Good afternoon.

We did receive and confirm the following original request to stay at our B&B as a scam. We corresponded back and forth with this “Dr. Kathleen Wallace” for several weeks, started to think her request might not be legitimate, but didn’t confirm it was a scam until we received 5 $700 US international money orders from England that were in fact counterfeit.

Upon receipt of those money orders, we also contacted the World Health Organization and no such “Dr. Kathleen Wallace” works for them and their organization does use credit cards to reserve accommodation, unlike the email from Dr. Wallace noting that the WHO did not do that, which was why she insisted on sending us money orders for the deposit. We had provided Dr. Wallace the correct Canadian amount due for her 2 week stay, and our 50% deposit to confirm her reservation at our B&B but the money orders they sent were 2 ½ times the total value owed to us, so they requested that we send the overage back to them via Western Union. There were many key indicators on the US international money orders that we received alerting us that they were counterfeit so we didn’t need to take them to our bank to confirm that. After we emailed Dr. Wallace that the money orders were fraudulent, and to please provide a credit card to confirm her reservation, as we thought, we never heard from “her” again.

What a real shame that there are so many unscrupulous people who invest time trying to scam nice B&B’s into sending them money that is not rightfully owed to them. We on certainly on alert now, having received two such bogus reservation requests in the past couple months. We forwarded the earlier one to you already. We make it perfectly clear that no reservation will be confirmed at our B&B until a guest’s credit card for our 50% deposit has cleared through Moneris, our credit card authorization & approval system.

Have a great day. Name and Name

The B&B Inn
5555 Highway 15
City, ON 1Q1 1Q1
(777) 333-4444
North America Toll-Free (888) 888-8888

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Innkeepers: Name B&B and Name L Name

We have a 72 hour cancellation policy.

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From: drkathleenwallace36@yahoo.com [mailto:drkathleenwallace36@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:52 AM
To: email@site.com
Subject: B&B Inn City, The Inquiry

The B&B Inn City

The following e-mail was sent to you from a potential client reading about your business in the travel-planning website called WorldWeb.com Travel Guide.

E-MAIL SUBJECT: Interested in Rent

E-MAIL INQUIRY: To B&B Inn City, The,

My name is Dr Mrs Kathleen Wallace, Consultant Community Medicine and Primary Health Care, World Health Organization.

I have just been posted to Canada from our office in the United Kingdom on Internal medicine and
primary care.

I will be in Canada for a 2 weeks posting and i will be arriving the country on the 14th of April
to the 28th of April,when i will be going back to the United Kingdom.

I will like to book an accomodation with you for this 2 weeks period.

I will like to know the total amount i will have to pay for this days.

Please do send me your full name,postal address and your payment information so I could forward it to the office of the Director of Finance to make
necessary documentation and also payment to you as soon as possible. As I have to resume for posting
in Canada on the 14th.

It is paramount i let you know that the usual way the W.H.O.! makes
payment for travels is via International Money Orders.Therefore,please send me the full name and address you want the money orders to be addressed to.I hope this is okay with you.

Please do get back to me as soon as possible.

Thank you.
Dr Kathleen Wallace

E-MAIL SENT FROM:
First Name: Kathleen
Last Name: Wallace
Company: doctor
Address:
City: Tottenham
State/Prov: LonName
Country:
ZIP/Postal:
PhoneNumber: 447031905725
FaxNumber:
Email: drkathleenwallace36@yahoo.com