Has anybody gotten this e-mail? Heads up, it's a scam!

Dear Bob, I am pleased to contact you, My name is Peter Janssen, from Belgium.I saw your Profile as Trombone Teacher (trombonist), hence, my purpose of contacting you. I just mail to confirm if my 14yrs old son (Paul) can join you in your tutor so that you can help me teach him how to play the Trombone . I so much would love his dreams to come true as a very good player and I am ready to support him both morally and financially. I will want you to give me the price of the tutor for 6 months as I will want the tutor to hold 3 times in a week and last for 1 hour daily. Note that my son once had a tutor in June who lost his wife in a car accident and decided to stop teaching inorder to take proper care of his family. Additionally, please give me your address or the address of where you normally teach your students, so that I can have idea of where the lessons will be taking place, as we are presently out of US, but arrangement have been concluded for Paul to come to US. Awaiting your swift response. Best Regards Peter Janssen

Wow, I actually did get that email! I wish I kept it, I finally deleted it a few weeks ago. So what's the scam? Guess I'm glad I didn't try to contact the guy... It did sound kind of fishy...

Long story short...
The check they send you is gonna look real enough for the bank to cash it for you... until about two weeks later when it turns out to be fake and you've already spent the money. Or , another thing they do is send you a check (still fake, of course) for way over the agreed upon amount. You contact them and ask what to do. They say "oops, send me back the difference", which you do, because the bank cashed the check, so it must be real right??? WRONG.
Incidents like this are being brought up on the OTJ quite a bit too.
It's getting really scary these days. Have you seen the phishing emails going out lately??? Man, they really do look real! You've got to be very careful these days.