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Tattoo Scams

Written by Michelle

Wednesday, 01 September 2010

I guess there's scams for everything. i'm not sure how this scam is supposed to work but I'm just gonna put these emails out here as a heads up for anyone else who runs accross something similar. The last one we got was for a fake Bulgarian band. You know it's fishy when they're asking you to tattoo 10+ people and they all want the same weird thing. Why do they keep suggesting we tattoo "a house or any beautiful image" Who thinks people get houses tattooed on them??? Here's the latest scam emails we've gotten.

I want to book for tattoo drawings in your studio for group of 10, we are spending our vacation in your country for three weeks in the month of Sept 2010 and in line with our plans we need to draw tattoo in your studio.

We need two tattoos each on the chest and back for images like scorpion, flower, house or any beautiful image that can be good in tattoos as your suggestions will be appreciated.

Kindly confirm the best dates for you in the month of Sept 2010 and how many days it will take you to finish the tattooing for the group of 10 persons booking and also confirm if your firm will be able to handle this.

Another good one.....

i wish to book a two weeks class on tattoo lessons in your facility, for some students that will be coming from Sweden.They would like to book for 2 weeks lesson for 1.5 hours each day, Monday to Saturday (morning or evening hours) for a group of 10.

Arrival Date- 24th of August
To start classes by 25th of August till 8th of Sept 2010.

Please if you will be disposed to offer these lessons as a competent and reliable instructor give me total cost for the period specified including all applicable taxes).
No of persons: 10 People (adults) No of Males;5
No of Females;5

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Father Panik said:

The way it works is they send you payment in advance, a check. The payment also contains the money they need for extra stuff, like a hotel. The $ is sent from, say a manager, and asks you to send the extra $ to the band the school, whatever, via Western Union, btw keep 10% as a handling fee.
The check will come back to you in about 2 weeks as NFG, but you will have already Western Unioned the "extra" $ to the scammer. Now you owe the bank all the $, plus bounce fees.

September 01, 2010

Michael1014 said:

I have had this sent to me in from several different countries, but the rest is very much the same.

September 01, 2010

Michelle said:

The first one we got i replied to and they wanted to send a check for the amount extra for their hotels and other stuff!! I think you then deposit the check and it bounces somehow they are able to get money from your account-not sure exactly what the deal is-I am sure though we don't want to mess with the nonsense! One tattooer actually drew something up before they realized it was bogus.

September 01, 2010