I'm pretty sure this is dodgy, but...

**MJ10** · 28-05-10, 10:12 AM

...can you confirm for me?!!

Got an email via my student email account (which virtually never gets spam) saying about Uni grants.

I'm pretty sure it's not legit or something.

Email:

Quote:

To James Saunders
MY HOME ADDRESS WAS HERE

James,

Are you still at MY ADDRESS AGAIN?
You may be eligible to receive upto 30,635 GBP in government money that you would NEVER HAVE TO REPAY.

Complete your application at ukgrants.be

1: my names not James, but my middle name is!
2: they had my home address
3: they emailed my Uni account which doesn't get spammed

So amiright in saying it's a scam?!

ndev2k · 28-05-10, 10:16 AM

I received one yesterday saying the same thing. Definitely a scam.

arcticfox · 28-05-10, 10:18 AM

I think the clue that it came from belgium would have been enough, lol

ProBoards Support - Scam doing the rounds. UKGrants.be

**the_icks** · 28-05-10, 10:42 AM

lol, I wonder if this is from a Who.is maybe??

ElectroGirl · 28-05-10, 11:39 AM

Sheesh, that is quite scary

http://whois.domaintools.com/ukgrants.be

iFreeZone · 28-05-10, 11:49 AM

I got one from gwenny something or the other... But it was to my normal email addy... Had my address and all...

**the_icks** · 28-05-10, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElectroGirl

Sheesh, that is quite scary

Ukgrants.be - Uk Grants

Just to say, I see that they own over 90,000 domains.

I would just like to say, it is not me!!!

arcticfox · 28-05-10, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the_icks

Just to say, I see that they own over 90,000 domains.

I would just like to say, it is not me!!!

I was kinda thinking that but assumed that you must have sold a few thousand

**xploit** · 28-05-10, 12:06 PM

ukgrants.be - why would a company offering a grant to uk students use a belgian domain?

arcticfox · 28-05-10, 12:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xploit

ukgrants.be - why would a company offering a grant to uk students use a belgian domain?

That's what I said above, lol but there will aways be 1 or 2 that fall for these scams. I get them quite often telling me I have a tax rebate as well as the usual ones from banks that I don't belong to telling me to update my account...which I don't have.

sgll · 28-05-10, 12:16 PM

yeh i got this too. its basically a spammer promoting a cpa affiliate offer, thats all lol

ukgrants.be redirects to grantsdot.com/uk/?nats=NzE6Mzox,16,0,0,0&sub=104737

cameronlaw · 28-05-10, 12:28 PM

I got this too - really feel sorry for the people that fall for these

oXoDCoXo · 28-05-10, 05:03 PM

I got this exact email (but with my name and address) and replied **** off you nigerian pussbag

ElectroGirl · 28-05-10, 05:46 PM

I'm just wondering who sold the information...

Larkino · 28-05-10, 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oXoDCoXo

I got this exact email (but with my name and address) and replied **** off you nigerian pussbag

since you replied they will just spam you more cos they know your email account is active and being used

bmh16 · 28-05-10, 07:41 PM

I had this too, the fact it was poorly written with the name containing both non caps made me guess it was fake.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Larkino

since you replied they will just spam you more cos they know your email account is active and being used

ha

Origamiguy · 28-05-10, 10:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElectroGirl

I'm just wondering who sold the information...

Maybe they just ran WHOIS on some of our freebie domains, knowing that we are after free stuff so targeting their campaign?

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