Scam e-mail ?

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:33 am

Has anyone else got this e-mail ?
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I am sorry i didn't inform you about my traveling to the United Kingdom, I am now in Manchester, United Kingdom. I was mugged at a gun point by robbers my little bag where i have my money and important documents has been stolen, Now i am really finding it difficult here, I need your your help..Kindly please loan me £2,700 urgently to help me settle my hotel bills and fly back home, I had been to the embassy and also the Police station and they are currently looking into my case.
I had to walk to the public cafe to quickly send you this e-mail as i do not have access to any phone. I will appreciate any amount you can quickly arrange and send to me via Western Union with the details below.

Name : Sanath Fernando
Address: 450 Dearmans Place
Manchester
M3 5LH
United Kingdom.

Please remember to send me full details of the transfer or scanned copy of the transfer receipt so that i can get the money here without any delay or problem. I will check my e-mail later.

Regards,

Sanath

http://www.miniaturelovers.com

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:45 am

It may have been believable if it wasn't for a Hotel bill in Manchester being £2,700. You could buy the street for that. Or at least get some inside toilets.

MatthewP · Post by **MatthewP** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:13 pm

That postcode is for the Lowery Hotel in Salford. Very swanky, the best room is a mere £900 per night. which is obviously where you'd stay if you'd lost all your money or you expected someone else to pay.

sphallen · Post by **sphallen** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:24 pm

Its a scam, Fernando posted on TMP.

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:25 pm

Several members of my family got an almost identical e-mail last year purporting to be from our (real) cousin from New Zealand.

The sad thing is that the persistence of this scam for over a year suggests that it must have some success.

azrael86 · Post by **azrael86** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:39 pm

MatthewP wrote:That postcode is for the Lowery Hotel in Salford. Very swanky, the best room is a mere £900 per night. which is obviously where you'd stay if you'd lost all your money or you expected someone else to pay.

Though apparently they don't have phones in the rooms!

Not as good as the ones that you get asking for help transferring money from 'my country' to 'your country', which identify 'my country' as the UK!

BillMc · Post by **BillMc** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:10 pm

I thought Sanath was the name of the ref at the last English WC game...)

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:16 pm

No Bill, he had many names after he missed that goal, but Sanath was not one of them....

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:26 pm

Ya, have seen this before. The worst version gets your personal info (email addresses) of friends and then sends an email to all of those friends as if coming from you to send money somewhere because of some horrible event. You don't even know this is happening unless one of the friends thinks to call you and check.

Legionbuilder · Post by **Legionbuilder** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 3:55 am

I had heard it was actually posted by one of our old governors from Illinois