Are these genuine Malaysian stamps?

Community Bar Sport
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I got a letter in the mail today. It looked quite a lot like spam, but it looked like someone had gone to the trouble of actually sending it in the mail, which is quite expensive compared to email spam.

But then I wondered: "did someone actually post this?"

Below are the stamps:

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Does anyone know if these look genuine? Or the postmark?

It would be easy enough to make up fake stamps, do a fake postmark, and pay someone to letterbox an entire suburb. The letter was personally addressed, but they could have got that from the electoral roll.

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I hate to say this but here goes. :slight_smile:

Have you googled?

"malaysian stamps rida mara" gives one of them!

Weedpharma

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The stamp looks cool. It has a floppy, mouse and book. And the cancellation appears to say "ATMEL".

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Was it good spam at least?

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Well, it looks like I am being offered a holiday with a "complimentary lottery prize".

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Isaac96:
The stamp looks cool. It has a floppy, mouse and book. And the cancellation appears to say "ATMEL".

Ah yes, I'd almost forgotten what a floppy disk looked like.

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The cancellation actually does say "ATMEL"!

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I only see "Pusat Mel Nasional".

National Mail Centre

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If you use your imagination and split Pusat to "Pus at" then remove the space.......

Weedpharma

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Google this: "letter malaysia holiday lottery prize"

Nuff said.

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I thought it was a scam, the thing that interested me was the stamps.

However it is probably easy enough for scammers to print fake stamps, put a fake post office cancellation on it, and hand letter-box them on the cheap in the target country. After all, we wouldn't be familiar with the stamps here. And having "real" stamps makes the letter look a lot more genuine than just an email, or flyer dropped in the letter box.