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Heathrow unclaimed luggage, genuine or scam???

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  • Have seen the same sort of thing on facebook. Amazon parcels, Pallets of items  and boxes of computers. I wonder how many get drawn in by greed.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • soolin
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    Having moaned that they were trying to scam me for more than the OP, my latest ads on Facebook are now discounting the suitcases to £2 . The latest one just received has dropped reference to Heathrow though and use a generic word  ‘airport’ and looking at the spam bot replies all gushing at how brilliant these are, there are a lot from fake accounts not in the UK.  They obviously aren’t getting enough people falling for it here so are expanding the scam Internationally. 
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