OT Another scam?

Hi Steven, I think myself that this is one of the most unusual spams I have ever seen! The phone numbers predates the change of numbers many years ago but the details sound quite genuine (apart from the misspelling). The firm cannot be located on Google but it seems silly for someone to to do so much vintage research for a spam. Are you a steam enthousiast or do you live near Basingstoke? You can also do a properties/details search on the e mail to see the address of the sender. Please let us know how you get on with this.

the domain thornpart.ie gives you a clue. Try

and you will get a page with a logo for Technomarine, Thornton and Partners and Liability Claims Appraisers.

The .ie AFAICR indicates Eire. So could the suspect telephone numbers be quite genuine Eire numbers?

Do you still think it is dodgy?

W & S ceased trading in July 1981.

The ONF was a late model roller and value would be around £500 I would guess (all I'd pay for a runner). Anthony Coulls, who may be listening, would be best bet for more info.

Paul

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Further to my previous post I assumed that the phone number was a valid Eire number and dialled 00353 1 460 7758 and got an answer from the personal voice mail of wade Taylor.

It certainly doesn't look like a scam to me.

Without seeing the headers of the original message it seems likely that it could be genuine, the clue is in the snipped-for-privacy@thornpart.ie part of the message.

brings up a site of a firm in Ireland, the name of the firm on the site is Technomarine Ltd. A further check reveals the site is hosted by is BT's Northern Ireland Internet service. Finally a WHOIS check confirms that Thornton & Partners own the thornpart domain name. The sender might have used a local code for the telephone number. As they have contacted you, they already have your email address so you don't have a great deal to lose by replying.

"Richard H Huelin" wrote The sender might have used a local code for the telephone number. As they have contacted you, they already have your email address so you don't have a great deal to lose by replying.

As they have not asked you for any personal contact details nor any other suspiciously leading questions, I'd take it at face value and reply without giving anything away about what you might own yourself. I'd get very nervous very quickly if they asked this sort of thing in subsequent mailings, tho'...

I often see vans with out of date STD codes written on them, some parochial persons with no codes at all!

Rude of them to use your first name without introduction ;o))

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a free frontal lobotomy!

- I forgot to say - if it turns out to be a real job, don't be an expert for nothing, consultancy is worth money!

O.K. so looks like a real email,

but where did they get their info from, I have never heard of them and I don't know a thing about road rollers exept that I would not want one to roll over my foot!

Thanks to all of you for helping with this one, Must be a case of mistaken identity.

Simon Taylor

The number is a Dublin number.

James