A true con artist would at least employ a better translator...
Don't you just love emails like this...Hello Dear,
My name is Derek Trotter and I am an artist. I live in England, with my two kids, 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 when I was in Canada were I took interest in arts that gives me about 23 years of experience.
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I have sold in galleries, museums 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 a US POSTAL MONEY ORDER, which is difficult for me to cash here in England.
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 for every transaction, which wouldn't affect our 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 state and getting payments is very expensive, I am working on setting up a branch in the state, and so for now I need a representative in the united state 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 back. But the problem I have is trust, but I have my way of getting anyone that gets away with our money, I mean the FBI branch in Washington gets involve.
It wouldn't cost u any amount you are to receive payments which will be sent to u by fedex or usps from my business partners, which would come in form of a money order then u 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, please get back to me as soon as possible.
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According to how you have been briefed earlier by me. You are required and mandated to receive payment on behalf of the above-mentioned firm. You are to deduct 10% of all funds processed on a particular order and forward the balance payment via Western Union Money Transfer.
Once again this transaction is 100% risk free and legal from the United States Government and the British Government, so feel free about this transaction and get back to me with the required information's to enable us proceed. Thanks for going through this proposal.
My warmest Regards and thanks for your anticipated assistant, Please fill free to reply me through my official mailing address : [REDACTED by the Mgmt.]
Derek Trotter-Companies.
I wonder how many people fall for this stuff and end up getting busted for aiding and abetting a counterfeit money order scheme. I did do a Google search on "Derek Trotter". Two things of note:
1) There is a website for a UK artist named Derek Trotter: It's "Under construction."
2) I pulled the following from WikiPedia:Derek Edward Trotter, or 'Del Boy', as he is more commonly known, is the lead character in the hugely popular BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses . . . Del is a streetwise chancer, always looking to make a fast buck. With a never-ending supply of get-rich-quick schemes and an inner belief in his ability to sell anything to anyone, Del embroils 'the firm' (as he calls the family business) in all sorts of improbable situations. It is this unwavering confidence that led to his oft-proclaimed but rarely realised ambition "This time next year, we'll be millionaires!"
Apt.
My name is Derek Trotter and I am an artist. I live in England, with my two kids, 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 when I was in Canada were I took interest in arts that gives me about 23 years of experience.
[...]
I have sold in galleries, museums 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 a US POSTAL MONEY ORDER, which is difficult for me to cash here in England.
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 for every transaction, which wouldn't affect our 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 state and getting payments is very expensive, I am working on setting up a branch in the state, and so for now I need a representative in the united state 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 back. But the problem I have is trust, but I have my way of getting anyone that gets away with our money, I mean the FBI branch in Washington gets involve.
It wouldn't cost u any amount you are to receive payments which will be sent to u by fedex or usps from my business partners, which would come in form of a money order then u 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, please get back to me as soon as possible.
[...]
According to how you have been briefed earlier by me. You are required and mandated to receive payment on behalf of the above-mentioned firm. You are to deduct 10% of all funds processed on a particular order and forward the balance payment via Western Union Money Transfer.
Once again this transaction is 100% risk free and legal from the United States Government and the British Government, so feel free about this transaction and get back to me with the required information's to enable us proceed. Thanks for going through this proposal.
My warmest Regards and thanks for your anticipated assistant, Please fill free to reply me through my official mailing address : [REDACTED by the Mgmt.]
Derek Trotter-Companies.
I wonder how many people fall for this stuff and end up getting busted for aiding and abetting a counterfeit money order scheme. I did do a Google search on "Derek Trotter". Two things of note:
1) There is a website for a UK artist named Derek Trotter: It's "Under construction."
2) I pulled the following from WikiPedia:Derek Edward Trotter, or 'Del Boy', as he is more commonly known, is the lead character in the hugely popular BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses . . . Del is a streetwise chancer, always looking to make a fast buck. With a never-ending supply of get-rich-quick schemes and an inner belief in his ability to sell anything to anyone, Del embroils 'the firm' (as he calls the family business) in all sorts of improbable situations. It is this unwavering confidence that led to his oft-proclaimed but rarely realised ambition "This time next year, we'll be millionaires!"
Apt.