Credit card parasites at it again

[Mooncat]

It is illegal to send unsolicited credit card invitations by post, so why can the parasites get away with doing it by email, which is a spare one with false details anyway? They are GE Finance.

Dear Email Owner,

We are presently offering loans to interested persons at an affordable rate with the help and assistance from our banks.we offer secured loans to individuals and companies at low interest, and we offer long and short term loans. Our firm has recorded a lot of breakthroughs in the provision of first class financial services to our clients especially in the area of Loan and capital provision for individuals and companies.

You can apply for a fast loan here and get it with ease.Perhaps you need a loan for Debt Consolidation,Home Improvements,A New or Used Car Purchase,A New Home,Investment/Business Expansion Purposes, or Even a vacation.

In our loan scheme tagged 'loan under two weeks',every customer both local and international have the guarantee of obtaining a loan from this company on the mode of unsecured offshore international funding which means no collateral is required for this process.

Interested persons should please furnish us with the following informations:

Name:
Contact Address/country:
Mobile Telephone Number:
Occupation:
Loan Amount:
Loan Duration:

Transparency is what keep us on in the contest.

Regards,

Isabel McNally

[big-all]

where did they get your email address from ??

on my lloyds bank account i have opted out off any contact off any sort except "emergency/security" issues
this stops them posting mail / e mailing even stops the pop up adverts when visiting my account

[Mooncat]

It must be from a website/message board, as it is a completely made up name.

[big-all]

you didnt fill in a form to get some thornton chocolates did you ???

i filled mine in mr big boobs with my old edinburgh postcode and my dads old phone number in surrey
i gave my own email address to get the code number for the chocolates but ticked no to all are you interested in boxes

[wine~o]

Did you get the choccies or were they delivered to "mr love pants, @why do you need my address," at gobblygook dot com???

[Mooncat]

It could have been a long time ago that the email address was first used mostly for Yahoo Groups. If it happens again I will close that address down. It's the fact that a well-known company is resorting to spamming that bothers me. I report it as spam.

[Mooncat]

Elsewhere:
I smell scam. GE Finance would not use the term "loan scheme". They are phishing for personal information in an identity theft scam. "Dear Email Owner". lol They aren't trying very hard, but I guess in hard times, people can be gullible/desperate enough to believe anything.
Make no mistake.. This is neither GE Finance, nor a valid offer of credit. Simply a scam.

Here is a similar form e-mail from another scammer:
http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewto ... f=7&t=5845

Hit the spam button!

I'll post it to Astrocat's messageboard as well.