Have I hit the big time?

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 30 Aug 08 - 04:51 PM

I might mention here that after I asked about the fire regulations etc I found the correspondence stopped ....funny, that ....

Anne
still languishing in obscurity

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Peace
Date: 30 Aug 08 - 05:01 PM

"Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Paul Burke - PM
Date: 04 Aug 08 - 11:50 AM

Hey, I've just been offered a degree! Here' (verbatim) the offer:

Bachellor, MassterMBA, and Doctoorate certification available in YOUR field of choice."

So, you will be very-well papered and have a 16" dick that stays rock-hard for weeks at a time.

GO FOR IT, Paul

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Fidjit
Date: 31 Aug 08 - 06:24 AM

Amazing.

I've won the lottery in Spain so many times I can now retire.

Now I live in a little (Er large) tree hut in deepest Africa.

Chas

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Peace
Date: 31 Aug 08 - 11:44 AM

Wise choice Fidjit Greystoke.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST,John from Kemsing
Date: 31 Aug 08 - 11:55 AM

It looks as if we are all going to enjoy the big time. I have received an e-mail from Mr Ombongo in Nigeria, desperate to share with me $22,000,000.00 his late father spirited away from their oil industy returns when he worked for the Ministry of Energy. I have invited him to bring it all to London and when he arrives you are all invited to a party. Don`t hold your breath!!

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Aug 08 - 02:17 PM

no,I havent received one of these yet,perhaps they think I am the usa table tennis champion,Dick[the chopper]Miles.http://www.dickmiles.com

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST,Gold Harbor
Date: 05 Sep 08 - 11:36 AM

Does this idiot think that every artist is this stupid.I would like to present to him Hank Wiliiams JR , He out to be shot down,shot down and trampled beow the mudd. JR

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Jayto
Date: 05 Sep 08 - 11:55 AM

OMG I don't even know where to start on this one lol. If anyone sent them $300,000 let me know. I will start my own event soon lol. I think I can arrange an audience that includes the Mayor of Morton's Gap Kentucky (population 700) that should be worth $50,000 shouldn't it lol I am not sure if he is a folk fan but if I call it an honorary festival in his name and slide him $50 I am sure he would be up for it. So if anbody is up let me know lol You may not be playing for the Queen but you'll be playing for a man that has heard of her lol. Just kidding but I bet my idea has more validity than the email ya'll have posted. At least I could pull mine off.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Sep 08 - 08:41 PM

"wants to know are next moves"

ROFLMAO!

"playing for the Queen"

Well I've still got my contact in theatre circles - how many Queens do you want? You could just ask during a certain week in Sydney...

"We are a bit security comsoius because of the Queen Of England."

I have great suspicious of their comsoius level...



You really MUST send the emails - complete with full headers to the appropriate authorities. They are quite keen to catch them, the other day a Melbourne guy went up on charges for pirating many thousands of DVDs...

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST,gary holmes
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 01:21 AM

I think it is for sure a scam. I just got almost the same identical letter but they said they got my name and profile from BAGMA ( Bay Area Gospel Music Association ) but was offering me 100,000 pounds to come to the same event but it was in Enland with the Queen present also. I got the e-mail from the same Rev. Mike Gary CEO of Herritage Gospel Music Association.

Gary Holmes
Houston, Texas

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Nick E
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 01:26 AM

If you have to ask, you have the answer, no.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: meself
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 02:10 AM

"We will feed you with more information."

I don't know - I'd hold out for hamburgers.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Feb 09 - 02:22 PM

To All Concerned:

This is a shameless scam. Do not reply to this "Dr. Mike Gary" and do not divulge any personal or financial information. Shame on the individual(s) responsible for preying on performing artists, many of whom are desperate for work and have already been hard hit by the global recession!

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 11:15 PM

I have been contacted by this person, please let me know more thanks!

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Peace
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 11:56 PM

Read the thread.

Also, check the thread on irony.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 03:18 AM

Tell them, only parties who send you a non-refundable deposit, will get your consideration, being as you are very busy, and have a staff that handles your bookings!

