Scam Email: Adrian Hermes

<p>Here is a scam that is so telling &&num;8211&semi; sent to an &&num;8220&semi;undisclosed list of recipients&&num;8221&semi; &lpar;aka huge spam list&rpar; and apologizing upfront for not remember your website &lpar;they have no way to track the websites of hundreds of thousands of people they spam every day&comma; and really they are not visiting the websites in this case anyway&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mh-content-ad"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js&quest;client&equals;ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; crossorigin&equals;"anonymous"><&sol;script>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle"&NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;"&NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article"&NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid"&NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1081854981"><&sol;ins>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>What they need for the scam are people to reply to the email and say that&&num;8217&semi;s okay&&num;8230&semi; here is my website url&period; And THAT way when the scammer continues on the steps of the scam&comma; they can make Round 2 of email exchanges a lot more personalized so you believe they are a real buyer when they are not&period; Then they WILL go to your website and pick out specific artwork to &&num;8220&semi;buy&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In this way&comma; they keep their own efforts efficient and the least amount of work for maximum gain&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What is their gain&quest; With a fake story they will eventually overpay for something and ask the money be forwarded to their &lbrack;fake&rsqb; shipper&comma; because they are moving or temporarily out of the country or whatever&period; And &lpar;here comes the kicker&rpar;&comma; it will need to be wired to them&period; Hard untraceble cash wired directly to the scammer&comma; who then disappears&period; While the victim then learns&comma; too late&comma; the original money was either a counterfeit check or a stolen credit card&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>How do you avoid this scam&quest; Two simple rules&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>1&period; NEVER accept overpayment for any reason&period; Just don&&num;8217&semi;t&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;2&period; NEVER EVER EVER &lpar;can I throw one more in for good measure&quest;&rpar; NEVER send money via wire transfer &&num;8211&semi; for any reason&period; This is the crux of the scam and if you don&&num;8217&semi;t do this&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll be safe from at least this scam&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Check out this scam email&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8212&semi;&&num;8211&semi;Original Message&&num;8212&semi;&&num;8211&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;From&colon; Adrian Hermes &lbrack;adrianhermes&commat;outlook&period;com&rsqb;<br &sol;>&NewLine;To&colon; undisclosed-recipients&colon;&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sent&colon; Thu&comma; Jun 5&comma; 2014 2&colon;19 pm<br &sol;>&NewLine;Subject&colon; Inquiry and request about your work of Art<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Good morning&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;I was able to view your work from the website you had it displayed in and unfortunately for me i kind of lost the website but i stored your contact&comma;i will like to ask if you have a piece&lpar;s&rpar; for sale and can you kindly re-direct me to your website&period; i will be awaiting to read from you soon&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Thanks<br &sol;>&NewLine;Adrian<br &sol;>&NewLine;<img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;feeds&period;feedburner&period;com&sol;~r&sol;StopArtScams&sol;~4&sol;6zswBhnJ4Vg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1" height&equals;"1" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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