Suspect E-mail

[Alan the Vanner]

I was wandering if anyone who uses the classified ads section recieved an email from a mikefred@jojomail com?
"Interested in MAESTRO for sale......"
I'm only selling PARTS you muppet! Why can't people take the time to read the ads?!:rage:
Anyway, sounds pretty dodgy to me. What's a cell number, anyway?

[Beaker]

Cell Number is the american term for a mobile phone number.

For some reason americans call them cell phones. (They always have to be different)

[Jonathan]

Let me guess, did it ask you if you could arrange for the car to be shipped over to America and offer far more than a Maestro would ever be worth?

It's almost certainly a scam - I think there's a robot that spiders classifieds pages like ours and sends the same email to everyone regardless. Probably goes something like:


if pagename="classifieds.html"
then
//search for email addresses
find "mailto"
sendmail
to: [emailaddress]
subject: [nameofcar]
message: "I'm interested in [nameofcar]... etc. etc."


A cell number should be the number of the cell these people are locked away in!

[Alan the Vanner]

Yeah, it was a bit like that. I just had another read of it and the spelling is terrible! Give it a miss, I think!
I don't think I'll give out my email address like this again. There's another site I go to with a message board (To do with my Toyotas), and whenever I started a thread with a question about "Oil Filter part numbers", for example, people would email me with an answer instead of posting it on the thread! Some people. Ah well!:mad: