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Roycropper
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Nov 2005
Posts: 7992
Location: Luxury Coffin
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:18 am |
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My first call today was from 'number withheld', a lady saying the drug awareness books I'd agreed to be sent to a school of my choice had been printed, and could I please name a school for them to be sent to. No doubt the invoice would then follow.
I told her I'd agreed to no such thing, she told me they have a verbal contract with me. Get bent, lady, see you in court. I'd eat my own spleen before I'd agree to something like that with a stranger on my mobile. Lady abruptly hung up when I challenged her 'facts' and accused her of moral blackmail.
Sure enough, Google found me this thread Drugs Awareness Books SCAM
Seems I'm not alone.... |
_________________ the European Union has bounced on our freckles
COULD YOU IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WENT TO THE BANK
our Agent is Completely broke, pocketless and stranded
I WLL SEND AN AFRICA WITCH TO ATTACH YOU BASTARD
You go die like bird
i started shouting HALLELUJAGOBBLE but none of them notice me immediately police arrested me due to the shouting
f*ck u asshole ur damn mother will loose ur fcuking skull brain ur brain is nothing to compare with rat f*ck ur u
MY FRIEND ALEX WAS DETAINED IN POLICE STATION
I am not happy due to the question i answered at money office. Let me tell you do not play with me ok.
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Inspector Gadget
Angel of unrealistic meetings
Joined: 20 Feb 2007
Posts: 6259
Location: Trumpton
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:54 am |
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If only we could seed her with some pimp phone numbers...
Anybody think of a way of doing that? |
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grown up man like him, still doing all this shit games - Stanley, (he doesn't like Parcel Direct)
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Ex.
Nature's Asshole
Joined: 28 Dec 2007
Posts: 990
Location: Hell's Presidential Suite
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:58 am |
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Ah these lads be tricky beast but we shall outsmart them one way or another. I personally believe its despicable as to the lengths and craftiness these people go to to get a fast buck. I am more concerned about how they got those phone numbers though. |
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Old No. 7
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 31 Jul 2007
Posts: 777
Location: Somewhere Else
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:12 pm |
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@ Ex
For business numbers in the UK go to (in no particular order)
Companies House
Yellow Pages
local Chamber of Commerce
web spiders
on-line business directories
your local library
...and many more.
All in the public domain. Similar in USA, and probably around the world. |
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Inspector Gadget
Angel of unrealistic meetings
Joined: 20 Feb 2007
Posts: 6259
Location: Trumpton
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:30 pm |
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Slight update :
We have a phone number, it appears to be up and running.
They may have a little bit of attention paid to them soon.
(watch the audio thread for details)
(and blogtalkradio in two weeks time, hopefully) |
_________________ x2 Co bait with Rumbero Sao Tome island to Gabon van donation
Co bait with Jayhawk and VJD. Stanley's bottle tour Aba to Lagos
Team Hector, airport in installments and St Louis to Kayes
Halil, Cotonou to Accra
+ Precious 10/08/11
x8 x34 x 73
grown up man like him, still doing all this shit games - Stanley, (he doesn't like Parcel Direct)
You again do the strange reflections stuffed with drugs? - Natalia
x3 Hector 24/1/13 Moses 15th Oct 2011
x 2Mick Ole 11th Sept 2014-16 Asare Akuffo start 4th Aug 2014 |
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CowboyBuck
Elite Baiter
Joined: 04 Aug 2007
Posts: 1077
Location: Riding the Western Union Trail
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:41 pm |
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This scam has been around for a long time in the USA.
I remember getting these calls in 1986 from these guys claiming to be policemen and selling "drug awareness" books.
The reason I can remember the year is that my then girlfriend fell for the scam and showed me one of the books. |
_________________ Accra to Abuja to Lagos
Mr. King - May 2008 to May 2009
A few more
Right now I am getting pissed with your responses
And still you later claimed there are snakes on the road to the Western Union
Please for the sake of humanity help Mr. Felix and I to get this money |
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Roycropper
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Nov 2005
Posts: 7992
Location: Luxury Coffin
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:15 pm |
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After posting this and reading that thread I posted a link to, I went outside to wrestle with my car's reversing light switch, which has given up the ghost.
