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  • A dodgy email doing the rounds.

    A warning to you all. Hopefully we will manage to stop this from getting to any of you but this very dodgy looking email is being sent to photographers via our email link. If it does get to you firstly, our apologies for letting it creep through and secondly, don't touch it with a barge pole.....

    While screening emails I came across this sad spam merchant....

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    Re: Photo (a link to one of your images appears here), I am lieutenant general Susan J. Helms, a United State army general from the United States of America,We don’t know each other but it would be great to get to know you. Kindly permit my contacting you through this medium I am compelled to contact you via this medium for obvious reasons which you will understand when we discuss details of my proposition,Please I will like you to reply to me through my mail address ([email protected]) that we will know each other very well,do not be afraid in replying my mail for i have a very important and confidential matter that i want to discuss with you, i am still working in Libya for the sake of the crisis in Libya, so kindly reply me so that i will introduce myself to you and the reason why i am contacting you, I am looking forward to your positive confirmation to enable us have an important discussion then we will start from there which will include my introduction. Regards, Susan Helms.
    Just a heads up for you all.
    If it 'ain't broken........ Don't try to mend it !


  • #2
    Thanks for the heads up. From me reading it I knew it was from someone foreign posing as a marine. Thanks again for the heads up.

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    • #3
      Only one word comes to my mind: Weird.

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      • #4
        Anybody else get any emails from "Dann", or seen anything similar in their own inbox?

        Is it possible to get this digital photo on Turkish Boeing 777 (photo ID) and if you are agree with 2.MB+

        ONLY use for my personal photos collection on B777

        Thanks again

        Dann
        I've been conditioned to think any random emails written like this are bad news, and I could have sworn I had seen similar reports on the forums of something like this a long time ago, but I've been wrong before.

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        • #5
          This guy is well known to us. Anything to do with 777's gets him all excited. I've had a few requests from him but they stopped when I told him that a 2mb+ image costs a minimum £100 for open release. I went on to tell him that he was welcome to use the image on JP if he wished. Haven't heard from him lately but I'm getting real pissed at having to authorise his interminable emails. He had 19 in the queue this morning and I've just done another 5.
          If it 'ain't broken........ Don't try to mend it !

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          • #6
            Ah. That rings a bell. Thanks Brian.

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            • #7
              The name is Dannis. I've had a few e-mails from him in the past and in my kindness/naivety/stupidity, I've let him have a few of my photos as he has asked for. I think he is genuinely just interested in 777s and he doesn't have a sinister intention. He works for an aerospace company and he has sent me some very nice branded items of clothing in the past for free as a gesture for my photos. I've not heard much from him recently because I've not had many unique 777 shots uploaded here.
              Have a look at my photos, including Kai Tak crazy landings!http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?userid=460

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              • #8
                I got plenty of mails from him in the past. Just pictures from the 777. From time to time I send him some pictures and I don't think he misused my copyrights. Seems like he is just a T7 junky!

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by CO777/200 View Post
                  I got plenty of mails from him in the past. Just pictures from the 777. From time to time I send him some pictures and I don't think he misused my copyrights. Seems like he is just a T7 junky!
                  Had a few requests from him, but since I explained that I don't have the requested size of image, he's not asked again. As CO777 said, just someone who is obsessed with 777's and I'm pretty sure he's not the only one around these parts.

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                  • #10
                    I had a email from him too. I am just going to ignore him as really why do you need a 2mb+ image?

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