DODGY EMAIL???
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Topic: DODGY EMAIL???
Posted By: BaAsKa
Subject: DODGY EMAIL???
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 9:50pm
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I have just recieved this email and am very suspicious about it!!
so here it is... Compliments Ray Morgan.24 Metro Business Center Kangley Bridge Road London SE26 5BW Good Day Amber, Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter isnot a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it with seriousness. This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners This is a personal email directed to you and I request thatit be treated as such it is not a hoax mail please. I am Barrister Ray Morgan.,a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr Randolf E*****, here in after referred to as 'my client' who worked as an independent oil magnate in my country and who died in a car crash with his immediate family on the 4th of Oct,1998. Since the death of my client in Oct,1998, I have written several letters to the embassy with an intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail. More so,I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing laws by the bank in which myclient deposited the sum of £3.8 million pounds. On this note i decided to search for a credible person and finding that you bear a similar last name, I was urged to contact you, that I may,with your consent, present you to the "trustee" bank as my late client's surviving family member so as to enable you put up aclaim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client.I find this possible for the fuller reasons that you bear a similarlast name with my client making it a lot easier for you to put up aclaim in that capacity. I propose that 40% of the net sum will accrueto you at the conclusion of this deal in so far as I do not incure further expenses. Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, you need, first to contact me via signifying your interest and as soon as I obtain your confidence, I will immediately appraise you with the complete details as well as fax you the documents, with which you are to proceed and i shall direct on how to put up an application to the bank. However, you will have to accent to an express agreement which I will forward to you in order to bind us in this transaction. Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you by fax or E-mail the next step to take.I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made for the completion of this transfer. Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this proposal Please send me your phone numbers fax number full names and complete contact address so I can call you to discuss this matter. Thanks. Best regards, Ray Morgan(Esq) SUSPICIOUS I ASK???????...... 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 9:54pm
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We get those with DH's name on them. Ignore it and trash it asap. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 9:55pm
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Yep I say TRASH IT!!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 9:56pm
| dodgy. do not reply! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 10:00pm
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Dodgy with a capital D! -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 10:05pm
it makes me super angry that there are people out there who will try to screw you over like that!!!
I mean really!!??? come on!! if it was serious and he had found my name (which by the way is a married name!) in a government file or what ever then he would have my number to ring rather than send an untrusting email!!
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 10:08pm
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If you can remember last year there was a big thing on Fair Go about them. I have no idea where they track your details from. I just trash them straight away and then empty the trash as well. And coz it comes from overseas they don't come unter the antispam laws that NZ has. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: kiwigal
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 10:09pm
| Delete it |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 10:16pm
 That's sooo bad!!!------------- |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 10:20pm
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om my i had one of thoses sent to me lasy year i just laughed and deleted it ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 10:33pm
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Delete.
One of the Somali women who work with us as an NGO had someone hack into her hotmail account and send out an email saying that she was stuck in Nigeria after being mugged and could people send money to her so she could pay for a hotel. Quite freaky because it was halfway credible. They changed her password and now she can't get back into the account - she's very embarrassed about it all. Poor lady! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 10:41pm
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OMG freaky. I usually bin most of the things that I think are dodgy. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 11:07pm
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I get heaps of ones like that in my junk box. Very, very dodgy. ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 11:08pm
| when you join things, they often seel your details on to companies with dodgy reputations. quite the money spinner. My old company in japan sold our details to the english speaking Jehovah witnesses - true story@! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 11:10pm
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Lovely to be sold to religion. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: ooEvaoo
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 11:33pm
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Yup MIL had that exact same email, just with different last name. I would think it extremely odd someone over there having their maori last name lol ------------- 
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Posted By: HippyMama
Date Posted: 26 January 2008 at 11:41pm
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You can apparently take these things to the Commerce Comission to be reported / file etc. if you are really concerned.
Most definitely a hoax that one! |
Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 1:42am
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Delete it - def sounds like a hoax to me. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 2:05am
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Dogey dogey dogey!!
And yet still people for for this stuff!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 7:58am
| I get those all the time.. like at least once a month with pretty much exact wording to that. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 10:07am
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Amber my DH got another one today I just binned it. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 10:52am
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i get those all the time.....i bin them too ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: AliaDawn
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 11:54am
I haven't gotten any hoax letters yet, but plenty of spam from various people asking me to buy viagra It's rather annoying because I've had a similar email from at least 10 different addresses... just have to keep junking them. I don't know where on earth they got my email from  -------------  
 
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Posted By: JadeC
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 11:55am
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These emails are ridiculous. I love that I never recieved one in my maiden name, but married name? Hundreds!!! ------------- http://pregnancy.baby-gaga.com/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 12:34pm
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if in doubt google it.. I did with the name ray morgan and hoax? and this is what I got:
http://www.nwlink.com/~timelvis/2004/08/engaging-enemy-spam-wars.html - Ray Morgan hoax? if it sounds too good to be true it normally is! I got supisiuos when it kept saying 'this is not a haox' over and over... ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: Snappy
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 2:22pm
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i got a TEXT message similar to that.. and when i went to my address book in my phone it had his name saved in my contacts?!
i can understand hoax emails, but TEXTS?!!!!! ------------- Mummy to two beauties... Formerly Kaiz. |
Posted By: emachan
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 2:57pm
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trash anything like this and block the sender! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD#1 Sept 08 DD#2 Oct 09 |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 3:27pm
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Ann that link was really cool thanks. A bit weird about the txts thou and the number being in your address book. I would be contacted your mobile phone provider. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 5:29pm
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oooh so dodgy. But I have to admit to having a laugh whenever a beautiful, charming, loving, oh - and of course ho^ny lady from Russia e-mails us apparently looking for a loving Kiwi husband for only a small fee... ba ha ha ha! ------------- Andie |
Posted By: Peace
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 8:14pm
------------- DD1 May 2006 DD2 March 2011 DD3 August 2012 |
AliaDawn wrote:Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 8:26pm
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I love the ones that tell me I can "enlarge my manhood". Yeah, ok. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 27 January 2008 at 9:02pm
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ahahaha! YUP! i always get the viagra ones! pain in the arse i say!!!
and Eva that is too funny!! and too true!! im damb sure there is no maori origin in london way back in the days! lol |
Posted By: LovelyMummy
Date Posted: 29 January 2008 at 1:55pm
| Sounds very dodgy with a capital D!! Trash it asap! |
Posted By: Red
Date Posted: 29 January 2008 at 3:21pm
| That link is sooo funny, thanks for posting that! |