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Paul Beardow

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Apr 10, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/10/97
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in...@rtsaudio.com says:

>To All Techies,

I tried ROT13 on Techie but it still doesn't make any sense. Perhaps
it was a typo and he meant teachests - that makes sense. I have an old
project in my shed which is a half finished teachest/double bass
affair which I used when I was a member of the top pop skiffle/thrash
outfit "Skiffle Bastards in Arran Sweaters". I don't actually have any
sound recordings of any of our "hits" but we do wedding receptions and
such for £50 a night.

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Paul R Staniforth

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Random's Personal Mail

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Apr 11, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/11/97
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In article <FQCFyAAh...@s-art.demon.co.uk>, Harry Adams
<ha...@smcat.com> writes
>Now I wonder how & why this
>>ended up in our news group - do these codes
>>exist and are they public domain? If so why pay £1000? If not, what does
>>he want them for? Or is it a wind-up?
>
>Maybe he has found a sack full of Giro Cheques?
>
>Harry
>
I think I should point out that all post office workers are required to
sign the Official Secrets Act. So anyone giving this guy those codes
stands a fair chance of ending up in the Tower. [1]
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[1] Okay, maybe not, but you get the idea.

Richard Yates

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Apr 11, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/11/97
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amynthas wrote:

> In article <334CF9...@rtsaudio.com>, in...@rtsaudio.com writes
> >I am currently creating a database of freelance sound engineers /
> >producers who are available for work in the UK.

> I thought all engineers were sound, afterall they dont get
> woodworm, dryrot or subsidence do they?


One of the Mining Engineering lecturers who taught me
at the Camborne School of Mines said of "civil" engineers:

"Since its inception Civil Engineering has always depended
on the friction induced by piles"

Richard.
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Jason Waghorn

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Apr 11, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/11/97
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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 17:40:44 -0700, Richard Yates
<r.j....@open.ac.uk> wrote:


>>
>>One of the Mining Engineering lecturers who taught me
>>at the Camborne School of Mines said of "civil" engineers:
>>
>>"Since its inception Civil Engineering has always depended
>>on the friction induced by piles"
>>

And the Yellow Pages taught me that if you look up 'Boring', well I'll
leave the suspense there.... look it up for yourself.

Jason
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Jon Guite

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Apr 11, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/11/97
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In article <SobOVCAW...@espace.demon.co.uk>, Random's Personal Mail
<ran...@espace.demon.co.uk> writes

>In article <FQCFyAAh...@s-art.demon.co.uk>, Harry Adams
><ha...@smcat.com> writes
>>Now I wonder how & why this
>>>ended up in our news group - do these codes
>>>exist and are they public domain? If so why pay £1000? If not, what does
>>>he want them for? Or is it a wind-up?
>>
>>Maybe he has found a sack full of Giro Cheques?
>>
>>Harry
>>
>I think I should point out that all post office workers are required to
>sign the Official Secrets Act. So anyone giving this guy those codes
>stands a fair chance of ending up in the Tower. [1]
Ahem Oh Really!
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Random's Personal Mail

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Apr 12, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/12/97
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In article <ipukROAw...@skcldv.demon.co.uk>, Jon Guite
<j...@skcldv.demon.co.uk-kerrsplattt!!!> writes

>>I think I should point out that all post office workers are required to
>>sign the Official Secrets Act. So anyone giving this guy those codes
>>stands a fair chance of ending up in the Tower. [1]
>Ahem Oh Really!

I really should start using smileys when cossposting, shouldn't I? I've
taken this out of the groups I belong on.

Stuart Dawson

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Apr 12, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/12/97
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ja...@ullscarf.demon.co.uk (Jason Waghorn) wrote:

>And the Yellow Pages taught me that if you look up 'Boring', well I'll
>leave the suspense there.... look it up for yourself.

Bzzzt! Challenge! The new Yellow Pages no longer features the old
'Boring - See civil engineers' gag thanks to a sucessful campaign by
the ICE (governing body type thing) to have it removed. It made front
page news in NCE (New Civil Engineer - regular mag type thing)

That's right folks. They have _no_ sence of humour at all. ^_-


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Peter Benie

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Apr 13, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/13/97
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In article <FnbsdBAL...@pop3.demon.co.uk>,
Andi <an...@PISSamcarey.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>http://www.rtsaudio.com
>>
>>[ A MIME text / html part was included here. ]
>>
>Some advert for technical Services !, my newsreader tried to run this
>attachment as a *.com file and crashed my PC !....NOT HAPPY !

Wouldn't it be a good idea *not* to tell us all how to run format.com
on your hard drive?

[Follow-ups set.]

