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Old 22nd Oct 2006, 06:12
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HeavyWrenchFlyer
 
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It's obviously a scam, it has scam written all over it. It's an old and tired identity theft scam... nothing new. I also got the same email yesterday. I have no connection to Bahrain, never been there and never applied at any airline in that area. They got our names with matching emails from somewhere (not hard to do), either it's a widespread enough of a scam that so many of us here just happen to get hit or it's because of something we all have in common like being registered here at prrune. Whatever you do DO NOT REPLY... DO NOT TAKE THE BAIT, if what they have on you was enough to pull their scam (identity theft) they wouldn't be asking for more info... so don't worry about what they already have on you. Use a proxy, a firewall, run your anti-virus, multiple spyware/adware checks regularly specially after opening any such suspicious emails.
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