Yours Fred, scam

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theoharis
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Yours Fred, scam

Post by theoharis »

Hello,
I received the following email which is an obvious scam, for a number of reasons:
- We are not in booking.com
- We are located in Paros and not Santorini
- We do not mention prices on our site
- We are not a hotel!

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Dear Sir/Madam
How are you? I found your hotel on Bookings.com and was very impressed. We also found that your hotel was highly recommended by, so we would like ask if there is any room available from Oct 5,2012 to Oct 7,2012 (two night)for a couple?

And I checked the rates from your website, but find it's a little bit higher than our budget. So I'd like to ask if you can provide any discount? If you give me a good price,I will recommend your hotel to my friends who will come to Santorini later October.

Thank you in advance and hope to hear from you as soon as possible

yours fred

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I am not sure what they want to achieve...the simple one is to harvest valid email addresses for spam, but I am not sure if there is a more sinister plan for villa owners!

Theoharis