[Sca-cooks] NOT in Spain...

Fri Oct 12 13:53:05 PDT 2012

Benedicte,
I am glad to know that there are those on this list and elsewhere who know me well enough to know how I write and spell things...like my NAME!! 

Also note, I DO usually preface all my writings with a Latin greeting..."Benedicte" 

and would most certainly never display the lack of hope or panic as proposed in THAT letter...

Johann

www.facebook.com/Marcus Loidolt
"Let Charity be your hallmark and model for all you do,
if it is not loving, don't do it, it it is loving,
let nothing stop you from doing whatever is needed!"
(St. John Neumann)
"Have no fear or doubt anything and everything you give in this life will be paid back ahundred fold in the next"

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Awful Trip...Marcus Loidolt (Terry Decker)
   2. Re: Awful Trip...Marcus Loidolt (yaini0625 at yahoo.com)
   3. Re: Awful Trip...Marcus Loidolt (lilinah at earthlink.net)
   4. Re: Awful Trip...Marcus Loidolt (Aruvqan)
I'm sorry, you've just hurt some poor scammer's ego.  I'm sure he was feeling clever using an email address with an extra "r" tucked in the name on the address, but Marcus doesn't spell his name "loidorlt".

In any event, the message is a rip-off of a variant on the Spanish Prisoner con that's been on the net for over two years.  The original message I saw was for London rather than Madrid, but the opening is almost a word for word crib of that letter.  Unimaginative and unoriginal criminality, unfortunately, the scammer probably won't get his desserts.  Couldn't they at least be entertaining?

Bear

> oh dear. does this look like a previous "help, I'm stranded & broke at the far ends of the earth, pls send money" spam we saw here a couple of months ago? I think Marcus' account has been hacked???
> 
> Marcus, please forgive me if I'm being overly paranoid, but... looking back at other posts of yours on the sca-cooks list, this just doesn't look like your writing style either! especially the white space between paragraphs and the sloppy grammar & punctuation...
> 
> chimene, really hoping Marcus is OK, and whoever actually sent this gets what he deserves!

I received a similar one for Edinborough , Scotland and Johannasburg, South Africa. The one from Scotland I did call the person directly because his family was planning to go visit. 
This scam was also a letter/postcard scam according to my Grandfather. His Dad was the Post Master here in California and had seen these things as far back as the 1940's.
Aelina

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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Awful Trip...Marcus Loidolt

I'm sorry, you've just hurt some poor scammer's ego.  I'm sure he was 
feeling clever using an email address with an extra "r" tucked in the name 
on the address, but Marcus doesn't spell his name "loidorlt".

In any event, the message is a rip-off of a variant on the Spanish Prisoner 
con that's been on the net for over two years.  The original message I saw 
was for London rather than Madrid, but the opening is almost a word for word 
crib of that letter.  Unimaginative and unoriginal criminality, 
unfortunately, the scammer probably won't get his desserts.  Couldn't they 
at least be entertaining?

Bear

> oh dear. does this look like a previous "help, I'm stranded & broke at the 
> far ends of the earth, pls send money" spam we saw here a couple of months 
> ago? I think Marcus' account has been hacked???
>
> Marcus, please forgive me if I'm being overly paranoid, but... looking 
> back at other posts of yours on the sca-cooks list, this just doesn't look 
> like your writing style either! especially the white space between 
> paragraphs and the sloppy grammar & punctuation...
>
> chimene, really hoping Marcus is OK, and whoever actually sent this gets 
> what he deserves!

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>Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:41:17 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Marcus Loidolt <mjloidolt at yahoo.com>
>To: undisclosed recipients: ;

>I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,my family and I came down here to
> Madrid, Spain for a short vacation.unfortunately,we were mugged at the 
>park of the hotel where we stayed,all cash and credit card were stolen 
>off us but luckily for us we still have our passports with us.

SNIP SNAP

TOTALLY SPAM-A-LICIOUS.

I am shocked that anyone would take these bogus messages seriously. This particular message, with "victims" and locations changed (remember those saying they were in London?), has been going around for a few years. But on another SCA list, people began asking where to send the money. Sigh.

Urtatim Crankypants

On 10/11/2012 2:04 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote:
> oh dear. does this look like a previous "help, I'm stranded & broke at the far ends of the earth, pls send money" spam we saw here a couple of months ago? I think Marcus' account has been hacked???
> 
I got one of these from one of my accounts sent to me from one of my other accounts that was cancelled several years previously, I really sounded upset at being mugged .... sometimes they are using an email address from someone's address book they hacked so it isn't actually from the person in question.

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