moyanre01@gmail.com had emailed me asking about my ad on craigslist to be thier personial chef. This is the email that was sent "   Hey there......i need your service for the Funeral Party of my Grandmother......Coming up on 27th of April.Let me know if you will be available and your charges.The party will last for 4hours.


Thanks

Ms Sandra"

Ive replyed but nothing but more emails from other names saying the same thing

I got a message from alanu02@gmail.com in response to an ad I posted on Craigslist saying only, "Is the room still available??" Most people aren't this terse so it was an obvious red flag.

That is the EXACT SAME EMAIL I GOT! The only differences are the dates and total amount of hours. I'm not stupid and knew right away something was wrong!

I also have an ad on Craigslist for my cleaning business. They said they needed my services for a wedding on the 29th of December! Total crap! They wanted my personal information and stated they would send me a cashier's check and would sign a contract in person after I cashed it.
I caught on real quick as I am a very serious minded business owner and protect myself and my company at all times! I told them that I would not give out my info and that I knew it was a fraudulent email and I would only do business in person to give a proper estimate.
One of the emails was from moyanre01@gmail.com
I am reporting this user to gmail as well as the authorities! It is my hope for them to be prosecuted!!!!
Sellers, business owners beware!

Same thing here. He emailed me asking for face painting to services at a wedding which was a red flag so upon googling his email address I found this site. Thanks for all the info!!

Just got the exact same email. I am so happy that I did a little research. I felt like something was up when I tried to respond to the original email and it seemed like it had come from two different places. The bad grammar wasn't exactly a tip-off - unfortunately many of my clients have been legit (and just had bad grammar) - but the forceful nature of the second email I got from this person did the job for me. Luckily I didn't send out any personal information. I did call them out on their scam. I doubt they'll reply since they now know I have their number. Pretty disturbing that they seem to have gotten away with this whole song and dance before. Email addresses I got were: moyanre01@gmail.com and alanu02@gmail.com

reelenny3@gmail.com

Same as above.  Still getting married and this time in December.

I put up ad for childcare. Told them i will charge them $50.Try to send me a check for $1950. Told me to take $500 and send the rest to whoever the wedding planner is.

some lady wants me to do a cleaning job named tiffay jones wich is a common name but wants me to send $2000.00 to some lady in geogia whose soppose to be a painter in stockton CA sounds Fake

Have and inquiry for Limo service from Jane Rich at oongbur1@gmail.com and ongburo14@gmail.com. Thank you for the heads up.

That was the message I received at first also. At least we know and can pass this info on.

This was in reply to my ad for my Photo booth services. The email was from ongburo14@gmail.com and the name going by is Jane Rich~ The original date asked for was September 22nd but I was booked that day. BIG RED FLAG. I asked several questions like WHERE the wedding will be held since she is out of state she would NOT answer me. SECOND RED FLAG, then I looked up the email address and called my bank to ask what they could do to see if the money was actually there or not. When it comes you can bet we will be asking, and forwarding her or his tushy to FBI.


Great day to you
     Thanks for getting back to me so swiftly...I want your service for my
Wedding Ceremony which will Hold on {28th of sept} ..which will
Consists of 70 Guests which consists of Bride,s Parent,Groom,s
parent,Staff members of Groom and Bride company,Bride and Groom
siblings,Bride and Groom Friends and well wishers.I want you to be
very Sincere and honest with me so that i will not be dissapointed on
that day.
     The Ceremoney will Commence by 10am and End by 4pm...which will
last for 6 hours.The Ceremony and the Reception will take place at the same
venue.
     So therefore My Mode of Payment will be by Cashier check,,,which
I'll be sending a Cashier,s check for the Downpayment of your services
and it will be delivered to you via Usps..I require your mailing
address info to mail the check to you asap and total hours Charges.

Names to be on the Check...
Street Address...
City....
Zip code...
Cell No...
Your Price or charges for the 6hours....

Note...The contract form will be signed After you have received and
cash the check in person by me ,because we are both out of the state
for further arrangement.
And the payment will be shipped to your address via USPS.

Thank you

Same exact message received yesterday, thought it odd because the wedding date was a Thursday and because of the grammar so I did a search on the email address.

I got this exact same message yesterday in response to a Craigslist posting. I thought it was fishy because we state our rate in the ad... We do face painting... Plus how many people book facepainters for a wedding???!  I goog
Googled the email reelenny3@gmail.com and this site came up. I deleted the email without responding.

What do these scammers do if you reply? Do then then spam you incessantly? I made the mistake of responding to some queries to Craigslist posts asking about our rate ( which as mentioned is stated already in our post) and now receive tons of spam.

Just got the email below in response to a craigslist posting and felt that something was fishy because of improper grammar and punctuation.  

Hey.... Will you be available on the 22nd of September for my wedding? Also, How much do you charge per hour"

Your welcome.

So, I decided to google the email address and it brought me to this thread. Whoever is doing the scams seems to still be at it and not showing any signs of slowing down. The email address it came from was reelenny3@gmail.com.

Just remember, if something seems fishy, it probably is!

this number also contacted me for a cleaning business I advertised on Craigs list and wanted all my info.  He didn't get it. If he does not have a local number and won't reveal where he lives and wants to send moneyl...well honey its fishy!

