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kramer_hpal
Joined: Jul 06, 2004
Posts: 158
From: Turkey, Istanbul
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i cant understand how they scam you with a such message?
what happens if u accept his offer and give ur details to him? he can make payment with ur email address but what else he can do to scam u???
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Pallister
Joined: Nov 13, 2004
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Thanks for the info Peter...
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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welll you send the goods to him meanwhile he will stop payment or the cheque etc will bounce or ive seen instances when a cheque has cleared then been revoked,
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T68iKING
Joined: Nov 04, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: W.London
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Yeah PeterKay,
I just check my e-mail inbox, and got the same exact message as you, except for the fact that the person only offered me $400 for two phones! I would have replied and done the deal with them, had they offered me $900 
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ofiaich
Joined: Nov 12, 2001
Posts: > 500
From: East Yorkshire, England
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I think it is more sinsiter than that....
There have been lots of scams similar to this posted through bona-fide penpal sites. The scammer often tells a story of how his/her father has died, and was a millionaire, but the money is held in trust and will not be released within the country.
So the person asks for your bank details, so he or she can transfer all of these millions to your bank account. He or she offers you 20% of the millions to entice... but then somehow manages to empty your account!
There are many variations on these theme,,,,,,
I do not know how money can be removed from the remote account, sounds like a Hollywood movie scam but I guess it could be done because so much is done electronically.
Here is one such pen pal post....
Sender: akesse01
Subject: From Miss Alice *****
Date Received: 2005/05/04 00:42
From Miss Alice ******
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
Email: ****_ak9002@.......
Dearest One,
REQUEST TO BE MY GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP ME THUS:
After going through your profile, permit me to inform you of my desire
of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what I am about to tell you.
I'm Miss Alice ***** (19) the only daughter of Late Mr. & Mrs. John
A. ******. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when I was a babby in the process of given birth to the second child .
Before the death of our father on Dec. 2004 in a private hospital here
in Abidjan, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of six million two hundred and fifty thousand United State Dollars USD ($6.250,000) deposited in a suspense account in one of the big banks here in Abidjan. He told me that he used my name as the next of Kin in depositing the money.
He then strongly advised me not to seek for assistance in the
investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of my choice (outside my country, Cote D'Ivoire) that willl assist me in the wise investment of the money.I have since left the money in the bank with the view of our making use of it for investment purposes after my education carrier here.
But as you may be already aware by now, this country (Cote D’Ivoire)
is presently at political crises. Rebels have already taken over the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts towards the capture of the commercial center of the country, Abidjan, where I am now. For this ugly development in this country, I have now decided to take quick actions and have this money transferred out of this country before it is too late to do that.
I now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel management. Because of this I am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me transfer the money into your bank account.
(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and then settle there parmanently.
If you accept to stand as my guardian or foster parent, I need not discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and then assist me invest it. But if you still want a percentage, I am willing to offer you, 20% of the total money as compensation for your assistance. Pleas tell me if you feel the percentage I offered is not ok by you.
As soon as I receive your concrete assurance to assist me with my
proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, I will then give the bank your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money into your account as I want to come over to stay with you parmanently.
The bank will then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You shall then be giving me information on when the transfer will be over. I shall also send my pictures to you and shall also need yours too.
No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please I beg you to
keep this highly secret for my safety, as I believe that those that killed my Daddy are still after me.
Please reply me through this confidential email box: ****_ak9002@ **********
Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Miss Alice *****.
Be careful of any such scams!
Ofiaich !
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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i get at least one of the emails a day,
best ones are always the ones that say they have looked at my website and want to buy some goods.
funny seeing as thought i dont sell anything on my site!!?
be weary folks.
fatreg
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dave_uk
Joined: Mar 06, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: London, UK
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weary or wary? or both?? 
Perhaps someone should PM MikLSP and ask him to attach it to his news spectacular on the Trusted Sellers List?
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p900 lover
Joined: Jan 08, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: London
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ya i got this to, i just sent him a pm back basicly telling him to F**K off
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PeterKay
Joined: Jul 08, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: The Ummah
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Thanks for all the feedback folks.
At least now i know it's not just me who got the message.
We can all beat the scammer(s) together.
Are there any other scammers that we should know of here?
Name and shame the Bas***ds 
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*Jojo*
Joined: Oct 15, 2003
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I've got this mail too  H m m m . . . peeps from India huh - Govigooooooov !!!
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jagger2k
Joined: Nov 14, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: Leicester, UK Phone: IPh
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lol, i just got one of thoses pm's
hello seller,
This is MILLERBRANDS LIMITED , We deals in buying and selling of eletronics and clothing etc, Our store will like to purchase your item,and we will like to purchase as many as you have in stock.We urgently need as many as you have in one of our company at West Africa.we will be handling the shipment ourself. And we will like you to choose your best method of payment.
**If you agree/interested to sell this item for ours please reply and fill in the information below
*first name..................?
*last name....................?
*company name.............?
*country..................?
state.......................?
*city...............................?
*zip/postal code...............?
Email address........................? please reply asap for the next step(payment) ** for question ,please do ask. Best Regards. ***We need as many as you have in stock.we need it urgenly.............
EMAIL ADDRESS::::millerbrandslimited@yahoo.com
Funny thing is am not even selling nothing. any way i replied saying am very intrested
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jcwhite_uk
Joined: Feb 18, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: Dorset, UK Phone:Xperia Z1
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I just got the same. Im not even selling anything.
Checkout my photos at My Website"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the world together." |
vanquish
Joined: Mar 20, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Wor Newcastle Phone: V600i
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On 2005-05-18 21:09:54, millerbrands wrote:
hello seller,
This is MILLERBRANDS LIMITED , We deals in buying and selling of eletronics and clothing etc, Our store will like to purchase your item,and we will like to purchase as many as you have in stock.We urgently need as many as you have in one of our company at West Africa.we will be handling the shipment ourself. And we will like you to choose your best method of payment.
**If you agree/interested to sell this item for ours please reply and fill in the information below
*first name..................?
*last name....................?
*company name.............?
*country..................?
state.......................?
*city...............................?
*zip/postal code...............?
Email address........................? please reply asap for the next step(payment) ** for question ,please do ask. Best Regards. ***We need as many as you have in stock.we need it urgenly.............
EMAIL ADDRESS::::millerbrandslimited@yahoo.com
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me too.
These people are so silly, they think we are idiots! I would really like to give these people what they deserve, a nice stinging slap.
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