HI everyone!
I just need to warn you ladies out there that if you get an email that is true good to be true about a hobbyst, then it is! (WOW! Hobbyst say that about some providers too?)
I was contacted by a guy that said he was from england, and visiting CA this month. He wanted to have me accompany him for two weeks blahblahblah.
Anyway........... here is part of the second email that I got from him:

Hi Love,


Thanks honey for your feedback. Arrangements have been completed for my arrival on the 16th of February. My stay in California will be for 2 weeks or more depending on my business meetings. Like I have told you earlier, financial obligations on my side would not be a problem. what matters is your assurance that your stay with me will be memorable.  


I want you to be by my side all through; weekends shall be outings while weekdays shall be business meetings. I have made enquiry for hotel accomodation at "The Mosaic Hotel" Beverly Hillss and executive suites are still available for 16th February, the date of my arrival . I have instructed my business associate in the US to make available some funds to you. The hotel demands that we pay for a night booking before checking-in. You will use $500 to secure the booking, $2,500 for your corporate and evening wears shopping. At my arrival you can make further shopping. The balance will be sent to my operations manager for provision of other logistics for my trip.


Please forward to me your contact (name & address) and cell phone# so that I will instruct my associate in the US to make available the funds to you. Also bear in mind that I am doing this on trust, believing that you are worth your salt.


I await your immediate response. You may also call me on the number below.


Hope to have the best of time with you my Angel.



Anytime some says that they need your number, after it was very much in plain sight on your add or website some thing is not right. Basicly you get a bougus check from the person, deposit it, put money on a suite at a hotel, and send to his people (or him) the rest of the money, and you are out 3000.00
Just be careful, and if any one wants more info you can email me at [email protected]

Cheers!

When I asked for further info. I never heard back. I thought it seemed odd too and was going to post. I have had a number of these kind of emails from the UK lately. So funny this one is word for word.,,,,lolz

This guy said just about the same to me, but also made a huge fuss about the fact that I'm from the UK and how freaking hot of a time we would have together!
Suzanne

...Dark Side quite yet, particularly since I'm quite sure that G.W. and his cronies are over there with visitorsfriend!
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I recieved an email very similar about 8 or 9 mos. ago from a gentleman claiming to be flying into Miami for a  brief business trip, from England. He wrote me requesting  my company for believe it or not a few hours. But his story didn't pan out, he also requested my name, address, and phone#. So this has been going on quite a while not a new or original scheme. Stay safe ladies and gents!

...check is forged, or stolen, or counterfeit; SOMETHING is wrong with it, bet on it.  If it goes through, you keep a small amount and send the large balance on to the fraudster.  But it won't.  The hotel, or the hotel's bank, will stop the check and seek to recover the lost funds from you.  IF YOU'RE LUCKY, you won't also be charged as an accomplice -- "lucky" meaning that you can convince the police that "some guy" sent you the check, and you were just doing his bidding, and you didn't know the check was bad.  
This is an old scam, and the current version is tailored to ensnare professional ladies.  All the risk is yours here. The risk to the perp is zero, of course, because he's nowhere around, and no one can find him.

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I did not see it on the legal board, but since it has been sent to so many ladies in the last week it seams to me that this, and the LA board is a great place to post it again?
I mean, I knew it was a scam as soon as I got this second email the other day, but that being said I know a woman from AZ that fell victim to a scam like this not to long ago.
If this post helps save anyone new to this hobby, it would be a great thing, and that is exactly why I posted it. So please be careful everyone!

Cheers!
KylieSD

He cannot help it that he is law enforcement.