Andy W
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 05:34 PM |
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Is this some kind of scam?
I got an email from car audio company saying i'd bought a stereo, about one hour later I got another email saying the order had been cancelled
and to contact them.
I checked the address of the company on google this is ok, the company is registered at company house. But the delivery address for the stereo does
not exist and is not my name. I rang visa and switch and no transactions have been tried on my account. I then rang the car audio company (0870
number so not that much of a premium). Audio company said visa had declined the order and the card used ended in 5008 which mine does not. I'm
sure this is some kind of a scam but I can't see what as the delivery is not real. Anyone any ideas
Cheers Andy
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 05:38 PM |
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could someone have given the wrong email address in, is it like : mark.jones@aol.com or something that loads of people might have similar and could
enter in wrong on a form?
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joneh
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 05:50 PM |
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Can you paste the email headers in? Delete your email address from it.
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Andy W
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 05:51 PM |
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my email address is ***@--- and the name for delivery is put as (*** vas), but as I said the delivery address does not exist.
Andy
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mookaloid
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 05:56 PM |
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Usually these emails contain a link which sends you a login page which looks very like the ebay login page. You log in to check on this mysterious
transaction and lo and behold it doesn't go to your account.
By this time the bad guys have your ebay username and password
If this happened to you than go into your account and change the password quick!
If you can't get into your account any more it's been hijacked. 
Cheers
Mark
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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Andy W
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 05:59 PM |
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1st email
Order Number: 078462Detailed
invoice:https://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/account_history_info/order_id/78462/ecid/4/esid/117419/referer/rc_orderconfirmation_4/ln/1.html
Date Ordered: Monday 29 December,2008
Products:------------------------------------------1 x CA-IP500 - iPOD Ready Stereo £119.99-------------------------------------------Sub-Total:
£119.99
Shipping to GB: £7.99Total: £127.98 Delivery Address
*** Vas
41 High Street
Yapton,
BN187 0HQ Antrim,
United Kingdom
Payment Method: Credit Card/Switch/Solo
2nd email
Order update: Declined, please contact us.
Order Number: 078462
Detailed invoice:
https://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/account_history_info/order_id/78462/ecid/5/esid/117419/referer/rc_orderstatus_5/ln/1.htmlDate Ordered: 2008-12-29
11:54:43 Products: 1 x CA-IP500 - iPOD Ready Stereo £119.99 Sub-Total: 19.
Shipping to GB: £7.99
Total: £127.98
Delivery Address
*** Vas
41 High Street
Yapton,
BN187 0HQ
Antrim,
United Kingdom
Andy
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Andy W
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 06:02 PM |
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I've never had an account with this company, I'm sure it's some kind of a scam but I just can't figure how it works
Andy
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blakep82
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 06:13 PM |
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sooooo much wrong with that delivery address... I've bought from this company many years ago (i think.. maybe it was a different one, but i
think it wads this one. i've deffo ordered from this one so it is legit) and they would ONLY deliver to the card billing address.
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BenB
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 06:24 PM |
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If Visa say no authorisation attempts have been made then it might just be the computer at that company going bonkers. Even if it's not
you're not going to end up paying for it  Happy days.
I recently got an e-mail saying my SVA manual was being sent out to me (over 4 years after actually receiving it in the post). I sent an e-mail saying
WTF and got a reply saying "whoops... our bad".
Could be worse, it could be your bank writing to say you were 100 billion pounds overdrawn....
BBC news linky
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mookaloid
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 06:26 PM |
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Well BN18 is Yapton in Sussex so My guess is that someone has worked out that they could try and scam the Company with lots of fictitious info but
there's probably enough correct info in the address for it to stand a chance of going to the scammer
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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blakep82
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 06:30 PM |
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but there's the extra number in the postcode, and the only antrim i know is in northern ireland which is BT at the start of the postcode lol
[Edited on 30/12/08 by blakep82]
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owelly
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 06:33 PM |
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That postcode leads you to Loveys Road in Yapton!!
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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Simon
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| posted on 31/12/08 at 02:15 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Could be worse, it could be your bank writing to say you were 100 billion pounds overdrawn....
They say they corrected it within the hour, but at 7%, they'll still try and get the £800,000 interest charge
ATB
Simon
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