Old School Scam
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Doofus

Original Poster:

34,622 posts

204 months

Friday 30th October 2015
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This is an odd one...

We all know the email from someone who works in a bank and needs help to get $15m out of the country? Well I've just received one of these - in the post (!)

He's offering me 40% of "fifteen million thousand US dollars", and apparently he got my details from a business directory. Except he can't have done, because I use a correspondence address, not my home address. He reckons he contacted me because I'm the only Jones in the book. And I always thought that was a really common popular name. Hmmmm...

It came in a prepaid franked envelope, so I shall be reporting it to Royal Mail.

BoRED S2upid

21,125 posts

271 months

Friday 30th October 2015
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That is old Skool Royal Mail!

Eric Mc

125,883 posts

296 months

Friday 30th October 2015
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Sounds like the perpetrator has never been to school - or skool even.

Doofus

Original Poster:

34,622 posts

204 months

Friday 30th October 2015
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Not so, Eric. He tells me that he "schooled in the western world".

Eric Mc

125,883 posts

296 months

Friday 30th October 2015
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That narrows it down a bit.

shakotan

10,862 posts

227 months

Friday 30th October 2015
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Peter Popoff still sends all his scam mail out by post, so it's not a dead medium (pardon the pun) yet!

MacW

1,352 posts

207 months

Friday 30th October 2015
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Delivered by Royal Mail?

It was probably sent in 1995 when the scam was new biggrin

anothernameitist

1,500 posts

166 months