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  • PLAY.COM SCAM
  • beanieripper
    Free Member

    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…

    singlespeedstu
    Full Member

    I got one of those too.

    andyl
    Free Member

    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) : 1

    Item 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 1 128.99 128.99

    Sub-total : £ 237.98
    Tax : £ 0.00
    Shipping (Normal) : £ 15.49
    Order Total : £ 253.47

    Please 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

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    toby1
    Full Member

    Assume one of you sent it onto them for reference? Might as well make them aware of it too.

    beanieripper
    Free Member

    they already are aware..

    crispedwheel
    Free Member

    Yep, I got the same email this morning. Exactly the same text, and links all going to the ‘iafrica.com’ site.

    stugus
    Free Member

    I got that too this morning. Opened it without thinking 🙁

    running antivirus thingy now.

    andyl
    Free Member

    I was on hold at Play for ages to speak to them but gave up. Sent details of it to them.

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    I heard you only get that email from surfing animal porn sites?

    GRAEMEJONES
    Full Member

    And me, exactly as above, not opened the link though. Shades of CRC scam?

    orena45
    Full Member

    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. 🙄

    2wheels1guy
    Free Member

    That’s eased my mind.
    I got one this morning.
    The reciept link took me to iafrica.com which got alarm bells going.

    bazzer
    Free Member

    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.

    noteeth
    Free Member

    I’m not alone then.

    Having just paid for something else, it gave me a slight scare…

    scaredypants
    Full Member

    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

    pinches
    Free Member

    i got it this morning too! was very confused as i rarely order anything from them

    Tom83
    Full Member

    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….

    chris_mbuk
    Free Member

    yep just got the exact same email cheers for that!

    fluffykittens
    Free Member

    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.

    woodchip46
    Free Member

    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.

    mamadirt
    Free Member

    Another here too. I was wondering which of my sons could afford to be spending that amount on PC upgrades 😆

    bigsam
    Free Member

    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.

    fenred
    Free Member

    Shoot! was looking forward to the hard drive and sticking the ultra vision x-ray goggle things on ebay.

    Onzadog
    Free Member

    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.

    manitou
    Free Member

    I got this scam too.. bastards

    sam_underhill
    Full Member

    I got one as well. F*cktards.

    p7rich
    Free Member

    Me too (+ got CRCed earlier this year)

    andyl
    Free Member

    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 😀

    crispedwheel
    Free Member

    I don’t have a play.com account. I do/did have a CRC one though…

    Dave.I
    Free Member

    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!!!

    wors
    Full Member

    i thought i’d ordered something while pissed at first.

    matthewjb
    Free Member

    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.

    shindiggy
    Free Member

    has same email, but deleted it as I knew I hadn’t made an order so automatically put it down to being a scam.

    juiced
    Free Member

    had an email too. Never used play. Had the CRC problem though.

    UnderTheWood
    Free Member

    Also had the email, also never used Play, also got CRC’d
    Hmmm

    richardoftod
    Full Member

    I got the email today as well. I accidentally clicked the link as my wife has just left me and has been buying stuff online before she buggered off. Spent most of the afternoon running antivirus to get it off! I was a victim of the CRC scam with the vouchers as well! AVG antivirus remove if for me!

    richardoftod
    Full Member

    I have put the word out on Twitter to see if anyone else has a link between CRC Scam and Play.com.

    handyman
    Free Member

    me too am running virus scan as i type

    hughjengin
    Free Member

    Me too, I got the same one. Reckon I am probably ok though, after the CRC problem I changed my CC just to be safe, and havent used it online anywhere since

    konabunny
    Free Member

    I didn’t get this scam email – which is a surprise, seeing as bloody Play.com spams me approximately every 7 hours. When you click on their “unsubscribe” link, it takes you to a signin page. I don’t have my username and password because I haven’t ordered anything in years from them. Spankers.

    Anyway my point is that this suggests the email didn’t emerge from Play.com’s records. I used to have a CRC account but haven’t used it in 4 years or so.

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