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Very Strange Letter!!

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pcombo
pcombo Posts: 3,429 Forumite
in Consumer rights
Hmm, Got a very strange letter today 27/08/2010. Has anyone else had something like this before its crazy.
Here is a scanned copy of the letter.
WeirdLetter.jpg
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  • skylight
    skylight Posts: 10,716 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Home Insurance Hacker!
    Its not weird. Its a scam.

    Of course you can be presented as the beneficary; after you have handed over your bank details and paid the admin/collection fee. Etc.

    Its a very, very well known scam. Mainly via email but sending a letter is relatively new. Are you on a suckers list possibly?
  • jackieglasgow
    jackieglasgow Posts: 9,436 Forumite
    Well its a bit more original than the Nigerian Lottery!
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  • pcombo
    pcombo Posts: 3,429 Forumite
    Of course i know its a scam, I just found it weird how they got my details lol.
  • Chimpofdoom
    Chimpofdoom Posts: 806 Forumite
    Ah the good ol' 411 scam!

    Maybe this guy has hit the big time... scammed someone bought details from a company and is going for the more personal approach?!
    :exclamatiTo the internet.. I need to complain about something!
  • cyberbob
    cyberbob Posts: 9,480 Forumite
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    edited 27 August 2010 at 1:19PM
    One for the shredder. It's not difficult to get most peoples details. Just to add there's plenty of free software that enable you to reduce an image size to a more reasonable size so you dont have to scroll across the screen to reads it all.
  • wealdroam
    wealdroam Posts: 19,180 Forumite
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    I'm with Cyberbob on this.

    Why do we need such a large image?
  • DVardysShadow
    DVardysShadow Posts: 18,949 Forumite
    pcombo wrote: »
    Of course i know its a scam, I just found it weird how they got my details lol.
    Hmm. You really knew it was a scam all along. And you blanked out the name of the 'late client', to protect his 'identity'?
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  • Kite2010
    Kite2010 Posts: 4,308 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Home Insurance Hacker! Car Insurance Carver!
    Ask your why would someone high-ranked in an organisation be using a plain yahoo email address?

    It's like those unclaimed prize register letters, one to fill in folder F, for fire.
  • Bacchus_061
    Bacchus_061 Posts: 265 Forumite
    I bet it has been send by a Nigerian General
    Wine, women and weasels :D Anything else starting with 'w'?
  • Apples2
    Apples2 Posts: 6,442 Forumite
    DVardysShadow wrote: »
    Hmm. You really knew it was a scam all along. And you blanked out the name of the 'late client', to protect his 'identity'?

    I think the OP knew it was a scam but still though "just maybe....."

    No wonder we keep getting these things.

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
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