Omg, I Think Someone Is Trying To Scam Me! Please Look.....
Decorating By JCE62108 Updated 30 Apr 2010 , 8:44pm by VillageConfections
Has anyone ever cashed a scammer check, and NOT sent the overage?
Mike
Im pretty sure it would bounce, or turn out stolen.. Both of which you wouldn't find out until weeks later. Either way the bank would want the money back plus fees. Funny, I just cant imagine a scammer keeping a current bank account.. 
Has anyone ever cashed a scammer check, and NOT sent the overage?
Mike
Im pretty sure it would bounce, or turn out stolen.. Both of which you wouldn't find out until weeks later. Either way the bank would want the money back plus fees. Funny, I just cant imagine a scammer keeping a current bank account..
A banker in my BNI group said they are aware of these checks and she's had some people try to deposit them .... her bank refuses to even handle them.
HEre's another version ... and this one was sent to my 16 year old!!! 
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-621929-scam.html
We also got this email from steven nicole or what ever his name is. It was just to good to be true so we googled his name and there we go, I read it from all of you nice people about that NOt Nice garbage Bag.
Thank you all
If someone knows who we should report it please let us know
so no one else get scammed
This has been going on for a long time. From another cake site, different name but pretty well the same email..
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Hello , thanks for the swift reply to my order request, and you concern as well, i want you to know that am very grateful and am really inspired ever since the first time I tasted your cake in an occasion that is why I will prefer you bake for me..or i rather not bake a cake for my wedding, lol.â¦.I will like you to bake for me a chocolate or strawberry flavour cake , and it should be decorated with roses..as seen in the picture i attached ( in the picture what you see on the side on the cake is a polka dot, dot, and i will like the color of the polka dot to be pink color). And you should also have the cake covered in fondant or butter cream ( I believe the fondant should make the journey), let inscription be writing on one as âHappy Married Lifeâ and you will packaged in different cake boxes for pick up once its ready for pick up .
And i want you to have it ready for pick up time 11 o clock A.M 30Th April 2008..and a shipper will be coming to pick them up...to delivery to my wedding reception in Canada and i dont want you to be worried about the safety delivery of the cake. Regarding the shipping ,I have a shipping agent that will be take good care of pick up and the delivery consignments. The Shipping company will come for the pickup arrangement of the Cake at your place, at the pick up date and time.
And as I have told you donât have anything to be worry about on the shipping of the cake it will be well secure and in a good condition on arriving the location of my wedding
reception in Toronto Canada, the shipper will be coming with there refrigerator Van for the pick up and it will be ship under the fragile shipping insurance scheme, a friend of
mine has use them before for a shipping consignment of this such and they are well secure relaible and dependableâ¦..
So I want you to calculate for me what will be the total cost of the cake order including the decoration plus tax if included, and also I want you to add $700 for the cost of the pick up and the shipping, so once I have your reply for the total I will remit my credit card for you to charge for the total costâ¦so that you can have the order book right away.
And once you have the order in progress, I will provide you the shipper information,and how you will get the shipping fee to the shipper as to confirm the pickup arrangement of
the cake. I will offer you an extra $100 for taking care of my order properly and for any less stress you will go through for completing the transaction for me due to my absence.
So plus do calculate altogether the total cost of the cake + decoration and tax +$700 for shipping charges, including the $100 am offering you.And get back to me with the total
for all, so once i have the total cost i will remit my credit card for you to charge. And you should let me know the type of CC you accept Visa or Master.
I will be waiting to have your reply for the total cost.
Thanks and God bless.
Mike WIlliams.
yep! the same thing happened to me,I even got a check for $1700.00 in my mail box! I got scared and I call the police and I made a report, with the police report you can go to your DA office and they handle the problem, that's what the police officer told me and that's what I did, but you have to take copies of your emails and everything...hope this help...cbya
PS: if you cash that check they will have access to your bank account information!!!
Definitely a scam, the catch is the payment to the shipper. However it went you would forward the payment for the shipping out of your own pocket and the credit card given would have been no good or stolen. Same premise as the scam, you won the lottery or had an inheritance check, just pay X amount an we can process the releasing of the fund to you.
I do alot with dogs, I've received pleas to help with animals. I'll given you 2 pure breed yorkies/whatever, I just can't keep them. Please just send X dollars so I can ship them to a good and safe home---------from Nigeria, right!
