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Warning Unsolicited mail from China, a security risk


FxrAndy

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Has any one else recieved unsolicited paper mail recently, it seems that our addresses are not safe, a watch supplier may have given out our addresses to a third party, below are a couple of photos of the mail i found on my return to work today. I have used the same address for only watches and one other item from china, if this mail comes from one of the people that i have used before then it is not a problem but if it is coming from some one i have never dealt with then i am VERY concerned.

If more of us have recieved this sort of mail let me know and we can try to work out who is the leak.

The mail made it through uk mail services in the 24th June so has been waiting a week or two for me.

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...but if it is coming from some one i have never dealt with then i am VERY concerned.

Frightening!! :o:blink:

Question: Did you already try to get in contact with the sender?? for ex. email?

Just curious on what theyll reply on your question WHERE they got your address from??

If this is sourced or hacked(!) from 3rd party THIS is indeed serious matter!!!

Dont want to think any further...

Everythings possible then and most terrific and horrible nightmares can come true:

1. blackmailing

2. mail from the high court of swiss w-horology authorities

3. assaults with anthrax-letters

...

or the worst of it all:

Imagine your once trusted Rep-Approved-Dealer standing right inside

YOUR doorway tryin to sell you the latest model in vacuum cleaning :p:huh:

I definitely dunno what i would say...

hmm... maybe i would ask "Are you Neil?"

Lol

No way... this is serious business here!

KEep this infos streaming... i would as well bear some bad feelings

in my stomach receiving mail like this!!

George

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I dont think that getting intouch with the sender as i imagine they sent more than one or two, I know the 6 people that i have given that address out to and one of them is in hongkonk, and one in Thailand so that leaves 4!

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Yet another reason I don't shop by credit card with the mega dealers. They sell off credit card informations too. I have a credit card which I started specifically for buying watches from the mega dealers - I only shopped with them and another very reputable Jewish online store from New York. Well eventually my bill came in and someone in South Africa went on quite the shopping spree! Card immediately taken to bank and a serious fraud investigation has been underway for the past several months.

Frankly I am not surprised but if you ask me Pay"Pal" is still the "least worst" way to send money online.

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I got an email today for my 88 year old mother in law, who has never been doing anything on the computer and has no email address and we have never done anything for her through computer. Correct spelling of her Japanese name...

Oh - by the way, it was for Viagra!! :clap::clap2::bangin:

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THIS WAS NOT EMAIL THOUGH!

Yeah - but how did they get her name, she lives in a nursing home and how did they conect that to our email address???

Spaming just gets weirder and more anoying by the day

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Ok guys cut the jokes Andy does have a valid point.

When you sign up for anything online now-a-days there is always a confidentiality claus which you tick if you don't mind them sharing your addy, same with paper contracts.

Simple reason for this is that a lot of these places (at one time) once they had your details would simply start selling them to all and sundry.

If as Andy suggests that the addy used has a certain level of security then it is possible that a dealer may be farming out details for a few extra bucks, only way we will know is to see if more turn up.

Ken

A word of warning the letters look very much to me as the typlical Chinese Uni student scam, this is where a couple of savy students go to lengths of even building very impressive websites and mail out's (Email mostly) but all they ever do is take the money and never send out, when the heat gets to much that scrap the site and start another.

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I read on Repgeek yesterday i think it was that some members had been getting spam email in accounts they had set up and only used for buying watches from the trusted dealers some I think even pinpointed which dealers. Either they are being hacked or more likely they or their payment processors are selling leads

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I read on Repgeek yesterday i think it was that some members had been getting spam email in accounts they had set up and only used for buying watches from the trusted dealers some I think even pinpointed which dealers. Either they are being hacked or more likely they or their payment processors are selling leads

Perhaps the dealers themselves sold the information? Why do you think a payment processor would do that before the dealer would ?

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Guest Mr Jones

Maybe, dealers which make dropshipping - now have competition from their china coworkers ?

They have all to send letter with information that they can sell replica goods too and know that you in the past ordered replica goods.

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