Please Beware of Peter- Ugandan Teacher

[KKP]

I used the Pen Pal map and set up a pen pal exchange with [school removed] in Kampala, Uganda. The teacher's name is Peter. In the beginning, it was a lot of fun for me and the students; however, it quickly turned ugly. Peter began soliciting money and tried on numerous ocassions to get my bank account money for various reasons, such as they needed an account number to cash a generous donation from a UK donor for their brass band, he was in the hospital and was about to lose his job if he didn't get money to the doctors who wouldn't release him from the hospital (according to him he couldn't have money wired to Uganda without the sender's bank account number...not true at all). My students received one letter from his students, then it stopped, but his begging and pleading and harrassing continued with me. Please be wary when engaging in these exchanges.

[Addict]

KKP - this is good to know - thank you for bringing it to our attention.

I am sending you an email. Please help us by providing more information so we can attempt to make our users aware of any undesirable people that might try using our site.

Thanks,

Addict

[Addict]

We have also put a notice on our penpals page about the possibility of scammers.

KKP - Thank you so much for letting us know.

[luv2teachsped]

KKP"
wow! I had the same pen pal also! We wrote but never got any letters, when I emailed "Peter" he said he didn't know what happened but would send his student letters again........We never got any letters and never heard from him again! I will be very careful from now on.
luv2teachsped:mad:

[hweber]

Thanks for the update luv2teachsped.