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Fzoul Chembryl
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Location: Limbo
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i got this today and i know i saw something similar before, it hink it is a scam trying to get ppl's bank account #'s:
FROM: HARROAD WILSON. ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE. ATTN, I am write you in reference of the transfer of US$22Million ( Twenty Two Million United States Dollars) to your account for onward investment in your country. I am HARROAD WILSON ,the only son of the former chief of defence-staff Late General DR RAHOOL WILSON of Guinea Bissau. My late Father, was killed just a few years December following his role as a rebel leader against the past government of Guinea Bissau as of 2001. Following this political crisis, we were forced to leave our country to Abidjan the capital city of Cote d'Ivoire for our life sake. It is here in Abidjan he deposited this said money in a private security company as a family valuables. We got to know about this informations and as well able to recover all the relevant documents regards to this deposits through his ATTORNEY here in Abidjan. If you are touches and truly disposed to assist us in transferring of this fund kindly write me through my e-mail address. More information about the lifting of this funds legally follows immediately after your and positive reply. with interest with this and you can equally include your private phone and fax number for fast communications. Thanks for your anticipated co-operation. Best Regards, HARROAD WILSON . __________________________________________________ _______ Gagne une PS2 ! Envoie un SMS avec le code PS au 61166 (0,35€ Hors coût du SMS)
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Red Dragon
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That is absolutely false, don`t follow that up. I got a similar one a while ago, and after some research found that the FBI/CIA (whoever they are) are warning against it. Apparently they scam you of your money and eventually try and have you go to their country, where they kill you. No fewer than 4 Europeans and 1 American have been killed in Africa after following this up, and dozens more have lost their entire bank balance.
So, be warned, do NOT reply to that or any other similar mail.
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Fzoul Chembryl
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i have no plans to responding to, i just htinks it funny.
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Ironworks Atomic Moderator
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Location: Virginia, U.S.A.
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I've heard of those before, an obvious scam to rip off your money, didn't know they tried to lure you to their country to kill you though! Dang! I figure *most* people won't fall for that cheap scam (yes in a way it is a bit funny RevRuby).
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Symbol of Bane
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Yes, this is known as the Nigerian Scam. As LadyZ says, they usually just clean out your bank account, but I have heard of people actually flying to Africa and getting killed.
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Horus - Egyptian Sky God
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At least they didn't offer you breast or penis enlargement pills
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Thoth - Egyptian God of Wisdom
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I get email from this one company repeatedly. They are some diploma organization or something, and they change their email constantly. I have sent two emails asking them to take me off their mailing list, but they have not done so. Here is the list of blocked emails, all of which are from the same company:
masters.phd u_d_p.net ud_program.net udp_1.net university_degree.net your_future.net all@youneed.now get@adiploma.now ican@tell.you info@career_center.121 info3@career_center.121 phdmasters@bachelors.yes prosper@diplomanet.ws1 ud@university_diplomas.net udp@diplomas_1.net udp@university_diplomas.net There are some other ones on here with a @eclic.email3.net that I'm not sure about, but there are six of those too. Talk about spam!! [img]graemlins/spam3.gif[/img] |
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Harper
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Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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Ive got both of those. The nigerian scam is quite famous nowadays. Apparently some Nigerians have made megabucks from it.
The diploma is just normal spam though. I dont know what happens if you send them money, but the remove from mailing list is a waste of time. [ 10-25-2002, 07:02 PM: Message edited by: andrewas ]
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