Received a possible scam email- what do I do now?

rachelar

I logged into my gmail account this morning to find this email waiting for me from saveology.com:

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Thank You For Your Order
Your Order Placed On : 2/21/2011 4:50:51 PM(ET)
Customer Information
First Name: Rachel
Last Name my last name
Email: myemailaddress[EMAIL="myemailaddress@gmail.com"]@gmail.com[/EMAIL] (which is just my first name and my last name at gmail)
Evening Phone: American phone number
Day Phone: American phone number
Customer Service Address
AddressLine1: American address
AddressLine2:
City: Fremont
State: OH
Zip: 43420
Country: UNITED STATES
Customer Billing Address
AddressLine1: American address
AddressLine2:
City: Fremont
State: OH
Zip Code: 43420
Country: UNITED STATES

Time Warner Cable - STATUS - Success
Confirmation No - 008-3057912
Item Name Item Qty Item Price (Each)
ROAD RUNNER TURBO AND DIGITAL TV+HD FROM TIME WARNER CABLE - $94.90/MO FOR 12 MONTHS. 1 $94.90/Mo

Time Warner Cable Messages
Provider Session ID: 27043037
Please contact Time Warner Cable at 866-618-1257 at your earliest convenience to complete your order, set up installation and/or activate your service. A Time Warner Cable agent is available to take your call Monday – Saturday (8:00am – 12:00am ET) and Sunday (10:00am – 12:00am ET).

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I haven't ordered anything with this company. I also had an email from an American college inviting me to an open day, which is almost certainly related.

I did a quick Google search on Saveology and one of the first terms that came up was 'scam', so they're definitely dodgy, but none of the scams listed seem to match this.

I've rung around my bank accounts and credit cards and made sure there are no charges, so no money has been taken or is due to be taken, but I'm still worried- what do I need to do next?

vuvuzela

Delete it and ignore it.
Otherwise, file it and ignore it.
Either way, don't fret, as nothing will come of it. It is possible either someone is so stupid as to not know their email address, or it's a scam designed to drop trojans onto your PC if you click on any links. Check the sticky at the top of the Techie Board and do a spyware scan if you click ed on any of the links.

davetrousers

Mark it as spam

Helix

I'm always getting emails thanking for booking my Nissan car in for a service somewhere in America. I don't have a car and I don't live in America.

Just some idiot doesn't know his own email address.

rachelar

Helix wrote: »

I'm always getting emails thanking for booking my Nissan car in for a service somewhere in America. I don't have a car and I don't live in America.

Just some idiot doesn't know his own email address.

I did think of this actually- maybe the person's name was 'Rachael' or some weird American variant.

Fortunately I didn't click any links. I'll mark it as spam but keep an eye on it. Thanks for putting my mind at rest guys!

[Deleted User]

It's good to hear of other people with the same problem as me.

I don't have a particularly common name but I guess it must be in other countries as like the OP I have [EMAIL="firstnamelastname@gmail.com"]firstnamelastname@gmail.com[/EMAIL] and I currently have one Irish person, two Canadians, an Australian, a few Americans (can't work out how many) and an English woman all at various times give out my address as their own. They all seem to do it at the same time as well, it's quite odd as there can be a spate of emails then none at all for ages. I've had a ridiculous amount of stuff over the years, including the Australian's childcare invoice, the prospectus of an Aussie house she was obviously planning on buying, a series of pictures of someone with loads of different glasses on asking my opinion, info on "my" impending gastric band operation, emails from restaurants in Arizona, library reminders (one of the Americans likes vegetarian cookery books), details and confirmation code for "my" flight and holiday to Vienna, tracking info for parcels, info on schools, info about some crazy cultish religious course my Australian namesake had signed up for and tons of photos sent by friends.

The saddest was when Canadian namesake won her wedding video worth $5,000 from handing her email address in at a wedding fair but she had handed mine in and not her own. I really hope the vidoeographer had her telephone number as well as I did let them know the address wasn't right, hope they got in touch with her