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Scam?
This is a discussion on Scam? within the Open Talk forums, part of the General Information category; I just received this anonymous email: Hello my name is ***********,pls i need your services to be the photographer at ...
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05-14-2008, 06:14 PM
I just received this anonymous email: Hello my name is ***********,pls i need your services to be the photographer at my daughter's wedding coming up on saturday 28th of june 2008 in texas.Pls i will like to know if you would be available for the mentioned date?if so,i will pay for the full transportation and all other things needed by you,and finally i'l like to know your final asking price for the event .Have a good day I remember reading something like this on the forum last week but couldn't remember exactly. I'll email back asking for a phone number. |
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05-14-2008, 06:40 PM
From the composition of the note, I'm betting they'll want to send a really big check and you can mail a refund check back to thhem...It's the cynic in me...Ben --------------------------- It must be mounted on a tripod!...It must be mounted on a tripod! Cmdr. Frederick Mohr The Crow's Nest |
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05-14-2008, 06:47 PM
scam I am not sure... but the way you can tell is to give them your price and see where it goes from there... the min they say they will mail you ***.00 and you mail them the rest.. RUNNNNNN fro your life... --------------------------- My Flickr yeah so I shoot with an Olympus.. E-500 to be exact! There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ~Ansel Adams |
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05-14-2008, 07:06 PM
SCAM! SCAM! SCAM! SCAM! Run, run far away from it. --------------------------- Texas can exist without the United States, but the United States, cannot, except at great peril, exist without Texas. Sam Houston. |
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05-14-2008, 07:21 PM
Looks like a scam to me. Does the email address/name match up at all? |
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05-14-2008, 07:39 PM
I get those ALL the time...SCAM! And if you tell them you are booked, then all of a sudden their brother is getting married on a different day, and they want you for that. |
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05-14-2008, 08:10 PM
absolutely, positively a scam. gar-ron-teed --------------------------- 5th Generation Texian. (line 2) Watch this, Spot! (line 3) Have I shown you my photos of my grandson? Wait, don't run! Hey! |
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05-14-2008, 08:32 PM
S C A M ! ! ! --------------------------- | David Bailey Photography | Digital Racing Images | Sports Shooter | flickr | Grafix USA I have a camera and some other stuff... "Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor satan shudders and says oh hell he's awake!" |
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05-14-2008, 08:38 PM
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