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stevem · #1 23-11-2006, 10:56

Just got home and theres an interesting looking envelope in the letterbox from the States. Open it up and it tells me that I've won AUD$26,825.00, but all I have to do is send them AUD$23.

Yea right as if I'm gonna do that, but it is very easy to see how some people could be conned into this.

I guess my question is how do these scammer get your details. I dont think that I have given my name and new address to anyone in the States, well except Microsoft, but I doubt they would have on sold it.

K2 · #2 23-11-2006, 10:58

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..... well except Microsoft, but I doubt they would have on sold it.

Would you really trust big Bill ??

Cheque paybale to Gates enterprises ??

stevem · #3 23-11-2006, 11:07

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Originally Posted by K2

Cheque paybale to Gates enterprises ??

No Opportunities Unlimited Productions Inc

MrDK · #4 23-11-2006, 11:10

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Originally Posted by stevem

Just got home and theres an interesting looking envelope in the letterbox from the States. Open it up and it tells me that I've won AUD$26,825.00, but all I have to do is send them AUD$23.

Yea right as if I'm gonna do that, but it is very easy to see how some people could be conned into this.

I guess my question is how do these scammer get your details. I dont think that I have given my name and new address to anyone in the States, well except Microsoft, but I doubt they would have on sold it.

Any time you file a publicly recorded document you may add yourself to a mailing list. That document can be anything from closing on a property sale, buying a car with a lien, etc. Private matters such a a new credit card, line of credit can do the same thing.
I don't think the place in the world of the source matters, only the value. If you are in Australia you name has a certain penny value to a US company; if you are in the US the value to the same company may be higher. The value is all a meter of statistics.

stevem · #5 23-11-2006, 11:13

I guess its one hell of a thriving industry praying on the innocent

K2 · #6 23-11-2006, 11:14

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Originally Posted by stevem

No Opportunities Unlimited Productions Inc

Unlimited rip off for the originator - some of the UK BM's will remember Watchdog a good while back (5 years ++) where they did a report on these kind of scams ... they get a 3% return rate on the mail shots - incredible how optimistic (or dumb) people can be.

stevem · #7 23-11-2006, 11:18

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Originally Posted by K2

Unlimited rip off for the originator - some of the UK BM's will remember Watchdog a good while back (5 years ++) where they did a report on these kind of scams ... they get a 3% return rate on the mail shots - incredible how optimistic (or dumb) people can be.

3% thats not too bad, considering it costs them next to nothing

falanger · #8 23-11-2006, 16:07

Try this...

scams - free message board

K2 · #9 23-11-2006, 19:13

Some that quite scary falanger ... especially some of the Government scams

Bushdoctor · #10 24-11-2006, 01:04

Just tell them to deduct it out of your check!! Glad to hear you didn't bite on that slime of a company.

You have their address, are you planning on reporting them?

dizbuster · #11 24-11-2006, 01:11

Another scam similar to this...

A mailshot offering you the chance to be a film or TV "extra" and pick up nice amounts cash in hand - just send £10 to register yourself with us and we'll get back in touch with the details !!

Yeah, right !!

Denver · #12 24-11-2006, 01:21

Similar to those adverts of some bloke who says "It took me 12 months to make a Million" send $10 and I will send you my book on how!

$10's later you receive a book (A very small book I am guessing!) saying "Place loads of adverts in magazines telling people you made a easy million in 12 months and ask them for $10 to find out how"

BTW, I am actually a millionaire and if you need to find out how, just send $10 to my Caymen Islands account - marked Gullible......

Dirk Stud Muffin.............Millionaire

stevem · #13 24-11-2006, 02:13

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Originally Posted by Bushdoctor

Just tell them to deduct it out of your check!! Glad to hear you didn't bite on that slime of a company.

You have their address, are you planning on reporting them?

From what my checks found the address they provide was already listed as a scam.

Bobby · #14 27-11-2006, 19:12

Funny, my mother received a similar kind of mail last week. Also from the US. The letter stated that she has won a huge sum (I forgot the exact amount) from the US lottery and she had also to send maybe 10 euros to get it.
Really strange.... She has never touched a computer so I don't know how her details came from.
One funny thing: how could she have played to the US lottery as she never left Europe.... And if even I would have won the US lottery I would have expected to received a letter in english stating a sum in US dollars and not a letter written in french with the prize in euros...

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Originally Posted by stevem

Just got home and theres an interesting looking envelope in the letterbox from the States. Open it up and it tells me that I've won AUD$26,825.00, but all I have to do is send them AUD$23.