[Trombone-l] Scam tutoring email

[Daryl Burch]

I knew a lot of them out on cruise ships! #;-)

Great players. But _barely_ housebroken!

Cheers!
-D-
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On Feb 5, 2007, at 8:56 PM, Jeff Albert wrote:

On 2/5/07, Daniel Pliskin <daniel_pliskin at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Too bad I didn't receive one.  You see, I'm in need of a cheap day
> laborer.
> I'd give the kid trombone lessons, feed and house him, in exchange for
> lots
> and lots of hard work, around the house.
>
> DanP



Dan,

You could probably find a recently divorced pro who would play duets   
with
you and work around your house in exchange for food and shelter.  Of  
course
the pros eat a lot more...

Jeff

> 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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