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Strange Messages

Graven ImageGraven Image Shipmate
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Today I received an email confirming my order for $240.00 worth of Greek Squid. If I had any questions, I was told to click on the link below. I do like squid, but I hardly have room for that amount. It is a scam, I am sure. It was an interesting choice of product to make people click. What strange messages have you received by phone, email, or post?

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  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    One I've just deleted from my Spam folder was an invitation to view pictures of Ukrainian beauties...
    :flushed:

  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Graven Image wrote: »
    It was an interesting choice of product to make people click.
    Considering that they wanted you to click if you had any questions, it seems to have been a product well calculated to make you have a question!

  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    edited November 10
    from somebody (a flying friend whose email account had obviously been hacked) asking if I had time for a chat. Er, ... 'yes' ... then from same source, 'this is a delicate matter ... do I shop with Amazon .... ?'
    Hmm, we know where that will be leading!
    Delete, delete.
    Be warned!
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    from somebody (a flying friend whose email account had obviously been hacked) asking if I had time for a chat. Er, ... 'yes' ... then from same source, 'this is a delicate matter ... do I shop with Amazon .... ?'
    Hmm, we know where that will be leading!
    Delete, delete.
    Be warned!

    I received a similar email (some months ago) from - apparently - a lay minister attached to the parish next to Our Place, apologising for having lost their voice (hence the lack of a phone call), and asking if I used Amazon.

    I didn't reply, but deleted it immediately.
  • A Feminine ForceA Feminine Force Shipmate
    edited November 10
    I have been plagued by a Spanish marketing firm calling at strange hours. I will block the number and they will get through next day with a number that is the same except for one digit. I have asked them to remove my name from their roster.

    Last week I got a call at 10:30pm from one of the numbers and I picked it up and said "It's done but there's blood everywhere." and hung up.

    Have not been troubled since.

    If anybody comes around asking I'll tell them that I thought the call was coming from the pest control I had hired to trap the rats in my basement.

    AFF
  • mark_in_manchestermark_in_manchester Shipmate
    I am sure everyone here is sharper than I am - but just in case it helps anyone, 'sorry, I don't take commercial phone calls, goodbye' and 'please contact me by post if there are concerns about this I need to address, goodbye' are two polite phrases which any genuine caller (eg from a bank, etc) would respect. So far my elderly Dad is doing quite well with the second one, but I touch wood (my head) as I type this.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    mark_in_manchester wrote: »
    I am sure everyone here is sharper than I am - but just in case it helps anyone, 'sorry, I don't take commercial phone calls, goodbye' and 'please contact me by post if there are concerns about this I need to address, goodbye' are two polite phrases which any genuine caller (eg from a bank, etc) would respect.
    We don’t have a landline anymore, and my cell phone is set so that unrecognized numbers are sent straight to voicemail. Legitimate callers will leave a voicemail, but scammers typically don’t. And when scammers do leave a message, the scamminess is laughably obvious.

    And I’ve found that gmail is generally very good at filtering out scammy email. My aggravations are the occasional text messages, but they’re equally obvious and easily deleted.


  • Graven ImageGraven Image Shipmate
    mark_in_manchester wrote: »
    I am sure everyone here is sharper than I am - but just in case it helps anyone, 'sorry, I don't take commercial phone calls, goodbye' and 'please contact me by post if there are concerns about this I need to address, goodbye' are two polite phrases which any genuine caller (eg from a bank, etc) would respect. So far my elderly Dad is doing quite well with the second one, but I touch wood (my head) as I type this.

    Thank You, Good reply.
  • Jengie JonJengie Jon Shipmate
    I ended up in a conversation with what looked like a spammer coming from a friend. It turned up to be genuine.
  • Gill HGill H Shipmate
    edited 3:52PM
    mark_in_manchester wrote: »
    I am sure everyone here is sharper than I am - but just in case it helps anyone, 'sorry, I don't take commercial phone calls, goodbye' and 'please contact me by post if there are concerns about this I need to address, goodbye' are two polite phrases which any genuine caller (eg from a bank, etc) would respect. So far my elderly Dad is doing quite well with the second one, but I touch wood (my head) as I type this.

    My Dad was very deaf and could honestly say “I can’t understand you, please write to me if there is anything I need to deal with. If you are genuine you will have my address.”

    Mind you, his practice of answering the phone in Welsh meant most cold callers hung up!
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    Yes, Vietnamese works pretty well for that too!
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