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ClubMan said:
Why do you assume that? :confused:
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I don't know Clubman. Fraud Squad/Gardaí was the first thought that came into my head. He was well-spoken and had an authorative air. Maybe I'm wrong. Who else could it have been? A rival scammer? Anyway, I was glad of the warning, even though I had a feeling it was not a genuine ad.
 
Surely if he was Garda Fraud Squad he would be perfectly willing to identify himself or his role? How do you know that it was not, say, somebody known to you playing a joke on you or genuinely warning you off having overheard or otherwise known about your inquiries with the original ad poster?
 
It's impossibe that the call came from someone known to me. I was home alone when I answered the ad.
 
Came home from work today to a €200 Gas bill and a car insurance renewal notice, but all is not lost folks - also got letter confirming that I have won €9,787,920 on the Spanish Lottery. Its funny how the Spanish lottery dont even own a franking machine?

Its the Loteria Pirmitiva scam out again, so beware. Is anybody bothering to report these scam letters to the gardai or should I just bin it? Its obvious from the way my address is worded that its taken from the Electoral Register.
 
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This is a huge thread and repeating every Nigerian letter will in full makes it unreadable.

Oh well, I thought it was funny. Is it possible to delete my message then?
 
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Thanks for that BrodieBabe.

[broken link removed]specialises in internet fraud.

This scam from NI was posted there on the 18th.


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POLICE in Lisburn are warning of a credit card scam after a local resident received mail from a company inviting her to join in order to get 'a credit report'.
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Scam Man operating around Portabello & along Canal

Just a warning to any folk how happen to live work about this area, I had a strange incident with a strange man in Portobello about 4 months ago and was at a meal last night with friends from the area and 2 of the group had recently encountered this man also so he’s obviously working the area.

Here’s how he works, he operated very similarly for all of us:

He approaches you on the street or along the canal acting flustered and asks you if you’re from the area, at this point he’s walking along with you and starts telling you his tale of woe, basically he says that he’s a psychiatric nurse and is just after finishing working a night shift, he came home to find out his wife/girlfriend/flatmate has been in a car crash but thankfully she’s ok, however she was driving his car which has his wallet/passport in it which he needs to pick up. He then says he needs to ask you 2 questions, 1st question: do you have a car to give him a lift, 2nd Question: can you lend him €20-€30 to pay for a taxi so he can go to the hospital to visit her & pick up his car & his wallet.

This happened to 3 of us in the last 4 months and each time when we were unable to give him a lift or money he get quite angry and thanks you for wasting his time.
This man is in his early 50’s with a lazy eye. I know he’s not exactly looking for you to hand over your life savings to him but still I thought I post it here to raise awareness.
 
Looks genuine enough to me. But I would have to have a word with legal team (Mssrs Sue, Grabbit and Runne) before going further.;)
 
Re: Where's the catch???

Delboy said:
A mate of mine advertised his old (and ancient) car for sale in the buy and sell. Just gave his e-mail address and a price of €800.
A woman started e-mailing saying she was in Dublin and after a few e-mail he realised she was nigerian. She seemed interested after he had described it in detail and gave her his address to call around and look at it.
No word for 2 weeks and then a letter arrives from Lagos, Nigeria. It's from a guy claiming to be the womans husband and he includes a Thomas Cooke cheque for €2000. The guy says that if the car costs more, let him know and he'll send the money, if it's less, send him back a cheque for the difference.

Now forgive me for being cynical here, but there must be a catch. They have'nt even looked at the car and they're sending a cheque. He has'nt done anything with it yet as he's asking around to see what people think of the whole situation. He could go into a foreign exhange shop and see is the cheque above board; if yes, he could cash it there. He could then send back a draft for the difference (thus no details of his bank account would be disclosed).

But it all sounds fishy to me.Any opinions would be useful
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Of course it's fishy! They're expecting that you'll send them the "change" (ie genuine money) in return for their fake bank draft! So they get a car and the seller's money and the poor seller is left with nothing! I saw a warning about this in a branch of Bank of Ireland in Cork! I hope the car is still with its rightful owner ie the person who advertised it for sale - don't release it under any circumstances. If the battery has to be taken out of the car to keep it from being swiped, so be it.
 
Hi Ney

Nothing is served by reproducing in full yet another Nigerian scam.

There is nothing new in it.

