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Fellow freelancers,
Watch out for the following scam: someone (called "maria brown" in my case)offers you 2/3 mths'work."She" is based somewhere in West Africa. She E-mails you an initial 1700 wds, tells you the project is in fact 10,000 wds,and when you ask for guarantees of payment, "she" offers to pay the whole lot upfront via a rather complicated system of cashier's cheque+western union. You receive a cheque for...£3,000, from the US, + an apology for the overpayment backed by some unconvincing explanation. You are then told you should bank the cheque and pay them back the difference, to some guy in Cotonou (Rep. of Benin), via ..Western Union (untraceable). The cheque is obviously a dud and if you have sent them "their" money before your bank finds out and lets you know, you have lost £2,600!!!
The dud cheques are meant to come from the Norwich Union, I have spoken to them and they say it has already happened quite a few times. So keep well clear of unidentified/untraceable "clients" and stick to well-established bona fide agencies or companies.
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- scam D.STEPHANY 12-08-2008 11:00
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