I have received correspondence from a James McArthur purporting to have this address. Just very curious.
Posted: 2005-10-07 03:02:43
Great Queen Street
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Libad
Can anyone tell me if there is a street in London named Great Queen Street and if so what is housed at #214?
I have received correspondence from a James McArthur purporting to have this address. Just very curious.
I have received correspondence from a James McArthur purporting to have this address. Just very curious.
HappyQuerty
There is a Great Queen Street in London, but I don't think there is a #214. If you search "Great Queen Street, London" on the post office website, it only returns 80 hits, certainly no where near 200!
Posted: 2005-10-07 12:45:46
McDeHack
Great Queen St runs between Kingway and Drury lane.
Posted: 2005-10-07 18:53:03
McDeHack
There is also one in Dartford.
Posted: 2005-10-07 19:10:09
Libad
Thank you All for your replies. I imagined James McArthur is a 'Fictional' and now know how to deal with his next email! 
Posted: 2005-10-08 02:54:32
DragonCat
It's an email scam, like the Nigerian scams. They want your bank account details. Avoid.
See http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2005/12/diana419.html
See http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2005/12/diana419.html
Posted: 2008-12-31 14:27:57
Adam_AWD
Rule of thumb - it's next to impossible that anyone you don't know will do anything significant through email, particularly where it concerns money, property, or any kind of legal proceedings. Banks, Solicitors, etc will always write a physical letter and post it to your home address.
I used to work at a bank and I remember getting emails from a Mr Kent Oxford claiming the £9m he had sitting in an account that we had no record of. There was also some poor chap from Germany who showed up at a branch to claim his payout after he had wired 5,000 euros to some bloke in Nigeria who made all the arrangements. All on the back of an email.
I used to work at a bank and I remember getting emails from a Mr Kent Oxford claiming the £9m he had sitting in an account that we had no record of. There was also some poor chap from Germany who showed up at a branch to claim his payout after he had wired 5,000 euros to some bloke in Nigeria who made all the arrangements. All on the back of an email.
Posted: 2009-01-01 15:42:26
All In London
ORIGINAL: Adam_AWD
Rule of thumb - it's next to impossible that anyone you don't know will do anything significant through email, particularly where it concerns money, property, or any kind of legal proceedings. Banks, Solicitors, etc will always write a physical letter and post it to your home address.
I used to work at a bank and I remember getting emails from a Mr Kent Oxford claiming the £9m he had sitting in an account that we had no record of. There was also some poor chap from Germany who showed up at a branch to claim his payout after he had wired 5,000 euros to some bloke in Nigeria who made all the arrangements. All on the back of an email.
Rule of thumb - it's next to impossible that anyone you don't know will do anything significant through email, particularly where it concerns money, property, or any kind of legal proceedings. Banks, Solicitors, etc will always write a physical letter and post it to your home address.
I used to work at a bank and I remember getting emails from a Mr Kent Oxford claiming the £9m he had sitting in an account that we had no record of. There was also some poor chap from Germany who showed up at a branch to claim his payout after he had wired 5,000 euros to some bloke in Nigeria who made all the arrangements. All on the back of an email.
Agreed. Get yourself a decent spam filter and delete anything you're not expecting. It's amazing that these scammers are still catching people out with these scams.
Posted: 2009-01-02 13:16:33
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