They have tried me too, several times thru the TTY service( hearing impaired). Gosh, that's so low down that they would use that service. I don't do cakes, I do catering sandwiches, foods etc... The first time they call me, they want me to make 500 barbecue sandwiches, the truck will come to my location( Omaha, Ne.) and take the sandwiches to Texas!!! for a wedding reception. Really??? I thought surely they have great BBQ places in Texas. Had I been young and a new comer to the business, I might have done it. I want to slap those scammers upside their heads 
Has anyone ever cashed a scammer check, and NOT sent the overage?
Mike
Im pretty sure it would bounce, or turn out stolen.. Both of which you wouldn't find out until weeks later. Either way the bank would want the money back plus fees. Funny, I just cant imagine a scammer keeping a current bank account..
A banker in my BNI group said they are aware of these checks and she's had some people try to deposit them .... her bank refuses to even handle them.
HEre's another version ... and this one was sent to my 16 year old!!!
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-621929-scam.html
I had not heard or seen this one yet, so thanx Indydebi for sharing that one they had sent to your 16 yr old
WOW! Serious stuff! I"m hunched over my desk biting my nails!!!
Yeah thats a scam thats been around a looooong time.!
While reading through this thread I noticed
Hi Steven,
I can most certainly help you with your needs. However I do not allow pickups as I do not currently have a public bakery.
I emailed them back saying, Im sorry I couldnt help them, they need to find someone closer to their area. Good grief. Im in FL. Like Id make something for someone to bring to Canada anyway? Is that even legal? Even if it wasnt a scam I wouldnt do it. Nut job.
Oh Ive done that a lot. Actually about 70% of my customers I havent met. I do most of the consultations over the phone. And I dont mind doing it that way, but this just didnt seem right. Actually, one of my next customers is coming all the way from Canada to FL for her hubby's birthday. Really nice woman. Im excited to be able to do this for her. In October I had a customer come from out of state as well. FL is such a tourist destination...that's why
Yeah....sorry guys. Im the naive newbie on the block. lol That's why I asked about it. Ive only been in business for myself for 8 months. Before that I was a decorator at a grocery store for 2 years. So, yeah. There is always gonna be a newbie who has no clue about this. Not only that, but considering how new I am, Im surprised I would be targeted. Like, what are these guys doing? Just contacting every cake place in the area to see who bites? Weird.
What a loser. Is there any way to report this to the police? I dont know if anything can be done.
Florida doesnt allow home bakers to sell. I dont know if you know or not, or have already looked into it or not. I hope this doesnt offend you as it really isnt meant to. I dont know if you have built yourself a totally separate commercial kitchen in or attached to your home, that you have had inspected and have already taken all the necessary legal steps in order to open a legitimate cake business in Florida. I hope that you have. But if you have not and are just selling cakes out of your home, you need to know this; I needed to hear it when I was considering doing it. I didnt like it at all but it kept me from operating an illegal business and risking the well being of my family.
We are thinking of ways to help push the legal issues, but we are looking for a Local State Rep to sponsor the bill. We are writing letters and emails to our local Reps and are planning a bake a cake for your Rep day soon. If you do not have a legal business I implore you to examine the risks and do what is right and also join the rest of us in Florida in this fight. Here is the thread
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-628864.html
It's getting better now. I work at a real estate agency. One of the clients came in looking for a new stove for his house. Anyway, his agent was helping him find a stove. So he finds a Wolf 48" gas top w/2 convection ovens. Brand new for $2850. I thought that was the used price, because they are super expensive. The explanation he got was the seller was in the military and his unit was being sent to Iraq and he had it in his garage and had only opened it to take pictures. He didn't want it sitting there while he was gone.
Well he said they could give him a credit card number and he would send it from Montana to the coast of Washington. They said no and they would do cash and pick it up. Never heard from him again.
Point is, they aren't even searching for you. They have you searching for them to be scammed.
A little note...They have base locators at each base that can look up a person and give you a work phone number at the base.
If it is too good to be true, it probaly is.
