The Anonymous Widower

Bed and Breakfast Scam

A friend owns a B&B and they have had two e-mails similar to this one.

i want to inquire if you have 3 rooms available on the 22nd  to 29th of july,2010.The number of guest to expect is 6 with 2 people in each room.Do confirm if available and get back to me.

Warm regards,

John Howard.

Scotland .

+44 704 573 0909

It has all the usual marks of spam, with bad spelling, punctuation and grammar.  Who ends a message with “Warm Regards”?

But I’m not sure how it works.  I suspect that ringing the number will result in a large cost on your phone bill.

There are a lot more examples here.

March 19, 2010 - Posted by | Computing | ,

2 Comments »

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