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agnomen
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Joined: 16 Apr 2012
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Mon Mar 14, 2016 9:21 pm |
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A few bullets for a scam that was tried on my RL home address.
6th of February we received 3 catalogues from Next a shopping chain in the UK that sells predominately clothes but also has a home furnishings section. Addressed to a Mr A Ogundogba thought nothing more of it. (there are only 2 Mr A Ogundogbas in the UK both Kent/London area)
2 weeks later our 75 year old widowed neighbour asked if we had received catalogues from Next as she had but she also received a letter confirming a Next account had been set up for Mr A Mohammed.
Doh the penny dropped it was a courier intercept scam. I think they chose our houses as we are detached and everyone lives at the rear as it is South facing.
A couple of phone calls with Next and it transpires our house and our 2 next door neighbours had been targeted.
Not 419 but we need to be aware of this type of scam.
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Mortal
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Mon Mar 14, 2016 9:27 pm |
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Thank you for sharing agnomen!
Altough I'm not from London, and actually too far to be targetted by this thing in particular, perhaps it'd be good to post the details over at scamwarners as well?  |
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Fi-Manni
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Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:01 pm |
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Interesting. Is this some kind of identity theft scam? |
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agnomen
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Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:26 pm |
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No it is not identity theft (well not mine), they buy the goods using stolen CCs and then do their best to be waiting around outside when the courier delivers the goods. |
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