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 05:25 PM

I feel quite miffed that I have never received such an enticing offer, I would love to play for Her Majesty.

Something that has always puzzled me is why people worry so much about their bank details being revealed. The bank details which the Nigerian scammers ask for is practically public domain information, your account no. and sort code are on every cheque you write, so I am at a loss to understand why this information would be of the slightest use to any would be conman. It's not as though you are going to reveal your online banking password, is it?

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 07:19 PM

My wife is an experienced banker. She sees people victimized, or nearly so, by such scams all too often. The fractured english sounds suspiciously like several I have seen coming from Africa. I've received a number of e-mails conveying this sort of nonsense. They are brazen and prey on people looking for a fast buck. They target the elderly in the U.S. and, I suspect, elsewhere as well. The red flag is anyone asking for money from you up front, in any amount, prior to receiving your newfound "wealth." Nigeria is one of the countries noted for such activity. Several websites discuss "African e-Mail Scams." Trust me, HRH has nothing to do with this one.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST,Turbodog
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 08:41 PM

I'm not gonna post it here, but a few years ago I go so tired of those Nigerian scam letters that I made up one of my own and sent it back to them. Surprisingly, I don't get too many of those e-mails anymore. LOL

If you want your very own customizable copy, e-mail me in ALL CAPS at eljefe (at) eljefe (dot)net. Subject: YES! I MAY ALREADY HAVE WON! Hopefully, my spam filter won't insta-dump you. rofl!

TD

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 03:14 AM

TJ, I am not disputing that these scams do go on, that they are reprehensible and that they target the elderly and gullible, I am merely pointing out that the scammers' objective in obtaining your bank details is not to surreptitiously steal funds from your account without your knowing about it.

If your wife is aware of case histories where fraudulent deductions have been made from somebody's account where all the information the perpetrator had was the account no. and the sort code, I would be fascinated to hear about them, and exactly how the frauds were committed.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: treewind
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 03:31 AM

The scammers wouldn't ask for bank details if they weren't useful!
You can't withdraw money directly with only that information, but I know someone who suffered theft of ID and real money, and that was one of the steps. The rest of it involved (a) phoning the bank (quoting A/c no. of course) and asking for a replacement debit card "because it's damaged, and while you're at it better send me a new PIN too" then (b) explaining to the local post office that because of a messy marriage break up you want post for Mr X held in a mailbox for collection. A week later the thieves have card and PIN...

The sleepy,rural post office were mostly at fault in the above incident, for not getting hard ID, but it happened and apparently it's a common occurrence.

It's aimed at small company directors whose names and addresses are often readily available.

I'm sure there's lots of other ways that crims can accumulate info about people from different sources, which when combined are dangerous.

Anahata

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 08:19 AM

Forgive me Anahata, but your anecdote positively reeks of urban myth.

When you say "I know someone", does this mean this happened to a friend of yours who recounted the details personally to you first hand,
or were you in fact told about it by " someone who knew someone who knew someone to whom it happened " ?

It is impossible to order up a replacement debit or credit card just by quoting an account number and an address.

You will be asked a number of security questions over the phone, the answers to which are impossible to know unless you are the genuine account holder or alternatively have been foolish enough to divulge the information to somebody else, ( in which case you deserve everything you get ).

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: treewind
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 10:10 AM

does this mean this happened to a friend of yours who recounted the details personally to you first hand?

Yes. Exactly that.
As it happens, someone in a folk music related business but I'd better not mention names.
Somebody with a background in IT who wouldn't make basic security mistakes too.

Remember that identity theft is not usually about targeting a particular individual - it's about trying hundreds of potential victims and hoping you get lucky with one of them. One mistake by a lazy bank employee is all it takes.

