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  • Clutterfree
    Clutterfree Posts: 3,679 Forumite
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    I have never entered any competitions on here or any other site...as I say, if you vote and you are on the electoral register....these details are available to anyone!!! Spam it and be done with it :)

    But email addresses do NOT appear on electoral registers...
    :heart: Ageing is a privilege not everyone gets.
  • katbull
    katbull Posts: 278 Forumite
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    mumov_2 wrote: »
    Hey, same here

    All my details are correct but i never use this email address for anything other than sending mail to either friends, or if i ordering online? Even this account i have on here is not registered to the email address I recieved this email from. I have 2 emails accounts, one for private personal use and another that i use when signing up to stuff because of all the spam you can sometimes get. So really confused as to how they, 1) got my name and address and, 2) that its been sent to my personal/private email address??

    Person sending email is [EMAIL="celinafortesnc862@yahoo.com"]celinafortesnc862@yahoo.com[/EMAIL]

    I have used this email addy at the following:
    Virgin, Asda, TGI's, Totaljobs, Experian, Next, TVlicensing, Onlineautomotive and facebook! These are the only places ive used this email addy, i dont enter comps so obviously they have my details from one of these??
    I also received one today from [EMAIL="doloritasiozitolm621@yahoo.com"]doloritasiozitolm621@yahoo.com[/EMAIL]. very worrying i use face book ?
  • gethro
    gethro Posts: 950 Forumite
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    To
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    26
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    Bristol,
    GLS
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    ,

    Are you still at 26
    ? ( my correct address ? )
    You may be eligible to receive upto 71,945 GBP in government money that you would NEVER HAVE TO REPAY.

    Complete your application at ukgrants.eu
    Mine was from fayth seecharan ([EMAIL="faythseecharantu387@yahoo.com"]faythseecharantu387@yahoo.com[/EMAIL])
    I dont use my hotmail account much so it must be from the registration details
  • mogchops
    mogchops Posts: 1,548 Forumite
    My stepson received this - but in a text on his phone!!! Exactly same format, correct address etc.

    He is not on the electoral roll, & does not do competitions!

    Where on earth are they getting the information from??
  • mij86
    mij86 Posts: 5 Forumite
    Just a little more info on this for you.. If you input some random details in the "get my money" box , you are directed to this site
    grantsdot.com/signup/gateways/signup.php?memberid=3412145&gateway=CUREPAY

    it appears they are selling a grant kit software package for 1.95 also the small print states ..

    "Submitting this form instantly activates your free trial and you will be charged a £1.95 processing fee. You will receive access to our grant package for a full twenty-four hours to evaluate the product. If you're happy, do nothing and you will be charged £39 every thirty days for uninterrupted access to the latest content. There are no obligations; you can cancel anytime via our customer support line or online ticketing system."

    Hopefully no one will fall for it
  • I am talking to there online support as i type this, they dont seem very bright!
  • But email addresses do NOT appear on electoral registers...

    Email addresses are are indeed nothing to do with the electoral register, they are however shared between pretty much any company you happen to write to. If you don't take care and tick boxes, your address will be passed to all and sundry!
    I too would hope nobody would be as stupid to fall for something like this. It's just another obvious scam email which deserves to be binned and forgotten about. A name and address is about as much use to someone as a chocolate teapot....They need to fool you into part 2 to benefit them....I moved out of the address they had for me over a year ago anyway :rotfl:
  • CindyT
    CindyT Posts: 115 Forumite
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    I also got this email and I always deselect all the 'opt in' options...me thinks somewhere my details have been sold on!
  • girlbutterfly
    girlbutterfly Posts: 557 Forumite
    edited 30 May 2010 at 7:58PM
    I was keeping eye on junk mail and received an e-mail from harriot elerson <harriotelersonju305@yahoo.com> for £20,000 government money which I don't have to repay:rotfl:. Thank God it is in my nick name!!:eek: I've used my nick name for some freebies:(
  • I got the same email from hilliaryscheppeng810@yahoo.com but the address was completely wrong (not just wrong street but wrong country it's an address in the US [Huntington Station, NY 11746] and I have never lived there!)

    First name was correct though even though my email address only has my initial and surname:

    --
    Are you still at XX GRAY AVE?
    You may be eligible to receive upto 70,817 USD in government money that you would NEVER HAVE TO REPAY.

    Complete your application at usgrants360.us
    --
    There is a scam called grants360 don't know if it's related to that?
    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=grants360&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

    However the website in my spam /scam email is usgrants360.us
    http://whois.domaintools.com/usgrants360.us

    Registered to:

    Jason James
    Registrant Address1: Po box 875
    Registrant City: Delhi
    Registrant Postal Code: 20jA8h
    Registrant Country: Italy
    Registrant Country Code: IT
    Registrant Phone Number: +91.847927947
    Registrant Email: forgotbhw@gmail.com

    Yes Delhi, Italy - !!!!!!!?

    But someone with that email address has posted in some forums about buying email addresses (coreg data) and also commented in a thread about someone selling a custom hotmail mailer: (spamming software??)
    http://www.wickedfire.com/sell-buy-trade/89353-i-want-buy-coreg-data.html
    http://www.wickedfire.com/sell-buy-trade/88666-custom-hotmail-mailer.html

    Other spam emails are using ukgrants.eu ukgrants.im and ukgrants.be - but all three domains automatically forward /redirect to tracklead.net/click.track?CID=118333&AFID=104737&ADID=284172&SID=eu and then on to http://www.grantsdot.com/uk/

    As someone pointed out above grantsdot.com has the company name of Caddish Rondeaux Enterprises Ltd which belongs to an address in County Durham.

    As you can see from this website which investigated these scams, there seem to be a lot of links between various scams in the US (particularly Utah) and UK Ltd companies with addresses in Durham:
    http://strangelyperfect.tv/5146/more-on-google-profits-and-pacific-webworks/

    A search on Google for Caddish Rondeaux Enterprises grantsdot.com also turned up this website:
    http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/caddish-rondeaux-enterprises-c308805.html

    Hmmm.
    "The happiest of people don't necessarily have the
    best of everything; they just make the best
    of everything that comes along their way."
    -- Author Unknown --
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