I've had the pleasure of seeing how others have avoided becoming a victim of the speaking scam due to my blog post outlining a years old speaking scam that nearly got me back in January 2012. But if you knew the scammers reason why they're participating in a scam, would you be less angry at them? That's the question I asked myself when one of the commenters, an American-based trainer and author, added to the comments area an email exchange he had with one of the scammers. The … [Read more...]
National Fraud Prevention Month: The Nigerian Scammer’s Why
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Saint Paul’s Church, Jarrow, UK Speaking Scam (I Was Almost a Victim)
I speak and train for a living. In fact, I call myself a motivational teacher (hat tip to John C. Maxwell for that clever term). If an organization wants to hire me to speak, my personal assistant gathers all the details, sends them our speaker contract, gets their signatures, the deposit is made into my account, then we know it is all legit. So when she received the following email from a one Bishop Mark Jarrow from St. Paul`s church, my personal assistant had little to suspect that … [Read more...]
