Scam Email: Steve Borgatti

<p>How many years have I been doing this blog&period; How many personal emails have I sent for years before I started the blog&period; Really&comma; this scam has changed VERY LITTLE since it began&period; Why&quest; Because it is still working for the scammers&period; Because they are still making money&period; If it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t&comma; it would have changed long ago&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>It&&num;8217&semi;s simple&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>1&period; DO NOT use wire transfers very ANY reason in your business dealings&period; Period&period; This one tip will destroy the effectiveness of 99&percnt; of this type of scam&period; They need you to wire your good money to them so they can disappear with it without a trace &&num;8211&semi; before you&&num;8217&semi;ve discovered their payment is a faked check or stolen credit card or faked paypal payment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>2&period; DO NOT do any one any favors in selling your work&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t forward money for them to some non-existent shipper&period; Let them pay their shipper themselves &lpar;there is no shipper so the scam will end here&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>3&period; DO NOT accept overpayments&period; Just don&&num;8217&semi;t&period; If a buyer overpays&comma; offer to void their check and have them send a check of the right amount &lpar;and remember&comma; no favors for forwarding money to a non-existent shipper&rpar; or if it&&num;8217&semi;s a credit card &&num;8211&semi; call the card company first and verify that the card number matches the billing address &lpar;it almost never does&rpar;&comma; and if it&&num;8217&semi;s a paypal payment &&num;8211&semi; actually manually log into your paypal account in a brand new browser and double check that they&&num;8217&semi;ve paid anything at all&period; What scammers do with paypal is they fake a payment confirmation email and hope the victim never logs into their account &lpar;in time&rpar; to check&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And this bit about moving to Russia or moving to Malaysia or they are at sea or in Afghanistan or out of the country for some other odd reason&&num;8230&semi;huge tip-offs that a scam is in progress&period; It helps setup why they are asking you wire them &lpar;or a shipper&rpar; money&period; But don&&num;8217&semi;t do it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Okay&comma; here&&num;8217&semi;s another one I receive today&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"tr&lowbar;bq"><p>Hello Kathleen&comma; my artist husband was almost scammed&period;  I was suspicious and finally went to the Internet to do some research and found you&period;  Please add the Steve Borgatti name to your list of despicable characters&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m going to make a donation to you&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the very bottom is the scammer&&num;8217&semi;s message&period;  When mail is sent to my husband&&num;8217&semi;s art address&comma; a blind copy goes to my Gmail account so I copied the header info&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thank you&comma;Nancy<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Delivered-To&colon; twohadaways&commat;gmail&period;com<br &sol;>&NewLine;Received&colon; by 10&period;170&period;118&period;80 with SMTP id k77csp28622ykb&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sat&comma; 5 Apr 2014 07&colon;41&colon;26 -0700 &lpar;PDT&rpar;<br &sol;>&NewLine;X-Received&colon; by 10&period;140&period;33&period;244 with SMTP id j107mr2728669qgj&period;81&period;1396708873079&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sat&comma; 05 Apr 2014 07&colon;41&colon;13 -0700 &lpar;PDT&rpar;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Received&colon; by 10&period;224&period;79&period;80 with HTTP&semi; Sat&comma; 5 Apr 2014 07&colon;41&colon;13 -0700 &lpar;PDT&rpar;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Date&colon; Sat&comma; 5 Apr 2014 15&colon;41&colon;13 &plus;0100<br &sol;>&NewLine;Subject&colon; Payment and pick-up&&num;8230&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;From&colon; Steve Borgatti &lpar;analytictechnologies01&commat;gmail&period;com&rpar;<br &sol;>&NewLine;To&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Content-Type&colon; multipart&sol;alternative&semi; boundary&equals;001a113aa9803c108704f64ca0df<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8211&semi;001a113aa9803c108704f64ca0df<br &sol;>&NewLine;Content-Type&colon; text&sol;plain&semi; charset&equals;ISO-8859-1<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hello Mrs&period; &lbrack;last name&rsqb;&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Hope you are good&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m just reading your email now as I have been so busy&period;Thanks for the details which I&&num;8217&semi;ve noted down and I hope to