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    An email from a tech member

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    by zlitocook ·

    One of your fellow TechRepublic members has sent you a private message:

    From: vicky4me100@…
    Subject: Miss Victorine Omah.
    Message:
    Miss Victorine Omah.
    Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire
    West Africa

    Dear One,

    Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I Come across your profile and have Decided to get in touch with you after my prayer, to see if you can help me alliviate this problem. I can’t imagine how you will feel receiving a sudden letter from a remote country far away and probably from someone you are not closely related with. But all the same, I believe we do not need to be of blood relatives before we can establish cordial relationship.

    My name is Miss Victorine Omah. i was born on the 1st of january 1985. i am The Daughter of (Late Mr Michael Omah) Who lost his life in the course of political crisis here in Cote D’ivoire on the 7th of july last year on his way to work.

    My father willed in cash, the sum of $4.5Million US Dollars which he deposited in a Fixed/Suspence account here in Abidjan Cote D’ivoire in west Africa,But there is one conditions for the release of the fund which are as follows:

    (1) That I must be 22 years or above,
    (2) That upon request for the release of the fund, there must be evidence of investment intentions especially outside the our country,

    I contact you therefore to confirm if you can absorb me in partnership in your company or possibly advise me on any investment opportunity in your country. When we reach an agreement, the bank will transfer this money into an account that you shall nominate and I will come over to your country to finish my education and commence business partnership with you and the fund.

    I expect your urgent response including your addresses, your telephone and fax number. Please reply through my Email (victorine_my@yahoo.co.uk )

    Thanks for expected cooperation.

    My regards,

    Miss Victorine Omah.

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    • #3288867

      I should be so lucky

      by mjd420nova ·

      In reply to An email from a tech member

      I guess that maybe, if I’m nice one day I’ll get an offer to help someone spend a couple million dollars.

      • #3288845

        Hehe I look at my spam box

        by zlitocook ·

        In reply to I should be so lucky

        Some times and I could be a millionaire five or six times a week. 🙂 Or I could get women to attack me, sell my house for ten times what it’s worth.
        Boy if these things worked I would be Bill Gates and a porn star!
        Wait I could be both if I just order a life changing DVD and use my credit card.

        • #3273999
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          Yes and what makes this one so believable is

          by hal 9000 ·

          In reply to Hehe I look at my spam box

          That this person supposedly lives in an African Country, deals in US $ and has a UK Yahoo account.

          Did I miss anything there? 😀

          I got one last week telling me that my Uncle the Oil Magnate in the UK had recently died like 15 years ago. At least they had the courtesy not to insult my intelligence and quoted UK Pounds with a UK Address so I sent them an e-mail back asking just what Uncle So & So was doing dealing in Oil when he had promised me to only deal in Clean Renewable Energy and since this supposed firm of solicitors had sent me their postal address I would be getting my UK QC’s to contact them to settle my darling Uncles Estate. :^0

          Within a day the e-mail address was inactive I’m betting that the PO Box had disappeared as well. 😀

          I then added that to my spam filter and that was the end of that. :p

          Col ]:)

        • #3225625

          Actually, it’s a French Yahoo account here at TR.

          by deepsand ·

          In reply to Yes and what makes this one so believable is

          The one that I received [b]originated[/b] from yahoo.[b]fr[/b].

        • #3225353
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          But Sandy the one listed here

          by hal 9000 ·

          In reply to Actually, it’s a French Yahoo account here at TR.

          Originated at Yahoo.com.uk.

          You where probably lucky enough to get the same one from a different source.

          Just goes to show how non-discriminating people are doesn’t it? 😀

          Col

        • #2502139

          That’s the Reply-To address, contained within the body of the e-mail.

          by deepsand ·

          In reply to But Sandy the one listed here

          It’s a standard JScript link, as shown below:

          javascript:WriteMailPopUp(‘victorine_my@yahoo.co.uk’);

          The e-mails were [i]Sent[/i] from a French Yahoo account, but [i]Replies[/i] are to be made to a UK one.

          It would’nt do to favor one side of the Channel over the other, now, would it?

