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<title>Forest of Dean FHT  Forum - Look out for fraudsters</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I post this as a warning.<br />
A message has come to my husband through his website form, from one perporting to be his living cousin.  The e-mail described this cousin as being the subject of identity theft, and he said he had subsequently lost £6000 from his credit card. We thought the manner of the e-mail uncharacteristic of our cousin. He began by asking after me by name and then asked if we had changed our e-mail address: He finished uncharacteristically too with 'kind regards' We rang our cousin to check this out. He confirmed that he had <strong>not</strong> been the subject of any such identity theft, and had he been so, he would have telephoned us  - of course. The fraudster also wanted us to make radical changes to the website removing names etc. which would have created a great deal of work and disruption. <br />
There were several other clues in the message which made us suspicious as well as the fact that it had come through the website.<br />
We anticipate that the sender must have wanted our e-mail address, and through that who knows?<br />
Rest assured we did <strong>not</strong> send a reply.<br />
Please be careful.</p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
<category>General</category><dc:creator>hilli1</dc:creator>
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