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Subject: WTF is this?


zorares ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 10:17 AM · edited Tue, 26 November 2024 at 11:14 AM

 It's bad enough that I get these kind of emails in my email program but now I'm getting them here?

Just received this site mail:

 dear good friend

Dear Good Friend, I contacted you,after so many prayers and fasting towards your profile.I choosed you as a good & honest person,whom i can confide all my trust with,in this urgent business transaction.My name is Linda  Andrew, from Coted'Ivoire.The only daugther of late Mr Joseph Andrew. My mother died when i was a kid and My late father is the owner of J&B Cocoa Industries.But he was poisoned by his brother and before his sudden death,He called me privately and told me of huge amount of money,(us$10,500,000.00.) Which he deposited in a BANK,here in my country and used my name as the next of kin,as her only daugther.Now,i am Orphan and I want you to help me out,in providing a bank account,where this total us$10,500,000.00.Million dollars,will be transfered into,over there in your country,for my investment purposes. Also you will advice me on a good & profitable investment,which i can set-up in your country,after the successful transfer.Sincerely,i am willing to offer you 15% of this my total funds,as a reward for your assistance in helping me out.Not only this,you will also be my oversea guidian and take care of all the companies or any business venture,which i will set-up over in your country.Anyway,urgently reply me rightnow,with this email address: linda_1andrew@yahoo.com for more details,if really interested to help me out in this assistance.I am eagerly waiting to hear from you now.Thanks & take care.Your new friend Linda Andrew.

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BAR-CODE ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 10:25 AM

us$10,500,000.00.Million dollars,will be transfered into,over there in your country,

And your complaining 😉

Sometimes these things happen be sure the Moderators will kick the sender out..

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AndyWelder ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 11:04 AM

Let admin@renderosity know who sent you this spam, they'll take care of the member.

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TheBryster ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 11:06 AM
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Karen banned the last one. Send it to her.

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StaceyG ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 11:33 AM

You can just use the "Report as Spam" link on the sitemail page to report this to admin and we will take care of it.


zorares ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 11:35 AM

Thanks Stacey.  Just freaked me out as I've never received that junk here before.

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StaceyG ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 11:42 AM

Occasionally they sign up here just for this type of junk spam so that is why we created the "Report as Spam" on the sitemail so we can kick  them out as quick as they get here lol


StaceyG ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 11:46 AM

Okay I got them, they are gone gone gone


ChristineG ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 1:15 PM

i got it twice SS reported them as spam right away...

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tantarus ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 1:42 PM

10.500.000.00$ is in game and she/he/it  give you yahoo mail lolol :lol:

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ChristineG ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 2:15 PM

ROFL stupid spamming.. does anybody really answer those kind of mails? i just cant belive it..

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MagnusGreel ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 2:21 PM

Attached Link: http://consumerist.com/5133625/no-you-should-not-give-nigerian-scammers-150000-to-claim-your-inheritance

> Quote - *ROFL* stupid spamming.. does anybody really answer those kind of mails? i just cant belive it..

A recent case of....yes.

22 year-old John Rempel gave Nigerian scammers $150,000 while chasing what he thought was a $12.8 million inheritance. Rempel ended up borrowing money from his parents and uncle, and even traveled all the way to London to meet with the scammers in person.

See the link for the rest of the story...

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ChristineG ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 3:36 PM

OMG.... im speachless. :b_shocked:

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Faery_Light ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 4:16 PM

People just kept wanting to send me money in all my email accounts but I just couldn't stand the thought of being sooooo wealthy. lol.


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tantarus ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 5:18 PM

Attached Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1116067/Postman-loses-130-000-savings-Nigerian-internet-scam-duped-friend-met-MySpace.html

Well here is one more recent case. You gotta feel sorry for those poor souls lol :)

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Angelsinger ( ) posted Tue, 03 February 2009 at 6:42 PM · edited Tue, 03 February 2009 at 6:43 PM

Quote - ROFL stupid spamming.. does anybody really answer those kind of mails? i just cant belive it..

Well, yes... but if one is clever enough, he/she may be able to scam the scammer! LOL!
I love this guy's site.... http://www.spamscamscam.com/read_letters.php**

**Dean Cameron has been writing about these scams for several years now.
One of the things he mentions on his site is how he conned the potential scammer into sending him (something like) 15 dollars. HAhaha!