        • #2502028
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          I thought that they just drove under the Chanel now

          by hal 9000 ·

          In reply to That’s the Reply-To address, contained within the body of the e-mail.

          And didn’t favour one side or the other. :^0

          Maybe it’s really Tony Blair attempting to get some money together to pay for his troop deployment as the British Government is running out of money fast and needs a Cash Injection. 😀

          Col

        • #2501303

          But, don’t they then have to clear Customs?

          by deepsand ·

          In reply to That’s the Reply-To address, contained within the body of the e-mail.

          That would leave a trail that scammers would rather avoid.

          Besides, e-mails are so much less costly than the Chunnel.

        • #2501195
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          Not if they are German Sandy

          by hal 9000 ·

          In reply to That’s the Reply-To address, contained within the body of the e-mail.

          They just roll across borders and claim the land as theirs when ever the mood takes them. :p

          Don’t tell the Poms but the entire UK to French Tunnel Idea was a German invention to save them the trouble of having to cross 21 miles of open ocean which in the past two attempts have proved such a problem to them. They all thought things would be so much easier if they just rode a few divisions of the German Army through the tunnel before the Poms realised what was happening. 😀

          Then they wouldn’t have all those problems with that 21 miles of ocean that they have had previously. But I’ll let you in on a Secret if you promise not to tell a single POM Germany now actually owns all of the UK so they are currently employing teams of Welsh Miners to cut away the foundations and then they are going to use a new German Invention to drag the UK into Germany where they can keep the place safe from those nasty Poms who have caused them so many problems over the years. :^0

          The reason that they are using Welsh Miners is not to raise suspicion from the Poms as German Mining Engineers would attract too much unwanted attention. The good Germans got the idea for this from one of the Goodies Shows where Graeme Garden attempted to setup a Pirate Britain by removing the foundations and towing it outside the 5 mile limit. The Germans just perfected the idea. 🙂

          In the Goodies Show instead of having a Pirate Radio Station it sounded so much better to have a Pirate Country as it saved the need to row past the 5 mile limit to get to their Radio Station. Of course in the last scene of that show it ended with the Statue Of Liberty outside the Windows of the Goodies home. Now not even Germany is nasty enough to allow that to happen and inflict the UK on an unsuspecting American Public. :^0

          Col

        • #2502022

          Or so you think…

          by now left tr ·

          In reply to Yes and what makes this one so believable is

          These reply(s) havie a funny way of catching up with you…spam filter or not.

    • #3288825

      hilarious

      by lowlands ·

      In reply to An email from a tech member

      I especially like the .. “and commence business partnership with you and the fund.”

      🙂

    • #3288804

      odd

      by jaqui ·

      In reply to An email from a tech member

      I got the exact same one, from a “male” TR member and forwarded with full headers to one of the TR staff, as soon as they got the email from me they killed the members account.

      The peer contact feature will be seriously abused if we don’t work with TR to keep it from being abused.

      What I have done also is to contact the peer’s email service provider and forward them the spam message. while it is TR’s server sending it, he return address is their clients, so they take a dim view of the spammer anyway.

    • #3287871

      Spam

      by protiusx ·

      In reply to An email from a tech member

      I’ll have the spam spam spam spam spam spam fried eggs and spam without the eggs please.

      Spam spam spam spam spamity spam spamity spam!

      • #3274228

        Really it like spam

        by hayk ·

        In reply to Spam

        Why she post this message for wide audience?
        There will be some who believe her.

        But I think also SPAM SPAM SPAM

    • #3225626

      It’s a 419/Nigerian scam; and, it’s already been addressed.

      by deepsand ·

      In reply to An email from a tech member

      They’ve been around for decades, going back to the time when the only way to convey text messages was by way of the Post Office. As technology changed, they migrated to the fax machine and now to e-mail as well.

      TR has already been advised of this, with the result that this “member” will be losing their “membership.” Of course, there is no way to stop the scammers from gaining new memberships.

      In the future, report such directly to Beth, via PM, at
      http://techrepublic.com.com/5215-6257-0.html?id=2767530

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