Phishing Emails or Genuine Interest?

How many of you receive emails from individuals overseas claiming that they or their child or someone else is coming to the states for a period of time, and would like to arrange to train? The requests seem to follow the same pattern, its typically presented as someone representing someone else (such as a parent) for  the purpose of contracting you for training for typically 2-4 weeks, offeirng to pay you with a cashiers check or more often a credit card.

Generally they only ask for class information, prices, but sometimes your address, but nothing overt.

Are they phishing for responses ? Trying to lure you into offering up more critical information? Or are they somehow actually legitimate?

They seem way too suspicious to me.