Our blog is the first result you get when you google "wedding cake scam" and I would have thought that by now the bakery's email is on some sort of "do not scam" list. But alas, no.
This is the latest:
From: Alex Bryant <alexbryant@y7mail.com>
Subject: Cake Inquiry
Date: February 2, 2010 10:30:52 AM CST
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Hello,
My name is Alex Bryant, I would like to know if you bake wedding cake, I need a cake that can serve approximately 270 guests or more, I would like you to bake me a cake and decorated it with roses, i want the cake be in Fondant or Butter cream. Below is the cake information:
Cake Flavor: White Chocolate Butter and Vanilla.
Cake Filling: Raspberry and Chocolate Mint or Strawberry
I want an inscription be writing on one of the cake as (Alex wed Tina) and I want you to pack the cake in different boxes when it's ready for pick up. And I want you to have the cake to be ready for pick-up on 26th of February 2010, 11:00 o'clock A.M. Kindly let me know if you can fulfill the date, once i have your reply i will forward all the details and the picture sample of the cake.
I await your reply soon.
With Regards,
Alex Bryant
alexbryant@y7mail.com
I guess I shouldn't feel too bad. The email was not sent to "us" but to "undisclosed recipients." Somewhere out there are many more potential victims.
I WAS tempted to reply to the email, just to see which photo he would send me. Would it be something simple that almost anyone could do? Or would it be a challenge?
Oh what the heck, I am going to do it anyway. Will keep y'all posted.
WE recently got this same letter from a John Cole, but with the same request and information. What are these people all about. They need to be stopped.
Posted by: Sharon | June 09, 2012 at 01:10 PM
Kim, they want you to take their bogus credit cards (for *cake* and *shipping*) and send the cash for *shipping* to an accomplice via Western Union. That way when the bank figures out the credit cards are stolen or fake, reverses the credit card transaction, and removes the money from your account, they still have the cash. It must work because Ive been getting these emails for almost five years now. The entire scam really has nothing to do with cake.
Posted by: Marys Cakes | March 03, 2012 at 07:39 AM
Does anyone know what the scam is? What are these people trying to get out of you? So strange. My best friend is a baker and has gotten two similar emails - what do they want from her?
Posted by: Kim | March 02, 2012 at 03:49 PM
See that he has raised the cost of shipping from $700 a few years ago to $1200. And lowered the amount of money hes offering to you for your troubles. Would be interesting to see what he does when you ask him for the billing address for the credit card(s) he offers you as payment.
Posted by: Marys Cakes | February 21, 2012 at 07:52 AM
I would like thank you for sharing your story. I got the same email from the same person, the same email address too. We will see if he will replied my last email.
here is the link to the story if you'd like to read it:
http://lenascakes.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/alex-bryant-tried-to-cake-scam-me.html
Cheers,
Lena
Posted by: Lena | February 21, 2012 at 04:50 AM