My cousin loves to scam the scammers!! They have gotten ahold of him a couple of times trying to get him to ship them merchandise and he plays along as long as he can, just for entertainment. He has convinced them to arrange shipping prepaid then he fills it up with heavy garbage and sends it on its merry way! He has an art gallery and even did an exhibit with the nasty letters and stuff these people sent back lol
I haven't received the cake scam email yet, but a while back I had some household items I was trying to sell so I advertised them on Facebook Marketplace. BIG MISTAKE!! Every reply was a scam email very similar to the cake one.
My cousin loves to scam the scammers!! They have gotten ahold of him a couple of times trying to get him to ship them merchandise and he plays along as long as he can, just for entertainment. He has convinced them to arrange shipping prepaid then he fills it up with heavy garbage and sends it on its merry way! He has an art gallery and even did an exhibit with the nasty letters and stuff these people sent back lol
O my gosh, that is so cool, tell your brother way to go 
My cousin loves to scam the scammers!! They have gotten ahold of him a couple of times trying to get him to ship them merchandise and he plays along as long as he can, just for entertainment. He has convinced them to arrange shipping prepaid then he fills it up with heavy garbage and sends it on its merry way! He has an art gallery and even did an exhibit with the nasty letters and stuff these people sent back lol
O my gosh, that is so cool, tell your brother way to go
oops, I meant your cousin 
Well...... now I know...... My mother in law got the same phone call and song n dance in her drapery shop... they wanted blinds sent to africa...*LOL*... she told them she wanted no part of their business..... but holy crap..... cake decorators???? *LOL* I guess I never would have imagined that angle....
A friend of mine toyed with one of those Nigerian scammers for the longest time. He had the whole email exchange posted up on a website (sorry, I don't have the link any more). It was hilarious. He had this whole Star Trek theme going on in the emails. He was Jean Luc Picard and had a company United Federation of (something) and they had a new ship or product or something called The Enterprise. And the scammer didn't catch on.
http://www.thescambaiter.com/
Step 1: create a fake email address
Step 2: join the above reference site
Step 3: get failiar with the game
Step 4: get ready to have more fun than you can imagine!
I just got this very same e-mail. And i'm in South Arica and suddenly the wedding is in USA. What's next?
i recieved an email this week, the 3rd since the start of the year and we havent hit march yet, Un - cake related, But telling me some VERY VERY wealthy person has died, and left all there millions in a will, that only i can legally because the dead mans brother is a murderer and is going to kill the wife and son if they get the money . . SO if i send them my bank details can they will transfer the money to me for safe keeping along with a few bob for my self!! never gets old, But so important to be aware of all these scams!
BIG FAT SCAM.....
that's how I knew I had made it, when I started getting scammers 
i recieved an email this week, the 3rd since the start of the year and we havent hit march yet, Un - cake related, But telling me some VERY VERY wealthy person has died, and left all there millions in a will, that only i can legally because the dead mans brother is a murderer and is going to kill the wife and son if they get the money . . SO if i send them my bank details can they will transfer the money to me for safe keeping along with a few bob for my self!! never gets old, But so important to be aware of all these scams!
Oh I also have some generous people that left me money> Wish I can get hold of all that money. 
The lastest here with us is so called Bank mails that you need to verify your info. I get at least 5 a day. All from different e-mail addresses.
My favorite is the nice young US Marine stationed in Afghanistan, who happened upon a large stash of money, belonging (of course) to a terrorist faction. The only way he and his buddy can get the money into the US is if some nice, patriotic individual (sucker) like me, gives him my bank account information to transfer the money into. I felt so privileged to be able to help.
NOT!
He he he! How stupid do they think we are and I guess they do get a few primates falling for this!
the sad reality is , alot of people do fall for these things because theyve simply never heard of them before, Or dont have any one around them to tell them otherwise, a few year back there was a massive storm all over the UK papers about old people being targeted, getting letters saying theyd won some foreign lottery, and had to pay so much to get these millions, and it went on and on, and a lot of old, fragile people were hoodwinked out of thousands of pounds
amazing that scam still is around. I haven't ever heard of the phonecall part of it, but nonetheless, RUN!
I can't believe this! We received the same request a couple of days ago. He called our shop via AT&T messaging that is a service for the hearing impaired. He requested information on pricing and stated that he would email us with what he was looking for as far as a design and that instructions would follow.
The email we received is almost word for word what you had stated!
Everyone beware!!!
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