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terryall
Member Since: 17 Jun 2011
Location: Whitstable
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It does make you wonder if anyone actually responds to these stupid emails promising vast wealth if you send all your details. I get a couple of these a week and this one is particularly bad.
“Hello,
I am Diplomat Michael Paul Pollard from the United Nations Security Council, UK Association and my diplomatic mission is based on Inter-Country shipments of classified items between North, South and Central American with other European and the Middle East Nations.
At this moment, I am in California Los Angeles, the United States of America for a Diplomatic Delivery of a classified material as requested by the Security Council Members.
However, I must confess that during my arrival at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), a routine check of all abandoned UN items was carried out with the head supervisor baggage service unit at the airport Storage Vault due to my role in diplomatic delivery missions and we discovered an abandoned shipment from Europe through transit at the London Heathrow Airport (LHR) which from the Customs X-ray Ultra Scan results reveals that an undisclosed sum of money in two metal trunk boxes weighing approximately 280 pounds with Assumptions of 5.5 Million to 6 Million Euros.
When i check all i can get is your email and Name on the trunk box at this point I will not be able to receive your details on my official email account. So in order words to enable me cross check your details, I will advise you send the required details to my "SECURED" email address which is (xxxxxxx@gmail.com & xxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com) for quick processing and response With your Full Name, Address, Cell And Home Number and closet International Airport.
I wait your urgent mail if you are still alive.
Regard.
Mr. Michael Paul Pollard
Diplomatic, UN Security Council
Private Email:(xxxxxxxx@diplomats.com)”
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 14th Jan 2018 9:22 am |
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200TDi
Member Since: 30 Dec 2012
Location: Annan/Portsmouth
Posts: 282
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hey, those are my boxes - why is your name on them!!
 Pete
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| 14th Jan 2018 9:28 am |
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Sea Raider
Member Since: 01 Nov 2016
Location: None
Posts: 4450
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Oh, you'd be surprised.
There are quite a lot of gullible people out there.
Hundreds have been scammed after handing over admin fees to release the money won in the Spanish lottery, even although they have never set foot in Spain or bought a lottery ticket.
Either dimwittedness or greed or perhaps a mixture of the 2.
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| 14th Jan 2018 9:34 am |
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Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
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One person in 100 replies and the scammers make money off them, hence they blanket bombard email addresses looking for that one person.
Personally, I think the Banks have a bigger part to play in fraud. They make it very difficult to trace or reverse a transaction unless a request is received from the Police. If they did, certainly the local fraudsters would be out of business in seconds.
Apart from established people on here, I wouldn't use Bank Transfer, but that's it tbh.
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| 14th Jan 2018 9:36 am |
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Navigator
Member Since: 17 Mar 2010
Location: Stay at Home. One of the lives you save could be your own.
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I had enquired on line about a package deal with a reputable large hotel and recieved an email which basicly said "Dear Navigator, if you send me your details I will forward our electronic brochure".
So I had to explain to the sender that she was apparently unaware that she already was using my details! Hope the kitchen is better organised!! A vaccine does not stop you catching a virus, or passing it on, or getting ill from it, really ill. It does reduce the likelyhood of you dying when really, really ill. Stay Alive - KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE.
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| 14th Jan 2018 10:29 am |
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Woolmeister
Member Since: 26 Mar 2007
Location: Chandler's Ford
Posts: 3457
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There is some fun to be had here. 
Watch what James Veitch does:
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| 14th Jan 2018 10:29 am |
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Farmer Chalk
Member Since: 07 Mar 2013
Location: Independent Republic of Kentishshire.
Posts: 4156
 
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You’d be horrified how many people do fall for these....and people who are highly intellectual....
Fairly recently i’ve had two associates one of whom sent £6000 overseas and was awaiting the arrival of his new cheap super bike from Spain, the other who asked me to check out a new X5 that he was about to buy that was currently being shipped to the UK..... fortunately the latter I managed to head off at the pass in time but I had a hell of a time telling him it was all a scam....!
Couldn’t believe it as he is a clever bloke and so I thought streetwise.... 
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| 14th Jan 2018 10:46 am |
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terryall
Member Since: 17 Jun 2011
Location: Whitstable
Posts: 1426
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Presume the bike never arrived? It would be fun to reply as per James Veitch does and copy the dialogue to this thread😂 everyone could contribute the next reply so we’d have a random dialogue going with the scammer. Oh dear! What have I started..........
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| 14th Jan 2018 11:01 am |
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Farmer Chalk
Member Since: 07 Mar 2013
Location: Independent Republic of Kentishshire.
Posts: 4156
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The issue I have to keep telling those at work is never click on one of these.... they randomly spit out thousands of emails in the vain hope of hitting a genuine mail address...
By replying you open up the floodgates as you have highlighted that your mail is one that will receive...
Hence Veitchs comment of don’t use your own email address!
I have huge problems telling staff never to respond to a clear spoof email.... by sending back a response on a company email gives the spoofer all the layout and typeface of the headers and footers of a genuine company mail which gives the spoofer the next level to attack....
In my company of 2500 employees you would be horrified to know that our spam filters block 80% of all inbound emails to the business as spam attacks... and they are getting better and better every day!
The biggest risk now to my business is cybercrime and the threat of bringing down our IT systems...
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| 14th Jan 2018 11:18 am |
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Grunders
Member Since: 30 Apr 2011
Location: Manchester
Posts: 2302
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We at work get loads of phishing emails... there is always someone in the company who responds and copies the whole companies email address book...
We had a couple on Thursday allegedly from Amazon about an issue with an invoice, somebody replied “I don’t have an Amazon please remove me” and copied the whole company in.... Doh  If it ain't broke... Take it apart anyway, how else you gonna find out how it works
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| 14th Jan 2018 11:36 am |
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