Hi all. I've read many times on here about some of the email scams that people have gotten.

This is the first time I've gotten what I think is one. Except, there's no misspelling or bad grammar. Doesn't matter, they're in Ontario and I'm near Boston, plus I'm not licensed so I don't sell cakes.

Attached to the email was a picture of the Sesame Street 1st Birthday Party napkin. Here's the e-mail I received tonight:

Hi There,


I'm Dominic Evangelista's wife and he suggested that I contact you to see if you could make a birthday cake for our son's first birthday? I would like a large cake that would serve about 50 people that has Cookie Monster, Elmo and Big Bird on it. I've attached a picture of his birthday invite so you can get an idea. It of course does not have to be the same, but something like that with the 3 characters on it, perhaps just a large slab cake with them drawn on it?? I would also like to order a small cake with just one character, cookie monster on it so my son can have his own cake to "play in" or make a mess of. I have looked at your website and your cakes look great. If you are able/want to do this please let me know the cost. The cake is needed for Sunday March 7, 2010 please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks so much.


Carolyn Evangelista
Ph#***-***-****


Edited to remove phone number. Didn't even think of that Texas_Rose - thank you!

In case the email is not a scam, maybe you should edit your post to take out the phone number.

It's possible she came across your website and didn't realize that you don't sell cakes.

you website is great...it looks like you sell cakes...at first until you try and look for pricing and cake flavors

I don't think it is a scam. Maybe just email them back and let them know you don't sell cakes but thanks for the compliment.

It honestly doesn't seem like a scam to me, but hey who knows

I thought it was odd that she introduced herself as someone's wife in her first sentence. Did that not seem odd to anyone else? I mean if she were Johnny Depp's wife or something I might understand why she would, but that just seems odd to me I'm really not sure about this one myself.

That's mostly what made it seem like it might be a scam to me. I do make cakes for my cousin's kids, and checked with my cousin to see if they knew this person, but they don't. And a search of the phone number given does return the names given in the email. But it was still odd.

~Chelle

Maybe there is a bakery or cake place in Ontario with a similiar name and they googled and came up with your site. I dont find it strange that they announced themself as someones wife. If someone at my husbands work decorated cakes and I wanted to contac them (assuming they didnt know me) that is how I would start off the email or contact. There is no way my DH would ever order the cake himself. Not that he even would have to with me decorating, just saying if I didnt then that is how I would start my email.

I dont think its a scam, I think its probably mistaken identity. I would respond with thank you for your request but I do not sell cakes.

You all might be right........I just searched Chelle's Cakes (my site is chellescakes), and there is one in Ontario!

I'm definitely going to email them and let them know they have the wrong person!

~Chelle

i bet that baker knows the womans husband, and that is why she introduced herself as his wife. Glad you solved the mystery.
im off to look at your website!!

I just googled Dominic Evangelista in Ontario and it seems he's a Sales Manager for an Information Security company. I wouldn't worry

Thank you. There will be more picks up hopefully by next week.


~Chelle

It's so funny that Mr. Evangelista has no clue that he is the topic of our conversation...LOL

glad you figured it out!

Yah, I have to agree that it doesn't sound like a scam at all. I think probably a mistaken identity!! Good thing we can bounce this off each other though just to be safe!!

That's why I like CC so much Melvira!

She wrote back to me this morning, and that's exactly what it was - mistaken identity. She was very sorry that she had bothered me, lol. I wrote back and told her it was no problem at all.


~Chelle

chelleb1974 --- I just looked at your website. Great cakes! I remember your cakes from the Great American Cake Show last May. I loved your cake board on your Wedding Cake entry! Your work was extremely neat, clean and precise. Loved it!

I'm really glad to hear that it got sorted out and was not a scam!! It's nice to see that sometimes people aren't trying to 'work you over'!