News Man arrested in Cambs Police iPod email phone jam scam

Also from the Reg this afternoon:

A 21-year-old man from St Neots has been arrested after the main switchboard at Cambridgeshire police HQ was jammed by thousands of calls on Friday.

Concerned callers rang the Huntingdon-based HQ after receiving an email informing them that £399.99 would be taken out of their account to pay for an iPod music player they'd supposedly ordered.

The email also advised recipients that they should call the number listed in the email if they had any queries. The snag was that the number did not belong to some ecommerce outfit, but to Cambridge Police HQ. Its phone lines were jammed

Full report here

Hmmm - I wonder if this has anything to do with the mysterious emails some of you where getting and commenting on in the GD forum? Unfortunatly the thread got nuked in the site hiccup, so I can't link or check it out. Did you recieve a mail concerning this? Did you ring the number?

 

oh man, that's good! that gives me an idea....

 

lol, quite an original idea to get even with someone you hate


but, of course, very very wrong

 

hahaha but i wonder why he did it? just didn't like the police or something i suppose

 

That has to be one of the best spam-mails I have ever heard of.