Possible scam Thread poster: Marcella Marino
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Marcella Marino 
Italy
Local time: 00:58
Member (2016)
English to Italian
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Hi everyone,
a couple of days ago I received a message from a sender called Mary Galang.
I looked for this sender in the Blue Board but could not find any match. Moreover, the message this sender sent me sounds a bit weird to me. Therefore, I did not replied. I also thought it could be a scam and it could be useful to share this information.
The message I received says:
Hello
Nice to meet you, how is everything, hope all is well with
you.m... See more Hi everyone,
a couple of days ago I received a message from a sender called Mary Galang.
I looked for this sender in the Blue Board but could not find any match. Moreover, the message this sender sent me sounds a bit weird to me. Therefore, I did not replied. I also thought it could be a scam and it could be useful to share this information.
The message I received says:
Hello
Nice to meet you, how is everything, hope all is well with
you.my name is Mrs. Maryplease i want tell you something
which is very
important kindly write me back on my private mail : (
[email protected]) so that I'll give you details.
Waiting anxiously for your
anticipated corporation. please get back to me it is very
important my mail is is
Email ([email protected])
Yours,Mary
Any similar experiences?
I wish you all a Merry Christmas!
Marcella ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Definitely scam | Dec 24, 2017 |
Yes, same here. I didn't even report it as it was clearly a scam/phishing attempt. A (new and empty) profile did exist, but it appears it's been removed. The sender's IP was from the Ivory Coast.
Happy holidays.
| | | | Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 18:58
English to Spanish
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| It is a scam | Dec 24, 2017 |
It's a type of scam called phishing: an anonymous email pretending to sound friendly and asking for personal information: your name, your email address (when you reply, you're actually giving your email address away). Plus, it doesn't start with Cara Marcella,
| | | | camille94
France
Local time: 00:58
English to French
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| Ignored and done with | Dec 24, 2017 |
I got the same one, just ignored it. The message itself doesn't even make sense.
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Marcella Marino
Italy
Local time: 00:58
Member (2016)
English to Italian
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TOPIC STARTER
Thank you guys for sharing!
| | | | Mervyn Henderson (X)
Spain
Local time: 00:58
Spanish to English
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Seriously. Why do you even consider it's NOT a scam?
[Edited at 2017-12-28 20:13 GMT]
| | | | Marcella Marino
Italy
Local time: 00:58
Member (2016)
English to Italian
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TOPIC STARTER
Hi Mervyn,
as the e-mail I received is written in a way that makes me doubt about its "good faith" (due to some previous experiences with a couple of scams), I just wanted to know the opinions of other colleagues and, if it is a real scam, to warn them.
| | | | Mervyn Henderson (X)
Spain
Local time: 00:58
Spanish to English
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| No reason to warn them | Dec 29, 2017 |
Hi Marcella,
What I mean is, there should be no reason to warn anyone about a message from "Mrs. Maryplease". You'd have to have the intelligence of a subnormal prawn to fall for that one.
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| My sentiments exactly. | Dec 29, 2017 |
I started then to write a reply to that tenor but subsisted believing such a message was too stupid to consider it any threat.
[Edited at 2017-12-29 21:39 GMT]
| | | | | "Subnormal prawns" are reality among humans | Dec 30, 2017 |
Mervyn Henderson wrote:
You'd have to have the intelligence of a subnormal prawn to fall for that one.
Apparently many still have, translators most likely included, otherwise these scams wouldn't go on.
I don't know, Mervyn, how familiar you're with this group but most of the scams published here are equally stupid.
It's never bad to publish them, though the "prawns" that fall for them are most likely of the kind that can't be bothered with googling or checking anything... but you never know, publishing and publicizing as much details as possible is all we can do. Even if the only effect would be pissing off the scammer, it'd be worth it!
| | | | | Received and | Dec 30, 2017 |
Immediately marked as spam and sent as ST to the staff
| | | | Rachel Steer
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:58
French to English
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| It's phishing | Dec 31, 2017 |
As others have said, this is clearly a phishing scam. They'll always say there's some sort of urgent or pressing issue that only you (why do they think we're so special in the first place?) can deal with, and ask you to contact them privately.
Always ignore and delete such emails, and report and/or blacklist the email address.
Thanks for letting us know about this, Marcella. Others in this thread have said you'd have to be stupid to fall for it, but that doesn't change ... See more As others have said, this is clearly a phishing scam. They'll always say there's some sort of urgent or pressing issue that only you (why do they think we're so special in the first place?) can deal with, and ask you to contact them privately.
Always ignore and delete such emails, and report and/or blacklist the email address.
Thanks for letting us know about this, Marcella. Others in this thread have said you'd have to be stupid to fall for it, but that doesn't change the fact that people can, and do, as evidenced by the "Wannacry" ransomware affecting huge swathes of the NHS earlier this year. ▲ Collapse
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Marcella Marino
Italy
Local time: 00:58
Member (2016)
English to Italian
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TOPIC STARTER | Sharing the information | Jan 1, 2018 |
Thank you all for sharing your ideas and opinions. Yes, sharing such information is the least we can do to avoid such "traps" and I also agree that it is always worth doing it.
Happy New Year to all of you!
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