you. Below are the answers to your questions.


1. The e-mail address of my fiancee is radiatingbeauty51@yahoo.co.uk


2. Our contact address is 151-153 Wardour Street. London. W1F 8WN


3. You can use my details to book for their accomodation. As for other guests, My logistics agent will be incharge of the accomodation of the other guests as he has already commenced our travelling arrangements.


4. My main reason of seeking a wedding planner is that I cannot release my credit card to multiple vendors because of security reasons. As I wrote in my previous mail to you, YOU are to be incharge of everything. To this effect, you alone will be incharge of my credit card. You are to to make every inquiry about the hotel. Immediately you have the total amount required for accommodation, I will send you my credit card detail for you to process and pay the hotel. Therefore, you will require a POS machine to do this transaction.


5. I have told you the total estimate for the marriage. This include your fees and that of my logistic agent.


I await your reply for us to proceed, as time is of the essence.


Best regards,
Dr John.

[Lambada]

Wardour Street certainly exists, 40+ years ago I knew it well. No sniggers from the Londoners please, I was the areas Probation Officer.....

However 151 Wardour St. is (allegedly) a company called Connaught Mason, building construction & interior design. So much are they into construction that their website is under it............ Alternatively at that address is DCD Media (entertainments rights) and/or Moving (yeah) Pictures International. Fairly crowded building methinks.

And Dr. John's 'logistics' man might want to check that postcode.......

You can look all these up if you want. If I try posting the links I'll hit the anti-spam devices.

[sandra vancouver]

Hi Lambada:

Thanks for the research re "John Clarke".

Just for fun I sent an email to his "fiancee" at her email address (radiatingbeauty51@yahoo.co.uk) which was rejected. (Really?)

So I forwarded it on to him this morning.

I sent an enormous list of trivial questions for her to answer (what colour do you want the table napkins? List three meat and three vegetable and three salad choices. Do you want the cake boxed? How long is your hair? etc.) and pressed her to reply asap as I urgently needed to receive her fiancee's credit card information so I could proceed. I also sent a picture of a giant rose bouquet and the most enormous 4-tier wedding cake I could find for her approval.

I wonder what will happen now. Hope he replies as this is starting to be fun.

Sandra

[las2137]

They are starting in on the non-profits, too!

My coworker forwarded me this e-mail a few weeks ago, very excited that our organization might get a large and much-needed donation. He sent it to me to communicate with the woman since her Spanish was so bad. (Gotta love the on-line translation engines!) This was from a Thai yahoo address and sent directly to my coworker. He manages a project funded by the US government and his name/email is featured regualrly in the press/communiques. In spite of being a smart guy, he bought it hook, line and sinker because surely a CHRISTIAN would never lie like this, right?

De: Catherin Herman [mailto:catherin_herman@yahoo.co.th]
Enviado el: Lunes, 11 de Mayo de 2009 03:15 p.m.
Para: catherin_herman@yahoo.co.th
Asunto: DONACIร“N PARA EL TRABAJO DEL DIOS

Estimado en Cristo,

Soy señora Catherin Hermann de Kuwait.I casada con Sr. Philip Hermann. Él trabajó con la embajada de Kuwait aquí en Costa de Marfil para nueve años antes de que él murió en el año 2002. Nos casaron por once años sin un niño. Él murió después de una breve enfermedad que duró por solamente cuatro días. Antes de su muerte éramos ambos otra vez nacidos cristianos. Puesto que su muerte que decidía no remarry o no conseguir a un niño fuera de mi hogar matrimonial contra el cual la biblia está.

Cuando mi último marido estaba vivo él depositó la suma de $3.5Million (cuatro millones de quinientos mil U.S.Dollars) en un banco aquí en Abidjan. Recently, mi doctor me dijo que que no durar para los ocho meses próximos debido al problema del cáncer. El que me disturba es más mi enfermedad del movimiento. Sabiendo mi condición decidía donar este fondo a una iglesia, a un individual cristiano o a una organización que utilizarán este dinero la manera que voy a mandar adjunto. Deseo este dinero para ser utilizado para los orphanages, viudas, palabra del propagatingthe del dios y para esforzarse que la casa del dios está mantenida.

La biblia nos hizo para entender que “bendecida es la mano ese giveth”. Tomé esta decisión porque no tengo ningún niño que herede este dinero y mi un montón de parientes no es cristianos y no deseo mis nuestros esfuerzos de ser utilizado por unbelievers. No deseo una situación donde este dinero será utilizado en una manera ungodly. Esta es la razón por la cual estoy tomando esta decisión. No estoy asustado de muerte por lo tanto que sé adónde voy. Sé que voy a estar en el pecho del señor. El éxodo 14 CONTRA 14 dice que “el señor luchará mi caso y yo llevará a cabo mi paz”.

No necesito ninguna comunicación del teléfono en este respeto debido a mi salud y la presencia de los parientes de mi marido alrededor de mí siempre. No quisiera que supieran sobre este desarrollo. Con el dios todas las cosas son posibles. Tan pronto como reciba tu contestación te daré el contacto del banco aquí en el Abidjan, y las entrarás en contacto con para hacia adelante transferir del fondo a tu destinación. También te publicaré una letra de la autoridad que te pruebe el actual beneficiario de este fondo. Quisiera que tú y la iglesia rogaran siempre para mí porque el señor es mi shephard. Mi felicidad es que viví una vida de un cristiano digno. Quienquiera que desea servir al señor debe servirlo en alcohol y verdad.
Rogar por favor siempre todos con tu vida. Y cualquier retrasa en tu contestación me dará el sitio en sourcing otra persona para este mismo propósito.

MI ESPAÑOL NO ES MUY BUENO Y PUEDES ESCRIBIRME EN INGLÉS.
Asegurarme por favor que actuarás por consiguiente como indiqué adjunto. El esperar recibir tu contestación.
Seguir bendecido en el señor.
Gracias,
Mrs. Catherin Herman

[sandra vancouver]

Hi:

I reported John Clarke to the abuse site given to me earlier in this thread and got this back:

... unfortunately in this particular case the message you received
was not sent through the Yahoo! Mail system.

They say it was from speedster.cc.kana.corp.yahoo.com and gave me a Who Is site to look it up on but the site had no record. Still don't understand how a person can have a yahoo address and then yahoo says they don't. I am not computer literate enough to figure this all out so I guess I will stop here.

I am glad your organization did not get fleeced by the poor cancer-ridden Spanish-retarded widder woman!

Sandra

[MikeFisher]

here comes the one i received this morning.
the same kind of scam suggerating to book charters with me i receive several times a week, mostly UK addresses used.
heck,
the one below did even misstype in his addressline his home country Scottland, lol.
such is usual stuff when you run a webbased business.

Hello Sir,

I am Paulson Cole a Fisher man from UK , I am coming to fish with 4 of fishermen. We are going to fish for 4 days based in 8 to 10 hrs daily, kindly give me the total cost for 4 days fishing. I will like to know if there is any Vacancy for fishing between July 20th to 28th 2009..

Please get back to me if there is vacancy so that I will pay immedaitely with my credit cards and block the date.

I await for your email.

Best Regards,

Paulson Cole
2 Central Quay 89 Hydepark Street Glasgow, Scothland
United Kingdom.
TeL:+447024077176.
Fax:+447884514786

[Drperson]

This is crazy. How do you know what is real and not. I don't understand how this works. What happens ? Do you process the credit card , pay them something then it gets reversed later and the funds come out of your account.