Carphone Warehouse - E-Mails
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mutt k said:
no, but now you have piqued our curiosity, you need to tell us more
I think it best that I don't post a direct copy of the e-mail here but the jist is that someone porporting to be from the DTi is advising everone to be wary of these "thieving thugs", claiming that a £9 phone call to get a new phone is a rip off. According to the e-mail, the DTi knows about this but is being paid £25k not to do anything.
Readers are asked to send their views to The Sun but gives an E Mail address for someone at the Mirror.
A quick google delivers some research on this one, I've avoiding reprinting a slanderous email in a PH post, however it is printed in its entirety on www.twindx.com.
[quote=[url]www.twindx.com[/url]]It's laughable. It's someone with an axe to grind, who was probably sacked by Carphone Warehouse for shouting, having dreadful grammar and a complete inability to lie convincingly.
First up - who's it from? If you look at the 'From' header, it says "dti " and the 'Reply-To' header says "info@briviclaim.com". But the very first line - well, there's no seperate lines, but you know what I mean - says "r.sayid@mirror.co.uk" and this also appears at the end, except here the spammer claims to be from The Sun as opposed to The Mirror. And apparently this is an official warning, virtually all in dyslexic capitals, with such professional terms as "THIEVING CARPHONE WAREHOUSE" and "LITTLE MOBLY" (whatever that is).
Then, the sums. 50 million letters have been sent in the post. The postage alone would cost over £10 million. The population of Britain is just under 60 million, which means that 83% of all adults and children in the UK have received these letters. Looking at the 2001 Census, the UK has under 22 million households, meaning that sending 50 million letters would be more than double the amount required to get a letter into every home. Over 2 million people have fallen "fowl" and have paid £9 for the claim phone call, which makes £18 million - but Sir Charles Dunstone is apparently collecting £5 million a week personally. Take the £10 million off for the postage on those letters, and that's £8 million. And there's other people to pay for the infrastructure of such carefully planned fraud, and tax, of course, and the £25k a week bung to ICSTIS... It doesn't really add up, does it?
Lastly, basic facts. ICSTIS isn't the government's telecom regulator. The first 'I' in ICSTIS stands for 'independent', because it's an industry body and not a government department. Something like this doesn't fall under the remit of the Office of Fair Trading or Department of Trade and Industry either.
What do we know for definite? Well, the email comes from Briviclaim, whose server is at 209.203.198.12 - a server belonging to a company in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A look at CoolWhois.com matches this IP address and provides an address of 2 Sheraton Street, London W1F 8BH - which bizarrely is included as a footer in the spam. A look over at Companies House shows there's nobody trading as Briviclaim, so it's a single person or made-up name. With a bit more digging, the address given is for this office rental location in Soho where a number of web design companies are based. A bit more of a look and we find that apparently, Briviclaim are an email advertising company... but not a successful one, as their inclusion on these blacklists would suggest...[/quote]
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>> Edited by TheLemming on Tuesday 5th April 09:43
[quote=[url]www.twindx.com[/url]]It's laughable. It's someone with an axe to grind, who was probably sacked by Carphone Warehouse for shouting, having dreadful grammar and a complete inability to lie convincingly.
First up - who's it from? If you look at the 'From' header, it says "dti " and the 'Reply-To' header says "info@briviclaim.com". But the very first line - well, there's no seperate lines, but you know what I mean - says "r.sayid@mirror.co.uk" and this also appears at the end, except here the spammer claims to be from The Sun as opposed to The Mirror. And apparently this is an official warning, virtually all in dyslexic capitals, with such professional terms as "THIEVING CARPHONE WAREHOUSE" and "LITTLE MOBLY" (whatever that is).
Then, the sums. 50 million letters have been sent in the post. The postage alone would cost over £10 million. The population of Britain is just under 60 million, which means that 83% of all adults and children in the UK have received these letters. Looking at the 2001 Census, the UK has under 22 million households, meaning that sending 50 million letters would be more than double the amount required to get a letter into every home. Over 2 million people have fallen "fowl" and have paid £9 for the claim phone call, which makes £18 million - but Sir Charles Dunstone is apparently collecting £5 million a week personally. Take the £10 million off for the postage on those letters, and that's £8 million. And there's other people to pay for the infrastructure of such carefully planned fraud, and tax, of course, and the £25k a week bung to ICSTIS... It doesn't really add up, does it?
Lastly, basic facts. ICSTIS isn't the government's telecom regulator. The first 'I' in ICSTIS stands for 'independent', because it's an industry body and not a government department. Something like this doesn't fall under the remit of the Office of Fair Trading or Department of Trade and Industry either.
What do we know for definite? Well, the email comes from Briviclaim, whose server is at 209.203.198.12 - a server belonging to a company in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A look at CoolWhois.com matches this IP address and provides an address of 2 Sheraton Street, London W1F 8BH - which bizarrely is included as a footer in the spam. A look over at Companies House shows there's nobody trading as Briviclaim, so it's a single person or made-up name. With a bit more digging, the address given is for this office rental location in Soho where a number of web design companies are based. A bit more of a look and we find that apparently, Briviclaim are an email advertising company... but not a successful one, as their inclusion on these blacklists would suggest...[/quote]
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>> Edited by TheLemming on Tuesday 5th April 09:43
I am priviledged enough to be able to call Mr D a friend. He is a humble and very realistic man given his status within our industry. You don't write to Bill Gates when Outlook packs up, so why do people feel they can abuse Charles?
I'd like five minutes "alone" with this chap from the Mirror.
I'd like five minutes "alone" with this chap from the Mirror.
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