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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
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
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My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)1. Would Alan George Lie to You?
Go get your gold bars!
pintobean
(18,101 posts)2. Too late
he breached the confidentiality.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)5. certainly not the Alan George of the Heathrow Airport Office Complex!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)3. Google sez...
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?
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)7. Aw...no trunk box full of gold bars for me?
I'll forward to Gmail - good idea.
ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)4. Ha
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
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)8. Uh oh...I didn't treat the email as urgent or confidential!
Booga booga!
redwitch
(14,947 posts)6. Just don't forget your dear friend Redwitch now that you are on Easy Street.
Would you like to see my registry at Tiffany's and Mercedes?
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)9. I'll mail you your very own gold bar!
Just send me you bank account t number.
You would feel so sad for me if you knew how much was in it!