Is this a scam?
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Is this a scam?
Looks like one to me but what do you think... and if so how do I reply? Thanks!
Hey, I have seen your lovely property on the ownersdirect webpage. I was wondering if it was available for a full week booking, starting March 18th. As this is for next year, our dates are flexible, so if this particular week is not available, we are open to suggestions. You can reach me at ann@ capable48.com , as i can check this address even if i'm in the office. Best Regards.
Hey, I have seen your lovely property on the ownersdirect webpage. I was wondering if it was available for a full week booking, starting March 18th. As this is for next year, our dates are flexible, so if this particular week is not available, we are open to suggestions. You can reach me at ann@ capable48.com , as i can check this address even if i'm in the office. Best Regards.
It may not happen immediately in answer to this email, but maybe later down the process, you'll get an email from them with some link in it, that looks quite innocuous and you click it.Tivoli wrote:How?Giuliano wrote:he/she gets your googlemail password if you fall for this trick....
Of course, you are also very busy and pressed for time.
So when the next page comes up with your standard email login and it says "Sorry you have been logged out, please login again" and it looks exactly like what you were expecting, so you login again. Yes, you dutifully type in your email address and your password.
Only the page is not your email provider, but the scammer's lookalike page, and what have you just given them ?
** Richard
PIMS: Holiday Rental Management system
They say we learn from our mistakes. That makes me a genius !
PIMS: Holiday Rental Management system
They say we learn from our mistakes. That makes me a genius !
Re: Is this a scam?
Its not about 2 email addresses. I've highlighted the suspect phrases below. While each one on its own may be innocuous, when found in combination they strongly indicate care needs to be taken.
louiseddie wrote:Hey, I have seen your lovely property on the ownersdirect webpage. I was wondering if it was available for a full week booking, starting March 18th. As this is for next year, our dates are flexible, so if this particular week is not available, we are open to suggestions. You can reach me at ann@ capable48.com , as i can check this address even if i'm in the office. Best Regards.
** Richard
PIMS: Holiday Rental Management system
They say we learn from our mistakes. That makes me a genius !
PIMS: Holiday Rental Management system
They say we learn from our mistakes. That makes me a genius !
It's not even those terms - useful pointers as they are on the Scam-o-meter - but the dead giveaway of asking you to use an email address other than the one they enquired with. If you want contact via a certain email address, enquire with it! However if you want to cover your tracks and either distance yourself from the address you first used or avoid it being determined that the address you registered with is, in fact, non-existent then just say 'this is the best email to get me on because I am often on the move/pick this up more regularly/can view while at work/other utterly preposterous excuse'. I never, ever reply to enquiries couched in those terms and just send them straight to spam. Having two email addresses is not the sign of a scammer/spammer (I have five or more), but normal folks use specific addresses for specific purposes and don't sign up with one and then ask to be contacted on another.