It is most definitely a scam, this very same guy contacted me as well:
Hello how are you doing? I just want to know if the tutor lesson still
available for my son for a month he is 14 years old, I want you to
calculate the cost of 1 hour per day for three days in week for the
whole a Month and email me the total cost..Hope to read back from you
asap..Thanksand then:
Thanks for getting back to me and everything sound good to me, Am
John by name, I will like my Son to relocate to your (CITY) for
holiday His name is Terry and is 14 years old .I want him to be busy
in the time of the day, because Am right now in CANADA for business
trip..and it will be a month that is why i want him to be at your
lesson Center , Am okay with your price and i have decided to let him
attend to your lesson and he will be coming 1 hour's per day in the
Afternoon, also get back to me with your own convenient time and days
you want my son to be coming in 3 days in a week and when you will be
available to start with my son next week, i haves Someone that will
always drives him down to your lesson center..I will be happy if you
can help my son because my son is highly interested in your tutor
lesson and he can avoid to miss it..and i will be happy if you can
show him some love i will like you to teach him piano lesson thanks
Kindly get back to me with your information below to be on the
check.....
FULL NAME AND ADDRESS WITH ZIP CODE....(not p.o box)
YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER...(i can text you)
The reason why i need the information is that the payment will sent to
you through Ups Or FedEx Courier,So that the courier can deliver the
payment to you. Hope you understand me now.Thanks and hope to read
from you soon
Best Regardsand another:
OK.. Angela Am glad to hear from you..and that is exactly Piano lesson
Terry needed..and his very interested when i explain to him.. and
thanks for the information you get back to me, Everything sound good
to me and am okay with you.. and i will instruct my secretary to issue
out the payment to you asap and for confirmation,And as soon as you
receive the payment....And Terry will now have access to come for the
lesson, More so i want to tell you that the Payment will come from
fedex Or ups Currier to you in excess payment which is over payment
which will included the nanny fees on the check am sending to you,
because the nanny will need the rest money to relocate to your
location with my son for the tutor lesson....Please as a good teacher
i will want you to help me to handle this payment with care and with
the instruction when you receive the check....When the tutor start in
two week time if you take good care of my son i will compensate you
for another extra $100 for the tutor lesson of son. As soon as you
receive the payment you will deduct your own money for the tutor
lesson of my son for the 1 month and you will have the rest money send
to the nanny, the nanny information to send the rest money will be
email to you as soon as you receive the check.. i will instruct my
secretary to issue out the payment to you asap. Hope i can trust you
with nanny fund and you will handle this for me and i will be happy if
my son achieve his aim in future and Try and show him some love and
caring..... pls email terry for any question terrybellytravis@yahoo.comRight then is when I got super suspicious and I asked the guy to please confirm his company's name, his Nanny's name, and what number I could reach her at. I also told him that I'd done a search on his email address and found an ad he'd posted literally hours before contacting me in a state that's about 12 hours away from my own. In his ad, he asked for a chinese tutor to teach his kids Mandarin, and when I questioned him, he said he "forgot" he posted the ad and that his son changed his mind. He never answered my inquiries, so I emailed him and asked him to never contact me again, and that his "son" would need to find a new teacher.
This scammer also goes by the name of jenfica, as I got a very similar email from this person as well:
Hello....
How is weather over there, I just want to know if the tutor lesson
still available for my son for a month he is 15 years old, He will
come down to you and i want you to calculate the cost of 2 hour per
day for two days in week for the whole a Month and email me the total
cost..waiting
Regard
JenficaDon't ever trust someone who can't string two English words together. I didn't even answer this person. Beware!