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« on: August 14, 2026, 07:25:01 »
The Coffee Shop does not park cars, and we do not have Ring-go accounts - so I just laugh off things like this, sent twice to our "official" email address in the middle of the night, said to be from a Polish email address.



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« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2026, 08:15:17 »
I get several messages of this ilk every day; usually about either my expired McAfee contract - which hasn't existed for at least a decade - or the fact that my BT Cloud service has run out of space, which it certainly has because the system was permanently closed around two years ago.

Other favourites concern a variety of issues with the motor vehicle that I don't have.

I hate to think how many entries my Blocked Sender list now contains!
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