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Has anybody received anything like this ?
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Hello,


I am Dr. Tim Mccarron, the director of Staff welfare M&G Investment International UK and my 11 staffs are coming to your country for a private meeting.I want to book for wine in your place.They will need the services in your place as on January 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th 2010.call me anytime on my phone below.we would make an initial deposit of $3,000 USD for the wine services.


1)Do you have a credit card machine for charging of credit cards?


Kind Regards,


Dr. Tim Mccarron


Mobile : +447045768990.

Recieved the very same within the last few minutes, at my work email no less. Pretty poor scam attempt. I think TORB and others got to the bottom of how this one works,

cheers

Andrew

Wizz wrote:Recieved the very same within the last few minutes, at my work email no less. Pretty poor scam attempt. I think TORB and others got to the bottom of how this one works,

cheers

Andrew

Don't be so hasty. The guy says he's got 11 staffs - that has to be worth seeing.

Should we serve them Yellow Tail? Then grab the money and run away?

Loztralia wrote:

Wizz wrote:Recieved the very same within the last few minutes, at my work email no less. Pretty poor scam attempt. I think TORB and others got to the bottom of how this one works,

cheers

Andrew

Don't be so hasty. The guy says he's got 11 staffs - that has to be worth seeing.

Well that's true. M&G Investments are a real company too. Should I pretend to have eleven credit card facilities then? At my place in my country?

I got the email too. Looks like the Oz wine industry is going to be inundated by a heap of poms bearing staffs.

David wrote:I got the email too. Looks like the Oz wine industry is going to be inundated by a heap of poms bearing staffs.

You are all too late!

They booked in with me first!

and they gave me 10 credit cards for payment!

They said, if a couple don't work, keep trying and eventually one will!

Sounds perfect.



oh, and is his name really

Tim Macaroon!

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Gavin Trott wrote:

David wrote:I got the email too. Looks like the Oz wine industry is going to be inundated by a heap of poms bearing staffs.

You are all too late!

They booked in with me first!

and they gave me 10 credit cards for payment!

They said, if a couple don't work, keep trying and eventually one will!

Sounds perfect.



oh, and is his name really

Tim Macaroon!

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My day is complete!

Some very nice sounding man from Nigeria just emailed and told me he had $10,000,000.00 for me that I had won in a lottery!

Wow, I don't even remember buying the ticket ... no matter!

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That's me out with the cheap scam jokes ... over to you guys!
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I received this too. Seems to have originated from a German email address.

I'm feeling left out. Stupid Anti-Spam software...

Left out as well...

I'm so tempted to ring him(it)... pretend to be sucked in for as long as is feasible, then let the abuse rip. Verbal would be a nice change from the pointlessness of email. (Don't email any of them back BTW)

These people prey on the stupid, and I'm sad to say, they make lot of money from it. VERY frustrating that they can't be taught a lesson.

Cheers
TiggerK

I realise how bogus this all looks, and I too would run a million miles, but, to be pedantic.....lets follow this through to its illogical conclusion.

....aren't they purely contracting 'wine services' (whatever they are) in Australia, to be paid for on receipt? and $3000 USD, for 11 'staffs' (stiffs?) that's a lot of wine per head (pun intended) if you provide the basic Australian wine fodder (Jacob's Creek), even with canapes.

Is this scam a fine opportunity to rip off gullible tourists from a non-wine producing country? And there is only 11 of them, so is less likely to impact negatively on the reputation of Australian wine.

My tongue is firmly in cheek as I write this

Cheers

Allan

I read the whole scam a different way, for me it goes:

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah wine services blah blah blah blah blah staffs blah blah blah. Do you have credit card facilities?

Its a credit card merchant scam, not a wine scam.

See towards the bottom of this page:

http://torbwine.com/pa/2007/domscam.shtml

I've had three emails recently from "buyers" overseas. They go along the lines of "I would like to buy lots of your wine. Can you confirm you can ship to China/Romania/Korea (and I think the name was the same on two of them), and that I can pay by credit card."

Eurocentric wrote:I've had three emails recently from "buyers" overseas. They go along the lines of "I would like to buy lots of your wine. Can you confirm you can ship to China/Romania/Korea (and I think the name was the same on two of them), and that I can pay by credit card."

Oh yeah, them!

They also wish to use their 'own' international freight company!

They also now pretend to be in the USA, Europe etc.

Heck, I even had one ask me if I ship internationally, and that they would like the wines shipped to .... wait for it ... Australia! sheesh, can't even get their countries right!

To top it all off, last year I had one telephone me, from overseas.

Same rubbish, they would send their freight company to collect the wines etc etc. Did I take credit cards etc etc. Direct telephone cold calling fraud!

My response was interesting

Rhymed with 'tuck off'.

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