Damned conscience! I could really use some money. If only I had no concern for ethics or the law I could apparently separate some of it from its current holders with just a few office supplies.
At work I received a 6" x 8" manilla envelope in the mail. The return address, written by hand, says “Netgear” and lists an address in San Jose, CA which Google tells me actually is associated with Netgear.
It is addressed to My Name (spelled not quite correctly), My Company also not quite right). The address is also hand written.
Most of the post mark is illegible but I can read “North Texas”
Inside the envelope was one 8.5" x 11" piece of paper, folded in thirds. In the upper left, as if it were letterhead there is a logo next to the words “United Security Agency” with no other information.
In the middle of the folded paper it says" Wrongname, use your security card to access your mission briefing at www dot StartTheMission dot com/WrongName"
Folded into the paper is a card, similar to a hotel key card or a gift card with a magnetic stripe. I thought hotel first because the printing on the card is oriented vertically, and there are arrows at the bottom edge like ones on hotel keys.
I haven’t been to the website because of my certaintiy that it will infect my computer with a nasty virus and in as many ways as it can ruin my life.
At the same time I’m really curious how it works. I assume the website will require me to register and suddenly my bank account will be empty so again, I’m not going to the website. But where does this plastic bit of frippery come in? I don’t have a way to swipe it, and there’s no number on it that I could enter. Though I just realized it was sent to me in care of my business so is the hope that I’ll swipe it through the credit card reader? So I’d be compromising my own information as well as that of all of my clients? Gah!
Whoever’s behind this can’t be trying very hard. It looks like a ransom note. I wonder if every one they send uses the same return address.
This is a scam, right?