After 5 minutes with my head under the bonnet, Hayley came out with my mobile 'It's John from the Police for you'. John told me that he represented a anti social behaviour unit that did this and were going to do that, and handed out cards and leaflets that..'Hang on! John, are you about to ask me to sponsor a leaflet or something?' 'Er, yes, but...' 'No thanks, you're the second one today' CLICK.
Apparently they target businesses, as they can always claim that someone else in the business OK'd it, except I am a one man band. Many will pay an invoice not knowing who OK'd it, for a quiet life, 'specially if they get heavy.
The Europe City Wide Directory is a long running scam on the same lines, where you are asked a vague 'would you be interested' question, then spend the next few years receiving solicitors' letters from Spain demanding evre increasing amounts of money. |
_________________ the European Union has bounced on our freckles
COULD YOU IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WENT TO THE BANK
our Agent is Completely broke, pocketless and stranded
I WLL SEND AN AFRICA WITCH TO ATTACH YOU BASTARD
You go die like bird
i started shouting HALLELUJAGOBBLE but none of them notice me immediately police arrested me due to the shouting
f*ck u asshole ur damn mother will loose ur fcuking skull brain ur brain is nothing to compare with rat f*ck ur u
MY FRIEND ALEX WAS DETAINED IN POLICE STATION
I am not happy due to the question i answered at money office. Let me tell you do not play with me ok.
x4 6Yrs x6 |
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TheGreatOok
Catbingo
Joined: 25 May 2007
Posts: 2355
Location: Lost in L-Space
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:29 pm |
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^^My company just got an interesting scam.
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Dear CEO,
We are the domain name registration organization in Asia, which mainly deal with international company's in Asia. We have something important need to confirm with your company.On the Feb 10 , 2008, we received an application formally. One company named "Hutmyt Holdings Limited" applied for the internet trademark keyword
"Company"
and the domain names
company.org.cn
company.name
company.hk
company.tw
company.asia
After our initial examination, we found that the internet trademark keyword and domain names applied for registration are as same as your company's name and trademark. hope to get the affirmation of your company because that may relate to your intellectual property on internet. Now we have not finished the registration of Hutmyt company yet, in order to deal with this issue better, please let someone who is responsible for trademark or domain name contact me as soon as possible.
Best Regards,
Gary.Feng
Sponsoring Registrar:
Asia Domain Name Registration Limited
Address:3A, Units 20/F, Far East Consortium Bldg,
121 Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong
Tel: 00852-3075 9838
fax: 00852-3177 1520
00852-3177 1510
Email:[email protected]
Website:www.asiadnregistry.net |
Of course I have changed some things in it to keep my company a secret, but after I received the warning from some others about the email, my first thought was "Can I bait this?" |
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"I AM EQUAL TO A MENTAL RETARDED PERSON" - Alvan Ben
"You have pushed me to the wall and i will make you smell yourself i bet." - George Martins
"THE FOOL STOLE YOUR US$755, HE DOES NOT DESERVE TO LEAVE ON THE PLANET" - Jim Ovia
- for a perfect brown nosing job.
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Goldry Bluszco
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Joined: 28 Nov 2005
Posts: 362
Location: With Prospero
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:50 pm |
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I ran a small business from home some years ago. It only lasted about 10 months (I was that sucessful) but I had a seperate phone line installed when I set it up. I moved house about a year after I closed the company, I had mail forwarding on for a year, and one day, many months later I got sent an invoice made out in the company name, phone number etc, for �35 for phoning a premium phone line. The invoice also said it was a late payment and they were charging an additional �40. Enclosed with all this stuff was some pornography, the premium line was an adult line.
Now the line had been disconnected way before this supposed call was made. I phoned the company who issued the invoice, and a male of a certain ethnicity told me to just throw it away and forget about it, after I had explained everything to him.
This was a few years before I found this site, and before I knew such scams existed. I just wished I had gone to the police! |
_________________ Goodbye, go and find your stamp somewhere, I am contented with my service and I am not begging you to buy my stamps.