Anahata

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 12:18 PM

Murray:

Fraudulent deductions have not been the issue except in rare cases. The banking system controls that sort of thing through encryption, etc. The victim must be a willing participant, wiring or sending money by check or money order to the perpetrator, hoping for a good result. Identity theft may be a secondary goal in many of these cases. For the most part, they just take the "front money" and disappear with it.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 02:24 PM

well, Anahata, if it happened, it happened, but it takes more than one mistake by a lazy bank employee, it would take at least three mistakes, and then it takes a further mistake by the staff at the Post Office.

if we conservatively assess the probability of each of these mistakes at say .01 % (in actual fact more like .0001% but let's be conservative, ) then the multiplicative odds of such an unfortunate occurrence happening is (.01)^4 , or in bookies terms, 10,000,000 to 1, and remember these are conservative odds, the true probability is much much less.

I don't think I would be losing any sleep over such an eventuality coming to pass, and if it did happen, I would be secure in the knowledge that I would be handsomely recompensed by the bank for what amounts to criminal negligence on their part.

I assume your friend was in fact handsomely recompensed ?

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 20 Apr 09 - 05:06 PM

Well, they're back in touch again! This time Antony Bab of the Heritage Music Company wants to book me for a cultural festival to be held in London next month, again in rather quaint grammar.
The website link checks out for Mike Gary and Heritage Music (www.heritage-awards.tk) although there's no mention of an event in May, and there's no way of making a direct contact with Mike Gary and Antony Bab gets no mention at all.

The venue is Friends House on Euston Road (a real enough venue).

So ... this time the Queen isn't involved and they're not saying (yet) how much they're offering as a fee.

Has anyone else been approached?

Anne

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 20 Apr 09 - 05:32 PM

OK, the plot, as they say, thins.
I googled the mobile phone number given in the email and discovered that this same Anthony Bab is also soliciting UK representatives for "Alizyme", and that the phone number redirects out of the UK.

Clearly, therefore, a scam but slightly cleverer than last time in that he's using a better-known venue and links to an existing website where a real Mike Gary has a real company called Heritage Music.

I was mildly excited there for all of ....oh, three minutes.

Back to obscurity.

Anne

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Apr 09 - 05:48 PM

Anne, IMO, you are not obscure. You are a dynamite arranger, singer, musician, singer. You may have eluded 'stardom', but to achieve that you'd have to 'dumb down' your stuff, and I don't see you doin' that anytime soon.

In the past few weeks I have met--both on-line and in person--some absolutely wonderful writers, singers and musicians. They ain't none of them 'famous', but lots of them have more than a few people travelling hundreds of miles to be at their shows. Honey, it don't get much better than that.

Bruce

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 20 Apr 09 - 06:46 PM

Bruce, thank you!
I was, in some measure, being facetious, of course ...but it would be good to have some hot-shot PR company seek me out for some high profile gig all the same.
And wouldn't it be great if we didn't need to think our music had to be "dumbed down" for wider public consumption? The more I work with my music and stories in all kinds of places (prisons, schools, community events) the more I realise how patronising the providers of mainstream entertainment are to the general public. Who are (that's the public) more than capable of appreciating what I do. But getting exposure in the mainstream media - ah, now that's a whole different business. And I mean business.

Anne

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST,leena
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 10:48 AM

Hi,

Just want to know if this heritage music company is true or SCAM??
Certain Edward Alex keeps on calling me and telling about the performance and I also met a certain Natasha who is their diplomat saying that she is carrying the 20,000pounds to be paid for my performance, but unfortunately I dont have a visa to enter to UK thats why they talk to Luis Vilora of British High commission to do my visa and they said its already confirmed that its okay and they told me to contact Caleb Robert of HSBC to send my performance fee, so what do you think? They keep on sending me emails and keeps on calling me, now when I'm waiting for my documents that contains visa all of them are gone!!

Is anybody here have the same case? Is the Heritage Music Company really exist??? Im a peformer and a musician..

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST,leena
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 11:02 AM

If someone is contacted by Heritage Music Company and telling you that the performance will be on May2-3 of this year.... question???? how come they invite us without any audition? I also organizing a music festival but this is different??? Anybody share the same experience that I have????

please let me know....

