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Default Re: Beware of email scams requesting tutors - they are getting cleverer!

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Hi Martin

Thanks for the heads up on the scam! Pretty clever and simple on their part.

Hopefully this will prevent a few teachers from getting scammed. I'll stick this thread on the homepage of eslHQ.

Eric
Great. Perhaps I'll post it on other forums as well. I agree it's quite clever.
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Hi Martin,

thanks for the warning. I have never received messages like that but I would certainly fall for the first one. Thanks again!
Exactly! That's what makes it clever. When it happened to me last year (for the first time) I was delighted to read the first email! I couldn't believe my luck!

It's worth saying that from time to time I get emails which I, at first, suspect are scams, but later turn out to be genuine enquiries, so I think it's a good idea to give the first email the benefit of the doubt. Only when you start getting weird money transfer suggestions, should you ignore them.
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