{"id":1471,"date":"2011-06-06T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2011-06-06T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T13:58:11","slug":"scamming-under-the-name-liverpool-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/06\/scamming-under-the-name-liverpool-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"Scamming under the name “Liverpool Embassy”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: I’ve had a followup email from them that suggests it’s legit, and we were just mis-targetted (I’d guess they’re using a call-list they got from somewhere that’s not great on its filtering).<\/p>\n

Strange email exchange this morning:<\/p>\n

\nSubject: contact [sic – no capitalization, no sentence]<\/p>\n

Could you kindly supply me with your Business address and telephone number for the purpose of our database please?<\/p>\n

Kind Regards,<\/p>\n

Elisa<\/p>\n

Elisa Sullivan
\nLiverpool Embassy
\n2nd Floor
\nNew Broad Street House
\n35 New Broad Street
\nLondon
\nEC2M 1NH\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What? Why? Who are you? Why do you want our phone number?<\/p>\n

And, most bizarrely, why are you asking for info that’s – by law – published for free on the Companies House website?<\/p>\n

I smell something fishy(ing attempt)…<\/p>\n

I sent a couple of followup emails: “what database?”, we’ve never heard of you, what’s this for?, etc.<\/p>\n

Responses were all dodging the question, and then she gave up with:<\/p>\n

\nOk thanks for your help Adam , sorry for any inconvenience caused.
\nElisa\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, yeah. Probably a scam. If you get an emails from “liverpoolvision.co.uk”, I suggest you trash them.<\/p>\n

(and if they’re a bona fide outfit, then … wow. They really don’t use email much, do they?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: I’ve had a followup email from them that suggests it’s legit, and we were just mis-targetted (I’d guess they’re using a call-list they got from somewhere that’s not great on its filtering). Strange email exchange this morning: Subject: contact [sic – no capitalization, no sentence] Could you kindly supply me with your Business address […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}