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Peace
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 11:16 AM

In a word, it's bullshit.

If you don't believe that, simply ask them to provide a pre-paid return trip airline ticket, confirmation of a good hotel to stay at while you're there, and say $1000 to spend for incidentals. When none of that shows up, then neither will you.

Keriste, just look at the use of the English language in the letter they sent out.


"Company Address:25421 Cabot Road Suite
113 Laguna Hills
, CA 92653
Email :[e-mail]

Dear Band,
My Name is Mr Mike Gary, CEO of Heritage Musicstar Entertainment here in the United States.
we also promote and gives international exposure to musicians all over the globe.

We are writting to invite and confirming the booking of your you to perform at the Heritage music Awards. You will never regret working with us. We are powered by some great sponsors here in the USA.
Special appearance includes the Queen of england and the mother of all British women e.t.c.

We came across your profile and we are impressed with your services,experience,your kind of music of course is okay by us.
We are expecting about 1500-1700 guest & its going to be an indoor Event
The Venue as follows:

VENUE:New Otani Hotel & Garden - Hotel in Los Angeles CA
Address: 120 S Los Angeles St - Los Angeles, CA 90012
DATE:13rd of September 2008
PERFORMING HOURS:8pm to 9pm

The Heritage Music Company Payment for service rendered is :300,000 US DOLLARS payable before the commencement of the event.We are moved in the power of music.We are very sure you will give happiness to the Queen of England.Note we are having private show this year for security reasons

If you have any more publicity material, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Document and contract will be forwarded to you as soon as you honour our invitation.Please provide the company more information.Home address ,phone contact and other necessary data.We promise and ensure an accurate arrangement.Thanks for your cooperation.

Yours Sincerely
MIKE GARY"

1) There are about 50 terrible errors with the use of the language, the punctuation of the language and the diction of the letter. If indeed Mike Gary is the author of that drivel, he is a fuckwit (to use a phrase from my friend, Spaw).

2) "Dear Band" ???? When ya got hundreds pf thousands to give away, dontcha think you'd find out the "Dear Band"'s name and maybe use it? That kinda ranks up there with "Dear Occupant, YOU have won $100,000. Provide us with your credit card number and pin numbers and we'll see what we can do about making you richer than you are at this moment." Anyone who does that shouldn't be let out alone.

Bah, humbug.

NO, it's not real.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Peace
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 11:19 AM

New Otani Hotel LA
Los Angeles hotel reservations
Hotel Reservations - 800-916-8592


That is a toll-free number. Call the reservation desk and see whether they have a function on the days given in the letter.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 26 Apr 09 - 01:50 PM

Leena, you don't say where you're from, but if you've been booked by people you haven't known about before to play a concert in the UK for a fee of £20,000 then you must be a super star playing mainstream music. In which case you'd have played in the UK before and know the ropes about getting a work visa.
£20,000 is an enormous fee for a musician. The gig would be well publicised and you would be well taken care of by the promoters. It doesn't sound as if that's the case. If you are a superstar, then tell us your performing name and we'll all cheer from the rooftops for you! If not, call the British High Commission yourself to find out what's happening (or not) with your visa.

This is a scam. If something sounds too good to be true, then it is. If you have personal details for any of the people you mention in your post, then give them to the police where you are and tell them that they're involved in some kind of international fraud.

I've had similar correspondence twice now - read the rest of this thread and you'll see how annoyed it makes me.

Anne

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Bugsy
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 01:56 AM

I don't know if you've "hit the big time" but according to the emails I've been receiving, I've won over $450,000,000 in the last 3 weeks??

How lucky am I??

