Frank,
I'm surprised you didn't see through this one. For one, it has been a scam email on vpfree before ( probably before you joined). Two, it has been sent through many other email messages in the past. Three, and most obvious, is the wording in the message. Read one of Mickey's posts and then read that post. It's pretty obvious that it's not the same person. Four, a cell phone and credit card? I'm thinking Mickey might not have either of those and I doubt he would pay for the international calling feature if he travelled to Europe. Five, Mickey doesn't seem like a London kind of guy. Montana yes, England no. Lastly, as many scrapes as he has worked himself out of, I don't think he'd be asking for money on vpfree. The scammers picked the wrong email address to use.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Frank" <frank@...> wrote:
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> Gosh folks I just don't know. It sounded like a legitimate issue to me. It never even occurred to me that this could be anything other than a real plea for help from our favorite and most colorful poster.
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> Does anyone have the ability to contact Micky directly and see if these messages are really coming from him???
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> I must admit I didn't even notice the email address was different.
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> Here's a reprint of his message:
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> I'm writing this with tears in my eyes, I'm sorry I didn't inform you about our trip, Actually my family and I made a quick travel to London, (United Kingdom) and unfortunately attacked and mugged at gun point on the way to the hotel. All cash, credit card and cell phone were taken away from us, but luckily we still have our passport with us.
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> We have been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and our return flight leaves anytime from now but we`re having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let us leave until we settle the bills. We really need help, please let me know if you can help. Am freaked out and confused.
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> Mickey
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> ~FK
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