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here's a sketchy email i just got:

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Dear Sir/Madam.

We would like to take this opportunity to intruduce ourselves as a Real Manufacturer/Exporter of Footbags and some other soprts goods from Sialkot Pakistan.

We have been manufacturing above mention products since 1990. Before starting export we were only manufacturer but as the time passed we decided to become an exporter. Thus we took this opportunity and started export our products regularly from 1998. Since then it is our good luck to have many customers in different countries and they are fully satisfied with our products in every respect.

To show you a glimpse of our high standard workmanship, we are showing you our web site http://www.bigtime-industries.com with most top & latest range of our samples.

In the world full of competition, we realize the importance of prices & time factor in deliveries, to keep up one’s pace with others. We always deliver the products to our worthy customers within stipulated time. We always work with logical prices keeping in mind the competition our customers are facing.

Anyway, after this brief introduction we would be very glad to have your interest to do business with our company forever.

Thanking you and hoping to hearing from you soon.

Best Regards,
Mansoor

"Big Time Industries"

"

anyone heard of these people or anything? it seems a little weird. some contact information removed for the sake of privacy or whatever.
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lol, they called this bag: Image
a 40 panel. :P

And this one: Image a 28 panel.

Funky e-mail. I've never heard of them.
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They sound asian.
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they seem to be the typical company that decides to produce footbags with a huge lack of knowledge of the sport, and for some reason the words "sweat shop labor" crossed my mind when reading the email.
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Disturbedboy365 wrote:some reason the words "sweat shop labor" crossed my mind when reading the email.
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I get these emails all the time. I ignore them.
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Sounds like they are a scam. Plus any manuactured footbag is a piece of crap. I think everyone would agree they tend to be HUGE and filled with inferior filler.
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slapdash21 wrote:do business with our company forever.
this sent up red flags for me...
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look at the other crap they sell too. i could've sworn i saw hand towels or something like that.
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RawSko wrote:
slapdash21 wrote:do business with our company forever.
this sent up red flags for me...
:lol: yeah same. im just worried how they got my email. probably not really a big deal at all, but still.
the dear sir/madam was a little funny too.
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I got one as well.

They must have gotten it off of footbag.org or modified.
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You can't get e-mail addresses off of Modified without being signed in. Maybe they signed up and took them, but I doubt it.
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slapdash21 wrote:
RawSko wrote:
slapdash21 wrote:do business with our company forever.
this sent up red flags for me...
:lol: yeah same. im just worried how they got my email. probably not really a big deal at all, but still.
the dear sir/madam was a little funny too.
if you find the answer at your question, give me your answer plz, caus i received this email too hahahaha
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If its a scam..... http://www.419eater.com :) Scambaiting is so much fun. Stupid Nigerian tried to sell me gold dust, it looked like corn meal. what an idiot.
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