Craig Boddington victim of web scam

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14 February 2015, 08:55

ddrhook

Craig Boddington victim of web scam

Hey guys I just got a email from a scammer claiming to be Craig Boddington. It's the Wallet and Passport stolen at the airport scam. Someone please email Craig and let him know whats Happening. I don't have his email

14 February 2015, 09:02

MS Hitman

A friend of mine got that same email.

14 February 2015, 15:02

Skyline

He knows, I talked to him by e-mail yesterday. Many people received these.

14 February 2015, 16:03

larryshores

This is not a new scam. Only the name has changed. I have seen it before with other names.

14 February 2015, 21:09

BrettAKSCI

My alert level went up a touch when Craig Boddington was reaching out to me from the Philippines needing money. I didn't inquire, but I'm sure a wire to his aunt in Nigeria would have quickly resolved the situation.

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14 February 2015, 21:39

cal pappas

Brett:
I got an email from you that said you needed a rifle to hunt with on your safari as yours was taken by the Zim police and that I should overnight by FEDEX my .600. Is this a scam or should I send you my .600 immediately?
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14 February 2015, 23:01

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quote:
Brett:I got an email from you that said you needed a rifle to hunt with on your safari as yours was taken by the Zim police and that I should overnight by FEDEX my .600. Is this a scam or should I send you my .600 immediately?Cal

Just to make sure, send it to me & I will double check to make sure it is not a scam.
You know, he does live in Florida.

15 February 2015, 10:26

BrettAKSCI

quote:
Originally posted by cal pappas:
Brett:
I got an email from you that said you needed a rifle to hunt with on your safari as yours was taken by the Zim police and that I should overnight by FEDEX my .600. Is this a scam or should I send you my .600 immediately?
Cal

Best to send it just to be careful Cal!

Brett

15 February 2015, 23:29

Frostbit

quote:
Originally posted by BrettAKSCI:
quote:
Originally posted by cal pappas:
Brett:
I got an email from you that said you needed a rifle to hunt with on your safari as yours was taken by the Zim police and that I should overnight by FEDEX my .600. Is this a scam or should I send you my .600 immediately?
Cal

Best to send it just to be careful Cal!

Brett

Use my address Cal. The young Lad is either always at work or working on his new house and not answering the door.

I'll be sure to see he gets it.

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16 February 2015, 12:05

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quote:
Originally posted by ddrhook:
Hey guys I just got a email from a scammer claiming to be Craig Boddington. It's the Wallet and Passport stolen at the airport scam. Someone please email Craig and let him know whats Happening. I don't have his email

Craig has said publicly that he is now giving up on AOL. I wrote him to the effect that only geriatrics still use AOL and that it was time to have a 14-year-old set up a domain name complete with its own email address, SSL, etc. Jeez.

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28 February 2015, 07:46

larryshores

I got the e mail in question. This puzzles me as I have never e mailed CB in my life. I am curious how I got on this list.

28 February 2015, 08:52

Saeed

quote:
Originally posted by larryshores:
I got the e mail in question. This puzzles me as I have never e mailed CB in my life. I am curious how I got on this list.

Larry,

The way I understand it is that scammers have web crawlers, which extract email addresses from around the web.

They then combine these addresses, and send scams to them.

So if you are on the Internet, and have an email address, you are likely to get scammed one way or another.

I follow a very simple procedure on email.

First I check the sender, then I check the subject.

If neither is relevant to me, they get deleted without being read.

Those I read have to make sense, if not, I just ignore them.

If an email has nothing in the subject, it gets deleted, no matter who it came from.