[Trombone-l] Scam tutoring email

[Daryl Burch]

It's one one of us gets to _experience_ about every 6 months or so. I 
have a friend that adverts for guitar lessons on craigslist. He says 
every time he updates his listing he gets about 4-6 of these 
"proposals". Very frustrating.

...but easier/less stressful just to hit the delete-key.

A good reporting mech. for most of these is Snopes.com. This one's a 
little harder because it's a bit more obscure. But basically whenever I 
get one of these, I grab a couple key words (or words I think are 
prominent) in the message and search for them on Snopes.com. I'd say 
+/-90% of the time, some info comes back on it. And it's never good.

Cheers!
-D-
www.radionoise.com <- Rock star by night
www.burchinteractive.com <- Tech-nerd by day #;-)


On Feb 5, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Phil Brink wrote:

Don't touch it - it *IS* a scam!

Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Tkal" <bbtkal at tkal.org>
To: <Trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 1:59 PM
Subject: [Trombone-l] Scam tutoring email


> I received the following in my email, it seems blatantly a scam, though
> it's very personalized, indicating small target audience.  I suspect
> that if I were to follow up that they would attempt to coerce me into
> receiving a larger payment for services with the agreement that I would
> refund by check the difference, whereas their payment would turn out to
> be fraudulent.  Is there a good reporting mechanism for these?
>
>  Erik
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> (from: perrykogan at myway.com)
>
> Dear Erik,
>
> I am pleased to contact you, my name is Perry Kogan from Belgium.I saw
> your Biography as a Trombone Teacher (trombonist), hence, my purpose of
> contacting you.
>
> I just mail to confirm if my 14yrs old son (Paul) can join you in your
> tutor so that you can help me teach him how to play Trombone. I so much
> would love his dreams to come true as a very good player and I am ready
> to support him both morally and financially.
>
> I will want you to give me the price of the tutor for 6 months as I 
> will
> want the tutor to hold 3 times in a week and last for 1 hour daily. 
> Note
> that my son once had a tutor last October who lost his wife in a car
> accident and decided to stop teaching inorder to take proper care of 
> his
> family.
>
> Additionally, I would like to know the location (address) where you
> normally tutor your students, so that I can have idea of where the
> lessons will be taking place as we are presently out of US,but
> arrangement have been concluded for Paul to come to US.
>
> Awaiting your swift response
>
> Best Regards
>
> Perry Kogan
>
>
>
>
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