Really if your dad is a cop you can help me i have lost my 1450$. i have his fb someone was posted can you tell me what to do now.please

how did you know his fb i lost me 1450$ do you have anything else to tell me please tell me

Yeah we are right exactly same he gave me 1650$ and told me to cash 1150$ and sent to his painter after he wanted me to send 3004 again and i did all but the check was fake and i lost 1450$ and mine was craigslist too i was looking for the costumer did you tell the police i did i live in Ann Arbor,MI

Same thing happened, but they used this email addres reelenny3@gmail.com and some of the email addresses above

I just got a similar messge asking for my photographysd services on Aug. 11th, I thought that sounded a little odd, wouldn't you have a photographer already if you are getting married in two weeks. Glad I found this!

I know some of these emails i will give belong to the same person but I know some do belong to the moyan email and do have reason to believe all do because we kept getting a very similar email to hire our photography services. So we decided to block the email addresses. james.larry216@gmail.com, jasonisagoodboy244@gmail.com, jimy.young010@gmail.com, moyanre01@gmail.com, ongburo14@gmail.com, sydeedward1@gmail.com, sydeedward@gmail.com, yettyisgood5@gmail.com. As you can tell, all are gmail accounts. caught on quick because this person would send from 2 different email addresses for 2 different dates for services and it was written the same with the date of august and like mentioned, the first 2 emails were from gmail. then i blocked them and then got more emails tonight, all from gmail.

I recently put an ad for childcare in my home.I don't know if it's the same person, this one identified herself as Amber Wood and was mute and gay but I do know it's the same number.Haven't received any check yet,but had full txt conversation with the person.Apparentely the person is not concerned with the consequences of doing something fraudulent.It's one of the many bogus email response/phone calls I have gotten from my ad and warning them by reporting them doesn't seem to deter them either.But after I had asked how is it possible for them to take advantage of innocent people and weren't they worried about getting caught eventually seemed to work...she hasn't txt back....Now to get to the debt collector bogus payment letter,this one had called on behalf of Sprint debt collections.I called Sprint they said I'm not in their system and they researched my SS # and try to call the number the bogus collections called from,it said it wasn't a working number.....had another one for an offer a free trip to some destination just for attending an event meeting for "Home Improvement" furniture in Fort Worth,I asked for them to send a catalog and unfortunately they didn't have one. People beware when you post ads on craigslist people think everyone is not paying attention!!Don't be a victim and fall for these scams......

i almost fell for the same thing. i received the check in the mail i bid 800.00 and they sent a check for 1750.00 from a CU in TX on Wed. and i got a Txt today asking about there money so i called the CU to verify funds and before i could finish they intereupted me and read the name on the check back to me and advised me to contact the police which i am waiting for an FBI agent to arrive due to it being over 1200.00. Well Mr. As$%$#@?? well  we'll just call you a** wipe. good luck

This guy is a real scam artist no joke. He tried to book a DJ gig with me and I almost did it. Funny thing is I felt fishy about him and caught on the same day.....as of today he is using the moyanre01@gmail.com email address and pretends to be Kassandra.......WARNING!!!!! He is a total scammer!

EVERY ONE OF YOU needs to report this do***ebag to the FBI's internet crime division.  www.ic3.gov

I had the same exact thing happen!  I had an ad on craigslist for child care - they were offering a ridiculous amount of money for the hours they needed for care.  By the writing in the email, you could tell the person isn't very educated, or has English as a 2nd language.  He also asked for my full name, address, and phone number in order for him to send a check.  Yeah right!

The email came from moyanre01@gmail.com.   He said that his wife is Kassandra, his name is Elliott and his daughter is Mary.  Total BULL!

LOL---the first tip off should be when the email has such poor grammar.

Ugh just received an email from this guy about a Craigslist add about babysitting. Fell for it and gave my address up. Hope nothing happens. He sent this message


Hello,
   Thanks for getting back to us.I'm Elliot and my wife,s name is Kassandra
and our daughter is Mary we are from Chicago.We are relocating to
your location and we`ll be staying there for a period of a year.I'm a
Building Contractor and got some project there to execute within the
period of our stay and my wife will be undergoing a course on IT. We
need you for our daughter when my wife is out for lectures,She is Mary
and 2years old and you can watch her in our apartment or my wife
will bring her to you whenever she`s going for lectures,thus you will
be taking care of our her from 9am-12noon. Monday to Friday.
    We are willing to offer you $200 weekly,kindly let us know if you
are satisfy
with our offer so that we can make arrangement for your payment
because my wife is going to begin her lecture on 2nd of August and we
need you to start working as soon as she begin her lecture. My
daughter is friendly and love to play a lot with toys.Kindly let me
know if you are ready to work for us and also so get back to me with
the following details of yours so that i can make arrangement for your
first week payment in other to secure your service before my wife
arrival because i wont be around till 7th of August.

I require the following details from you...
Full Name:
Physical Contact Address:
City:
State:
Zip code:
Phone #:





Googled the email and this site came up. Better bit receive anything in the mail. Luckily my dads a cop and I have a neighborhood full of them. So pissed.!!

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