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Cachuma
Baiting Guru
Joined: 04 May 2007
Posts: 2284
Location: Blowing bubbles at 130 fsw
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:50 pm |
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^^^Ook, forgive me for being a little dense, but...how does that scam work? |
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Goldry Bluszco
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Joined: 28 Nov 2005
Posts: 362
Location: With Prospero
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:56 pm |
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There was no phone call made.... The �75 charge is for sending out an invoice. I am guessing that sending it to a Registered Limited Company - well, the company seeing the porn in the envelope it would just pay the invoice to make it go away and many stern memos would fly around warning staff not to make phone calls to premium lines.
And the porn wasn't even that good!
{EDIT} P.S. Naturally I didn't check out if the line number quoted was bone fide - lest another invoice arrive! |
_________________ Goodbye, go and find your stamp somewhere, I am contented with my service and I am not begging you to buy my stamps.
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TheGreatOok
Catbingo
Joined: 25 May 2007
Posts: 2355
Location: Lost in L-Space
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:11 pm |
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@Cachuma - basically they will give us the opportunity to get those domain names first, at a cost of course.
They also leave the door open where we need them to take legal action against the other company. What the scammer didn't realize is that we have offices in China and have lawyers who would advise us on such matters. You can guess how they go from there though. |
_________________ For Free Bananas Click Here!
HYIP: x3 Banks:
Samuel - Ziguinchor, SE to Dakar, SE - 264 km through Gambia Helping JojoBean
"I knew rigth from the first time you sent email to me that,you are a bloody *DELETED*" - Sgt Daniel Vess
"I NO BLAME U NA DI DIRTY TOTO WEN BORN U NA IM I BLAME. CATBINGO" - Lee Wong
"I AM EQUAL TO A MENTAL RETARDED PERSON" - Alvan Ben
"You have pushed me to the wall and i will make you smell yourself i bet." - George Martins
"THE FOOL STOLE YOUR US$755, HE DOES NOT DESERVE TO LEAVE ON THE PLANET" - Jim Ovia
- for a perfect brown nosing job.
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justjay
Baiting Guru
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 2412
Location: ~Data Miner & Esoteric Trivia Collecter~
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:28 pm |
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imho - the dnrinasia.com and www.asiadnregistry.net are email use domains
www.asiadnregistry.net is just a framed page - source code shows
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frame src="http://www.asiadnr.org" |
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Domain Name: ASIADNREGISTRY.NET
Registrar: HICHINA WEB SOLUTIONS (HONG KONG) LIMITED
Whois Server: grs.hichina.com
Referral URL: http://whois.hichina.com
Name Server: DNS21.HICHINA.COM
Name Server: DNS22.HICHINA.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 02-jan-2008
Creation Date: 02-jan-2008
Expiration Date: 02-jan-2009 |
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Domain Name ..................... asiadnregistry.net
Name Server ..................... dns21.hichina.com
dns22.hichina.com
Registrant ID ................... hc580885558-cn
Registrant Name ................. longcai chen
Registrant Organization ......... hk
Registrant Address .............. Hong Kong
Registrant City ................. hk
Registrant Province/State ....... hk
Registrant Postal Code .......... 200033
Registrant Country Code ......... CN
Registrant Phone Number ......... +852.85231771510 -
Registrant Fax .................. +86.85231771510 -
Registrant Email ................ [email protected] |
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Rodus
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
Posts: 3685
Location: Back under the cold shower
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:36 pm |
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@Ook, I've had that exact one in the last few days. I'd just registered some more domains for work and within a couple of days these guys were onto it trying to get us to sign up for asian domain names with them. |
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maggiemay
Adamu's soulmate
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
Posts: 337
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Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:38 pm |
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I was interested to see this on 419 as I am involved with a charity that has been inundated with calls from the public over the past 6 or so months.
Apparently businesses receive a call in the charity name asking them to sponser a ( non existent) booklet being producing for schools on drug awareness.
The telephone number is always withheld and they will not give out a number to call them back on - insisting instead they will call back.
They target small/medium businesses and refer to a previous( supposed) call where a verbal agreement to sponser was entered into.
They ask for funding - to honour the agreement- always by credit card. There is often a sense of urgency neccesitating an immediate payment
The charity has reported the matter to the police who are investigating.
The calls involve high pressure selling techniques and many innocent victims have parted with fairly large sums of money before realising they have been scammed.
The company are operating from a PO box address in UK |
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