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#1 (permalink)   12-30-2011 JoCarole Resident Member Company name: Shore Office Services LLC My latest Twitter: 10 ?Vegetables? You Shouldn?t Be Eating - http://t...   Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Jersey Shore Posts: 1,123 If it sounds like a scam? I was checking my emails this morning when I saw one that was sent from a Lee Woods at 244 am this morning. This is it: From: Lee Wood Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 2:44 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: VA service needed urgently Hello, I would need your VA service as soon as possible. Are you available to work? Expecting to hear from you soon. Regards Lee Wood *Apparently he sent the same email to other VAs too*. But I answered just to get more info before making up my mind. Here is his reply : Dear Joe, Thank you for your fast response. That is very professional. I am Lee Wood from Canada. I am engaged in online ecurrency exchange. I am interested to purchase a type of voucher called paysafecard. This is sold in stores in the USA. I want to know if you can assist in purchasing this for me and I would pay a commission of 5% for each transaction. I would be needing about $3000 worth. Do you have yahoo or gmail chat or Skype? May be we can chat better. regards Lee Wood *Obviously he got my name wrong, which is the first flag, just wanted to post here, wondering if anyone else got this? Obviously this is a scam but wanted to alert my fellow VAs here at VAF. Happy New Year to you all, hoping next year will be a good one for all of us! JoCarole __________________ JoCarole http://www.shoreofficeservices.com

#2 (permalink)   01-02-2012 Tess Senior Member Company name: Codehead, LLP Latest blog post: SEO Q&A   Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 9,131 Blog Entries: 3 Re: If it sounds like a scam? Thanks for posting this JoCarole - it's so important to keep fellow VAs aware of these scams. I would hate to hear that anyone had fallen for one of these.... __________________ Create a welcome packet for new clients with this guide and free templates! (Available in PDF and Kindle versions)

#3 (permalink)   01-02-2012 virtualgoto New Member   Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 31 Re: If it sounds like a scam? WOW.. It is so sad the lengths people will go through to "scam" others. Thanks for this info n God Bless your business!! __________________ Carm Business name:Go to Virtual Assistance