Scam Money Transfers: Miranda Lola Johnson / Sarah Baptiste

Miscellaneous Scam Money Transfers
Example - Miranda Lola Johnson, Sarah Baptiste
I`ll want you to cash the cashier check,remove your asking price and forward the rest to the shipper,from which they will arrange for the pick up of my purchase from you and also to ship from Our Dallas Home to Our New Home Jo-bourg

Did you receive an email from a "Miranda Lola Johnson" who  says to contact her - or Sarah Baptiste and

"I`ll want you to cash the cashier check,remove your asking price and forward the rest to the shipper,from which they will arrange for the pick up of my purchase from you and also to ship from Our Dallas Home to Our New Home Jo-bourg" 

The scammer will try to steal your identity and get you to send him money, but the text of the scam is so odd, it's hard to imagine anyone falling for it. If this email out-of-the-blue from an unknown foreigner offering to pay you absurd amounts of money for almost no work doesn't strike you as a scam, then you really need to read through a number of the scams on this website and familiarize yourself with their approach.

Miranda Lola Johnson and Sarah Baptiste (not their real names, obviously, and probably the same person) hopes to con you into sending money for various "fees" to free the fortune.  If you would like a step by step explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!

Notice (highlighted below) some of the other obvious signs that this is a scam are poor spelling , use of free Yahoo/Hotmail/etc email accounts, proposals that make no sense, etc.:

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Scam email:

Hello Deborah,

I was just reading through the attached email now and I found that my neighbour (Mrs.Sarah Baptiste) who helped me to send the email signed it with her name.Pls pardon me for this mistake,as I was too tired to write the email and I wanted you to have the information for the payment today.I hope you understand.

Thanks.

Miranda Jones

--- On Tue, 5/6/08, Miranda Lola Johnson <mira.johnson05@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Miranda Lola Johnson

Subject: Payment sent

Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 8:10 PM

 

Hello Deborah, I hope this email finds you and your household well.Let me also thank you for your patience and understanding with me since we opened this transaction. Anyway,I`ll like to inform you that your payment has been sent by my hubby`s associate who promised to help us out since my hubby had been indisposable to be home in the last few weeks,but there are one or two faults with the payment,though it`s not really a fault but I just think it`ll be a wise thing to inform you before it arrives so that you can be sure it`s actually the payment for my purchase. One,he errorneously included The Shipper`s payment with your payment as he could not really understand what my arrangements were with you and two,while in Dallas,he misplaced your mailing address to mail the payment,and he was also unable to see me since I was in the hospital for bed rest as advised by the doctors because of my new baby. The payment was sent from Lagos according to him the payment should be delivered to you within 8 to 10 working days at most.The payment was made with a cashier check. I`ll want you to cash the cashier check,remove your asking price and forward the rest to the shipper,from which they will arrange for the pick up of my purchase from you and also to ship from Our Dallas Home to Our New Home Jo-bourg. I`m very sorry for the inconviniences this my little act may have on you,I hope to hearing back from you as soon as possible so I`ll know you`ve gotten the message. Kindest regards, Sarah Baptiste

 

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