GalakStarscraper
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Would you answer this email?Received this email today in the Impact! inbox .... my something wrong meter is leaning towards high so I'm thinking I should not respond to it.
Does anyone disagree?
| Quote: | Dear sales,
i want to place an order in your store,and i will like to know if you ship to TAIWAN and my method of payment will be credit card. So please let me know if you can assist me with the order ,Also I experience difficulties when it comes to getting orders to my address here in Taiwan,so i will like to let you know that i have a shipper agent which i have been using.And please do not forget to include your web page in your replying back to my mail.I will await your prompt response as soon as you receive this mail. |
1) Dear sales?
2) shipper agent?
3) include web page in reply?
Galak
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bouncergriim
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Wait and see if they ever send another one. Also you could google the return email and see if anyone has flagged it for fraud or other information.
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Norse
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mmm, could be weird, or just could be bad english...
I'm 50/50...
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Stout Youngblood
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Re: Would you answer this email? | Quote: | Dear sales,
i want to place an order in your store,and i will like to know if you ship to TAIWAN and my method of payment will be credit card. So please let me know if you can assist me with the order ,Also I experience difficulties when it comes to getting orders to my address here in Taiwan,so i will like to let you know that i have a shipper agent which i have been using.And please do not forget to include your web page in your replying back to my mail.I will await your prompt response as soon as you receive this mail. |
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Dark Lord
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I agree that you should wait for a second email.
Or you could reply with some questions, but "forget" to include your webpage. Be careful not to use anything that would identify what Impact sells, or even the name Impact. Let him tell you what he is interested in and how much he wants.
It's pretty odd for an individual to use a shipping agent on a personal order. Shipping agents are expensive and even an order for a game shop would be a small time deal for them. That aspect smells really off to me.
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MidniteXpress
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1) on the Impact! home page you say you ship to anywhere else in the world
2) you have a section dedicated to credit card payments.
3) if he uses a shipping agent then he would be used to having things sent to their address and wouldn't need to mention it.
his questions were all answered on the website, which means he didn't look at it. personally I beleive there can only be 2 possible explanations. either he got the wrong email addy, or more probably that it's badly executed scam.
which ever it is, wait for a second email. then reply asking what he wants to buy, but forget to include the web addy.
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Thom
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Thats just weird. . .
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GalakStarscraper
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I finally figured out what Stout posted above. Geesch I'm getting slow in my old age. Nice one Stout. I'm not sure that saying translates past the USA borders ... does it?
Galak
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GreedySmurf
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100% scam.
Do not even respond as all that will do is confirm that your e-mail address is a valid address.
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brownrob
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I dont get it tom 
But that isnt anything new!
I agree with the above people though
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MidniteXpress
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| GalakStarscraper wrote: | I finally figured out what Stout posted above. Geesch I'm getting slow in my old age. Nice one Stout. I'm not sure that saying translates past the USA borders ... does it?
Galak |
I read it as a shakespeare reference
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SillySod
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The "dear sales" and other wierd phrasing is just poor english. As for the rest of it... surely a good rule of thumb is if it doesnt feel right then dont touch it?
| GalakStarscraper wrote: | I finally figured out what Stout posted above. Geesch I'm getting slow in my old age. Nice one Stout. I'm not sure that saying translates past the USA borders ... does it?
Galak |
"The Danish are wierd and eat nasty things?" I think thats pretty universally understood 
The only other interpretations I could think of....
"If it smells fishy its from Denmark"
"Denmark is next to the sea"
"Dont go on holiday in Denmark"
"Dont count your fish until they're stale"
"If shakespeare wouldnt eat it why would you? Leave it for the Danish to eat" (thanks Midnite)
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GalakStarscraper
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Shakespeare: Hamlet Act 1, scene 4, 87–91
| Quote: | | Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. |
And to be clear ... while I realize my friends across the pond know who Shakespeare is. What I meant when I said I'm not sure it translates overseas ... I'm not sure if it is actually used as often as I've heard it in the US.
Galak
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Stout Youngblood
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Jeez, try to instill some culture around her and all you get is grief. 
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brownrob
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The only culture I have is growing at the bottom of the fridge where i forgot to lift out the cheese 
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Stout Youngblood
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| brownrob wrote: | | The only culture I have is growing at the bottom of the fridge where i forgot to lift out the cheese |
I knew a comment like this would be forthcoming. Brownrob gets a gold star. 
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Norse
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I thought Stout was saying "this looks dead fishy"... 
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Darkson
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Shakespeare - isn't that something they put on the UK curriculum to give kids a chance to sleep?
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MidniteXpress
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wasn't Shakespeare the guy who invented post-it notes?
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The Warden
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Wow the culture around here is only slightly above beer and chips.
Tom I would not touch that email or any follow-ups from it. He does not have the web address, no mention of what he wants to order, no mention of trying to order and something not working, etc. It looks to be a phishing scam to me.
Ok I now return you to the scintillating conversation of who the real Shakespeare was...
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Norse
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Francis Bacon I believe..
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Xtreme
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Drop it into google and you will see that it has been sent to several other online retailers word for word. So I would stay away.
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