Just to give you all a heads up on this. If you get an email from play confirming that youve ordered a hitachi hard drive and logitech web cam dont open the reciept. Got an email this morning confirming an order I hadnt made, 1st thought was to look at the invoice but i noticed it's an .exe file so i didnt open it. Spoke to all my credit card providers who confirmed I havent been charged but this is a scam to get you to open the reciept, its a fishing scam...
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PLAY.COM SCAM
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Posted 8 months ago #
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I got one of those too.
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ahh you saved me from posting this. I also called round all my credit card companies to check no payments have been made. Quite spooky as they had my name exactly how it is on my cards. No attached file for me (gmail).
This is the email:
To Mr XXXXXX X XXXXXX,
This email is only an acknowledgement of receipt of your order which has been passed to our dispatch department to be processed.
To view details of your order go to : http://www.play.com/global/en/secure/ordertracking.html?order=141219871991
Username
: Mr XXXXXXXX X XXXXXXX
Order Reference(s) : 141219871991
Payment Method : Credit Card
Shipping Method : Normal
Number of Suggested Shipment(s) : 1Item Description Catalog No. Quantity Unit Price (£) Total (£)
Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision 1001719754 1 108.99 108.99
Hitachi Hard Drive 3.5" External Hard Drive 500GB 1004777219 1 128.99 128.99Sub-total : £ 237.98
Tax : £ 0.00
Shipping (Normal) : £ 15.49
Order Total : £ 253.47Please note: This is an 'open' order and has not been processed by our dispatch department. No contract for the sale of any product will subsist between you and Play.com until Play.com dispatches the product(s) ordered. We will confirm that the product(s) have been dispatched by a confirmation email. This confirmation e-mail amounts to an acceptance by Play.com of your offer to buy goods from Play.com or a third party supplier that is engaged on your behalf by Play.com (whether or not you receive that e-mail).
Please be aware orders may be dispatched separately. If your purchase was part of a 'multibuy' it may not be subject to our usual returns policy. Please click here for details: http://www.play.com/Help.html?page=ret
Thank you for shopping at Play.com!
all links go to some other site 'iafrica' but the from email is spoofed and shows up as do-not-reply@play.com
Posted 8 months ago # -
Assume one of you sent it onto them for reference? Might as well make them aware of it too.
Posted 8 months ago # -
they already are aware..
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Yep, I got the same email this morning. Exactly the same text, and links all going to the 'iafrica.com' site.
Posted 8 months ago # -
I got that too this morning. Opened it without thinking
running antivirus thingy now.
Posted 8 months ago # -
I was on hold at Play for ages to speak to them but gave up. Sent details of it to them.
Posted 8 months ago # -
I heard you only get that email from surfing animal porn sites?
Posted 8 months ago # -
And me, exactly as above, not opened the link though. Shades of CRC scam?
Posted 8 months ago # -
I had one too. Went to report it on Play.com's web site but couldn't find an email address, even tho it says in the 'Help' section to do so.
Posted 8 months ago # -
That's eased my mind.
I got one this morning.
The reciept link took me to iafrica.com which got alarm bells going.Posted 8 months ago # -
I got one pretty much at the same time I got an email for a real order I placed. Was quite surprised for a bit until I saw where the email came from.
Posted 8 months ago # -
I'm not alone then.
Having just paid for something else, it gave me a slight scare...
Posted 8 months ago # -
cynic-al - Member
I heard you only get that email from surfing animal porn sites?Must be more complicated than that - I'm still clear so far
Posted 8 months ago # -
i got it this morning too! was very confused as i rarely order anything from them
Posted 8 months ago # -
Didn't they send an email out a few months back, mentioning they had lost some clients details or similar? Might be something do do with that. Also had an email this morning....
Posted 8 months ago # -
yep just got the exact same email cheers for that!
Posted 8 months ago # -
Mr Fluffykittens got the same email this morning, and from the email address and name on it I'm fairly sure that the details were got from Chain Reaction, potentially during the scam that occurred during February this year. I suspect that whoever did the initial scam sold the list of email addresses & names to another scammer.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Just got that email, deleted without opening it. Do I need to contact my bank? Got hit by crc scam earlier in the year and have a new bank card now.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Another here too. I was wondering which of my sons could afford to be spending that amount on PC upgrades
Posted 8 months ago # -
yeh, i got one as well, i rang the bank and he said they'd had hundreds ringing this morning with the same thing and it was probably a fishing scam.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Shoot! was looking forward to the hard drive and sticking the ultra vision x-ray goggle things on ebay.
Posted 8 months ago # -
I got hit as well. The layout of the name on the card matched a card I don't use very often. Oddly enough, last time I used that card was the great CRC scam.
Posted 8 months ago # -
I got this scam too.. bastards
Posted 8 months ago # -
I got one as well. F*cktards.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Me too (+ got CRCed earlier this year)
Posted 8 months ago # -
Well no card details listed for me and no sign of any payments on any of my cards so I am guessing it is nothing too much to worry about.
Looks like either the name and email information came from a Play leak or maybe an aftershock of the CRC leak? If the latter can I have another £30 voucher - came in handy
Posted 8 months ago # -
I don't have a play.com account. I do/did have a CRC one though...
Posted 8 months ago # -
I've just received the exact same mail and I don't have a Play.com account.
Got scammed £4.5k in two transactions in the CRC scam in February luckily for me Egg honoured it and credited me back but not before I had a very tense few days!!!
Posted 8 months ago # -
i thought i'd ordered something while pissed at first.
Posted 8 months ago # -
I suspect that whoever did the initial scam sold the list of email addresses and names to another scammer
What's the world coming to when you can't rely of thieves to keep your details safe.
No email for me. Just one from Halifax Bank, reminding me that I am a valued customer and could I please click on this link.
Posted 8 months ago # -
has same email, but deleted it as I knew I hadn't made an order so automatically put it down to being a scam.
Posted 8 months ago # -
had an email too. Never used play. Had the CRC problem though.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Also had the email, also never used Play, also got CRC'd
HmmmPosted 8 months ago #
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