strange e-mail

freefan01

Am I the only person not to have received this? if it's a competition entry I must not have entered it, also curious as I don't use hotmail for my emails but wondered if everyone else did? or do you all have facebook accounts and liked the same page?

Just trying to look for a link.
Hopefully no one will fall for it x

competitionscafe

rob_ wrote: »

If someone can track down the common site that appears to have sold on our data I would be very interested to know.

Me too. :mad:

rob_ wrote: »

The company mentioned at the bottom of the page on ukgrants.eu (this is the site I was told to visit in my email) is "Caddish Rondeaux Enterprises Ltd".

The company behind them (fed-pack.com) have, in fact, been mentioned previously on moneysavingexpert

here - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2071617

Mentioned here as well:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/33230263#Comment_33230263

competitionscafe

rob_ wrote: »

I have found another company named Tidal Wave Media that is registered at the same Durham address. Business Reg Info --> http://www.ukdata.com/numbers/06965788.html

I visited their website and found a post on its 'blog' that I could not believe I was reading! (link below) It appears that this 'Jason Hendricks' person is claiming to have be misrepresented in connection with these emails and the companies behind them.

link here - http://www.tidalwavemedia.com/blog/google-home-income-scammers-now-using-my-name-to-rip-people-off.htm

It sounds believable but not when he has both companies registered to the same address.

Last thing I will be posting on this is the whois info for tidalwavemedia.com but would be interesting to find out the connection between Durham and Arizona?!

As above, for some unexplained reason there appears to be a lot of US based scammers using UK Limited Co addresses in County Durham! Very odd.
http://strangelyperfect.tv/5146/more-on-google-profits-and-pacific-webworks/

redbull08

why are spammers so daft, what kicks do they get?
i get loads & have to delete e-v-e-r-y day in life before i get to read my proper emails

laurenjs88

I recieved this a few days too, But it was addressed to my old flat which I havent been in for over a year so I assume its from something a while ago now! Although on the plus side i'm entitled to over £91k whooop! so i'll just go give them my bank details...:j

Does anyone really get sucked in by these anymore? Even my Nan knows stuff like this is spam!

mollyak

I recieved this email earlier today, and like a previous poster joined so i could comment.

The idea about the electoral registers is pretty good seen as with very little googling you can link a name with an email address, but this doesn't explain why some have been getting the fake address they use. I can totally disprove this theory by saying that i'm 17 and still recieved it.

I do sign up to alot of stuff but I never give my address and if asked for a postcode i just google it and take one off a company, so I am very suspicious of whatever happened with this.

The IP i got was from the middle of LA in the US.

Very suspicious.

mollyak

I just told my mum about it and she reckons they've traced our IPs (ironically in the same way we're all tracing IPs of senders)

competitionscafe

rob_ wrote: »

For anyone thats interested, the company (Caddish Rondeaux Enterprises Ltd) has the following business information.

CADDISH RONDEAUX ENTERPRISES LIMITED

Telephone: 01475 072801-07757 183666

Address: 18 MILLFIELD COURT, BLACKHILL, CONSETT, COUNTY DURHAM, DH8 8TN

There seems to be a lot of UK Ltd companies all listed at that same address including some 'adult entertainment' sites:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2218+MILLFIELD+COURT%22++CONSETT

rob__3

competitionscafe wrote: »

There seems to be a lot of UK Ltd companies all listed at that same address including some 'adult entertainment' sites:

google.com/search?hl=en&q="18+MILLFIELD+COURT"++CONSETT

Amazing. Id love to know how these people get away with this (this is assuming they have actually registered these companies with companies house).

Surely there is some law with regards to how many trading companies you can have under one address?

The only way I know of to have more than one company address at the same property would be to have a ltd company with different trading names. Im guessing thats how they have done it.

Still, the only link Ive seen so far is facebook. Does everyone thats posted here have facebook? with the email address they recieved the email to registered with them?

Thanks

competitionscafe

Whoever they are they seem to own a lot of scammy websites!

Check out:

http://datakitteh.org/ips/74/63/24.html

Everything from 74.63.51.129 (cashconnectonline.com) all the way down to 74.63.51.178 (fed-pack.com fed-secrets.com processing-ssl.com) appears to belong to them!