I got an email from a notary registered on this site, I will only use her initials of SB. Went like this:
Good morning,i and my husband are in the process of buying our first home and we are looking into potentially arranging a mobile notary service. We have 15 documents that are needing to be notarized. We are looking for someone to visit us at her home to sign/notarize these documents. I just wanted to get a quote on what you would charge for this service,as for us we are willing to pay $200 for the signing. Also is there an alternative form of identification you would accept?Please let us know.Please click unlock to download the file and login with your email address details to view the docs. If you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to email me back. Thank you for your anticipated courtesy and cooperation.
I deleted it, didn’t click on the attachment. Obviously a scam. This person is registered on Notary Cafe in a different area of the country from me.
May well be the listed notary’s email address has been hacked or ghosted. You may try sending him/her a direct email (not a reply to that fraud!) warning him/her of the issue.
This information is valuable to our team - thank you for putting it out there. While I will not go into specifics about our processes to thwart this type of activity, I will forward this information to our developers and put some safeguards in place to hopefully combat these messages.
It’s always safest to NEVER click any link in an email attachment unless you are sure of the sender’s identity. I have never heard of a legitimate signing taking place where documents are sent before the Notary even agrees to the job.
Feel free to let support@notarycafe.com know about any other suspicious activity - we do our best to combat this sort of stuff.
I just got the same scam a couple of minutes ago, If you try and read the message it makes no sense, This came from a very illiterate person or someone that doesn’t know the english language very well. It took me about 10 seconds to spot it as a scam. I am glad someone posted, if not I was for sure going to, Best way to catch a fraud is the short web site addresses,
I vaguely remember this email. I replied by saying do try to scam and gave them a lecture about making a honest living and work ethics. Never heard from them back again.
Again , another day, I wasted 15 minutes of another scammers time, who told me that I won back of america raffle for 2.5 million all taxed paid price. I kept him engaged very interestingly.
When it came for him to ask me to pay fees so that he can send me “2.5 million tax free money” , I told him why dont u take that money from the 2.5 million? I said I will give him handsome commission for his co-ordination "…He hung up after realizing that he got played. I had such a good laugh.
Remember: Our information is exposed and we require it to be to get genuine notary job offers & very likely to be target of solicitation for all sorts of business, good or bad.
The gullible tourist and passer by is always solicited on a bazaar on street vendors are trying to sell you stuff. Just walk in canal st in Manhattan or Broadway and you will get solicited to buy Rolex or Gucci or Fendi.
