I don't know Del except for reading is posts here on AR. Del sent some photos to my email account sometime back, so he had my contact info.

This morning I received this email from Del's email address:

quote:

Good Morning,

Hope you get this on time,I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,I came down here to Malaysia for a short vacation unfortunately I was mugged at the park of the hotel where I stayed,all cash,credit card and mobile phone were stolen off me but luckily for me I still have my passports with me.



I've been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and My flight leaves any moment from today but I'm having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let me leave until I settle the bills.


I'm freaked out at the moment,I need your help out??

Thanks

Del

The language makes me think that Delton's account has been hacked and some scammer is trying to turn a quick buck.

I am wondering if any of you know Delton and might be able to contact him. Also, did anyone else receive a similar email?

You are correct. Thisis a hoax asking for money. I have seen it several times. Del needs to be made aware and run virus software.

Sent him an email and will call later/ thing is it could also be someone else's email that got hacked and the info backtracked to him. run deep scan not just cursory on whatever antivirus you are using folks
Just talked to Del, he is aware and taking appropriate steps. He says thanks to all.

It's a scam.

George

Yes it is a scam. Received the very same thing allegedly from a local attorney friend of mine supposedly stranded in the very same place, just a few months back.

+1...bizzare

the dead giveaway is the hotel part, even if the rest sounded good. You check in with a credit card, so there is no bill to pay.

Not always. As I don't like to use credit cards when I don't have to, I always carry at the very least $2,000 in cash when I travel. Then when I arrive at the hotel, I won't give them my credit card. At first they sometimes refuse to give me my room, but when I tell them I will give them a $1,500 or more cash deposit for my two or three night stay, they change their tunes. Even at hotels which charge $400 or more per night that has always worked for me..including a particularly snooty one in Denver.

At that one the manager told me that they always require a credit card to check in as a matter of policy, and if I didn't give them a valid credit card they would not check me in. I told him it is MY policy not to stay at hotels which do not accept U.S. legal tender (or the cash of their own country ) and that if his hotel didn't want my money, there were lots of other hotels within a few block radius which would.

He saw the light immediately.

Why do I do that? I use credit cards as little as possible when I travel because of the epidemic of identity theft.

Sure, someday someone may rob me, but what is the most they can get? A few thousand bucks and my watch....