Venditoris: Beware of Scams

Here’s an email that came recently, not addressed to anyone specifically. Clearly it is a mass mailed email to a list, probably purchased, by the phisher, from a source of supposedly “gullible” spam leads. (I wonder who got taken more, the Phisher or some as yet unrevealed bodkin on the list.)

Don’t be a plum gullible sucker! If you get an unbelievable email even if addressed directly to you, sink it in the spam pool quickly with the other junk emails!

Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2008
From: “Barrister Charles Arrand”
Subject:Charles Arrand Partner

Charles Arrand Partner
DLA Piper UK LLP
Victoria Square House, Victoria Square
Birmingham B2 4DL, England.
Direct Tel: +44-nnn-nnn-nnnn

Good Day,

This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it be treated as such. I am Barrister Charles Arrand, a solicitor at law.

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