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Seppuku Arts
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My problem is a random person emailed me, claiming to be a refugee in india who is need of help to get companies' money over and is offering 10% or the global amount, he cannot directly transfer it from india and want to get someone from another country to help, and has an attorney, told me not to tell anyone.

Well, to me that says.
Hi I want your IP number to hack into your computer, so it would be generous to send me an email so I can get it.

But on the other hand....he could be telling the truth, but if I reply his email telling him the skepticism of the email and look someewhere else, the risk is that he is the hacker and bam he's got more.

So I need to see what other people say about it, and maybe give me a method of contacting him without risking anything, he uses an indian yahoo account if that helps.


I could just ignore it, but someone generous and rich could be need of help and could be telling the truth, why me!!!! Actually I'll contact yahoo

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Van B
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Posted: 15th Jun 2005 22:43
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It's a scam, it's a real old scam too.

Don't reply, don't give them any information, and don't panic.

They send millions of these things out in the hope that some greedy people will send their account details to these people. Ignore and delete, always the best policy.


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Posted: 15th Jun 2005 22:46
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Quote: "But on the other hand....he could be telling the truth"

no, no he's not

Quote: "but someone generous and rich could be need of help and could be telling the truth, why me"

he's testing your greed and gullability...

Quote: "I could just ignore it"

best idea I have heard

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 15th Jun 2005 22:48
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I understand, I've contacted yahoo, and trying to get a reply email so I can give them his email address for them to contact him, to tell him I'm not interested

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Posted: 15th Jun 2005 22:52
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It's spam. Delete it. Don't think twice. Don't look back. Don't waste your time forwarding it to Yahoo either. Be prepared to get hundreds more.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 15th Jun 2005 22:54
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you've all had it them, well if I recieve another one I'll get my account to block it

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Posted: 15th Jun 2005 23:07
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everyone gets them once in a while its just another scam to try and get your bank details
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 15th Jun 2005 23:16
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oh right, bloody evil scum. Just as well, I don't have a bank account yet, might go down next week, my boss keeps bugging me to get one, meh I'll get a new job to go with it too lol, I wonder if MVC has any vacancies....

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Posted: 16th Jun 2005 00:06
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There's a lot of pitfalls with scams like this, but primarily they want your credit card number or some way to access your personal bank account. Often they'll ask you to setup a bank account for transferring the millions, and also put a deposit in it and then send all the details to them!, at which point they empty the account. The scary thing is that it obviously works, otherwise we'd never see these emails.

The best credit card to use on the internet is one that you only use on the internet and can keep a very close eye on - or better still use PayPal if you need to order anything online.


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Posted: 16th Jun 2005 01:13
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I get these every day.

Funny artice on those kind of scammers:
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/johncheese/419.htm

(The guy actually emails back the scammer and it gets funnier with every reply)

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"Please furnish me with your personal bank details"

Not on your life mate.

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I get like 20 Emails a day wich are just spam. I just empty the box and dont even look at it. I do look in the box to see if it got any mail wich is not junk.

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Seppuku Arts
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Well I yahoo is prolly gonna get the scammer, prolly remove his account or as some people can do is removed them from the internet, now that will show em a thing or 2

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Join http://www.419eater.com. It's funny, and it's a good way to deal with the ballache of getting these mails.

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Looking at the website.....lol Jamariquai 12:19 lol (Hardly a real bible quote)

King Squanchobooyah?

I reckon the scammer was Bill gatesm same for my scamer....so thats how he got sooo rich.

Whats with the fake bible quotes lol, can't believe the scammer feel for it all

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Quote: "now that will show em a thing or 2"


Sorry to say but no it won't It takes 1 minute to sign up for a new yahoo account


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Whatever you do, do not respond to spam; responding confirms that your address is active.


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Hehe, we had someone hack our eBay account. We started selling chevrolets....in the US as well.

Good ole gMail though. Set up new account and "conversed" with him.

Twas really funny.

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@ Jeku, good point....I've had a more cunning idea, my hotmail security can get the IP address (assuming they don't have a scrambler) and well my sister being a chat room mod, has a link to a website where I can contact people about this and remove their internet for breach of internet contract, assuming yahoo doesn't do it first for me.

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I'm happy you're thinking of ways to counteract these online scams (I deal with phishers all the time), but it will be near impossible to remove their internet by contacting their ISP. Most of these 419 scams come from countries like Nigeria where they are not active enough in charging the mafia-like members, so their laws are fairly leniant I have been told. This doesn't mean you can't try, though


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OR you could go to nigeria and bust there asses...




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Yeah sure, I don't even know they're from there....so thats a bit weird then lol, going to a gang place and starting fights is smart, lol

I could try Jeku, I'm just waiting for a reply from yahoo, and least then we can have one less a hole scamming people on the interent.

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Quote: "Well, to me that says.
Hi I want your IP number to hack into your computer, so it would be generous to send me an email so I can get it."


Nah, more like Money Laundring.
Its a way to transfer money illegally that can only be traced back to yourself. It happens all the time, go work for a bank for several years and you will soon see how common it is!

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If there is anyone reading this thread who thinks the original email could have been genuine, please can they contact me. I have a historical bridge which I would like to sell them.

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I have a historical boat, all we need now is a historical river and we can sell it as a 3peice sweet

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sorry no river but a nice patch of historical grass
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Quote: "I have a historical bridge which I would like to sell them."


Ironically, I think the humour in that one went straight over the top, Philip!

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no doubt this is a scam. Anyone ever gotton the, Warning! your acount(aol,ebay,etc.) has been hacked! please fill out the form below so we can secure your acount. and of course it includes password, credit card number and more personell stuff.

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I've seen other people with that, i'm sure it works.


Well I'm just gonna do what I usually do, ignore all emails from anyone I don't know or don't know of (eg. Customer service staff)

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I wonder why you couldn't think of that directly

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so do I.


no point to this thread anymore, may as well lock it

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HAHAHA a refugee who has an internet connection? and also has time to flee from his country to stop and write a nice email?

He should have said 'look I am preying on idiots to give me money....so give me some!'

Its a load of rubbish

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