Warning

Walter & Group........

One last warning for any doubters:

Hi Gordy,

 

The message is almost certainly a scam, I received a slightly different version today but we have had these sent to UK instructors for some time and hopefully nobody has been a victim. Please circulate this widely. I am copying this to Gwilym Hughes of The Game Angling Instructors Association in UK for his information.

 

Here below is a copy from the GAIA private forum by Gwilym Hughes 26 June 2007:

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Submitted by a member and posted for information, if there are any more then please inform me.

Gwilym

Copy:

I have recently been the target of an email scam by someone purporting to be the parent of an individual requiring a course of fly fishing lessons.
It is most likely that other instructors will or are being similarly targeted and it would be a good idea to warn the membership this is happening.
What I have experienced is below:
They claimed to be located in Singapore, the son visiting for 2 months local to me and wanting 10 lessons. Although I felt suspicious of this from the start, I went along with it and gave them a price to which they agreed. They then added that their UK agent would post me a cheque which would include some extra funds as ‘spending money’ for the son while he was visiting and would I please pass this money directly to him. Now I was pretty convinced this was a fraud but agreed to see where things lead. I duly received a cheque issued by a Manchester company, H&J Quick Ltd., which had an extra £1500 included.
Apparently, if I had paid it into my account, although it was a fake, it would have cleared and I could believe it was then safe to transfer the £1500 as requested. However, after a period of time, H&J Quick Ltd. would have spotted an unauthorised withdrawal from the company account and the bank would have then refunded them from my account with me then being the loser of £1500.
A bit of internet research and I found the same person’s name, Mrs. Elizabeth Wright, operating the same scam on music teachers a year or so ago.
The banks and the police seem uninterested in this as ‘no crime has been committed’ until funds have been transferred.

Gwilym Hughes
(Moderator)

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Best wishes,

Ally Gowans