Scammer with a new twist - Will they ever stop?

Chryslerdude

Chryslerdude

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Dear fellow C's

I got this scam-email a few days ago, (in triplicate)

mati bash <bashgal@013net.net>
Re: Re: Shipment Delivery Delay

"Dear Client

Express delivery delay

Your container with the Imperial car have not been cleared based on the recent discovery and hold on the container, custom have requested a yellow tag clearance to move the container or have it go through tough search. it has a tag on it labelled confidential. please do notify us on the content in the imperial car to prevent it from being forcefully open. xray shows some traces of currencies bundled together inside the car. please do notify immidiately or we shall proceed with checking of the content which is against the confidential policies..

Note: If no reply is seen within the next 48 hours , customs reserve the right to forcefully open the car to check the content of the car throughly"

Although I hate the thought of any Imperial being "forcefully opened", I don't plan to reply.. ;-)
 
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Chryslerdude said:
Dear fellow C's

I got this scam-email a few days ago, (in triplicate)

mati bash <bashgal@013net.net>
Re: Re: Shipment Delivery Delay

"Dear Client

Express delivery delay

Your container with the Imperial car have not been cleared based on the recent discovery and hold on the container, custom have requested a yellow tag clearance to move the container or have it go through tough search. it has a tag on it labelled confidential. please do notify us on the content in the imperial car to prevent it from being forcefully open. xray shows some traces of currencies bundled together inside the car. please do notify immidiately or we shall proceed with checking of the content which is against the confidential policies..

Note: If no reply is seen within the next 48 hours , customs reserve the right to forcefully open the car to check the content of the car throughly"

Although I hate the thought of any Imperial being "forcefully opened", I don't plkan to reply.. ;-)
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I wouldn't respond either... but I struggle to see how they would scam you from this amount of information... can someone smarter about this weigh in?
 
I think he must have seen one of my old ad's. looking for Imperial's.. but I am also a bit in the dark, in regards to why I should pony up cash, based on that story. Also, IF I had an Imp in transit, why should I suddenly reply to communication, from another person than the one I had my previous communication with during arrangements..

It raises many questions.. of which most will probably remain unanswerd.. but I hope you had "fun" reading it.. I did.. :rolleyes:

PS: Matt.. the yellow Cuda is the new star in my wet Mopar dreams.. Great price, and it's close to the coast even. :-P
 
75LandYacht said:
The verbiage / wording doesn’t seem right for a legit company. If you in fact have a car in transit. Contact your shipper for an update.
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Thanks.. I wish I did, but my lovely Imp is here, safe and sound already.. and no undeclared "bundles of cash" in it either.. unfortunately, as that WOULD mean another container had been on it's way about now.. ;-)
 
FURYGT said:
My guess is that the scammer would press you for financial or other info if you responded to the email.
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Probably yes.. or, to pay a "Legal processing and clearance fee", and if that went well, probably also a "Transfer fee" for the impressive amount, found in the Imperial.. A fun thing, could be to demand pictures, of the cash, IN the car.. Anyway I approach this, proff woule be hard to produce, which was why I was baffled about his scam story to begin with.. But, time spent to understand idiots = wasted.. ;-)
 
Chryslerdude said:
I think he must have seen one of my old ad's. looking for Imperial's.. but I am also a bit in the dark, in regards to why I should pony up cash, based on that story. Also, IF I had an Imp in transit, why should I suddenly reply to communication, from another person than the one I had my previous communication with during arrangements..

It raises many questions.. of which most will probably remain unanswerd.. but I hope you had "fun" reading it.. I did.. :rolleyes:

PS: Matt.. the yellow Cuda is the new star in my wet Mopar dreams.. Great price, and it's close to the coast even. :p
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That yellow Cuda won’t last long.
 
Chryslerdude said:
Probably yes.. or, to pay a "Legal processing and clearance fee", and if that went well, probably also a "Transfer fee" for the impressive amount, found in the Imperial.. A fun thing, could be to demand pictures, of the cash, IN the car.. Anyway I approach this, proff woule be hard to produce, which was why I was baffled about his scam story to begin with.. But, time spent to understand idiots = wasted.. ;-)
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It might be fun to let them know the Bazillion US dollars you are importing in the car were properly declared and you don't understand what the fuss is about. :lol:
 
cantflip said:
It might be fun to let them know the Bazillion US dollars you are importing in the car were properly declared and you don't understand what the fuss is about. :lol:
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Ha ha ha.. that WOULD be amusing.. :rofl: but probably not produce any further communication.. ;-)
 
As mentioned, this is most probably another phishing email. Click on any attachment and "you're HIT" with spyware or similar nasty things imported to your computer. After I got an Amazon Prime membership (some "forceful" statements/activities on their website, it seems), then I'd get emails saying my shipment was refused, out for deliver, or cancelled . . . all with the same reference number, repeatedly in different forms, all with an attachment. They all went to my Spam folder.

As somebody mentioned somewhere, look at the sender's address BEFORE responding. It's probably not anything near what it should be, with a different country designation.

Many of these things are computer-generated. Once, I got an email that appeared to be from one of my credit card banks. When I called them directly to inquire, they said "You have no email contact in our files. We couldn't send you an email."

Always look for errors in spelling and grammar, which might be complicated if English is not your main language.

CBODY67
 
Hey kids, this is why you should pay attention in Miss Fussbottom's English Grammar class... Two not become very much victim of skam from grass hut with WiFi, yes please?

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I’ve always wondered - they put so much work into creating these elaborate, personal specific generated emails. But they can’t even properly spell check the word “immediately” or make sure all the beginning of the sentences are capitalized.
 
Carmine said:
Hey kids, this is why you should pay attention in Miss Fussbottom's English Grammar class... Two not become very much victim of skam from grass hut with WiFi, yes please?
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Ha ha, very true.. (and equally funny!). If you advertise ANY Apple product on the Danish equivalent to CL, you WILL recieve a scam email, from Nigeria within 3 hours. It never fails! To much WiFi in certain clay hut's these days.. but, I'm afraid this particular scam, might just pass right past most ppl's "built in spell check capabilities", but ONLY the spelling.. the angle is really weird.

I didn't notice the "immidiately / immediately issue", while I probably would'nt write that myself, despite being "a bloody foreigner", I suppose most Americans would spot it! Usually, I read right through typos, and slight misspelling, but if it's really bad, I notice. Like when some ppl mix up "there", and "their" in writing, or other similar sounding words, which have a completely different meaning.

In Denmark, the words "for", and "sheep" both sound and spell very similar, and many youngsters mix them up.. often resulting in laughs. If I went through all the emails I got from various Danish shipping agents over the years, I am sure, that I would find many mistakes "their" too, so one probably need to apply more than just "spell-filters", to decide if the recently aquired car, actually has a trunk full of rolled up "dolla-bill'z", or if it's just another scam. :-D

I work with IT, and often clean infected computers, and I'm supprised to learn, how many, and the type of people, who actually pay up to various scams.. sad!
 
Chryslerdude said:
Some great stories in there !!! :-D
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My personal favorite was the guy who called my phone claiming "to be the officer of the IRS". He had a very strong foreign accent. I listened to his BS for a couple of minutes and then told him to go back into his mud hut and have sex with his goats. He got very indignant and asked "how did you know that there were goats in my hut?"

Dave
 
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