On Sept 5 I received this email in response to my tutoring posting in "Services Available" from David Lee":
Hello Am John by name. I just want to know if the tutor lesson still available for my son for a month he is 14 years old, I want you to calculate the cost of 2 hour per day for three days in week for the whole a Month and email me the total cost. Hope to read back from you asap. Thanks
As I cautiously inquired further, here are the other emails he sent:
Hello,
Thanks for getting back to me and everything sound good to me, Am
John A. Holmes by name, my Son is coming for an holiday in your
(CITY), His name is Terry and is 14 years old. I want him to be busy
in the time of the day, because i will be in CANADA for business trip
for a month that is why i want him to be lesson, Am okay with your
price and i have decided to let him attend to your lesson and he will
be coming 2 hour in a day in the Afternoon, also get back to me with
your
own convenient time and days you want my son to be coming in 3 days
in a week and when you will be available to start with my son next
week, i haves Someone that will always drives him down to your lesson
center. I will be happy if you can help my son because my son is
highly interested in your tutor lesson and he can avoid to miss
it. And i will be happy if you can show him some love thanks
Kindly get back to me with your information below to be on the check...
FULL NAME AND ADDRESS WITH ZIP CODE... (not p. O box)
your cell phone number... (i can text you)
The reason why i need the information is that the payment will sent to
you through Ups Or FedEx Courier, So that the courier can deliver the
payment to you. Hope you understand me now. Thanks and hope to read
from you soon
Best Regards.
"Smile and Dance to the song of life"
Hello,
Am glad to hear from you. And that is exactly subject Terry
needed. And his very interested when i explain to him. And thanks for
the information you get back to me, Everything sound good to me and am
okay with you. And i will instruct my secretary to issue out the
payment to you asap and for confirmation, And as soon as you receive
the payment... And Terry will now have access to come for the lesson,
More so i want to tell you that the Payment will come from fedex Or
ups currier to you in excess payment which is over payment which will
included the nanny fees on the check am sending to you, because the
nanny will need the rest money to relocate to your location with my
son for the tutor lesson... Please as a good teacher i will want you
to help me to handle this payment with care and with the instruction
when you receive the check... When the tutor start in two week time if
you take good care of my son i will compensate you for another extra
$100 for the tutor lesson of son. As soon as you receive the payment
you will deduct your own money for the tutor lesson of my son for the
1 month and you will have the rest money send to the nanny, the nanny
information to send the rest money will be email to you as soon as you
receive the check. I will instruct my secretary to issue out the
payment to you asap. Hope i can trust you with nanny fund and you
will handle this for me and i will be happy if my son achieve his aim
in future and Try and show him some love and caring.
Thanks and God Bless and Terry is excited to meet soo.
Stay Blessed
(At this point I thought it was a scam, and let him know that I would not proceed without speaking to his son's current teachers, and I would not be the go-between for Nanny funds. Then this came on Sept 14, with no answers to my questions:)
Hello,
Am very sorry for delaying of the payment and thanks
for your patient and trustworthy Well i will like to inform you that
this is the tracking # (1Z3F8A671397029213) for the payment via UPS
COURIER, The check will delivered to you this morning. You can go
to www.fedex.com/trackit and track the package, So immediately you
have the check with you... I want you to get the check deposit in your
account, when you receive the money, I want you to deduct your own
money for the tutor lesson for my son for 1 month and extra $50 Stress
factor (Gas fee) and get the rest money send to the Nanny information
below via Western Union Money Transfer and get back to me with Western
Union details on the receipt... So that the Nanny and my son can
relocate to your location for the tutor lesson for my son... Kindly get
things done as soon as you receive the check and have the nanny fund
wired immediately. Here is the Nanny information below..
Here is the nanny information to send the rest money below...
Receiver"s Name... Jennifer Sliger
Address... 140 West Point Ave
City... Starkville
State... MS
Zip code... 39705
And get back to me with the details on the western union as follows;
Senders Name:
Receivers Name:
Mtcn Control Number (10 digit):
Amount Sent:
Hope to read back from you asap
Note;- The western union money transfer charges should be deducted
from the rest money you are sending to the Nanny and let me know the
total amount sent after the Fees and the money... And Make sure the
money send in a MINUTE in western Union.
Terry is excited to meet you. Thanks and God bless you
(I then told him that I knew this was a scam, and to stop writing. I am also contacting the SFPD. Luckily, I think this was nipped in the bud. Just wanted everyone to know.)
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