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Old 02-01-2012
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Default Scam targeting speakers caught by savvy VA
Leesa Barnes is a speaker who recently blogged about this scam she narrowly avoided. You can read about it here. It might be of interest to any VAs who have speakers as clients as well as some great advice for newer VAs.

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Kate, I just read through this Leesa's blog post (as well as the one her virtual assistant wrote on the same issue) - good for them that they caught it! It sounds like Leesa's VA was really on the ball and did her homework.
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Wow! The lengths people will go to to cheat innocent people out of their money. Hopefully this post will prevent others from being scammed.
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Tess, totally agree that her VA sounds pretty astute, I was rather impressed. Good thing too, because it sounds as if this was a pretty slick scam.

Sabrina, it truly is sad what underhanded people will resort to in order to steal from undeserving victims.
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