Scam that probably isn't

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Scam that probably isn't

Post by stork »

Here we go: I get 3 enquiries and a booking request through HA; 3 weeks in the summer + 2 during winter: All from the same person, who in one enquiry signs as Dr. A Name and Dr. B Name*).

Looks a bit fishy, but
- with 5 months to the Requested booking, this is a bit long for card fraud through yapstone.
- Name is unusual, I search for it and 1 hit shows up, a German doctor who has recently retired.

Then the story fits - likely to have funds and time for longish holidays, and he could have been flustered by HA's booking system.

I will probably go ahead with it.

What would you have done?

*) Names changed, obviously
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Post by AndrewH »

Perhaps there are two doctors married to each other. The wife retaining her professional maiden name. Or perhaps not so much as married to each other.
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AndrewH wrote:Perhaps there are two doctors married to each other. The wife retaining her professional maiden name. Or perhaps not so much as married to each other.
On a complete aside and total thread creep I had an ancestor who ran away with his step mother and they lived together as Mr and Mrs B .... they were both Mr B and Mrs B they were never married :lol:
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Part of my reason for missing a double booking via OD last year was that both the husband and wife had enquired separately for the same dates.
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Rosie wrote:
AndrewH wrote:Perhaps there are two doctors married to each other. The wife retaining her professional maiden name. Or perhaps not so much as married to each other.
On a complete aside and total thread creep I had an ancestor who ran away with his step mother and they lived together as Mr and Mrs B .... they were both Mr B and Mrs B they were never married :lol:
My second cousin on my maternal grand uncles side of the family allegely had an affair with the unmarried goddaughter of Buffalo Biils second wives first husbands aunty - one was called Angus the other Julie - just saying 8)
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Essar wrote:
Rosie wrote:
AndrewH wrote:Perhaps there are two doctors married to each other. The wife retaining her professional maiden name. Or perhaps not so much as married to each other.
On a complete aside and total thread creep I had an ancestor who ran away with his step mother and they lived together as Mr and Mrs B .... they were both Mr B and Mrs B they were never married :lol:
My second cousin on my maternal grand uncles side of the family allegely had an affair with the unmarried goddaughter of Buffalo Biils second wives first husbands aunty - one was called Angus the other Julie - just saying 8)
I’ve had to think about that long and hard Essar, and check all the documented evidence, but there is no doubt - you’re my sister!
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Post by GRL »

greenbarn wrote:
Essar wrote:
Rosie wrote: On a complete aside and total thread creep I had an ancestor who ran away with his step mother and they lived together as Mr and Mrs B .... they were both Mr B and Mrs B they were never married :lol:
My second cousin on my maternal grand uncles side of the family allegely had an affair with the unmarried goddaughter of Buffalo Biils second wives first husbands aunty - one was called Angus the other Julie - just saying 8)
I’ve had to think about that long and hard Essar, and check all the documented evidence, but there is no doubt - you’re my sister!
Ahhhhh - we're all related :shock:
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Post by Essar »

greenbarn wrote:
Essar wrote:
Rosie wrote: On a complete aside and total thread creep I had an ancestor who ran away with his step mother and they lived together as Mr and Mrs B .... they were both Mr B and Mrs B they were never married :lol:
My second cousin on my maternal grand uncles side of the family allegely had an affair with the unmarried goddaughter of Buffalo Biils second wives first husbands aunty - one was called Angus the other Julie - just saying 8)
I’ve had to think about that long and hard Essar, and check all the documented evidence, but there is no doubt - you’re my sister!
Yup - one of them transgenerals - not unusually normal but normally usual! :D
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