This is just a head's up.
I received an e-mail today in which someone wanted to order a flute with me, preferably by "valid credit card". The fact that it was sent by BCC to me implies that it was also sent to others. The fact that I don't have a shop implies some odd intentions...
This forum would be one of the few places connecting my personal e-mail address with my interests, so for that reason, this head's up. (E-mail address is visibible for logged in users, I might turn that off now...)
"Flutes Order" fraud email
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kkrell
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Re: potential fraud email concerning flute buying
Not potential, but actual, I'm sure.
Take their deposit, and put them on a 14-year waiting list.
Take their deposit, and put them on a 14-year waiting list.
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" Flutes Order"
I received this obviously legit request in an email this AM and of course will follow up on it in hopes of doing business with this individual 
Good Day,
I want to make an order for flutes at your shop. Let me know the types you offer,the price quotations and when it will be ready for pick-up.I would also like to know the mode of payment you do accept since it will be more convenient for me to pay using my valid credit card.Please advice.
Percy smit
Good Day,
I want to make an order for flutes at your shop. Let me know the types you offer,the price quotations and when it will be ready for pick-up.I would also like to know the mode of payment you do accept since it will be more convenient for me to pay using my valid credit card.Please advice.
Percy smit
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Re: " Flutes Order"
I got that, too. I too am hooping for significan bisines
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Re: " Flutes Order"
I got that one too. Sorry, Percy, but you got deleted fast.
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Re: " Flutes Order"
Yes, done, and combined titles.kkrell wrote:Perhaps we can merge this with the original thread and post there.
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Re: "Flutes Order" fraud email
Oh got it as well today. I was confused as well.
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Re: "Flutes Order" fraud email
Isn't Percy Smith one of the up and coming great Irish Flute players (from Nigeria perhaps. He's a friend and entertainer to the Nigerian Bank Scammers)? Or perhaps he has the World's Biggest Case of flute acquisition disorder.
Re: "Flutes Order" fraud email
Oh, I dunno. Seems legit to me...
He starts with "Good Day" which, as we all know, is how civilised British persons address one another before taking tiffin or a spot of croquet on the lawn.
"I want to make an order for flutes at your shop. Let me know the types you offer,the price quotations and when it will be ready for pick-up". Again, nothing surprising there. I'm sure loads of people offer to bulk buy flutes without knowing anything about the 'types'.
"I would also like to know the mode of payment you do accept since it will be more convenient for me to pay using my valid credit card.Please advice". See, he even offers to use his valid credit card, rather than one of his many invalid ones. Obviously bona fide.
"Percy smit". Now, if you can't trust someone with a 1950s English name like Percy to buy a sh!tload of flutes from you, who can you trust?
m.d.
He starts with "Good Day" which, as we all know, is how civilised British persons address one another before taking tiffin or a spot of croquet on the lawn.
"I want to make an order for flutes at your shop. Let me know the types you offer,the price quotations and when it will be ready for pick-up". Again, nothing surprising there. I'm sure loads of people offer to bulk buy flutes without knowing anything about the 'types'.
"I would also like to know the mode of payment you do accept since it will be more convenient for me to pay using my valid credit card.Please advice". See, he even offers to use his valid credit card, rather than one of his many invalid ones. Obviously bona fide.
"Percy smit". Now, if you can't trust someone with a 1950s English name like Percy to buy a sh!tload of flutes from you, who can you trust?
m.d.
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Re: "Flutes Order" fraud email
i got it too; i told him to send me a check. 
but actually, thanks for posting this... i tend to be trusting of people, even if they have bad grammar. i probably would have sent him my paypal address, if he actually requested a specific item. i'm not sure how much trouble he could have caused me with that, but better not to go there...
cheers,
eric
but actually, thanks for posting this... i tend to be trusting of people, even if they have bad grammar.
i probably would have sent him my paypal address, if he actually requested a specific item. i'm not sure how much trouble he could have caused me with that, but better not to go there...cheers,
eric
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Re: "Flutes Order" fraud email
I didn't get one — should I feel left out?
All I found in my spam filter today was an offer to help settle an estate in Burkina Faso, a winning lottery ticket from Ghana and two offers of marriage (or the like) from Canada (!!!).
Maybe tomorrow.....
Best wishes.
Steve
All I found in my spam filter today was an offer to help settle an estate in Burkina Faso, a winning lottery ticket from Ghana and two offers of marriage (or the like) from Canada (!!!).
Maybe tomorrow.....
Best wishes.
Steve
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Re: "Flutes Order" fraud email
Yes you should! Even I got one from a 'Percy Smit'.Steve Bliven wrote:I didn't get one — should I feel left out?
Steve
He had left the 'h' off his surname.
How did they cream our emails btw?
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Re: "Flutes Order" fraud email
I remember getting something like that a while ago; it has long since been deleted but if I remember correctly it was probably the same thing.
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kkrell
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Re: "Flutes Order" fraud email
Easy enough, some of us have our Email buttons included below our posts, and the HTML that displays the page includes them. For instance, in this thread, in Firefox, use "View->Page Source", then search ("Edit->Find") for "mailto:". Find 'em and strip 'em out.James_Alto wrote:How did they cream our emails btw?