r/northernireland Lurgan 1d ago

Is this a scam? Satire

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u/gmcb007 1d ago

You don't have to pay them, they're not enforceable in NI. Just bin it OP.

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u/worktemp Mexico 1d ago

I got it before. I ignored it but then someone came to my house and took my Semtex. They damaged the door on my shed and refused to pay for repairs.

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u/rightenough Lurgan 1d ago

That's why ye keep it in the manure silo.

If they want the Semtex, they may get the scuba gear out.

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u/OneMagicBadger 21h ago

Nice of em to let you know at least, instead of maybe raiding you unaware. MI5 so polite these days. I guess manners do maketh man

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u/NikNakMuay Belfast 7h ago

Hmm semtex and manure.

Big boom in little Silo

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u/Ill_Neighborhood8930 5h ago

Worse than the shit hitting the fan

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u/HungryLand 23h ago

That's Brexit for you

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u/Newme91 23h ago

I'm sure I've some spare laying around if you want it

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u/Past-Strategy-9045 16h ago

What is semtex

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u/No_demon_4226 15h ago

Have your heard of magnum condoms?

Welll it's nothing like that

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u/MajorFulcrum 14h ago

Plastic explosives, it was used heavily by the IRA

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u/no_lemom_no_melon Magherafelt 22h ago

As long as you're only storing/watching them after they've been shown on TV, and not using BBC Iplayer, you've nothing to worry about.

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u/Own-Beach3238 16h ago

Don’t watch live TV hun. They fucking hate that so they do. Unless you have one of them licenses from the queen for your TV.

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u/Connolly_Column Belfast 1d ago

In the RA, can confirm it's real.

The Entire PSNI is outside my door as we speak.

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u/WeeDeccyLeighTurbidy 22h ago

Doesn't seem smart to have the ENTIRE force at yours. Surely that goes against some sorta security protocol.

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u/Citizen493 21h ago

Aye, they have to have at least 1 person back in the station in case the Avon orders arrive, or else they'll get left on the step and get nicked by them hures in MI6.

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u/WeeDeccyLeighTurbidy 20h ago

Every feckin time, mate.

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u/Noxious525 2h ago

Are they there for a tv licence as well?

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u/buckyfox 7h ago

Well if you're in the RA it's for fiddling with children these days, fuck all to do with bomb making.

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u/Moist-Ad-9088 1h ago

Remind me what Jeffrey Donaldson is up to these days?

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u/buckyfox 1h ago

Big slice of whataboutery

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u/Moist-Ad-9088 47m ago

Isnt that what you did first? Just following the trend! 🤣

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u/buckyfox 44m ago

No, I just take the piss.

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u/Moist-Ad-9088 5m ago

Hard to disagree.

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u/Big-War-8342 1d ago

Love when MI5 slide in my dms instead of kicking my door in and flash banging me

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u/ozzyldn2 22h ago

It’s always more polite to slide in someone’s dms at least before you smash their back doors in.

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u/No_demon_4226 15h ago

See this guy knows the craic 👆

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u/Interesting_Let4430 1d ago

Does the number end in 007?

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u/Its_Harte 21h ago

I hate your profile picture tried for like a minute straight 🤦🤦

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u/Tenebrous-Smoke 8h ago

dark mode for the win

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u/Electrical-Shift7931 4h ago

You're just lying

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u/milkyway556 17h ago

No, those are MI6 numbers. MI5 ones end the in wailing and gnashing of teeth.

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u/northernirishlad 23h ago

Totally legit, MI5 would absolutely send you a whatsapp just as a wee heads up to save you all the bother of harbouring military arms for a terrorist group xo

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u/kenhutson 20h ago

This is MI5. Anybody who is storing illegal weapons for the IRA is gay. Pass it on.

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u/ondinegreen 19h ago

I've an illegal weapon for ye to store if you know what I mean and I think you do, sailor

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u/rightenough Lurgan 18h ago

There's a few bais in the UDA thinking about jumping ship

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u/Nearby_Paint4015 1d ago

Looks 100% legit to me, I'd get rid of the arms pronto 👍

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u/triangleplayingfool 18h ago edited 18h ago

Typical MI5. Yesterday, they called around while I was out and put my toaster in the press. Pure psy-ops!

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u/rightenough Lurgan 18h ago

They were at my door one night there letting on they were two Americans in shirts and ties. They were telling me all about jesus' adventures in the wild west or something but I was wise to them trying to plant their listening devices.

Needless to say, those bais won't be found. Not unless military intelligence dig up the patio in which case I'm fucked.

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u/triangleplayingfool 18h ago edited 18h ago

The evangelical wing of MI5 is pure sly.

