[pianotech] Piano Order Junk Mail

[Paul McCloud]

I did not get this email, so whoever sent this didn't get the email address through the pianotech list.  Otherwise I'd have gotten it.  I get all kinds of junk daily.  It may be that some technician  with a virus or trojan or whatever in his computer is having his email address book harvested for emails.  Then, you have everybody in that address book getting the same emails.  I don't think Andy is letting out the list to spammers.  Somehow, your address was in that address book, so you were included.  Or so I guess.  That's how these things work.  Maybe he found your email somewhere, somehow related to pianos.  He's targeting piano techs, so maybe he has a list of techs that he purchased or something.  
Or, maybe some rascal tech on this list has too much time on his/her hands.  ...Nah!
 
Paul McCloud
San Diego


----- Original Message ----- 
From: 
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: 09/20/2010 10:36:47 PM 
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Piano Order Junk Mail




You are not the only one to get this message.  I rarely respond to posts on this forum for professionall reasons, but it's quite obvious the subscribers to this forum were targeted.  The operative question, therefore, is how did they get this list.  This is not a criticism of the PTG because I believe the PTG forum is managed to the best possible within their resources.  But, the question remains and I hope will be resolved.  The immediate answer by some willl be, it's not that difficult if you follow the forum.  For the benefit of those concerned, however, I was targeted and have not contributed to this forum for several years so the ability of this source to find my e-mail address deserves some investigation.

Pianotech




-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Mon, Sep 20, 2010 6:25 pm
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Piano Order Junk Mail


Dog gone - sound like you are going to beat me to this unique business opportunity! Shame on me!  ;-) 


Terry Farrell


On Sep 20, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft wrote:


I got the same request this morning. If you can't fill this order, let me know. I've got 3 all tuned, voiced and ready to go.

Al - 
High Point, NC
From: Terry Farrell 
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:32 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org 
Subject: [pianotech] Piano Order Junk Mail


Am I the only one that received the following email? 


Dear sir/madam,
 Good morning,my name is Alfred White and i am sending these email to make an inquiry of some piano,which i will like you to get a price on the Yamaha Baby Grand Piano with black polished. Can i get the total cost for 3 pianos plus tax and without shipping and also i want to know when you can have all the pianos ready for me to arrange for the pickup.I also like to know the form of payment you do accept,i will be Waiting for your reply to proceed on with the order Thank you and also stay bless.
I wish you the Best Regards all the time.
Alfred White




What is this? I suppose he will need my bank account numbers and be able to write a check for $200,000 over the invoice amount with the balance to him in cash. Geesh!!!   :-(


Terry Farrell


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