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Apparently a new Aristo problem

General Discussion
#1

In the inbox this AM:

----- Original Message -----
From: “Scott Polk” <[email protected]>
To:
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 7:14 AM
Subject: Horrible Trip… Scott Polk

Hello,

I’m sorry for this odd request because it might get to you
too urgent but it’s due to the situation of things right now. I’m stuck
in Manila, Philippines at the moment, I came down to Philippines on an
International Convention and Exhibition at a trade center, Everything
was going fine until last night when I got robbed at GUN POINT, all cash
credit cards and my cell phone were stolen away, it’s such a crazy and
brutal experience, The authorities are not 100% supportive, the Embassy
asked me to come back in three week I can’t wait till then because I
have some unfinished business I need to complete, but the good thing is I
still have my passport and return ticket saved, Right now I am
financially strapped and needs help flying back home, I’m having
troubles settling the hotel bills and also getting a cab down to the
airport.

Please I need you to loan me some money, I promise to
refund you in full as soon as i’m back home, All i need now is $2,650
(USD) but I will appreciate any amount you can spare at the moment…
I’ll be waiting to hear back from you so I can direct you on how you can
get the money to me please… Hope to read from you soon.

Thank You.

Scott.

Yeah, yeah. It’s yahoo. But it does seem to be an innovative way to increase cash flow.
TOC

#2

Welcome to Manila. Can’t Lewis help out?

#3

That looks like one of those spam generated scams, that I’ve heard of before… looks like his account got hacked…

#4

Clearly someone’s email address book was compromised.

If you look at the original email, and look at the actual addressing (properties or options in Outlook)… you can see who REALLY sent the email, and I’d bet it was not Scott Polk.

Scott also has much better grammar and sentence construction.

No American would send a request to another American and specify (USD) …

Greg

#5

Oh, I know where it came from…and reported it…as I always do.
Still funny…

#6

Maybe the spammer can actually get Aristo to ship some product!

#7

Gosh, with all the stilted language and grammatical errors, I thought it was real, given that Scott is from New Joisey. Besides, TOC wouldn’t post a spoof, would he?

Well, would he???

:slight_smile:

#8

HAH! Man I needed a laugh this morning!

Thanks guys!!!

#9

:slight_smile: :slight_smile:

And it is soooooo many days past Fools Day.

:slight_smile: :slight_smile:

#10

Steve Featherkile said:

Gosh, with all the stilted language and grammatical errors, I thought it was real, given that Scott is from New Joisey. Besides, TOC wouldn’t post a spoof, would he?

Well, would he???

:slight_smile:

Never. Just an actual, factual e-mail received this morning. I can post the headers if you like…
I wonder how much it would cost to leave him there?
TOC

#11

Hey Dave,

Are there details to the precise location of this hold-up?

#12

So are you saying I’m not going to get my $2,650.00 back?

I guess it’s ok, that Saudi princess should be transferring 5 million into my bank account any day now!

#13

Curmudgeon mcneely said:

Steve Featherkile said:

Gosh, with all the stilted language and grammatical errors, I thought it was real, given that Scott is from New Joisey. Besides, TOC wouldn’t post a spoof, would he?

Well, would he???

:slight_smile:

Never. Just an actual, factual e-mail received this morning. I can post the headers if you like…
I wonder how much it would cost to leave him there?
TOC

:slight_smile:

#14

Saw a note on facebook this AM from Scott that his email was hacked.
I wonder if folks ever fall for these scams? It seems silly but recently in my neck of the woods a older couple fell victim when “the Police” called from Mexico that their grandson had gotten into trouble and needed to be bailed out. The man reported that the kid they put on the phone sounded like his grandson so they wired a few thousand to some place then they got suspicious when the bad guys called back and wanted $26,000 more.

#15

This type of scam is unfortunately rather prevalent these days. Leo & Steve both discuss the situation on “Security Now”. In fact, as I catch up on their archived shows, one from July 2010 had one targeted at Leo’s wife, supposedly from their gardener in Paris I think it was.

One of the easiest protections here, CALL the person in question. Had they called their grandson’s phone and found him at home, would have saved them serious money. Unfortunately, our nature in our society is to help those in trouble, and the greedy bastards have learned to turn that against us.

I HIGHLY recommend that you tune in to the last few weeks, ever since Snowden and Prism made the news. The first show after the leak, Steve had already pieced together the bits we “knew” and figured out how this was all happening. Not to mention, there are some times when the conversation is just that entertaining.

Just realized I didn’t leave a link to Security Now. The network is TWIT.TV (type “twit.tv” into your browser. They run with .tv instead of .com) direct link: http://twit.tv/show/security-now/413

#16

This exact email, with different name of course, hit our company today mid-day.

(Our spam box reports to me what it blocks)

Greg

#17

Shut up Rooster