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Dehon
Joined: 15 May 2013
Posts: 1
Location: South Africa
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 Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 10:17 am Post subject: A have scam to report. |
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A "Reverent" contacted me looking for a tutor for his family:
His email address is: [email protected]
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Dear Teacher,
Greetings from me and my family!
trust you are doing very good,i am Rev Engr freddy Campana M from Cartagena city in colombia but presently residing here in Bradford,United Kingdom with
my family which comprises of my wife Valeria, and two kids by name , Katherine and Jaime,
i am urgently in need of an english teacher to come and teach my wife and kids for
a period of one year here before i can enroll them into any formal education,
Compensation and Benefits Package.:A very attractive monthly salary of
is GBP4,500 Paid monthly, Quality single or family housing upon your arrival down
here,medical insurance,vacation allowance etc...
Thank you for your anticipated response...
if you are interested in coming to work for me kindly send me your detailed resume and cover letter on [email protected]
Cheers and Godbless.
Rev Engr fredy |
So I sent my CV and low and behold, got the job! Then I was told his lawyer will handle the visa etc...
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hope fine and healthy.
it is presently night here and everywhere is cold.
just finished seeing movies.
may i know your denomination?
bear in mind that I respect every one's denomination just as mine)we are Catholics.
nice hearing from you/having your interest over coming to work for me,got your email and have finished going through it.
i need to know,
when can you be able to make it here?
Hope you have a valid international passport?
that will hasten the processing of your traveling documents.
can you drive a four-wheel?
do you have some teaching text to use here?
my wife is 28,my son is 3and my daughter is 6
my wife and kids are beginners and so Will need to start from the very basic level,they understand only small terms like go,come,take,see
many a times when you demonstrate it but they find it difficult to speak.
you are to equip them on conversational English .
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Are you single or married?
will you be coming alone or with any companion?do send us your full pics..got the one attached to your cv and is cool..we cant stop viewing you.
Call me on +447024085859 so that we can talk.i need to hear your voice.
Will be available between the hours of 8am till 7pm
loving your level of experiences.
we are originally from Cartagena city in Colombia but presently residing here in Bradford,United Kingdom.,,
nice reading about your job history...
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Cheers
Wife and kids sends their warm regards and can't wait to welcome you here
Rev Engr fredy |
The barristers email is: [email protected]
And in the email with the lawyer I got suspicious with the point that I have to get a friend send money with Western Union to me in the UK...
See this answer below I found on the internet:
Any phone number that starts with +44-70 or anything similar is not based in the United Kingdom. It is from a UK based cell phone redirect service that can be answered by anyone anywhere in the world. It is a favorite service of scammers who want to pretend to be in the United Kingdom but are really half way around the world from there.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.
The next email was from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "lawyer" and will demand you send cash to yourself via Western Union or moneygram so the scammer can pick it up and disappear with your money.
Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:
1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.
2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.
Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.
If you google "fraud visa job scam", "fake UK hotel job Western Union scam" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam. |
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santi84
Joined: 14 Mar 2008
Posts: 1317
Location: under da sea
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| Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| It boggles my mind that people are even sending their CV to this email in the first place. |
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tttompatz
Joined: 06 Mar 2010
Posts: 1951
Location: Talibon, Bohol, Philippines
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| Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 11:45 am Post subject: |
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Even more astounding is why anyone would even think that a family in the UK would have need to import a "native speaker" to teach English.
It's not like there aren't any "native English speakers" in the UK who are qualified to teach English. Where do people think that English originated from anyway?
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nomad soul
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
Posts: 11454
Location: The real world
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| Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 11:56 am Post subject: |
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| tttompatz wrote: |
| Even more astounding is why anyone would even think that a family in the UK would have need to import a "native speaker" to teach English. |
Yep, I was thinking the same thing. This thread isn't a "scam" alert; it's a "sucker" alert.  |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004
Posts: 11534
Location: On a Short Leash
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| Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| This one's an old stinking rotten fish - it's been around the block a thousand times already. |
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santi84
Joined: 14 Mar 2008
Posts: 1317
Location: under da sea
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| Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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OP,
Your location says you are in South Africa. Why do you think some random guy in the UK would want to pay YOU 4500gbp per month (plus housing?) to teach English?
Especially one that cold contacts you? I really don't understand why you sent your CV or even got into a discussion with "the reverent". |
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it'snotmyfault
Joined: 14 May 2012
Posts: 527
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| Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| tttompatz wrote: |
Even more astounding is why anyone would even think that a family in the UK would have need to import a "native speaker" to teach English.
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presently residing here in Bradford,United Kingdom
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Anyone familiar with Bradford in the UK might think twice before calling it a scam 
I am joking of course. |
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Gerund
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Posts: 80
Location: Amerika
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| Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: A have scam to report. |
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| Dehon wrote: |
| So I sent my CV and low and behold... |
lo and behold |
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BadBeagleBad
Joined: 23 Aug 2010
Posts: 1186
Location: 24.18105,-103.25185
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| Though this might not be as obvious to everyone, the man says he is a Reverend, yet at the same time says he is Catholic. Priests do not refer to themselves as Reverend (well, they do at time, but is a matter of rank, and not important for this discussion) but more importantly, Catholic priests can not marry, and this scammer has a wife and kids. He didn�t even bother to do his homework and even attempt to put together a decent scam, it would have been more believable if he had been in Colombia preparing to go to the UK. Sheesh |
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