Kathleen,
I just received this email a few days ago... Its normal for me to receive emails about booking tattoos so I went on to start emailing back and fourth. When thing didn't add up and they got irate about me using PayPal for credit card transactions... I started researching online and sure enough there is a scam alert for tattoo artist with the same email going around. It used to be that people would just try and get you to send money to receive a prize...these people just wont give up :(
Hello This is Ben Bruce and i will like to ask if you do dragon tattoo and am hearing impaired...and i want you to draw an Dragon tattoo 4 inch with color on their Back and a maximum of 2 hours on each person and i want you to get back to me with the total estimate for 10 people because i have a party coming up on the 13th of July and i also want you to know that the people who will come to have the tattoo will come with a private transportation driver... and i also want you to know that i will be making full payment with my credit card information to charge for all expenses i want you to get back to me with the type of credit card accepted and i also want you to know that i have attach you the picture of the tattoo... and i would like everyone that is coming to have the same tattoo for all. and i also want you to get back to me with your cell phone number and shop address so that i can have your shop information complete with me so that i can forward to the driver who will drop the people to your shop to have the tattoo.
Thank Ben
Yes, this is a scam. The scammer got upset about the paypal angle, because then the scammer can't work the scam. They need a way to get their money from you and be able to disappear. It's likely this one would have worked in that the scammer would have overpaid for the work, saying a wife or assistant made a mistake, and ask for the overage to be sent back to them, via Western Union. They'll pay with fake money but you will send the overage with your good money, and then they disappear. That's how it all works.
Glad to hear you didn't fall for it.
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