Peter

Stephen Booth

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Apr 13, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/13/97
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To the amusment of an MI5 wire tap team <00LEyAA6...@cosine.demon.c
o.uk>, Jason <Ja...@cosine.demon.co.uk> wrote
>
>All Post Office emplyees have to sign the official secrets act before
>joining, so if anyone from the PO agreed to help they'd bee in *serious*
>poo. Now me, I signed it over five years ago, so I could theoretically
>give out any information I had. Except I have a bad memory... =-)

IIRC the Official Secrets Act is binding for life and individual secrets
may become not-secrets after upto 30 years. Hence the 30 year rule. Or
at least that's how it was explained to me.
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Ian Vincent

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Apr 14, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/14/97
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Stephen Booth (ste...@abooth.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: To the amusment of an MI5 wire tap team <00LEyAA6...@cosine.demon.c

: o.uk>, Jason <Ja...@cosine.demon.co.uk> wrote
: >
: >All Post Office emplyees have to sign the official secrets act before
: >joining, so if anyone from the PO agreed to help they'd bee in *serious*
: >poo. Now me, I signed it over five years ago, so I could theoretically
: >give out any information I had. Except I have a bad memory... =-)
:
: IIRC the Official Secrets Act is binding for life and individual secrets
: may become not-secrets after upto 30 years. Hence the 30 year rule. Or
: at least that's how it was explained to me.

It most definately is for life. I have signed it twice mind you.

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Roy Harrison

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Apr 15, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/15/97
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Jason wrote:
>
>
> All Post Office emplyees have to sign the official secrets act before
> joining, so if anyone from the PO agreed to help they'd bee in *serious*
> poo. Now me, I signed it over five years ago, so I could theoretically
> give out any information I had. Except I have a bad memory... =-)
> --

It doesn't matter whether or not you've signed it, it will still apply -
just as you don't have to have signed the Road Traffic Act to get done
for Due Care!

Roy Harrison


Ian Vincent

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Apr 16, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/16/97
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Roy Harrison (ca...@tcp.co.uk) wrote:

1) VERY different types of act!
2) Yes, of course parts of the 1914 act allow for transgression by
non-signees (Photographers, trespassers etc etc.)

Jon Platt

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Apr 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/17/97
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i...@binny.demon.co.uk (Ian Vincent) wrote:

>Stephen Booth (ste...@abooth.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: To the amusment of an MI5 wire tap team <00LEyAA6...@cosine.demon.c

>: o.uk>, Jason <Ja...@cosine.demon.co.uk> wrote


>: >
>: >All Post Office emplyees have to sign the official secrets act before
>: >joining, so if anyone from the PO agreed to help they'd bee in *serious*
>: >poo. Now me, I signed it over five years ago, so I could theoretically
>: >give out any information I had. Except I have a bad memory... =-)
>:

>: IIRC the Official Secrets Act is binding for life and individual secrets
>: may become not-secrets after upto 30 years. Hence the 30 year rule. Or
>: at least that's how it was explained to me.
>
>It most definately is for life. I have signed it twice mind you.

What about? <xbg>

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T Bruce Tober

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Apr 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/19/97
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In response to Stephen Crocker <cr...@crok.demon.co.uk>, who commented:
>Before being shot for writing article <5iktuf$f...@autoscan.demon.co.uk>, Paul R

>Staniforth wrote:
>
>> in...@rtsaudio.com wrote:
>> : This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>> Before Their homepage visit's you !!!!!!!
>>
>
>Not quite a binary, but still annoying!

Not nearly so much as your reposting of the whole blasted thing. If you
found it so annoying why'd you repost it?

>


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Ron Clack

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Apr 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/19/97
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>i...@binny.demon.co.uk (Ian Vincent) wrote:
>
>>Stephen Booth (ste...@abooth.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>>: IIRC the Official Secrets Act is binding for life and individual secrets
>>: may become not-secrets after upto 30 years. Hence the 30 year rule. Or
>>: at least that's how it was explained to me.
>>
>>It most definately is for life. I have signed it twice mind you.

Beat you! I've had to sign it *three* times so far!
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Stephen Crocker

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Apr 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/19/97
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Before being shot for writing article <5iktuf$f...@autoscan.demon.co.uk>, Paul R
Staniforth wrote:

> in...@rtsaudio.com wrote:
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>

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> Before Their homepage visit's you !!!!!!!
>

Not quite a binary, but still annoying!

