Joe Allen

[DSJ]

Obviously a scam but has anyone else received an e-mail from this person?

[Svejk]

Is he a snooker player?

[fiction-factory]

I get about 30 a day in my spam box from names I don't know and I don't look closely at them so this one doesn't ring a bell. Was it unusual compared to all the standard spam/scams/phishing?

[Calibax]

Do you mean from the restaurant in Covent Garden?

[aelmpvw]

is he a nigerian philanthropist with lots of money to give away?

[DSJ]

No, this one is totally different from the usual Nigerian phishing e-mail with appalling English. This chap claims to be serving in Kabul, Afghanistan. The e-mail address that he communicates from is slightly different from the one given in the text to reply to.

Don't worry! I have deleted it.

[ummmm]

No..but apparently PayPal has credited my account $5,000....

[murraymints]

ooo ummmm .can you get me a new sofa from that account if you don't want it...cream or brown 4 seater please..any left over a few scatter cushions !!

[aelmpvw]

only $5,000? there must be a mistake

[murraymints]

ael..enough for my sofa !! oh and could do with a few new towels..white !!

[aelmpvw]

i'm waiting for someone on ab to receive £100,000,000 so i can ask them for a bentley gt continental

[ummmm]

Botox...I've deleted it now! It could have been 5 million....

[murraymints]

ummmmm....nooooo..will have to bring old sofa back in now...humpn !! ;-0

[clairson59]

I got one recently purporting to be from a FedEx-type company in Benin (I had to look up where that was). They said they had a credit card with $9.5 million dollars credit on it waiting for me.... They wanted me to contact them to arrange delivery to England. Probably required a hefty delivery or insurance fee payment in advance. They even re-emailed me when I didn't reply. Needless to say I deleted the messages. I've lost count of the emails/texts relating to car crashes I'm supposedly entitled to money for and I don't even drive.