The money was supposedly to cover the cost of some "forms" Dean 'needed' in order to withdraw the money he was being asked for. So the scammer sent him the funds. LMAO!


ChristineG ( ) posted Wed, 04 February 2009 at 12:07 AM

LMAO... great idea to scam the scammers..

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Jumpstartme2 ( ) posted Wed, 04 February 2009 at 12:18 AM

Yup, there is 419eaters too....they really put the scammers thru the wringer.

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ChristineG ( ) posted Wed, 04 February 2009 at 12:25 AM

i saved the link. just have to read this a day where i have more time..  Sure hope that kind of treatment will stop the scammers!

i have been thinking every time i got one, why the even keep sending those mails. because i was SURE that nobody would be so stupid to answer them.... guess i know better now...

:b_funny:

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giorgio_2004 ( ) posted Wed, 04 February 2009 at 8:28 AM

I am a scambaiter too, although not associated with 419eaters. Using a dedicated email address, created exclusively for this purpose, I regularly answer to scam emails (when I have time, of course) and I try to catch their attention as long as I can.

The purpose is simple: if they are busy writing to me, they are not writing to someone else who could fall in their trap, and maybe I am saving someone. Of course, the first scam emails are sent automatically, but if you answer them, then the scammer must actually sit in front of a keyboard and waste his time trying to lure you with more details, hoping to get your money. 

Of course SCAMBAITING CAN BE A DANGEROUS PASTIME, SO I DO NOT RECOMMEND TRYING IT. Scammers are dangerous people, and they COULD backtrack you. I take a lot of precautions and NEVER disclose the tiniest bit of real personal information. So please, I repeat, do not try it at home....

(BTW, I have collected a lot of pictures from scammers, but no money yet....  :laugh:)

Giorgio

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AnnieD ( ) posted Wed, 04 February 2009 at 1:56 PM · edited Wed, 04 February 2009 at 1:57 PM

I wish someone would stop the dating scam "women" from other countries type of scam.

My youngest son got sucked into one of those when he first got his divorce and I had to work furiously behind his back to get rid of the scammer.  He was "in love" and wouldn't believe me. 

She supposedly lived in Colorado...but as soon as she had him "hooked" with her words and one fantastic picture..lol   she had an "emergency" and had to go to Nigeria to take care of her sick mother.... (yeah right)  then she kept asking for money for food....

I finally got it taken care of and he has since met a local girl he's happy with..but that is a shame for those people to prey on lonely people...

 

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Jumpstartme2 ( ) posted Fri, 06 February 2009 at 12:24 AM

Quote - SCAMBAITING CAN BE A DANGEROUS PASTIME, SO I DO NOT RECOMMEND TRYING IT. Scammers are dangerous people, and they COULD backtrack you.

I second that. If you don't know exactly what you are doing, leave it to those who do.

Quote - BTW, I have collected a lot of pictures from scammers, but no money yet

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marcus55 ( ) posted Wed, 18 February 2009 at 1:45 AM

These scams are foul and disgusting;  some creeps trying to steal money from unsuspecting and kind-hearted people...   and in some cases have succeeded...  
They should all be hung up by their short hairs for using a great thing like the net for that kind of low-life criminal behavior...   My email used to get bombarded by this kind of junk until I went on a deletion rampage...   anytime I get one of those it is immediately deleted, and over time I get very few of these now..  
 

Best thing to do is report them the minute you see it in your email because these creeps need to be stopped as much as humanly possible...   there is nothing funny about what they are doing, to me it's the same as robbing someone in an alley...  too bad they aren't prosecuted more often for this type of crime...

~>M


Angelsinger ( ) posted Sat, 21 February 2009 at 2:59 PM · edited Sat, 21 February 2009 at 3:07 PM

k, well I got my first rendo spam today. Where do people come up with this stuff??

*Subject:      my love reply me back to my email box now
 
Hello
 My name is * * * ,am a young girl,i saw your profile today and became

intrested in you,i will

 like to know you more,and if you can send a mail to my email address,i will give

you my pictures,here is my email

address(* * * ) remember,distance

age or colour does not matter but love matters a lot in life i believe we can move from
 
here, please reply me in my mail box not in this site,am waithing for your mail...