Brendan
 
Hi
Just got a call from BOI VISA fraud people: a small amount of money was requested from my Visa account last night by a company called (something like) "Obama for America". The bank flagged it because the card number and expiry dates did not match.
According to BOI, it seems that a lot of the frauds are coming about by initial small requests (that you mightn't even notice, as they're only a few euros) to see if it'll go through on the card, then for much larger amounts if it works.
Maybe watch out for the same


Nicola
 
@Headache & Froggie, I have been recently targeted by a very similar scam and they're from the UK too...

A company called "Rose Garland" called my mobile roughly about too months ago, speaking about 2 hundred miles a minute and claiming that they'd received correspondance from me regarding an advert i'd like to place with themselves. When I informed the lady that I had never heard of them nor sent them an email she insisted that she was looking at it. So I started to doubt myself and she said later on her colleague would call me, which he did and he too spoke a hundred miles a minute and told me that if i agreed to place an ad with them they'd send me out a sample of the advert and contact me to make sure i was satisfied with the advert before putting it to print. He also said all i had to do was to contact them in writing within the week to cancel if I changed my mind.

When I received the invoice two days later my suspicions were heightened when I saw that the invoice was a pro-forma invoice which media companies NEVER use. I checked all my sent emails and could find no record of me contacting this company so I knew there and then they were scammers.

I tried calling the number on the invoice but surprise surpise no one answered so I left a message saying I wouldnt be going ahead with the advert and then I sent them an email saying the same. A day or two later someone called me to see if I was happy with the advert and I told him that I had phoned and emailed them to tell them that I wouldnt be going ahead with this as they had misled me and that their calls were unsolicitated. He didn't sound too impressed but didn't know what to say (he obviously wasn't their chief manipulater) but he informed me that i'd be hearing from them again as he didn't think that was acceptable.

So I thought this was the end of it until they called me again last week but were pretending to be "crime prevention" and were saying that I had agreed to do an advert with them. I told them i hadn't and kept disagreeing with the guy and he hung up on me. The same individual called me yesterday and got very rude and smart on the phone with me. He said that they had a voice recording which was proof of me agreeing to place the ad and when i told him that i contacted them to cancel the ad he said they never received anything and wait for it - actually denied being from Rose Garland and said he never heard of them!! But he then put his foot in it by saying "sure why would we send you a media invoice?" if he never heard of them how would he know that they were an apparant media company? He said I would receive their invoice this week. These people astound me! So to cut a long story short i ended the call telling him they could take me to court all they wanted, that i wouldnt hesitate in getting legal representation as there was no way i was paying for this.

From reading the other posts on a differnt site about this same company's attempts to swindle other people i've learned that i'm yet to receive a threatening 75p solicitors letter, but that too, along with all the other correspondance and print outs of information i've found on the net about this scam will be going to my local Gardai who is building a file for Interpol.

If any of you get a call from this company hang up the phone straight away!
 
Their [broken link removed]gives no information about themselves. I clicked on download current publication, but did not like the look of what I was being asked to download, so I canceled.

xBee
From reading the other posts on a differnt site about this same company
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Can you provide a link to this site?

Thanks

brendan
 
[broken link removed] and enter "Rose Garland" they are blaggers of the month!

@headache - was the company who targeted you called Vardis? Because if you type that into the company search space on [broken link removed] over 125 posts come up discussing the same scam with the wall planner.
@Froggie - why don't you try searching for the company that targeted you too?

Brendan - more useful information on "Rose Garland" is available here- http://www.private64.piczo.com/?cr=1
 
Oh and Dano1997 - that same lady called to my house late last year and my mam answered and didn't give her anything. Our next door neighbours let her in though but they only gave her like 3 euro or something!!! We live in s/w dublin.
 
Just to warn everybody that the World Web Page Directory is doing the rounds again. They tried it with us before in January 2007. We got our bill this morning for €492.50 for insertion inthe the World Telecom Data Business Directory www.wwpd.info


We did not request to advertise in this Directory. The girl in our office opening the post was going to put it into the purchases folder, till I spotted it. I would be afraid someone else would do likewise.

The letter originated from a PO Box in Spain. We are going to ignore it, I am going to send an e-mail to their address telling them not to cotnact us again under any circumstances. but just be on the alert
 
Not sure if it has been mentioned on AAM before but just wondering if anyone knows if the e-mail doing the rounds at the moment about the scam on the supposed service engineer ringing mobiles is true?

"If you receive a phone call on your mobile from any person, saying that he or she is a company engineer, or telling you that they're checking your mobile line, and you have to press #90 or #09 or any other number - end this call immediately without pressing any numbers.

There is a fraud company using a device that once your press these numbers they can access your 'SIM' card and make calls at your expense".

Anyone know if its rubbish or not?
 
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