3 May
2017
3 May
'17
6:19 a.m.
Kalia Kliban asked, regarding a bogus request for services
quoted by Karen Dunnam:
My question is, what does the person sending the email
get out of this
transaction, aside from the pleasure of wasting your time?
I believe the way this scam works is that the "client" supposedly
buying your services comes up with a story about how their
payment to you will include an additional amount that you're
suposed to use to pay to a third party. (For example, in the
message Karen quoted, there's reference to a "private transport
driver" who would presumably [hah!] be transporting the ten
bridesmaids to and from Karen's studio for their "2 hour
rehearsals twice a week for 3 weeks".) Of course after you
send payment to the "third party", the payment that you thought
you had received from the "client" somehow gets canceled or fails
to clear.
--Jim