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George Middleton

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Apr 20, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/20/97
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Ian Vincent wrote on Mon, 14 Apr 1997:


>Stephen Booth (ste...@abooth.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: IIRC the Official Secrets Act is binding for life

>It most definately is for life. I have signed it twice mind you.
>
I thought it was sufficient just for Liz Windsor to sign it
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Ben Fell

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May 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/1/97
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Is it a Guppy? No, it's a "= BigTone =" <goto...@spammer.scum>:

>Oh yeah... well I've signed it 4 times so there.

>Well, I haven't really, but I thought it'd be good to lighten these things
>up...

Tone, there's no need to post all your articles twice.

I said there's no need to post all your articles twice.

Oh, and by the way... do you know when Season 4 starts? :)

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Ouch... no... stop that, it hurts.


james

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Apr 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/1/97
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Hello ,

I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes this is a 6 digit
number to represent each diffrent post office in the u.k
it is similiar to the banking system ( sort code )

ill pay 1000 pounds for this information. (u.k only)


Please reply to james...@hotmail.com

Stuart Dawson

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Apr 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/2/97
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james <james...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes

Sounds illegal to me.....

timm...@hotmail.com.nospam

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Apr 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/2/97
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:In article <334229...@parcelforce.co.uk>,
:Jack Wheatley <whea...@parcelforce.co.uk> said:
:

>Now I wonder how & why this ended up in our news group - do these codes

>exist and are they public domain? If so why pay £1000? If not, what does
>he want them for? Or is it a wind-up?
>

These are the codes printed on dole giros instead of the post office
names. They are used to help catch people who try to cash stolen
girocheques at the wrong post office branch.


Roy

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Apr 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/2/97
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>Now I wonder how & why this ended up in our news group - do these codes
>exist and are they public domain? If so why pay £1000? If not, what does
>he want them for? Or is it a wind-up?
>

>Jack


Look at the header He seems to have posted it all uk.*.*.* Newsgroups.

Tony Walton

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Apr 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/2/97
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Jack Wheatley wrote:
>
> james wrote:
> >
> > Hello ,
> >
> > I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes this is a 6 digit
> > number to represent each diffrent post office in the u.k
> > it is similiar to the banking system ( sort code )
> >
> > ill pay 1000 pounds for this information. (u.k only)
> >
> >
> > Please reply to XXXXXXXX

> Now I wonder how & why this ended up in our news group - do these
> codes exist and are they public domain? If so why pay £1000? If not,
> what does he want them for? Or is it a wind-up?
>
> Jack

Given that a Giro cheque (for yer dole) is only cashable at one Post
Office, and the Giro itself bears a number representing that post
office, this request sounds a bit odd, to say the least! I don't know
that the code number on a Giro is the same as this FAD thing, but I
wonder if his local DSS know about this posting...

Followups set and postmaster informed.

Tony

Jack Wheatley

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Apr 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/2/97
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james wrote:
>
> Hello ,
>
> I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes this is a 6 digit
> number to represent each diffrent post office in the u.k
> it is similiar to the banking system ( sort code )
>
> ill pay 1000 pounds for this information. (u.k only)
>
>
> Please reply to james...@hotmail.comNow I wonder how & why this ended up in our news group - do these codes

Rex Bradley

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Apr 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/2/97
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In article <334129...@hotmail.com>, james <james...@hotmail.com>
writes

>Hello ,
>
> I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes this is a 6 digit
> number to represent each diffrent post office in the u.k
> it is similiar to the banking system ( sort code )
>
> ill pay 1000 pounds for this information. (u.k only)
>
>
> Please reply to james...@hotmail.com
Nee NarNee nar
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Kay Robinson

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Apr 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/3/97
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I woke with a start to find that james <james...@hotmail.com> had
sharpened a new quill and scribbled:

>Hello ,
>
> I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes this is a 6 digit
> number to represent each diffrent post office in the u.k
> it is similiar to the banking system ( sort code )

> ill pay 1000 pounds for this information. (u.k only)

>
> Please reply to james...@hotmail.com

As this list is confidential, known only to the Post Office and the
Department of Social Security, I would be interested in knowing what
possible use you could need it for other than benefit fraud?


Kay Robinson <ad...@dial.pipex.com>
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UK ME-Web <http://www.community-care.org.uk/ME/>
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Br...@btinternet.com

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Apr 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/3/97
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>Hello ,
>
> I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes this is a 6 digit
> number to represent each diffrent post office in the u.k
> it is similiar to the banking system ( sort code )
>
> ill pay 1000 pounds for this information. (u.k only)
>
>
> Please reply to james...@hotmail.com

EEK, this sounds dodgey and illegal...