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST,leena
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 08:56 AM

Hi Anne,

I'm working in an international schools here in Thailand. A certain Edward Alex is the one who send me an email through the email ad of [e-mail], give me your email so that I can send to you all the emails that he sent to me. now about the visa, I already send emails to a British high commission and Mr. Luis Vilora is the one who's processing my visa. This is the story, when this man is "doing the processing of my visa" he asked me to pay 30euro for the visa fee, is there a fee? second, he told me that he send the documents (visa and other papers) through the DHL and of course I give my address, and I'm living 400meters from the British council, then you know? the document was lost according to him (Luis Vilora) and the DHL staff CAN'T FIND my place. And he is asking me to pay 33euro for the damage fee! Oh my gosh! and you know what? Mr. Edward Alex told me to "please pay the amount" so that I can get my visa... i told them wait why should I pay? am i right or wrong?

Then they send a lady diplomat to talk to me and I meet her in bangkok, i told her that i"m a music teacher and what will i do? do i need to perform with my students or what coz i don't have any idea about this. I keep asking Edward Alex about this but he send me contract already.... well its a long story.....

SO, this is a scam? This is not true? I really don't have any idea about this please give me some details... and how about the other musicians? do they have the same experience as I have? They say that I will received the payment tomorrow and its wired in my bank well lets see....

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: breezy
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 10:02 AM

No you have not hit the big time but you may have been hit big time.

suckered

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Arnie
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 11:04 AM

Well, some scams work because the old adage about a fool and his (or her) money soon being parted still holds true. I read over the weekend that an Asian lady resident here in the UK is too embarassed to admit to her family that she has just lost £500,000 to an investment scam. This is one of a few such scams springing up during the recession, promising investors huge rewards on their investments. The problem is that some people with lots of spare cash (yes, they really do exist!)have nowhere to put their money now that the various Ponzi schemes have gone belly-up and are desperately seeking a home for all their money that will pay more than the measly 2-3% currently offered by the banks. This latest one was quite a sophisticated scam, with the lady being lead on gradually over a number of months - she said that the scammers had professional looking letterheads and brochures - so she was convinced it was a genuine company!! Well, if it worked for Madoff (the clue was always in his name)then it will work for the next generation of scammers.....Think I'll stick to Premium Bonds.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST,Emily S
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 01:54 PM

This scam sounds like one making the rounds earlier only notched up. That scam worked by suckering a poor artist into thinking a gig was coming their way. Payment would be sent prior to the gig (how often does that happen in legitimate life??). The payment would be with a money order - one that looked real enough. It was also always more than the amount agreed on. The performer would deposit the money order - or maybe it was a cashier's check - and then the scammer would email back saying "Oops, we overpaid you. Could you send us back the difference?" The performer would return to overage and then the original check would bounce.

These are scammers of the lowest kind, preying on folks who are trying to do honest work. It's one thing to hit on someone's greed but hardworking artists have fallen for this and suffered for their honesty.

Basically, if it's too good to be true, it isn't.
Beware folks!
Emily S

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 04:54 PM

Leena - please don't send me all your emails!
It is quite usual for a visa to cost money, so that part of it isn't odd. Was the "lady diplomat" from the British Embassy? (it's an embassy in Thailand, not a High Commission). It may well be true that DHL have somehow lost your documents, although that part sounds very odd. According to my Google search just now, the website you should be checking with is http://ukinthailand.fco.gov.uk/en/visas/ where they say that fees for visas are charged in local currency, not euros, so it may be that again you're dealing with the scammers. Check out the official website and see if the phone numbers and email addresses you've been given are the right ones.

However, as to the fee you've been offered to perform in the UK and the existence of Heritage Music - I'm sure that part is a scam. A fee of £20,000 is, as I said before, only likely for a mainstream headline act and very unlikely if you've never played in the UK before. And Heritage Music is the name used by the two different scam emails I've had personal involvement with. It's not a well-known company here - if you Google the name you'll find one website, and that doesn't mention important concert events. If your "Edward Alex" is as important as he says he is - paying fees of £20,000 he should be the biggest of the big time promoters - why doesn't he have a proper email address instead of one with a different name and via yahoo?   As Emily says above, payment for a gig is never made ahead of the gig, so if they say they've paid you already you need to be very, very suspicious. Something is very wrong about this.