visit your studio with my wife in the nearest future after our anniversary&period; Also in order not to leave any clue to my wife for the surprise&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve contacted a client of mine to issue out a check which will include my shipping agent fees to you&comma; so please you may have to help remit the balance to the shipping agent as soon as the check clears your bank&period; I would have handled this much differently if I&&num;8217&semi;d been at home but am a bit pressed for time myself and do not have access to a lot of cash over here to expedite this transaction&&num;8230&semi; trying to kill two birds with a stone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Moreover&comma; they are not sending any bill or hold you responsible for the payment of the contract between us&period; all I&&num;8217&semi;m asking from you is a favor to help me send the extra funds on the check to the shipping agent who will be coming over to your location to pick-up the piece and have it delivered safely to me at my residential address&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs&period; &lbrack;last name&rsqb;&comma; I want you to understand that I&&num;8217&semi;m concluding you are a responsible person and I can therefore entrust you with this arrangement&period;please i will appreciate if you get back to me asap to know if i can entrust you with this transaction&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Many thanks and talk to you soon&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Steve&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8212&semi;&&num;8212&semi;&&num;8211&semi; Original Message &&num;8212&semi;&&num;8212&semi;&&num;8211&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Subject&colon; Hello<br &sol;>&NewLine;From&colon; Steve Borgatti &lpar;analytictechnologies01&commat;gmail&period;com&rpar;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Date&colon; Thu&comma; April 03&comma; 2014 9&colon;33 am<br &sol;>&NewLine;To&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dear &lbrack;last name&rsqb;&comma;  Thanks for the message&comma; I must tell you I am very much interested in the immediate purchase of the piece to surprise my wife&period;  I can be reached at &lpar;323&rpar; 374-5218 &lpar;feel free to leave a voice mail or text message if am not available but E-mail would be the fastest way to reach me though&rpar;&period;If you&&num;8217&semi;d like to know&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m relocating to the Russia soon and our anniversary is fast approaching&period; So I&&num;8217&semi;m trying to gather some good stuff to make this event a surprise one&period; I am buying yours as part of gifts to her &lpar;quickly before someone else grabs it&rpar;&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m okay with the price&comma; I think it&&num;8217&semi;s worth it anyway&comma; so I&&num;8217&semi;ll be sending a check&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;As regarding shipping&comma; you don&&num;8217&semi;t have to worry about that in order not to leave any clue to my wife for the surprise&period; as soon as you receive and cash the check&comma; my shipping agent &lpar;who is also moving my personal effect&rpar; will contact you to arrange pick-up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I would have come to purchase the piece myself but&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m currently out of the country on a conference trip and won&&num;8217&semi;t be back for another couple of weeks&period; Regards&comma;Steve&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>PS&colon; In the meantime&comma; kindly get back to me with your full name &lpar;you want the check payable to&rpar; and contact address &lpar;preferably for fedEx not P&period;O box&rpar; where a check can be mailed to&comma; so I can get the check prepared and have it mailed out to you right away&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8212&semi;&&num;8212&semi;&&num;8211&semi; Original Message &&num;8212&semi;&&num;8212&semi;&&num;8211&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Greetings&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;My name is Steve Borgatti from Nevada&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m reaching you to inquire about your works&period; I actually observed my wife has been viewing your website on my laptop and i guess she likes that piece&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m so impressed and amazed to have seen your various works too&comma; &colon; &rpar;  I must also say you are doing a great job&period; I would like to know what inspired that work&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I am very much interested in the purchase of the piece &lpar;in subject field above&rpar; to surprise my wife&period; Kindly confirm the availability for immediate sales&period;  Thanks and best regards&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Steve&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;

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