Anybody else in D.C. area get this email?

BluesCam

Well-known member
I am Pat Neame, i will be having a cocktail party with my old friends
at Arlington which was supposed to hold last year but due to
circumstances beyond our comprehension, now fixed to be held by 5pm on
29th January,2016. It would be 22persons attendance and the party
will last for 1hour from 5pm. We are still dealing with the
reservation of the hall but we are assured of one which its location
will be communicated to you as soon as possible.We will need the
service of a videographer at this short event. I got your contact on
http://www.broadcastvideo.com

So, i would want you to get back to me if you will be available for
the service and also your price quote. The production should be in
DVD, NTSC format, the camera brand does not matter and to be delivered
to us after the event.Get back to me with your estimate cost for the
service together with all expenses that could be incurred in the
course of the service. so we could make a reservation deposit.

Waiting to hear from you.

Pat Neame

Kind of bizarre
 

bb-hd

Member
I got this message in Boston:

Hi,

I am Pat Neame, i will be having a cocktail party with my old friends
at Sterling Boston which was supposed to hold last year but due to
circumstances beyond our comprehension, now fixed to be held by 5pm on
29th January,2016. It would be 22persons attendance and the party
will last for 1hour from 5pm. We are still dealing with the
reservation of the hall but we are assured of one which its location
will be communicated to you as soon as possible.We will need the
service of a videographer at this short event. I got your contact on
http://ppla.net


So, i would want you to get back to me if you will be available for
the service and also your price quote. The production should be in
DVD, NTSC format, the camera brand does not matter and to be delivered
to us after the event.Get back to me with your estimate cost for the
service together with all expenses that could be incurred in the
course of the service. so we could make a reservation deposit.



Waiting to hear from you.

Pat Neame
 

Capt. Slo-mo

Well-known member
Yes, only mine was for a shoot based in Portland, where I haven't lived for 5 years. Seems like a lot of these phishing work letters come through Mandy's crew listings. I once replied to what seemed like a fairly legit inquiry, but it soon became obvious it was a scam.

So I trolled the guy back for weeks, all the way through getting a bogus certified check drawn on an actual bank in Florida, which I was supposed to deposit and then WU the excess back to the travel manager, who just happened to be in Nigeria on business.

So I sent the guy a bogus WU number, and told him I had sent the money...and then strung it along for several days when his "travel manager" claimed the money had never arrived; eventually suggesting to the guy that his TM was ripping him off.

Then I complained that the check he sent had bounced, and I was out the $1100 I had sent to his contact, and demanded to know how he was going to reimburse me. Never heard from him again.

Hours of good clean fun! Until, of course, somebody from Nigeria shows up on my doorstep with a machete...
 
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