Raj @ Eagle Grips needs some help...

[A.J. Holst]

...got this email today, but I don't get paid until next week.

 

Anyone in a position to help him out?

 

 Hoping this email reaches you well, I'm writing this with tears in my eyes, my family and I came down here to Istanbul, Turkey, for a short vacation and got mugged at the park of the hotel we lodged, all our cash, credit card and Cell Phone were stolen off us at GUN POINT,I sustained a deep cut on my fore-head from the incident but luckily for us we still have our passports with us but don't have enough money to sort the bills so we can get out of here. We've been to the embassy and the police here but they're not helping issues at all and our flight leaves soon, but we're having problems settling the hotel bills,the hotel manager won't let us leave until we settle the bills.

Really I'm freaked out at the moment. Wondering if you could help us with a quick loan,I promise I'll refund it  once we get home.Please write me so i can send you the info on how you can get the money to me,so as to save me from the embarrassment of not being able to cover the bills.

Please get back to me asap, I'll advise on how to send it.

Raj

Eagle Grips
460 Randy Road
Carol Stream, IL 60188 U.S.A
"Eagle Grips- For the perfect mating of iron to hand"

[Major Kong]

I know that Raj is a real person but this sounds like a scam. You sure this is real?

[maroonandwhite]

I was thinking the same thing. Is he a friend of yours? At work we are in the process of trying to recover funds we were scammed out of by supposed email fraud so my radar is on high.

 

At the very least I'd call the business to verify it. If it is legit though +1 for you trying to spread the word to help a guy out.

Edited July 2, 2014 by maroonandwhite

[southernasylum]

This is definitely a scam. It's been around for a while. The web makes it easy to get enough real information to make these types of scams seem legit. My money is on Raj never having been to Istanbul.

 

-southernasylum

[cj0e]

One of my friends who works for TDOT had a similar email sent from his account. Turns out his username/password were taken, and his email was being used to send these out. His message stated he was in the Caribbean on a cruise when it happened (not unusual, they like to travel from time to time).

 

Called him at his home phone - he was home, no issues. He did learn about his account being compromised and sent emails out to his contact lists stating such.

 

A quick security check on his computer found some malware - cleaned that up then reset passwords to all accounts, issues resolved.

[KKing]

No. No no no

[A.J. Holst]

Based on the grammar alone it's got to be a scam. I forwarded the email to the company to put them on alert. Have never bought anything from eagle so not sure how this pos found my email