   ......(* * * )

*I did report this; but if others get this mail from the same wack-a-doodle, I hope they report it, too! *


StaceyG ( ) posted Sat, 21 February 2009 at 8:26 PM

This one was reported multiple times and I've taken care of booting this one as well:)

Thanks for letting us know


SophiaDeer ( ) posted Sun, 08 March 2009 at 4:32 PM

When I get one of those scam letters I play stupid.

I'll ask if Nigeria is near Russia or some other country.

Then I tell them I am not interested in money because the world is going to end in 2012 when the Earth is going to be hit by a planet the size of Jupiter, but the world governments are keeping this a big secret.

I tell them I my phone will soon be disconnected because I lost my job as a cook.

Then I ask them to send me an authentic Nigerian ( or what ever country they are from ) recipe because I wish to learn as many recipes before 2012.

To be a good sport, I send them a recipe.

Mr. Omar just received a recipe for Orange Pork, lol.

I mean no disrespect to the people who are of the Islamic faith, but Muslim folks do not eat pork, so it is even funnier I sent Mr. Omar a pork recipe.

I must have a sick sense of humor.

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ThunderStone ( ) posted Sun, 08 March 2009 at 8:16 PM

Well, I hope you use a different email address to respond to them... LOL


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SophiaDeer ( ) posted Mon, 09 March 2009 at 12:14 AM

I did, lol

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Angelsinger ( ) posted Tue, 10 March 2009 at 7:14 PM · edited Tue, 10 March 2009 at 7:15 PM

Quote - When I get one of those scam letters I play stupid.
I'll ask if Nigeria is near Russia or some other country....

Quote - Well, I hope you use a different email address to respond to them... LOL

Quote - I did, lol

LOL! I admit, after finding the spamscamscam site all about how the guy played around with such scammers, I was tempted to do the same. :p

But using a different email addy doesn't always hide or protect the sender. I was surprised to learn that even if one uses certain freebie email hosts, recipients can still see the sender's originating IP in the email's source.

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SophiaDeer ( ) posted Wed, 11 March 2009 at 12:40 AM

LOL, that guy who scams them really gets them good.

After I send them the first letter with a recipe, they never write back.

Check out 419 eaters Good site!

http://www.419eater.com/index.htm

Nancy Deer With Horns
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Angelsinger ( ) posted Wed, 11 March 2009 at 4:28 PM

Quote - ...Check out 419 eaters Good site!

LOL! 419 was the site somebody emailed me about when the scams first became widely known!  At the time, I had just received a couple of those scam emails; so thank the Good Lord for paranoid people who cram their friends' inboxes every time they hear about something like this!

I laughed when I read the line at 419 that says, "Do not be fooled into thinking scammers operate from a specific part of the world." I kept getting emails 'from Nigeria' that contained European country codes. lolol


genefleeman ( ) posted Wed, 22 April 2009 at 3:33 AM

 Sending ANY response puts you on a mailing list that is given to tons of these folk.. You just set yourself up for more of the same..  I send every single one to the FBI email fraud devision with a copy of the email with the headers included.. It always ends up discontinued and I guess word got around because it has been 3 years since I got my last one..


Angelsinger ( ) posted Wed, 22 April 2009 at 6:38 PM · edited Wed, 22 April 2009 at 6:43 PM

Quote -  Sending ANY response puts you on a mailing list that is given to tons of these folk.. You just set yourself up for more of the same..  I send every single one to the FBI email fraud devision with a copy of the email with the headers included.. It always ends up discontinued and I guess word got around because it has been 3 years since I got my last one..

Very wise!

I always had funny thoughts of entangling the scammers like Dean did; but in the end, self-preservation and cowardice won. lol!

I wuzzn't gunna send my IP willingly to anybody, regardless of how much fun it would be to mess them about! :p

Quote - BTW, I have collected a lot of pictures from scammers, but no money yet

Quote - Have you thought about trying for some sculptures? Make 'em 'really' work :laugh:

LOL!!!


SophiaDeer ( ) posted Thu, 23 April 2009 at 6:19 PM

Sending to the FBI is a very good idea...I should do that too.

Nancy Deer With Horns
Deer With Horns Native American Indian Site


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