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FYI all,
I just received this e-mail with someone attempting a fraud scheme. For those who don't know how this works, when you reply to the e-mail, you get a request for your bank account info to make the deposit of this money, from there your personal info is stolen from you.

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TEL.225-07-98-64-21
Sir,

Good a thing to write you. I have a proposal for
you-this however is not mandatory nor will I in
any manner compel you to honour against your will.

Your profile pushed me to send you this mail,I am Silvia J.Martins ,21years old and the only daughter of my late parents Mr.and Mrs.Martins. My father was a highly reputable busnness magnet-(a cocoa merchant)who operated in the capital of Ivory coast during his days.

It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad year 12th.Febuary 2000.Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of his who travelled
with him at that time.But God knows the truth!

My mother died when I was just 4 years old and my brother (GEORGE)2yrs ,and since then my father took us so special. Before his death on Febuary 12, 2000 he called the secretary who accompanied him to the hospital and told him that he has the sum of twen

ty two million,seven hundred thousand United State Dollars.(USD$22.700,000) left in one of the leading security company here in Abidjan Ivory Coast West Africa.

He further told him that he deposited the money in my name AND my brother ,and finally issued a written instruction to his lawyer whom he said is in possession of all the necessary but legal documents to this fund and the security company .

I am just 21 years old and a university undergraduate and really don't know what to do.Now I want an account overseas where I can transfer this funds. This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in ivory coast.

The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life.

Sir,I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards.Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.

Now permit me to ask these few questions:-
2. Can I completely trust you?
3. What percentage of the total amount in question will
be good for you after the money is in your account?

Please,Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible. Through my private email box bellow for security reasons: ppm_slv@yahoo.com

Thank you so much.My sincere regards,

Silvia .JOICE MARTINS
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Old 25th July 2003, 12:50 PM
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I've received similar emails many times. I've never seen them do it through forum email before though. Hopefully we're all smart enough to not fall for this.

Marc should have ip address info for the user "tomtomyaro" who sent it. Does it do any good to send it to authorities?
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Old 25th July 2003, 01:15 PM
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I've received similar emails many times. I've never seen them do it through forum email before though. Hopefully we're all smart enough to not fall for this.

Marc should have ip address info for the user "tomtomyaro" who sent it. Does it do any good to send it to authorities?
I just checked and this person registered today. I just put the account into 'Banned'.

The IP address is: 213.136.97.109
France Telecom FTRSI/DPI (OPENTRANSIT-DOM)
246, rue de Bercy
Paris Cedex 12 75584
FR

Domain Name: OPENTRANSIT.NET

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
admin (AO946-ORG) admin@OPENTRANSIT.NET
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999 999 9999 fax: 999 999 9999

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Record created on 19-Sep-2002.
Database last updated on 25-Jul-2003 12:12:03 EDT.

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Old 25th July 2003, 01:26 PM
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Naw. Reporting it is a useless exercise. It comes down to report it to who and on what charge?

This is unfortunate. After Jim Wade's escapade I stopped accepting Yahoo and Hotmail registrations but several people wrote and I eased up. I'll probably end up banning new registrations from those e-mail accounts again.

This is, in part, why I enabled masking where people have to use a form and don't get your e-mail address directly from the forum. It stops e-mail BOTs from harvesting e-mail addresses (unless you put your e-mail address in a post somewhere) as well.
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Old 25th July 2003, 01:47 PM
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Naw. Reporting it is a useless exercise. It comes down to report it to who and on what charge?

This is unfortunate. After Jim Wade's escapade I stopped accepting Yahoo and Hotmail registrations but several people wrote and I eased up. I'll probably end up banning new registrations from those e-mail accounts again.

This is, in part, why I enabled masking where people have to use a form and don't get your e-mail address directly from the forum. It stops e-mail BOTs from harvesting e-mail addresses (unless you put your e-mail address in a post somewhere) as well.
I found the email "form" to be nice.
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I've received similar emails many times. I've never seen them do it through forum email before though. Hopefully we're all smart enough to not fall for this.
Yeah, I was really suprised by this. My main reason for posting it openly was for the internet newbies (I was one once) and people that may work from home/e-mail from home/kids spying in your e-mail/get rich thinking...LOL....with 3 out of 5 kids going on line on a regular basis, ya never know which one is gonna come across something like that.....

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It's surprising to me because something like this relies on bulk e-mail. For someone to register and start e-mailing people 1 by 1... I wouldn't have guessed it would even make sense.
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Well Carol, your avatar does look kind of young and inexperienced...
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