And yet another, also from Telstra..!!! Well enough of these pissy ones, I'm sure you've got the gist of 'em now...!

Hey... it was ME they were addressing...!

...I also got this one, which I shared with the keeper of the most definitive of MOBI Lists, Bob Mummery...

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Hi Bob, trust this finds you fit and well…

Just a quickie, I received the unexpected/ unsolicited/ suspect e-mail below today, supposedly from ‘David Highnam’… Point being
that whilst I’m well aware who David Highman is/ was (12th MOBI Intake, the term above our 13th,) and I remember him as a likeable,
quiet, ‘gentlemanly’ type, I don’t remember ever having spoken directly to him, nor corresponded with him in any way, nor needed to…

The text is classic/ typical scam/ phishing tactics, i.e., ‘laryngitis’ so you won’t try to call him, request for acknowledgement/ receipt
of the e-mail, proving you, the recipient is a ‘live’/'active' contact for further follow up…

I’m interested to know if you’ve heard from ‘David’ yourself, or if anybody else on your vast list of MOBIs has had similar e-mails, also
this e-mail address ends in .ca which according to Internet domain lists is Canada…



It seems ‘wcgwave.ca’ is a well-established scam site: https://ebrandon.ca/messagethread.aspx? ... cat_id=239

Here’s what ‘Reddit’ says on the the 'Laryngitis' scam: https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments ... riend_has/

"Laryngitis scam, an email says your friend has laryngitis so they are contacting you by email. They want you to buy a gift card
for a friend. They will pay you back.
I got an email from a friend that said they had laryngitis so they could not talk over the phone. Very convenient you cannot check to see
if it is your friend because you cannot talk to them.
The email says that my friend wants to buy a gift card for a friend with a serious disease, but when they tried to send them the gift card
something went wrong with the bank. Could I help by sending the gift card.
Gift card requests are always a red flag and the coincidence that they have laryngitis and that there was a problem with them sending
the gift card is another big red flag.
Is this a new scam? I Googled laryngitis and gift card scam and came up with nothing relevant. I am particularly interested in the laryngitis
aspect of the scam."

Bottom line, Bob, it’s a scam, and clearly, David Highnam’s legit e-mail address is NOT David Highnam academyvideo@wcgwave.ca
however, his name has been stolen from someone else’s list, then mailed out to everyone on THAT list… Whoever had the original list
has had his e-mails and his e-mail contact lists well and truly hacked…! Hopefully someone can inform Dave that his name’s out there..!

Keep up the good work…

Best Regards,

Rick P.