Clever scam: taxeuropa.org

johannes wrote

This conman will have collected some very high grade identity data. Enough to completely clean out some people.

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Postman Pat
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But it's still a "fishing trip" letter and not a personal one.

Thinking about this further, it probably isn't even being sent to people known to have overseas investments.

It'll be sent to everyone on the spammers email list, I bet there's one in my mail junk box, if I can find it in between the 400 "your account with

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tim.....

E-Mail can't have "'letterhead' graphic" from where I'm looking, if it does it shouts "I'm a Microsoft Windows twit" to me.

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tinnews

snipped-for-privacy@isbd.co.uk wrote

As you can see from my header ;) I don't use M$ software for email but AIUI Outlook will just go and get and display any inline graphical-object URLs as graphics, in the appropriate part of the email.

This is how companies send out emails with letterhead appearance.

You don't have to be stupid - you just need to be among the 99% of computer users.

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Postman Pat

You do have to be stupid to think that having a letter-head imported into an email makes it official.

Any fool can copy an official government logo into a jpeg, getting it embossed (not printed) onto a piece of paper is a bit harder (though obviously far from impossible).

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tim.....

They could arrest them and pass the details to the prosecution authorities in the country concerned.

That of course isn't the answer to the question you asked. They probably would do nothing.

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Jonathan Bryce

The money trail probably runs cold at a Western Union / Moneygram shop somewhere.

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Jonathan Bryce

In Outlook 2003 and later, it only does it if you specifically ask it to do it for that particular email.

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Jonathan Bryce

I'm sorry, but what does WDR stand for? I can usually make a pretty good guess at the meanings of TLAs I've not come across before (or have forgotten), but this one has me foxed.

"With Degreatest Respect"?

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Ronald Raygun

Make that with due respect. It usually means the oppposite.

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Bystander

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