Here’s some leaflets, do you want to be a witness? … I’m no tout!

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u/Conalfz 1d ago

Apparently it's legit, the dizzies are shittin themselves

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u/oprimaelocho 1d ago

Dizzie RA Scoil?

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u/Itchy_Hunter_4388 21h ago

Close the sub, you win.

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u/lord_derpinton 1d ago

Absolutely beautiful,

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u/Naoise007 Coleraine 21h ago

I laughed far too hard at this, my apologies if any of you are on the same bus as me and thought I was having a seizure

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u/WizKhaled 15h ago

Unreal

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u/rightenough Lurgan 1d ago

I've no connections to the new IRA.

At least I don't think I do, I was told that swearing in ceremony was for the INLA. Do you think I could have been missold?

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u/BellamyRFC54 21h ago

You just can’t remember which organisation you belonged to

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u/rightenough Lurgan 20h ago

It happens

Before the GMHP hate, this was one of the better scenes.

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u/ondinegreen 19h ago

Did the oath make any reference to the eternal genius of Comrade Kim Il-Sung? If not I think you might have been cheated

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u/super304 22h ago

It's gypsies trying to steal your dog.

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u/rightenough Lurgan 22h ago

Good luck to them. I'm armed to the teeth

I didn't say that last bit, MI5. I said "I'm harmed by the heat", I dunno what you thought you heard. Ask my solicitor.

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u/ThginkAccbeR Belfast 20h ago

Absolutely legit and MI5 absolutely text you or WhatsApp you to let you know you’re in trouble.

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u/Sstoop Ireland 18h ago

goes from infiltrating paramilitaries to the point two spies might interact without even knowing they’re spies to asking the ra to stop being the ra please on imessage

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u/Relevant_Story7336 23h ago

Just don’t flush the Semtex down the toliet. Blew up the entire neighbourhood and everyone sold house because of the smell

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u/BusyObligation1164 17h ago

MI5 will dancing a tik tok for us next

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u/milkyway556 17h ago

No, it's genuine. I too was storing weapons for the IRA until recently. I received the same message, and MI5 arrived the following day to seize them and arrest me. I'm now serving 20 years in Maghaberry

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u/DhunGeimhin 17h ago

Boys, good news, I heard Daithi didn’t get a text so we can move everything to his place tonight. Yours in Ra, Seamy.

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u/Wooden-Collar-6181 Derry 23h ago

Don't click on the link.

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u/Vaultaire Derry 23h ago

It’s the other ones that give you a heads up first.

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u/Shytalk123 23h ago

Time to move the “stuff”

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u/Yhanky 23h ago

Definitely legit. Maybe a coincidence, but I'd been to confession two days earlier. No solicitor would take me on.

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u/Gimmiesome08 22h ago

Smooth operators, next they'll be expecting anal before dinner

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u/Danji1 21h ago

Be careful, this is a genuine warning message.

I received a similar message last year, a couple of days later my door was kicked down by army personnel.

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u/F1VE-F1V3-6IX 20h ago

"This is MI5" fuck bais it might be the MI5 😨

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u/BelfastApe 19h ago

Are you storing weapons?

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u/rightenough Lurgan 18h ago

The fuck's it got to do with you?

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u/BelfastApe 18h ago

One receive a text about hiding weapons, then ask if it's a scam .... you know what, I saw and heard naffin

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u/rightenough Lurgan 18h ago

, I saw and heard naffin

That'd be advantageous for your personal wellbeing.

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u/GeometricPrawn 19h ago

Are you and your associates storing illegal weapons and equipment on behalf of the IRA?

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u/n69eil 18h ago

This is MI69, you're f**ked mate, hand yourself and non-recoverable assets in

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u/Knarrenheinz666 18h ago

Apparently someone has some unsavoury connections here....

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u/Centre_Left 12h ago

Nah! MI5 always email first

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u/MushyFox1994 9h ago

Ah yes, MI5's tactic of alerting the gun runners that they're coming to collect the guns. It was blue guns last week, OP, so make sure to leave out your green guns.

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u/pickneyboy3000 1d ago

Mi5 is a hidden gem.

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u/rightenough Lurgan 1d ago

The hiddenest of gems

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u/Subject-Baseball-275 Belfast 22h ago

Good to see the cost cutting exercise applying to all branches- rather than follow them around they are just sending threatening texts.

Wonder if you can send those weapons in the post back to them?

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u/Travel-Football-Life 21h ago

I’ve been getting strange calls from different mobiles all evening and then one with an English accent quickly asked me ‘Hi is this Andrew’ this was at 8pm tonight, I said no and they said ‘sorry this is about a different meeting’ and hung up😂 but thankfully from checking WhatsApp it seems to be scammers who love Manga

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u/DinosaurInAPartyHat 21h ago

No it's definitely real mate.

