strange e-mail

DUKE

I got one last week & deleted it.

Clutterfree

JulieJesta wrote: »

To shed a little light, I got the same but addressed to my "fake" home address (almost the same as one of my previous addresses). I obviously wasn't sure of the site/competition, becuase i gave them my name as Juliet not julie. Helps me see if I thought was a bit iffy at the start, iyswim.

Please please, no one give them a reply.

If you gave fake details, can you remember which comp it was from?
Might help find the culprit who is selling on details.

Fostermummy

I got it twice and deleted

scubaangel

I got it last night, the address was my mums house - as far as I can remember I've never used that one for comp entries so lost as to where they got it from - although it is the address my car was insured at until a few weeks ago.

DannyDinosaur

I have just this second read one i had in my Inbox

Just like you guys, it had my house number and street as the subject

(I dont care about showing my first name, as i use it on here lol)

To Danny ***
******
*****, ******

Danny,

Are you still at ******?
You may be eligible to receive upto 63,364 GBP in government money that you would NEVER HAVE TO REPAY.

Complete your application at ukgrants.eu

This email came from [EMAIL="libbeyangusty723@yahoo.com"]libbeyangusty723@yahoo.com[/EMAIL]

I used the email headers and got the IP address (125.25.204.204) for a place in Thailand. If you still have these emails, check to see what IP address they came from. You can do this using this website

aruljohn.com/info/howtofindipaddress/

When youve found out how to get the IP address from the email, simply scroll to the bottom and put it into the box and select your provider (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo) and the site will do the rest. Then post the results here! If there all the same we should be able to get in touch with this ISP and have the account suspended

WileCoyote

I received this e-mail to. I can also say that I have never signed up to anything connected to this site except for valued opinions, which was mentioned on a thread here once. Which i should also point out I got my first piece of junk mail in the mail ever, shortly after signing up for. So i'm guessing they have something to do with it.

RobHolyhead

Got one too!

Delivered-To: [EMAIL="robert.holyhead@sky.com"]robert.holyhead@sky.com[/EMAIL]
Received: by 10.216.1.135 with SMTP id 7cs27789wed;

Lookslike there using a proxy as my sender ip is different? this will make it VERY hard to track.

sirsnortalot

Yip..I also have the same mail....offering a paltry [FONT=&quot]24,700 GBP!! Poor show

On the subject of selling on details....it is possible that this information was simply lifted from the electoral register as it is freely available on the web.....just a thought!
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NatFeerick

I had the same email as OP at home last night. Forwarded it to a friend in the police because I was concerned they had my address and I'm VERY careful about giving it online. He has forwarded it to the Economic Crime unit in the local force so I recommend you all go the same route.

Anzarox

here's mine.



From: [EMAIL="averylduffia377@yahoo.com"]averyl duff[/EMAIL]
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 5:51 AM
To: my yahoo email
Subject: real address




To [fake-name]
[correct address, town, postcode etc]

[fake first name],

Are you still at [real address]?
You may be eligible to receive upto 80,745 GBP in government money that you would NEVER HAVE TO REPAY.

Complete your application at ukgrants.eu



the email address is...averylduffia377@yahoo.com

and if it helps, i can only ever remember putting this fake name into a myspace music account, which i deleted last year, which is weird how they're using it. also, i'm sure i never used my yahoo address to open this account.