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02-16-2009, 10:40 AM | #1 | |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Mobile, AL
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| Strange Email about Yorkies! Is it a SCAM? So today I received a strange e-mail at my work e-mail address. I don't know this person or how they got my e-mail address or even more so, how they knew I was a Yorkie lover. Here is the email word for word. Quote:
THANKS!
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02-16-2009, 10:41 AM | #2 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Long Island, NY USA
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| SCAM!!! beware run, run very fast...
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02-16-2009, 10:46 AM | #3 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Mobile, AL
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| That is what I figured. It weirds me out that it was sent to my work address. I don't use that for anything but work related stuff. All my yorkie stuff is with my personal email address. So creepy!
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02-16-2009, 10:47 AM | #4 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| Its a scam. Its a common one
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02-16-2009, 10:48 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | IN GOD WE TRUST, ...but not in missionaries from Africa...don't even reply, and run the other way!I've received that same email several times.
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02-16-2009, 11:03 AM | #6 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: England,UK
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| I agree..i hate those kinds of things. It always makes you think someone is watching you doesnt it!? I'm sure they send out hundreds of the same email though, and eventually they will find someone who has a yorkie or is interested in one. Delete it and forget it. |
02-16-2009, 11:08 AM | #7 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Dover, DE, USA
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| Thanks for posting. I am always suspicious of any emails from out of the country, its good to know this one definitely is....thanks again.
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02-16-2009, 11:10 AM | #8 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | !!!!!what a coincidence, I was checking my emails right now, I just received the same text, only from "Stella Tonga, from Johannesburg South Africa"
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02-16-2009, 12:21 PM | #10 |
Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Immaterial
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| It is called "shotgunning." They have an email mailing list (you can buy them over the internet and obviously you are on at least one) and they send the same email to hundreds...even thousands of people. They figure that SOME of the targets will like Yorkies and find the email appealing. Internet spam works the same way...I am a woman, so why do I get so much spam for Viagra and other ways to make my "tool" invincible?? They are just shotgunning...the next name on the list may be a 55 year old man with a 25 year old girlfriend and HE might fall for it! Same exact thing with the Yorkies...they don't know if you even like animals...you are just one email address out of thousands on their list.
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02-16-2009, 12:35 PM | #11 | |
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02-16-2009, 01:15 PM | #12 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: IN
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| Yes it is a scam. It sad that they are using missionaires to conduct their scams
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02-16-2009, 01:20 PM | #13 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Wayne, MI USA
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| Scam!!
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02-16-2009, 01:24 PM | #14 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Hanford, CA
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| Yes, it is a SCAM
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02-16-2009, 01:29 PM | #15 |
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