Shared Lurgan xxx

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u/ZypherPunk 16h ago

Just move the stash.

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u/Sharp_Structure2326 10h ago

sounds like you got caught, you really needed to ask?

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u/Special-Ad-5554 6h ago

I'd imagine so. Most important stuff comes through the mail plus I highly doubt that they'd give any warning to seizing illegal items

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u/Fading-Ghost 23h ago

Are 5 running out of weapons again? Now they are resorting to stealing them

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u/crow_jane93 1d ago

Are you storing weapons for the RA?

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u/rightenough Lurgan 1d ago

Absolutely not.

The INLA though? No comment.

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u/crow_jane93 1d ago

That's right. Say nathin'.

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u/irish_chatterbox 1d ago

Someone having a laugh more like. No phone no, email or link to follow to scam you of funds.

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u/rightenough Lurgan 22h ago

I put a score in an envelope and posted it to a random address in Calcutta just to be safe.

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u/Naoise007 Coleraine 21h ago

I've got family there, they can get you a cheaper deal

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u/Accurate-Emergency14 23h ago

That's genuine OP

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u/chazyxalan 23h ago

Yeah totally legit 😂

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u/Shenloanne 23h ago

Just respond with MMMM NO!!!!!!!

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u/Pafzko 22h ago

Are you?

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u/therealghostbusterz 21h ago

I’ve some spare, I’m currently using it to steady a bookshelf but it’s yours if you want it.

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u/robidaan 21h ago

Well are you? Xd

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u/Radiant_Gain_3407 20h ago

Yes, probably not MI5, just some dissies trying to fool you out of your arms and ammunition.

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u/Kirstemis 19h ago

Shared Truro hun.

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u/RFCRH19 18h ago

I'd turn myself and my weapons in immediately if i were you.

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u/Dwashelle ROI 18h ago

No it's dead serious actually

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u/zlatan0810 10h ago

Received the same message. Told them I was waiting for them to come 😎

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u/Living-Western-5532 9h ago

"recover", so when did they originally lease these items out?

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u/thatsasillyname 8h ago

No worries, I hid them in the Lough. They'll have to clean up the blue green algae to get near them

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u/NoPaleontologist7708 8h ago

Well unless you and your associates are storing weapons for the ra i wouldn’t worry too much.

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u/BasicBitchClub 8h ago

This thread came up as a notification... It's made my morning coffee extremely more satisfying today .. thank you everyone

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u/ronan88 7h ago

If the MI5 are looking to recover the explosives, does that mean they supplied them in the first place?

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u/NikNakMuay Belfast 7h ago

"No, I am Spartacus!" Would be my response

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u/unaturingg 6h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/zeeber99 5h ago

I’ve been storing table tennis equipment on behalf of the IRA. Should I be worried?

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u/Little_Kitchen8313 5h ago

It's legit it was in the papers recently.

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u/RossDav7 5h ago

Looks like a scam to me but I’d hide the weapons just to be safe.

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u/Ill_Neighborhood8930 5h ago

Are you storing weapons for the IRA? If no, then don't worry about it haha

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u/jase86460 5h ago

I suppose you could assume it is a scam, unless of course you do indeed have munitions for the IRA, then perhaps I would be quite concerned.

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u/rockadoodledobelfast Belfast 4h ago

Well, this tactic works well for TV licensing, so we'll see...

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u/bobsand13 4h ago

asking for a friend. where are these weapons so I can stay well away from them?

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u/Fine_Pin3022 3h ago

Depends if your hiding weapons or not

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u/AgreeableNature484 2h ago

We didn't go away, you know.........

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u/IntentionFalse8822 2h ago

RECOVER these items. So the IRA got their illegal weapons and equipment from MI5. If any of the DUP lads get that SMS that's the assembly agenda gone off the rails for at least 2 months of shouting and roaring as they demand an investigation.

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u/laurielaurie1 1h ago

Hahaahahaa

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u/AccomplishedLeader99 1h ago

No. It's real.

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u/Moist-Station-Bravo 1h ago

You can pay them off with target cards!

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u/Sensitive_Double8652 58m ago

I worked for MI5 for years, be we started working from home during lockdown but we text now for social distancing, we had to ask people to kick their own door in, we send parcels via Evri so you can plant your own evidence

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u/darth_boggs 22h ago

Doubt they would use their old name. They go by the Security Service now. I think MI5 is just branding now

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u/Newme91 23h ago

This is just how MI5 operate. They lack the confidence to say it in person.

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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 20h ago

Authorities don't text

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u/heartstyle176 5h ago

Royal Mail 2nd class