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Jon Platt

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Apr 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/3/97
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Jack Wheatley <whea...@parcelforce.co.uk> wrote:

>james wrote:
>>
>> Hello ,
>>
>> I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes this is a 6 digit
>> number to represent each diffrent post office in the u.k
>> it is similiar to the banking system ( sort code )
>>
>> ill pay 1000 pounds for this information. (u.k only)
>>
>>

>> Please reply to james...@hotmail.comNow I wonder how & why this ended up in our news group - do these codes
>exist and are they public domain? If so why pay £1000? If not, what does
>he want them for? Or is it a wind-up?
>

Course it's a wind up! 1,000 ukp? 1st April, in the morning? Hm.

Dave Murray

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Apr 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/4/97
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Only the Royal Mail and the SS know these codes. Something to do with giro
payments, benefit books
etc. This sounds as DODGY as a hot dog at the Cardiff ice rink.

james <james...@hotmail.com> wrote in article
<334129...@hotmail.com>...

Jason

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Apr 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/9/97
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In article <Afo4VEAk...@nikraw.demon.co.uk>, Nik Rawlinson
<n...@nikraw.demon.co.uk> writes
>james <james...@hotmail.com> recently wrote...

>> I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes this is a 6 digit
>> number to represent each diffrent post office in the u.k
>> it is similiar to the banking system ( sort code )

>This post appeared in uk.misc recently and has been fairly
>comprehensively discussed. It would seem that these FAD codes are the
>numbers that appear on benefit cheques and are used to make sure that
>they can only be cashed at specific post offices so that if they are
>stolen they are useless unless the person stealing them knows which post
>office the code on the cheque relates to.
>
>These codes are only known by the Post Office and Department of Social
>Security for obvious reasons. By passing these codes on you would be
>helping to further the possibility of fraud.

All Post Office emplyees have to sign the official secrets act before
joining, so if anyone from the PO agreed to help they'd bee in *serious*
poo. Now me, I signed it over five years ago, so I could theoretically
give out any information I had. Except I have a bad memory... =-)

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Dr John Barrow

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Apr 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/9/97
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james (james...@hotmail.com) wrote:
: Hello ,
:
: I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes this is a 6 digit
: number to represent each diffrent post office in the u.k
: it is similiar to the banking system ( sort code )

: ill pay 1000 pounds for this information. (u.k only)

:
: Please reply to garc...@hotmail.com

Why? The way this has been written it sounds like it should
be passed to the police! Why not just approach the Post Office
directly - or is that to obvious?

jb
:-)

George Hawes

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Apr 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/9/97
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james <james...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hello ,
>
> I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes

IIRC hotmail.com is into Spam in a big way. So PLEASE do us all
a favour and ignore this post. The 'reward' is unlikely to be
genuine, either!

G.


Nik Rawlinson

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james <james...@hotmail.com> recently wrote...
>Hello ,
>
> I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes this is a 6 digit
> number to represent each diffrent post office in the u.k
> it is similiar to the banking system ( sort code )

This post appeared in uk.misc recently and has been fairly


comprehensively discussed. It would seem that these FAD codes are the
numbers that appear on benefit cheques and are used to make sure that
they can only be cashed at specific post offices so that if they are
stolen they are useless unless the person stealing them knows which post
office the code on the cheque relates to.

These codes are only known by the Post Office and Department of Social
Security for obvious reasons. By passing these codes on you would be
helping to further the possibility of fraud.

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In article <334229...@parcelforce.co.uk>, Jack Wheatley
<whea...@parcelforce.co.uk> writes

>james wrote:
>>
>> Hello ,
>>
>> I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes this is a 6 digit
>> number to represent each diffrent post office in the u.k
>> it is similiar to the banking system ( sort code )
>>
>> ill pay 1000 pounds for this information. (u.k only)
>>
>>
>> Please reply to james...@hotmail.comNow I wonder how & why this
>ended up in our news group - do these codes
>exist and are they public domain? If so why pay £1000? If not, what does
>he want them for? Or is it a wind-up?

Maybe he has found a sack full of Giro Cheques?

Harry

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On Tuesday, 1 April 1997 09:00:00 UTC+1, james wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> I need U.K Post Office * FAD * codes this is a 6 digit
> number to represent each diffrent post office in the u.k
> it is similiar to the banking system ( sort code )
>
> ill pay 1000 pounds for this information. (u.k only)
>
>
> Please reply to james...@hotmail.com

I've got a Fad code

Nick Odell

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Jun 25, 2020, 2:59:53 PM6/25/20
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Fascinating to see all the original discussion around this back in..
...1997

What are the odds that, as at least one correspondent has suggested,
back on 1st April 1997, this was some sort of April Fool prank? If so,
it looks as if, 23 years later maggiesell2 is its latest victim.

Nick
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