A fresh scam?
Or a business opportunity?
I'm betting on a scam....
To: (forwarded from a friend)
Subject: Get in Touch with me asap
From: "H & F Arts"
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:20:00 -0400
Hello there,
My name is Bomi Savage and I am an artist. I live in the United Kingdom, with my two kids, four cats, one dog and the love of my life. It is definitely a full house. I have been doing artwork since I was a small child. That gives me about 23 years of experience. I majored in art in high school and took a few college art courses. Most of my work is done in either pencil or airbrush mixed with color pencils. I have recently added designing and creating artworks on the computer. I have been selling my arts for the last 3 years and have had my work featured on trading cards, prints and in magazines. I have sold in galleries and to private collectors from all around the world. I am always facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling my art works to Americans, they are always offering to pay with US POSTAL MONEY ORDER, which is difficult for me to cash here in the United Kingdom.
I am looking for a representative in the States who will be working for me as a partime worker and i am willing to pay 10% for every transaction, which wouldn\'t affect your present state of work, someone who would help me receive payments from my customers in the States. I mean someone that is responsible and reliable, because the cost of coming to the States to get payments is very expensive, i am working on setting up a branch in the U.S pretty soon. But for now I need a representative who will be handling the payment aspect.
These payments are in Money Order and they would come to you in your name, so all you need do is cash the Money Order, deduct your percentage and wire the rest to me. It wouldn\'t cost you any amount, you are to receive payments which will be sent to you by Fedex or USPS from my business partners, which would come in form of a Money Order then you are to cash it and send the cash to me via Western Union Money Transfer. All Western Union charges will be deducted from the money.
If you are interested, endeavor to send your reply immediately to my e-mail address: hnfart@swissbonline.com
Regards,
Bomi Savage
My reply:
Good Day Bomi:
This sounds very interesting. I'd be glad to help out. Please have them send the money orders to:
Richard O Jones
PO Box 13311
Hamilton OH 45013.
Just out of curiosity, do you have any samples of your work you can send me?
peace
Comments
Hmm. Why doesn't she use PayPal? Seems to work for other people.
I'm leery of this one!
Posted by: barb | August 2, 2006 02:33 PM