Don't pay out any more of your own money until you've checked and double-checked every "fact" and name you've been given. Where is the concert supposed to be happening? Check it out on line. If it's a major event (and for a fee of £20,000 it would have to be a major event) it will be on line and selling tickets. If you can't find it, it doesn't exist. Also go back to the start of this thread and read the correspondence - see if any of it matches your experience. If it does, you're in the process of being scammed.

Good luck!

Anne

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 05:07 PM

How has this thread remained above the line for so long?

DC

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 06:44 PM

Because it has to do with music?

Anne

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 Apr 09 - 07:29 PM

No it hasn't. It's doesn't take more than a sideways glance to see that it's just one more in the long line of threads of the Nigerian scam form. The connection to music is incidental.

DC

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 02:57 AM

I'm beginning to think 'leena' is yanking chains. WTF can be this dense?

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 02:59 AM

leena, did you call the hotel and ask? HUH?

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 03:08 AM

I don't think ANYONE should send Ms Thailand at AN International schoolS any e-mail addresses.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST,leena
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 06:45 AM

Hi Peace,

They send it to me personal email okay and checking about the hotel they never give me the name of the hotel because they ask me to send 33euro payment to the DHL with regards to my documents. And so as of this time, no money was being wired to my account and and I'm not a yanking chains okay? This is my first time in this kind of "scam", when I type heritage music company.tk in google, I found this kind of forum and I when I read it the same email that they send to me but the different is the name. Now, I'm sending their names and email add to the British High Commission queries and complaint but I was thinking there is one person in BHC, who contacted me about my document, is anybody here know this person in the name of LUIS VILORA from the British High Commission?

Thanks Anne for your concern, I really appreciate that...
I keep in touch thru this thread.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 08:00 AM

Hi Anne,

The Heritage Music Company and the other concern people send me email saying that they HOLD the money because I'm accusing them of scam and they told me that my character is bad as an artist... well all the blame was put on my face, but they haven't answered my question about the document, where is it? Did they send it? And the money? Did they really send it to my account or they just saying that the document was lost and we're going to hold your money because of your character!

Thanks for this thread and I was shocked of the attitude of these people as if because I'm an Asian they can fooled me?

Well, no comment.....

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:18 AM

I have been advertising my availability as a teacher on Craigslist and I've started getting these kinds of reponses. Something about it stinks, methinks. What do 'Catters think?

Mark Ross


Hello,

How are you doing? Hope things are good with you? My name is Faith Walcott. I saw your advert concerning the coaching/lesson you listed to lecture anyone who is ready or who is lacking the knowledge . I have a daughter whose name is Kimberly Walcott, she is the only daughter that I have. I want the best for her in terms of education. She finished her first school in united states, but i have been only one who has been taking her responsibilities since her dad died in a car accident on his way to california for a conference meeting.so thats why i decided to have another man into mylife that will be like father to my daughter and i also.So she wont grow up knowing anyone as his father and I love her so much. Presently I'm in LONDON with his step dad. Im so sorry for saying all this, but im just saying it because I want the best for her , I will want you to me answer these important questions below so I can know the next step for you to start the lecturing...

1. How many months do you intend lecturing her ?
2. Please do you have a degree because i will need someone that is qualified.
3. How much do you charge per hour for lectures ?
4. How much is the charge/fee per month ?
5. I will need a closer Motel/Hotel close to your location, or any in the city ?
6. Do you prefare home lecture or she will come to you ?
7. Are you a male or female ?
8. Most especially, is the space for lecture still available ?
9. Whats the closest airport she can have her flight scheduled to from here?
I want you to answer these questions as soon as possible and I will wait for your response .
Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.
Best Regards.
Mrs Faith.

Subject: RE: Have I hit the big time?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:32 AM

Mark Ross,

I also got that kind of email but when I answered it... yak! its nothing.. well try to email her back..

Guys,

thanks for this thread! I have a clear mind now about the heritage music company...

thanks anne for the response..