Author Topic: Suspicious email (Read 11409 times)

tomn · « **on:** November 04, 2019, 15:11 »

Hey gang,

I just got an unussual email from someone claiming they got my email address from DepositPhoto:

"Greetings!

My name is Masja Stokkermans, I found your e-mail address from [ http://depositphotos.com ], I hope we can have a positive correspondence and also we can work together? Best regards, in anticipation to hear from you soon.

Masja S."

I suspect that is a scam espacially since it was sent from an email with another name: [email protected]

Has anyone ever received a similar e-mail?

Desintegrator · « **Reply #1 on:** November 04, 2019, 15:28 »

Nothing similar lately. Could be spam, or not..
But i remember once i've been contacted by someone who found a photo of mine on Depositphotos. He wanted to buy directly from me. I've emailed him the picture and he sent me money. Cash in an envelope by post

MysteryShot · « **Reply #2 on:** November 04, 2019, 18:59 »

Quote from: Desintegrator on November 04, 2019, 15:28

Nothing similar lately. Could be spam, or not..
But i remember once i've been contacted by someone who found a photo of mine on Depositphotos. He wanted to buy directly from me. I've emailed him the picture and he sent me money. Cash in an envelope by post

...you should have sent him the picture also in an envelope by post

cathyslife · « **Reply #3 on:** November 04, 2019, 19:02 »

If they want to work with you, they can just buy your photos from deposit. “Work together”, I think likely means “I want a deal.”

Desintegrator · « **Reply #4 on:** November 04, 2019, 20:52 »

Quote from: pixel86 on November 04, 2019, 19:02

If they want to work with you, they can just buy your photos from deposit. “Work together”, I think likely means “I want a deal.”

Probably yes. But even if it's unlikely, it's not impossible, to come up with a deal that's beneficial for both parties, by "cutting out the middleman". But quite little chance that it would worth the time and effort to negotiate such thing

tomn · « **Reply #5 on:** November 07, 2019, 10:11 »

I just wanted to post an update. Turns out it was definitely a scam. One of those "Nigerian" ones where a widow has millions of $ and needs get them out of the country (South Africa in this instance) and I would get $600k for helping her.

This person also sent pictures their friend who allegedly has cancer. These pictures were clearly staged stock images and actually looked quite good.

I wonder if they got them from DepositPhotos...

christiano · « **Reply #6 on:** November 21, 2019, 10:39 »

Quote from: tomn on November 04, 2019, 15:11

Hey gang,

I just got an unussual email from someone claiming they got my email address from DepositPhoto:

"Greetings!

My name is Masja Stokkermans, I found your e-mail address from [ http://depositphotos.com ], I hope we can have a positive correspondence and also we can work together? Best regards, in anticipation to hear from you soon.

Masja S."

I suspect that is a scam espacially since it was sent from an email with another name: [email protected]

Has anyone ever received a similar e-mail?

"Stokkermans" LOL a real scam.