I apologise if this is a repeat of old news, and I know it does not matter to gentlemen too much, but all WL please take notice.
The scam in simple terms ,involves the supposed client making a booking and sending you a bank cheque fo the funds, you bank the cheque it appears fine and clears at the bank. The payment is for some reason over the amount required and your asked to send the change back to the client before he meets you. The original Bank cheque bounces some time later on you and your out of pocket.
The secret to the scam is the abilty of most US banks to appear to clear the cheque and then when it eventually bounces on them, the bank reverses your account.
Take note on this one ladies. It is usually with clients who are supposedly based outside the USA. If I repeat someones elses warning, then I am sorry.
I know you mean well, but, as has been pointed out on the National board, this is an outdated warning and is now a hoax. See http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/slavemas.htm and http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blslavemaster5.htm for the explanation.
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GND correctly notes that messages about a serial killer seeking his 57th victim are false, but skyandrews' post was about a financial scam and is not even remotely similar to the warning GND mentions. I'm not sure how this mixup happened but it did.
The scam skyandrews describes is very old and pre-dates the internet by many years. It is the same scam we often see in emails which supposedly come from someone in Africa who just happens to have a way he and the recipient can split a multi-million dollar estate. The mystery man sends a check, you send a check for less than the first one was supposedly worth, then you learn that the first check bounced and are stuck with the loss.
I know people who are hit up by that scam just about every day. This is the first time I've heard of a version targeting providers, but it's the same idea.
I'm having serious ADD issues today, I think. 
I'm sorry, Sky, and thank you for the warning.
And, thank you, sideone, for correcting me. Would it be better if I deleted my previous reply to Sky?
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I thought the monkeyman warning was quite bizarre when it was posted, and am glad to see it is simply another urban legend, thanks to your link.
I received an email from a man who said he would be traveling to the United States from Italy and would like to book an appointment with me. He asked me what the donation would be for 8 hours.
I replied with the donation information. Then he replied and asked for my home address so he could send me a check for $5000 (roughly twice the amount). He said that needed me to get a money order for the amount remaining after I deducted my donation. I was supposed to send this money order to his travel agent for his plane ticket.
I replied by asking him, why not just send me my donation and give the rest of the money to the travel agent yourself?
Needless to say, I never heard from him again...
This scam is definitely alive and well and providers are the target. Because when I went back to look at the original message, I saw that the "To:" line contained at least 5 or 6 other provider email addresses, along with my own.
Hi, I am new and ignorant and been scrolling for some time for a glossary of terms. What is russian? Does Daty mean dining at the y, or giving head and tongue to a girl.
thanks,
john