This is how my person approached me
Hello,
compliments of the day to you, how are you and how is work, hope all is well.
my name is SHERRL SMITH, I'm from Spain, and am into music basically and for sometime now i have been working on my major project.
actually i have been thinking about carrying out the production of this album and i will like to let you know that i will be interested in carrying out this production at your studio so kindly let me know if we can release in your Studio, we will be using seven days for the recording so please let me know how much it will cost us to release in your studio. i mean record in your studio.
hope to hear and work with you soon.
Best regards
SHERRL SMITH
and ended up with this
Hi Thomas ,
Thanks for your contacted, i have contacted my sponsor
and we have concluded on the price but there is a little
favour i want you to do for me and i need your understanding
and honesty. My sponsor said that he will send you a check of
$4500.00 , when you get the check, you will deduct the
mastering fee and send the rest of the money to me for my expencies
like flight ticket , hotel reservation , etc. Hope you understand me
and if you are ok with my arrangement with you , you can forward
your full details to me , your name , address and phone number and
i will send it to my sponsor to issue the check to you ontime for
fast transaction.
Hope to read from you.
Sherrl.
I told here we do not do business this way and it was a scam and she wrote back
Hi Thomas,
This is not a scam nor fraud , afterall you have to wait for my sponsoor check to clear before you do anything , i have also contact my sponsoor about this and he told me that he is not willing to do it that way but due to some fact which he can not discuse with me , he have to do it that way, Thomas i want you to accept it like that and when you receive the check , you will wait for it to clear before you can move further.
Reply ontime.
Have a nice day.
Sherrl.
I wrote her back and told her I was NOT INTERESTED and that we did not do business that way. I never heard from her again.
We also have recently sold some stuff on EBAY and even though we said VERY CLEARLY we would only ship to the US and to Mexico and Canada the bid was won by a gentlemen from Nigeria. I think it is a scam but we will wait to see what develops. We told him that the shipping would be very expensive but he has yet to reply.
Lots of scammers all over the web.
Also by phone.
Potential client calls up in a hurry needs 200 CDs duplicated by the next day. For the simple reason that we had never done any business with this person we said we would need $300.00 as a down payment before we could proceed and the rest due before he took the CDs. He wanted to bring over a personal check but since this was such a rush and since we did not know who we were dealing with asked him to bring us us cash, a bank check or a Postal money order which he said he could not do because by the time he called us back all the banks and post offices were closed.
We currently do not take credit cards so I suggested Pay pal which he did not want to do either. I declined the job because it had SCAM written all over it. Maybe it was not a scam but anyone who is in that big of a hurry and finds all kinds of ways of not paying us in cash or verifiable money transfers and the red flag goes up. He called me a few names on the phone and slammed the phone down when he hung up but I would rather have that happen then be out for time and MATERIALS.
I talked to a couple of other people who do CD duplication and they said they had similar calls from a person wanting extremely rushed materials.
Too bad this kind of behavior is getting more and more prevalent.
