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cyberswede

(26,117 posts)
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 10:47 AM Apr 2016

My ship has come in!



PALACE WORLDWIDE COURIER SERVICES
Heathrow Airport Office Complex

Dear Beneficiary,

We wish to bring to your notice that our company's domain website database has crashed, and from the data that we have been able to retrieve we have your email listed as the beneficiary to a consignment that is in our care. The consignment in question is a trunk box which is listed to contain 150kg of gold bars. Due to our inability to access our database, you are required to reply us using the following email; palaceworldwide@gmail.com

Contact us immediately to enable us continue with the delivery of your consignment to you. Treat this email as urgent and confidential.

Signed:
Alan George
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My ship has come in! (Original Post) cyberswede Apr 2016 OP
Would Alan George Lie to You? My Good Babushka Apr 2016 #1
Too late pintobean Apr 2016 #2
certainly not the Alan George of the Heathrow Airport Office Complex! rurallib Apr 2016 #5
Google sez... dixiegrrrrl Apr 2016 #3
Aw...no trunk box full of gold bars for me? cyberswede Apr 2016 #7
Ha ohnoyoudidnt Apr 2016 #4
Uh oh...I didn't treat the email as urgent or confidential! cyberswede Apr 2016 #8
Just don't forget your dear friend Redwitch now that you are on Easy Street. redwitch Apr 2016 #6
I'll mail you your very own gold bar! cyberswede Apr 2016 #9
LOL! redwitch Apr 2016 #10

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. Google sez...
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 11:26 AM
Apr 2016

that one goes back to 2009
only then they were calling themselves Global Express Courier Services
http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?118231-Global-Express-Courier-Services-Scam


did you let Google gmail know the scam address?

ohnoyoudidnt

(1,858 posts)
4. Ha
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:51 PM
Apr 2016

They might fool more people of the contact information looked more official and the contents weren't worth so much, but I guess it works enough times since this has been going around for so long

redwitch

(14,944 posts)
6. Just don't forget your dear friend Redwitch now that you are on Easy Street.
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 09:22 PM
Apr 2016

Would you like to see my registry at Tiffany's and Mercedes?

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