is this a viral ad campaign? 😉

So you don't actually need me to send you money western union because you have been left with none?

I just got that mail!

I suspected it was dodgy straight away!

Wow, everything stolen at gun point! Good luck, what a terrible situation....

This one?

[i]My sincere regrets for this sudden request, things actually got out of control
on my trip to Madrid,Spain . I was mugged,all my belongings including mobile phone
and credit card were all stolen at gun point. I need your help flying back home.

Am cash strapped at the moment. I've made contact with my bank but the best they
could do was to send me a new card in the mail which will take 2-4 working days
to arrive here. I need you to lend me some money to sort my self out of this
predicament, i will pay back once i make it out of Madrid.

Western union or moneygram is the fastest option to wire funds to me. Let me
know if you need my details(Full names/location) to effect a transfer. You can
reach me via email or hotel's desk phone and the number is,+34 9 463916637.

Thanks![/i]

Bum, just wired £200 over! 😉

and I was just about to call the phone to see how you were....
😉

Hope you get it sorted

If you do want to give me money [url= http://www.BigBikeBash.co.uk ]I will be at a special event in the New Forest[/url] in a few weeks time*.

Thanks bruneep - hadn't thought of that yet! 😉

I wasn't sure if it was real or not. Its quite a believable email though. I emailed them asking what bike you ride.

Glad you haven't been mugged.

Well funny, but my first reflex after the e-mail was to come here and see if it's was real.
Saddly I am stupid enough to actually though it could have been true 🙁

If in doubt then you [url= http://tinyurl.com/3kanme9 ]can always google the txt[/url]

Ha, I got that this morning, I'll tell the Maybach full of rhythmic gymnasts to turn around and come home then.

Damn - I've already ordered a revenge hit on the perpetrator. There's a tooled up ex SAS psychopath just boarded a plane for Madrid. Oh well....

Ah, wondered who Nick was!

Hope you get home safely 😉

Wow! I don't even know you and I've received an email from you. What an age we live in!

Weird thing is I am in Holland at the moment and my wife rang to check I hadn't been mugged!

she was 'fairly' sure I wasn't in Spain...

I kinda believed the story, but the language didnt sound like you 🙂

I ignored it anyway thinking 'ah, he'll be alright'

hahaha "faily sure" I'm not suprised Nick, I've always had you flagged as an "International Man of Mystery"

If it makes you feel any better, my account classes you as spam. 🙂 Now I know who that contact is!

It is a right bugger trying to get the account back. Security questions like :

Q) What year and nmonth did you open the account?
A) About 3-5 years ago but maybe longer

Q) What are you most common email addresses?
A) Check my address book, I never type them in full

[i]Juan ..." Well funny, but my first reflex after the e-mail was to come here and see if it's was real.
Saddly I am stupid enough to actually though it could have been true"[/i]

Same as that

Did the gunman have a [url= http://www.bigbikebash.co.uk/ ]BBB[/url] gun ? 😉

I tried ringing the number for the hell of it - it's dead.
Shame, I'd have like to have spoken with the man on the line.

Anyone worried that this is the hacked message, not the first one? In which case, WorldClassAccident IS in Spain, HAS been mugged and is now in urgent need of assistance - while the impostor is casually chatting to us on STW?

So we need an ingenious approach to determine whether this WorldClassAccident is the real WorldClassAccident. If not, we'll have to leave our offices/homes/love nests immediately and scour Spain (particularly the areas with good MTB terrain) to search for the poor s*d.

Not that I'm paranoid...

Well I've just spoken to WCA's wife, and she informs me he is in Amsterdam today. So panic over.

Like most folk I imagine, I suspected scam straight away, but if a mate's genuinely in trouble, then you've got to try and help.

WCA is an idiot, but he's not stupid, he'd make his way to the British Embassy or something, and be sorted in no time. In fact he's probbly use the whole thing as a way to promote BBB....

I've already got an aid convoy on the way to spain as we speak...

DrP

Look what happened last time

[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/feb/19/gibraltar.world ]British Army Invades Spain![/url]

Actually, he'd probbly just post on here and within an hour or two would be sitting in a nice bar with Madrid-based STWers buying him drinks....

Elf is probably right for once

Just got the email too (caught in filter on server) Initial thought was "obviously a Scam" second thought "it is WCA, so maybe...."

Yeah. Got that this am too. Didn't know who it was till now !

Yeah I received an email from you. Released it was a scam as I was think why would WCA email me?

SI, anyway, WCA, you now owe me the £2000 I sent to you via Westen Union money transfer. I'll come over at the weekend for it in cash, OK?

Weird thing is I am in Holland at the moment and my wife rang to check I hadn't [s]been mugged[/s] run out of money on the Reeperbahn and resorted to desperate measures!

Ahh wives, how well they know us 😉

hi,
'read your post regarding your camelbak. are you still selling it?
thanks

i got one also but from a nick clark who was part of the first bullheart team with me and others of course.
oh hang on that is you isn't it.

Hehe just checked in to see if it was for real or not.

Nick if you're stuck for email contacts, I'm sure we between us can give a reasonable list.

Initial thought was "obviously a Scam" second thought "it is WCA, so maybe...."

You just never know with WCA. He blew his car up near Basingstoke once. 😐

i was concerned and that email was pretty believable for those who do not nhow you current location etc.

You didn't answer my 4 security questuions though and just asked for 600 more euro..the cheeks of it.

I had to block (software i have) 2 security attacks and unlplugged my broadband