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Best scam I've ever seen

11 points by kirillzubovsky 14y ago

aclimatt 14y ago
The fact that the letter says "You may have been selected to receive this special limited time offer because of [...] This is an advertisement to extend your coverage." didn't give it away?
chatmasta 14y ago
Where are the scammers getting the data indicating the resident listed at this address drives a Toyota Camry? Obviously they don't have the data linking the car make to the owner, or else the mail would be addressed to the fiancé of the author rather than the author himself. I wonder if they are using a simple Name:Address mapping (certainly not hard to obtain) and then indexing the color and make of the cars with Google maps. Clearly the data for name/address pairs and car/address pairs come from different sources. Otherwise there would be no false positives like the author's letter. (Also, why don't they just use a different phone number for each letter? Or even sets of 3 letters?)
- gdix 14y ago
  Whoever sold/delivered the car/warranty/service plan/loan to you sells your information to these sketchy companies. So they know where you live and when you bought the car and which car you have. From that they deduce when your original warranty is likely to expire and send you the scam letter. In this case, since the author didn't actually buy the car, maybe he took it in to get it serviced and THEY sold his name, address, car make to the scamsters (or something like that).
  - kirillzubovsky 14y ago
    Forgot to comment on this early on. My current address is actually not associated with the car in any, absolutely any way. Either they looked up unrelated sources, or it came directly from Sausolito, where I once got a parking ticket (the only reference to the current address for this car). Strange.
losethos 14y ago
God says... separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; 41:14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. 41:15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court; 41:16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; 41:17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. 41:18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; 41:19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about. ---- God says... knotty death- bid blessedness you're_fired cakes workhouse irrational plenteous hold crisis reverse_engineer anticipating I_love_this lick harder shines urge at execute candid musing Bridegroom luxuriousness noon-day voyage Portugal FTP enlightened unfeigned gleams could speedily saw wiser pursued DISCLAIMER rockstar appointment girls hindered Already keep boiled enquiring over promise incumbrances mouthed A nimble LETTER
greenyoda 14y ago
Legitimate business correspondence generally doesn't have threatening language on the envelope quoting penalties under 18 USC for "obstructing with delivery of this letter". Something like that would end up in my recycling bin without even getting opened.
mojoe 14y ago
I've received a few of these in the mail, but the fact that they were clearly from a third party made me trash them immediately. It's interesting to hear that they don't even provide the extended warranty they are advertising.

The fact that the letter says "You may have been selected to receive this special limited time offer because of [...] This is an advertisement to extend your coverage." didn't give it away?

chatmasta 14y ago

Where are the scammers getting the data indicating the resident listed at this address drives a Toyota Camry? Obviously they don't have the data linking the car make to the owner, or else the mail would be addressed to the fiancé of the author rather than the author himself. I wonder if they are using a simple Name:Address mapping (certainly not hard to obtain) and then indexing the color and make of the cars with Google maps. Clearly the data for name/address pairs and car/address pairs come from different sources. Otherwise there would be no false positives like the author's letter. (Also, why don't they just use a different phone number for each letter? Or even sets of 3 letters?)

gdix 14y ago
Whoever sold/delivered the car/warranty/service plan/loan to you sells your information to these sketchy companies. So they know where you live and when you bought the car and which car you have. From that they deduce when your original warranty is likely to expire and send you the scam letter. In this case, since the author didn't actually buy the car, maybe he took it in to get it serviced and THEY sold his name, address, car make to the scamsters (or something like that).
- kirillzubovsky 14y ago
  Forgot to comment on this early on. My current address is actually not associated with the car in any, absolutely any way. Either they looked up unrelated sources, or it came directly from Sausolito, where I once got a parking ticket (the only reference to the current address for this car). Strange.

losethos 14y ago

God says... separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; 41:14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. 41:15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court; 41:16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; 41:17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. 41:18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; 41:19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about. ---- God says... knotty death- bid blessedness you're_fired cakes workhouse irrational plenteous hold crisis reverse_engineer anticipating I_love_this lick harder shines urge at execute candid musing Bridegroom luxuriousness noon-day voyage Portugal FTP enlightened unfeigned gleams could speedily saw wiser pursued DISCLAIMER rockstar appointment girls hindered Already keep boiled enquiring over promise incumbrances mouthed A nimble LETTER

greenyoda 14y ago

Legitimate business correspondence generally doesn't have threatening language on the envelope quoting penalties under 18 USC for "obstructing with delivery of this letter". Something like that would end up in my recycling bin without even getting opened.

mojoe 14y ago

I've received a few of these in the mail, but the fact that they were clearly from a third party made me trash them immediately. It's interesting to hear that they don't even provide the extended warranty they are advertising.