| Lluis Vilalta | 15 Mar 2013 10:41 a.m. PST |
Has anyone else been delivered an e-mail, supposedly coming from Pat Condray of Historical Products Company (www.ebhpc.com), in which that pretended Pat asks for an urgent loan? --A significant amount of money to be transferred to an unknown Malaysian addressee? It all does sound so odd to me that I've thought it better to come here and ask --why is that pretended Condray emailing to a nearly unknown to him guy, when he's likely got lots of friends and relatives he can trust on? If anyone can contact the real Pat Condray, please alert him of such grave incidence affecting his email --or inversely, to confirm he's in so grave a situation. |
| MajorB | 15 Mar 2013 10:45 a.m. PST |
It all does sound so odd to me that I've thought it better to come here and ask - It's a phishing scam.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
Similar things have been floating around the Internet for years. |
| Richard Baber | 15 Mar 2013 10:48 a.m. PST |
I would ignore it myself lluis, I had something similar off Mark Bevis (Micromark lists) a year or back. Its a fishing scam. |
| Dynaman8789 | 15 Mar 2013 11:02 a.m. PST |
Sadly there is nothing disturbingly odd about it at all. Too bloody common as a matter of fact. I'm still waiting for my Nigerian relatives to send my check… |
| Lluis Vilalta | 15 Mar 2013 11:05 a.m. PST |
Just what I suspected, thanks --however, I had to ask first… |
| Wellspring | 15 Mar 2013 11:17 a.m. PST |
I actually knew a girl who was Nigerian royalty. Her dad really was imprisoned in a coup (released happy and healthy since then, fortunately). Beautiful and brilliant girl. Never needed or wanted any help absconding with bank transfers-- I couldn't believe I was the first person to joke about it with her. Be advised that it's possible to spoof an email account without actually hacking it. But obviously that's probably what happened here. |
 BrigadeGames  | 15 Mar 2013 11:17 a.m. PST |
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Shagnasty  | 15 Mar 2013 11:20 a.m. PST |
Sounds like a scam. Don't respond. |
 McKinstry  | 15 Mar 2013 11:40 a.m. PST |
Pat was at Cold Wars this past weekend and sounded fine. |
| Larry R | 15 Mar 2013 11:41 a.m. PST |
Did he need the loan to close out his hotel bill due to his wallet being stolen? I got one like that last week, from a buddy I played college football with…hadn't heard from him in years….wasn't him! |
| Lluis Vilalta | 15 Mar 2013 12:07 p.m. PST |
Nah, it was his son who had been stolen everything in Malaysia --and naturally, he wasn't able to help his son due to being out from his State. Not a Nigerian Princess, I'm afraid :( |
| Ed Mohrmann | 15 Mar 2013 1:35 p.m. PST |
Spoke with Pat via 'phone about 16:15 EDT. T'aint him. Reason I called was, I sent an e-mail
direct to his Yahoo address, NOT in reply to the scam
mail. Imagine my surprise when I got a reply to the mail I'd
sent, also NOT from Pat ! This is a fairly sophisticated set of scammers ! Pat
told me he thinks, from the trace he initiated, that
the mail is from Lagos. |
| Charlie 12 | 15 Mar 2013 6:43 p.m. PST |
Was at a buddy's house for a game. He opens his email and the first thing in his inbox was an impassioned appeal from ME bemoanning my having my wallet stolen while in London (with me sitting 2' away from him). Needless to say, he did NOT come across with the cash (cheap bastard!). That was two years ago and we still laugh about it… Oh, but I did redo the security on all my email accounts… |
| badwargamer | 16 Mar 2013 6:12 a.m. PST |
I had a similar thing once. I had to up my security on email too. Changed all my passwords from 1234 to 12345…that should fox them for a while! |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 16 Mar 2013 10:06 a.m. PST |
Better make that 123456, just to be on the safe side. |
| (Stolen Name) | 17 Mar 2013 2:49 p.m. PST |
Nah I use 654321 thats safer! |
| Elenderil | 30 Mar 2013 6:28 a.m. PST |
What's wrong with Password as a password. I could never remember all those complicated numbers myself :-) |
