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03-12-2014, 03:19 PM | #1 | |
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Calling all UK peoples!
Hi gang!
I just got an odd job offer in my inbox (apparently my contact info was found on a job site where I've posted my CV for "work from home"). The message came from "Royal Mail, US Department," and the sender's email address is: info@royalmail-com.us via cmail2.com. That the message was sent "via" someone else is my first concern. Anyway, I'm curious if any of you might know anything about this. Here's the email message I got: Quote:
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03-12-2014, 03:32 PM | #2 |
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I say bull
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03-12-2014, 03:34 PM | #3 |
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Yeah, I can't figure out why the Royal Mail would want a US postmark on mail from the UK.
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03-12-2014, 03:38 PM | #4 |
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Not only did Monster beat me too it, she's somewhat more concise!
FWIW... Don’t touch it with a barge pole. You will either be roped in to a money laundering racket or similar criminal enterprise, or you will be relieved of your own money. Heaven alone knows what they will be sending to you if you sign up for the former. Doing a search on royal mail-com.us returns nothing but you might wish to dig a little deeper. If you right click on the item in your Inbox and select ‘Properties’ on the drop down menu, a dialogue box will appear. Click the ‘Details’ tab then ‘Message Source’. You won’t open up anything nasty by doing this. You’ll then see the unformatted message in another larger box. A couple of lines down you’ll see the Sender IP. Do a search on WHOIS, or simply a Google search and you should find out where the mail originates. My money’s on Nigeria, China , Russia, or other East European country. BTW, the words below may well be relevant to your Email.
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03-12-2014, 03:53 PM | #5 | |
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Hm. When I right click on the inbox message, my only options are to save, delete, or mark as unread. If I right click on the actual (opened) message, I get View Page Source, View Page Info, or Inspect Element, and I don't find any "sender" or "sender ID."
Nevertheless, I did some scratching around on the Intarweebs, and it seems I'm not the only person getting this message. Someone else got the same one, and that person posted some info he gleaned from the email: Quote:
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03-12-2014, 03:53 PM | #6 | |
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I don't think the Royal Mail has a US department does it? Plus this approach is as old as the hills in the job scam department and is found all over craigslist. there's a good chance that anyone picked at random will have at some point posted a CV somewhere and forgotten about it.
plus look at the grammar and spelling Quote:
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03-12-2014, 03:56 PM | #7 |
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Exactly. The Royal Mail would never send something so poorly written/spelled.
SCAM! So here's another question. At the bottom of the message, there's an option to unsubscribe. Should I click it? |
03-12-2014, 04:03 PM | #8 | |
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Second line down at the end: 10.202.2.41 Similarly tenth line down: 10.202.2.201 Both return as US originators. Wherever it's coming from just ignore it. Don't click on 'Unsubscribe'. Therein lies disaster. They'll then know that they have a live Email address and you'll be spammed for all eternity... or longer.
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03-12-2014, 04:05 PM | #9 |
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Thanks for the great advice, everyone! I appreciate it.
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03-12-2014, 05:47 PM | #10 | |
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03-13-2014, 03:50 AM | #11 | |
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Oh, well. Adapt or die as the saying goes.
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