[email protected] - Wedding Photography Scam

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From: Bekky Daniel <[email protected]>
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Generally this scammer with text photographers with

BEKKY NEED YOUR SERVICE URGENTLY

and

Hello am Bekky am about to wed to my fiance on the 28th of February 2015 and i need a perfect event photographer to photo my wedding for me get back to me to know your availability about my day..Hope to read from you soon

Or this will be included in the email from [email protected]

Hello ,

Thanks for the quick response and I'm sorry if my message came in late , i have been busy with other arrangements and i hope you understand .Its really nice reading from you and i am glad to hear that you are available for my wedding .

I want you to know that this is an inside wedding and the order of events will mail to you a MONTH before the wedding day but the order events is likely to be pictures first, then the wedding ceremony , and then the reception but let me discuss this with my Fiance because its our wedding so our two has to make the decision together . I hope you understand my point of view.

I want you to know that we will be taking formal pictures so i will like you to recommend 45minutes or an hour set aside for taking formal pictures because we have large family from both my side and the groom side and friends /co-workers we will want to take pictures with . So it will be easier if we can take the pictures before the ceremony because it will be more relaxed with fewer time constraints and would like you to set up a great "first look" shot of me looking at my groom for the first time on the wedding day.

the wedding date is 25th of April. 2015

Basically we need your service starting from NOON to 5PM .

We are expecting 250 guests i.e 200 adults and 50 children .

And also there will be a table place set for you at the reception , so you don't need to bring your own food but it will be nice if you can just give me an hint of what kind of food you want us to arrange for you i.e if you are vegetarian or eat all kind of foods .

Further more , there will be special important parts/people at the ceremony or reception that i would want you to take a picture of .I will send the list of the important parts/people to you a week before the wedding day and i want you to know that my wedding is a sleek modern wedding .

I need you to get back to me with your charges and i will be paying you upfront , I just called my FATHER IN LAW who will be in charge of your service fees he told me that your payment will be paid to you via certified check or Money order so he has asked me to ask for your details stated below that you want the payment to be send to so as for me to secure your service for my wedding party. Below is the info needed for your payment

FULL NAME:

ADDRESS:(no p.o box please)

CITY:

STATE:

ZIP:

TOTAL AMOUNT:

PHONE NO:

I'm currently on working on off shore,we can talk through mail or text

I will send you the venue address once you agree to everything i stated above and also waiting for the details to issue on the payment...

Will be expecting to read back from you with the details I have asked for thanks so much and God bless.
Regards,

Scammer will send a fake check and use overpayment scam.

Hello,

I need to inform you that the payment for your service will be deliver to you via USPS courier agency TODAY 12th of January.USPS gave me this tracking number (snipped) through E-mail, so you would be able to track it there yourself and more also,to know the movement of the payment. I also want you to know that the amount which was sent to you by my father in law,was more than your asking price he mistakenly mailed out the event planning fee along with the money sent to you and he should have cancelled the payment but he is away for an emergency business trip to Paris and he will not be back till our wedding day.Hope I can trust in you that you will send the rest funds for my wedding event planning because people can be really funny nowadays.please Kindly proceed to the bank so you can deposit the check. Also,I really appreciate your kindness and help with the mistake made by my father in law adding the event planning fee to the payment sent to you. What you have to do is just deduct the money for your service from the funds and get the rest sent to the event planner in Greenwood, Indiana who is to plan the event for our wedding via WESTERN UNION money transfer or Money Gram earlier today if you have fund to cover up for the fund please kindly help me to send it today to the planner and when the check clears in your bank you will have your money back cause he need to get the event booked ealier today so as to move on with the rest arrangement the . Kindly get back to me with the under listed details as soon as you send the funds .I would be able to provide you the event details as soon as you sent the fund to the event planner and our other plans

Below is my event planner information you would send the funds to:



FIRST NAME : ANN
LAST NAME: WISCHMEYER
city: Greenwood
state: Indiana
zip code: 46142



After the transfer get back to me with all the transfer details from WESTERN UNION money transfer . The details needed would be the (Money Transfer Control Number 10 digits) given to you from WESTERN UNION . Besides, I will need to know the TOTAL AMOUNT SENT after deducting transfer charges and sender's name especially if you are not the person sending it. Note that the transfer charges should be deducted from the money you are sending and not from your personal money.
For the sake of clarity, I will reiterate the details needed in order to pick up the money after you have sent to the event planner from money gram the details are

1 (Money Transfer Control Number 10 digits).
2 SENDER'S NAME ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DELEGATED SOMEONE TO SEND THE FUNDS
3 TOTAL AMOUNT SENT AFTER DEDUCTION OF TRANSFER CHARGES.

These 3 details are important in order to pick up the funds and let the message you will be sending to me to notify that you have sent the fund to the event planner via western union contains these said 3 details. Please,this is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to pick up the funds and please avoid making mistakes to avoid further delay and quicken book an event for our wedding urgently, so get this done and get back to me as soon as possible.

Looking forward to read from you soon;

Thank you and God bless you.
My Kindest Regards

Thanks for the mail, i will love to know when you will be back to town, and the overage mistakenly sent along with your fund is $2000 and that is meant for event planning fee, kindly get back to me when you around or you can help me out of this cause the planner need to get an event booked earlier this week i will be glad if you can send the fund today or tell your PA to do that for you, if you have fund to cover up for the overage please kindly help me to send it today to the planner and when the check clears in your bank you will have your money back cause he need to get the event booked earlier so as to move on with the rest arrangement

Thanks for the mail, i will love to know when you will be back to town, and the overage mistakenly sent along with your fund is $2000 and that is meant for event planning fee, kindly get back to me when you around or you can help me out of this cause the planner need to get an event booked earlier this week i will be glad if you can send the fund today or tell your PA to do that for you, if you have fund to cover up for the overage please kindly help me to send it today to the planner and when the check clears in your bank you will have your money back cause he need to get the event booked earlier so as to move on with the rest arrangement

Thanks for the mail,i will have to wait till you come back on Saturday, cause if she mail back the check that will jeopardize all our wedding plan cause my father in law is out of town for and emergency business trip, and will not be back soon,and he has mistakenly mail the planner money along with your service fee,kindly help me out of this mess,just let me know when you back in town on saturday and make sure to deposit the check and wire the rest fund to he event planner. i will be very grateful if you can render the help for me

Regard

Thanks for the mail, Kindly send the money to the event planner PA, through western union money transfer. Below is the planner PA INFO


FIRST NAME : SHEREEN
LAST NAME: SBEIH
city: Roselle
state: Illinois
zip code: 60172

OK AM SORRY YOU FOR THAT I UNDERSTAND YOU YOU CAN KINDLY MADE A PAYPAL TRANSFER TO THE EVENT PALNNER RIGHT?

Hello my event planner said you can send the payment to one of her colleague bank account, this are the info you ask for
Bank name:City National Bank and Trust
Name on the account: Kimberlee E. Clark
checking Account number:xxxxx
Routing number 103 100 739

Get back to me and let me know when you making the payment ASAP