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Old 18-08-2011, 01:03 PM
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Interesting variation of the phishing scams

Just got this one this morning posing as a traffic ticket....... from New York
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Old 18-08-2011, 01:18 PM
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Unless you've lived in New York, and then you'd realise that "Chatham Hall" is a girl's school in Virginia. Chatham Town Court in NY state is where you'd need to send your remittance.

Dweebs.
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Old 18-08-2011, 01:30 PM
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Unless you've lived in New York, and then you'd realise that "Chatham Hall" is a girl's school in Virginia. Chatham Town Court in NY state is where you'd need to send your remittance.

Dweebs.
Maybe that's where the scam originates
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Old 18-08-2011, 01:53 PM
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Unless you've lived in New York, and then you'd realise that "Chatham Hall" is a girl's school in Virginia. Chatham Town Court in NY state is where you'd need to send your remittance.

Dweebs.
I dont know whether it worries me that you know that Chatham Hall is a girls school in Virginia
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Old 18-08-2011, 02:10 PM
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Hi trevor I recieved 2 of the same today as well.

kaspersky warned me about them.
Although I would have guessed something wrong as I have never been to NY.
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Old 18-08-2011, 02:50 PM
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I dont know whether it worries me that you know that Chatham Hall is a girls school in Virginia
...I retract previous statements...and commence fabrication of alibi....
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Old 18-08-2011, 05:47 PM
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...I retract previous statements...and commence fabrication of alibi....
Will the "real" Chris Malikoff please step forward.
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Old 18-08-2011, 06:04 PM
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I only know it because I used to live next up the road from another famous girls school, Vassar College in New York state, and they used to compete in inter varsity stuff...

Need for alibi rescinded.
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Old 18-08-2011, 06:45 PM
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You just dug yourself in deeper buddy boy.......
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Old 18-08-2011, 07:04 PM
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Old 18-08-2011, 08:57 PM
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Hands Chris a shovel.......
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Old 18-08-2011, 11:47 PM
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At this rate, I'm going to pop up in China somewhere... knowing my luck - at some girl's school.
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Old 19-08-2011, 12:47 AM
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At this rate, I'm going to pop up in China somewhere... knowing my luck - at some girl's school.
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hahahaha this is a funny thread.
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Old 19-08-2011, 04:01 AM
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Along the same lines.... I recently received an email with no subject, no sender and a void message..........
Anyone/body else receive a similar email?
Very curious
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Old 19-08-2011, 06:51 AM
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Along the same lines.... I recently received an email with no subject, no sender and a void message..........
Anyone/body else receive a similar email?
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Yes 1 or 2 a day.
I opened the first couple I now just delete then all

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Old 19-08-2011, 11:11 AM
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Along the same lines.... I recently received an email with no subject, no sender and a void message..........
Anyone/body else receive a similar email?
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Normally means your ISP's virus\filter stuff has stripped out the offending rubbish .
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Old 19-08-2011, 11:46 AM
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Blimey a speeding ticket from another country

That's imaginative.
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I got a text message on my phone the other night saying that I won 'x' (can't remember how much) amount of value in UK Pounds for my phone. All I had to do to retrieve this value was to send a message by email to an address with all my details.

My mobile number is in the phone book. I can't remember all the details of the SMS because I deleted it as soon as I read it.
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Old 22-08-2011, 06:14 PM
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Along the same lines.... I recently received an email with no subject, no sender and a void message..........
Anyone/body else receive a similar email?
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That means your computer is now pawned to some chinese grad student studying for their PHD in malware.
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