I just got this one today...

Hi,

I will like you to bake me a chocolate or a strawberry cake of 5 tier that can serve approximately 250 guest or more, and I want the cake to be decorated with pink roses and the cake should be covered in fondant or butter cream and let there be an inscription be writing on one of the cake as (Chris wed Kate) and i want you to pack them in different boxes after ready for pick up. And I want you to have the cake ready for pick-up on 3third of April 2009, 11 o clock A.M. So let me know if you can fill in the date, once i have your reply i will forward all the details and the picture sample of the cake i want you to bake for me. I await your reply soon.

Thanks and God bless.
Chris Wren

Just thought I'd give a heads-up to the people who have never seen this or it's "happy married life" cousin.

The only thing I'm curious about is why they always ask for strawberry cake??

ughh they're still trying. The biggest red flag is the horrible grammar Thanks for the heads up!

It worries me that some people may be falling for it that's why they keep doing it. I hope not.

My, my they're persistant, aren't they

Please enlighten me, what is this email and what is the scam.

Jamie (Again)
I LOVE YOUR AVATAR!!!!

They want to pay more then the the price of the cake with either a credit card or cashiers check and have you pay the delivery driver. They stop payment on the cashiers check or cancel the credit card transaction (or it's a stolen card) and you're out the money you paid the delivery driver.

Thanks Tiggy!!! I just got the same email yesterday and I figured it for a scam but couldn't figure out how they could cancel the transaction after I put it through my terminal. I see now that if it is a stolen card, then the real owner won't have to pay for it. I really had this guy frustrated. I kept asking him questions that he couldn't answer. If he emails me again, I think I'll have a little more fun. Maybe agree to do the cake and then send him to a fake address or something.

Please don't give them any personal information, especially banking information! They could clean out your account.

I won't. I already reported him to the FBI's cybercrimes unit. I'm just having fun making him jump through hoops answering stupid questions and sending pictures of cakes back and forth etc...I have done this before. It can be a hoot scamming a scammer. I have a rental in really bad condition that we are working on and it's in a really bad part of town. It's all boarded up and missing the front steps etc...I may pretend to charge his "credit card" and then send him there to pick up his "cake" and his "check". LOL

Costumeczar--I did ask him this last time what the deal was with the strawberry cake. I got an email back this morning. He just wants an estimate so he can get this "deal" going. Next time I'm going to ask him if he wants the traditional "jelly roll" with his cake. This is too much fun.

I actually have to agree with the 'don't reply at all' thing. And you know me, my sick sense of humor loves to screw with these kind of people. I would find nothing more fun that to put them through the hoops too, but I don't want them passing my information on farther. Replying does flag you as a live account. Not that I won't get ANY spam if I don't reply, but it definitely gets worse.

On a COMPLETELY unrelated note, did you guys know I was the only living heir to the complete fortune of the barrister of Norwegia? I just got the email about it this morning! I am so stoked! But don't worry, I will remember you guys when I'm all rich and stuff!

YES!! Awesome!

Now... how about UHF? Have you seen that?

Ok here is the kicker... if you know/love this movie, then we are new BFF's... The Kentucky Fried Movie.

Darn it!!! I have never seen either one. Im so so sorry to disappoint you!! However "I have spent the last few years building up a resistance to Iocane powder."

I forgive you, but if you really want a snarky laugh, check out The Kentucky Fried Movie. That is REALLY good stuff. Just horrible... horrible, but hilarious!

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Kentucky_Fried_Movie/60001617?lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strkid=1550802031_0_0

i got that same email with the name 'Chris Wren'

i get these emails all the time now.

not to mention, i'm getting a ton more spam in my business email box...sad that there are trolls trollin' my website selling my business email address.

You know what REALLY annoys me niccicola??? UGH. I have a place on my website where people can order a cake... just as a convenience... what it usally does is just let them contact me that way and get the ball rolling. So, I get these stupid emails all the time that are from a submission on the online order form, but the fields are just full of junk. Garbledy gook. It's not even like, "Hello, me order cake, you give me bank number, I direct deposit payment! Thank you, please trust me. I no rob you." At least that I could read, roll my eyes and move on. But it's just like this:

Cake Shape: wsaopiuh4590vfqjw[oi4-912-=0u9
Flavor: awrepoith2340988iq3-w9iuf4jh134tup10]g4u5
Icing:23409uvwe[ghubf251gh[ngi=

GAH!! Leave me alone!!!

Ok, I'm better now.

Really, you all. I am the DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS!!! But seriously,
I got this email from a wedding site that I advertise through so it just looked like any other cake enquiry. I wasn't hep to the scam at first. I just thought this person was Asian and didn't speak very good English and had made some errors with price and so forth...sooooo I emailed back to clarify. That being said. It's too late now to back up--the "live email" signal has been sent, so to speak, so I might as well have some fun. I have actually notified the wedding site people about this and will mark it as spam as soon as I'm done playing, but for now it's just too funny. Forgive me please for this monumental faux paus. In a couple of weeks, who will care?? And I don't normally answer spammy emails but this came from a usually reputable source.

I've been coaxing them along pretty good but I think I may have overplayed my hand last night. I asked them if they wanted the traditional "jellyrolls" with their cake at no extra charge. They answered back just "yes" which showed they were starting to wear thin. Then I emailed back "What flavor? Toejam or sparkleberry?......I haven't heard back from them.
This is just too funny...and I'm sorry I cut you so deep. I'll make you some waffles as consolation.

OMG! You are killing me! Sparkleberry? ToeJam? Hahahahahaha!! It'll be nice for them to realize they've been 'had'. And I love waffles... don't tease about that one!

I got one of those emails about inheriting money and the guy was relentless, I mean he sent me an email everyday for like 2 weeks......so finally I sent him back an email telling hiim that the "scam" he was trying to pull on people was a sin in God's eyes and I gave him a call to salvation and told him how he could be "saved" and that he could rely on God to provide for him instead of trying to "steal" from other people...........and the weirdest thing happened.............he stopped emailing me ! LOL

I got the same email again today and was explaining it to my husband. He suggested that I reply with "Go F yourself" writen over and over, but I like the toejam and sparkleberry answer better. Maybe the next time I get one I'll write that back to them

I was thinking today, that it would be really funny if we sent that line back every time we got that email. That would really make them nuts, wouldn't it, if a whole bunch of different people kept sending them the same email back? Of course it would only be on emails that we accidentally opened....of course, of course.....

We could say "Would you like the traditional jelly rolls with that cake? They are free of charge and come in toejam and sparkleberry...."

If they got that from people all over the country they would certainly think they were being targeted by some kind of conspiracy. It might just weird them out enough to make them stop or at least move on.

I have multiple spam-guards on my computer so I'm not that worried about signally spammers that I'm alive...but I realize that most people would probably have misgivings about doing it and I can certainly understand why.
Still.........