Don't you just love the scammers!! This one is a giggle!!

X5Sport · Post by **X5Sport** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 1:36 pm

Sometimes I get a scam email which really raises a smile. Like this one for example (one of the current round of 'parcel' type ones) I got this morning.......I have removed the attachment as that carried the dangerous payload...spot the obvious error......muppets!!

Notification,

Courier service couldn’t make the delivery of your parcel.
Reason deny:Wrong delivery address.

LOCATION OF YOUR PARCEL:Oklahoma City . I'm not going to collect this!!
STATUS OF YOUR ITEM: not delivered
SERVICE: Express Shipping
ITEM NUMBER:U583747415NU
FEATURES: No

Label is enclosed to the letter.
Print a label and show it at your post office.

Information in brief:
If the parcel isn’t received within 30 working days our company will have the right to claim compensation from you for it's keeping in the amount of $7.92 for each day of keeping of it.

You can find the information about the procedure and conditions of parcels keeping in the nearest office.

Thank you.
Royal Mail Global.

dirtymonkey29 · Post by **dirtymonkey29** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:24 pm

Royal mail global?

storminmike · Post by **storminmike** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:37 pm

I've seen the same tyre for sale twice with the same picture but different vendor

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 1:50 pm

My scam from earlier in the week was an Amazon.com one. I have never bought from the .com site, only .co.uk and when I looked at the URL to "track" my purchase, it sure was not an Amazon URL.

jaynana · Post by **jaynana** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:11 pm

i've had this sort of thing from ebay/paypal, except - it wasn't!

a paypal email, nicely formatted with paypal logos and images and stuff was sent, only on closer inspection it was sent from a bogus email address!! paypal had nothing to do with it!

X5Sport · Post by **X5Sport** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:41 pm

I have also noticed on an ever growing number of these that the screen scrape clearly says at the bottom in the 'How do I know this is genuine?' FAQ, that almost universally the genuine website page says we will always address you in person by name......and the scammers without fail put 'Dear Valued Customer' at the start but leave the rest of the page completely intact.....Doh!! FAIL.

I use a utility called Mailwasher Pro that sits between my systems and the ISP email servers and it checks the mail remotely - nothing is downloaded - so that I can check before calling the mail thus preventing anything getting through. Outlook is also set to only work manually so it never checks for mail automatically which is how so many get through. I also have the 'Reading Pane' set to Off in all folders as that stops any payloads from executing.

dirtymonkey29 · Post by **dirtymonkey29** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:31 pm

So what was the obvious mistake?

X5Sport · Post by **X5Sport** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:53 pm

[quote="dirtymonkey29"]
So what was the obvious mistake?
[/quote]
The bit in Orange.....I'm in East Anglia and the 'Royal Mail' parcel is in Oklahoma

dirtymonkey29 · Post by **dirtymonkey29** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:27 pm

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:30 pm

Yes, should have been US Postal Service

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