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Ford Prefect · 11-08-2007, 04:24 PM

I hope someone in the CP community can help me with this one. I'm familiar with most e-mail scams, but I received an e-mail today that I've never seen before and can't find on sites like snopes.

Following is the text of the message:

"hello.
i work in a private detective agency. my name is not important now.
I'm warning you that i'm going to watch you and monitor your telephone line. Do you want to know who paid for shadowing you? Expect my next e-mail.

P.S. I know, you don't believe me. But i think that the record of your yesterday's telephone conversation will assure you that everything is real. The record is in archive. The password is 123qwe"

The message also included a file attachment with a .rar file extension that supposedly contains the alleged record of my phone calls from yesterday. I use a Mac though and I gather a .rar file is some kind of Windows archive so I can't open it.

Anyway, this is a rather strange message, which I assume is a scam, but I can't confirm it. Has anyone seen or heard of this one before?

FWIW, the domain name of the sender's e-mail address is for some kind of corporate consulting firm in France.

Thanks.

11-08-2007, 04:24 PM	#1
Ford Prefect Has Towel, Will Travel Join Date: Jul 2006 Exp:	Is This A Scam? I hope someone in the CP community can help me with this one. I'm familiar with most e-mail scams, but I received an e-mail today that I've never seen before and can't find on sites like snopes. Following is the text of the message: "hello. i work in a private detective agency. my name is not important now. I'm warning you that i'm going to watch you and monitor your telephone line. Do you want to know who paid for shadowing you? Expect my next e-mail. P.S. I know, you don't believe me. But i think that the record of your yesterday's telephone conversation will assure you that everything is real. The record is in archive. The password is 123qwe" The message also included a file attachment with a .rar file extension that supposedly contains the alleged record of my phone calls from yesterday. I use a Mac though and I gather a .rar file is some kind of Windows archive so I can't open it. Anyway, this is a rather strange message, which I assume is a scam, but I can't confirm it. Has anyone seen or heard of this one before? FWIW, the domain name of the sender's e-mail address is for some kind of corporate consulting firm in France. Thanks.