[Trombone-l] Scam tutoring email

[Chris Tune]

Interesting:  I received--[begin "evidence"]

Dear Christopher,

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

[end "evidence"]

Busy fella. . .up to no good.
Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Tkal" <bbtkal at tkal.org>
To: <Trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:59 AM
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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