Scam Against MT

This has been mentioned before but for the newbies (myself included) who might not have caught it the first time, I am putting it out again so MTS do not fall victim. I was all excited upon receiving my own variation of this email and went through the process of communicating and then something just didn't feel right, I had an odd feeling. So I did some research and found that this has happened before as well. The scam is the person sends more $ than the agreed upon price and says that the trip will be canceled and would like the money back. And you send $ back only to realize that the check you deposited was a fraud.

June 12, 2009: An ABMP member reported receiving the following e-mail:

Subject: I NEED A MASSAGE THERAPIST
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:11:28 -0700
From: Tom Richardson
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Hello Therapist,
My name is Tom Richardson, am 42yrs married with two loving kids. I worked as International and Public relation officer for Dubai Petroleum company I will be coming over to your state on a meeting with some of our business associates. I will like to know if you can render me your massage services for the period of my stay. I want a “Body Deep Tissue” I will be coming over for the meeting on the 25th of June 2009 and will likely be staying over for 6 days, meaning that you will be rendering your services for 6 days. I will like my massage session to start by 11:30am to 12:30 before commencement of my meetings and daily. Further more, I want to inform you that I will be lodging in one of the hotels in the city, I can have my driver bring me over to your massage center daily to make it easier for the both of us, I will like to know if there is a very good hotel close to you where I can lodge so I could come over myself. Let me know if this is ok by you so that we can make a final arrangements and you can have me fixed in your schedule for this date.

Secondly let me know if you’ll accept check as mode of payment

P-s: Let me know the total cost of your massage services for 6 days/one hour daily.

Thanks you very much and I await to hear back from you on a timely fashion.

Best Regards.
Mr. Tom Richardson