Scam? - Page 2

I've included the emails below so that you can see them. BTW, I sensed this was a scam right away - I'm not usually this rude to potential customers.

when will you have chance to do it for me so that the carrier can come for the pick up ?

--- On Wed, 3/28/12, Suzy Q <suzyqqq27@hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Suzy Q <suzyqqq27@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: cupcakes order
To: jwhite101@ymail.com
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 3:12 PM




I'm sorry but I am unavailable for April 2nd.

Thanks for you interest.

Good luck with the party,
Suzanne




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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:26:40 -0700
From: jwhite101@ymail.com
Subject: RE: cupcakes order
To: suzyqqq27@hotmail.com




2nd of next month and i have a private carrier coming for the pickup and it will it will be pick up around 3pm so i will like to get me the price for the 500 cupcakes





Hello Janet,

You don't mention the date of the party and what the theme is. Could you let me know the date and I'll check to see if I have availability before I give you a quote. Where did you find my email address if you don't have access to the website?

Thanks,
Suzanne
http://www.cakesbysuzanne.com




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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:24:37 -0700
From: jwhite101@ymail.com
Subject: cupcakes order
To: suzyqqq27@hotmail.com




Hello
This is Janet i have a party this month and so do you have cupcakes also do you accept credit card so if you have cupcakes i will be needing this information
How much will 500 cupcakes will cost me ......
your address for the private carrier coming for the pickup ..............
and actually, i don't have access to website because am not really good on computers i only bought the computer to for sending out mails and receiving mails only so i will be waiting for the reply.
Thanks

Hi Suzy Q,

Yes, definitely a scam! I got the exact same email and have been "playing along". She has asked for me to pay the "carrier" up front and she will pay me back. Whatever happened to the normal "you've won the Nigerian lottery" scams?

Best regards!

Have you turned her in to the police?

Ha ha....just got an email from this same address. I've been toying with her for abit. She's getting a bit frustrated with me though. Can't say I don't enjoy it immensely.

Because people's "spidey sense" usually starts tingling when they get one of these emails, but they're not exactly sure what the scam entails, I wrote a short article to help explain and identify it.

The Cake Scam

For whoever asked how they make money.

They will eventually send you a bank check, that will look exactly like the real deal. You deposit it and 2 weeks later, the bank will remove the money from your account because they found out the check is fake. ( They send all check to be verified and it can take a good 2 weeks ). Even if your account as no more money in it, they do not care, your the one who passed a fraudulent check and the money will be owed back to the bank.

The scammer usually sends " more " money, to pay for a carrier, to pay the shipping charges to some random company that supposely will pick up the item, because they made a " mistake " and whatever other reasons. Then they will ask you to go to western union and wire money back to them wich you will never ever see again. And western union will never ever give back to you either since the money is available to whoever is on the other end as soon as the clerk finishes your paperwork.

Thanks Kelly! Suzy Q I received the same exact email this morning from Janet White! I was a little apprehensive but I did reply. I am very happy I decided to take a look at the forums this morning, now I know not to even continue to waste my time. Thanks everyone.

And on that site, it says:
"Although its tempting to mess with them, the best thing to do is just ignore the email. Dont reply, this lets them know theyve got a good email address."

Yeah I had to respond because it was just too funny. I put
"Janet,
I'm sorry but we do not allows pickups, only deliveries. The price would be $5,000 for 500 cupcakes. What date would you need them? We only accept cash. Thank you."

So glad I read this forum

I got exact same EM. From this very dumb character. They need to smarten up, use better English and brush up on their writing skills

From the 1st EM I received really rang some bells in my head.

Thanks fellow business owners for your heads up on this scam

Alethea
Passion for Pastry
Boca Raton, FL

I get these all the time...I just answered one guy with "the cost is ten million dollars, cash only, payable in advance at Yo Momma's house." For some reason he didn't write back.

We received an email from jwhite101@ymail.com last week!

She said that she could only communicate via text or email due to a hearing problem for which she was getting surgery for.

After some back and forth she asked me to pay the "carrier" $750 via Western Union because they were having problems with their credit card machine...

NO thanks!

Thanks for having this posted, I'm so glad that I googled the email address!

Ha ha, Genius!

I received the SAME email.. I requested that they pay in person with an ID. They responded back with "I'll scan my ID" ................

NOT!![/b]

I decided to play with the one that I got today (I get one a day at least). I answered back like it was a normal request but put the address for the police headquarters down when they wanted the address of the shipper to pick the cupcakes up. I'm going to see how far I can string them along if they write back