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Ok, I know there's a scam here - where is it?
I have a yahoo personals account. I checked it today out of boredom, and had this message
Hello, My name is Elena, me of 29 years. I liked your profile on a site and I at once have decided to write to you the letter. I very much liked yours the image and in the following letter I shall send you the image, I hope, that I liking to you also am strong, as you to me!!! With impatience I shall wait for your letter!!!! Please write the letters on mine e-mail: lena_sergeeva@inbox.ru Sincerely Elena. I've had several of these over the past couple years, they're all very similar. I've never followed the rabbit down the hole to see where it would go. Any hints on flushing them out? Motion, is this how you found your honey?
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02-02-2005, 12:54 PM
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well.....where is that "image".......
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02-02-2005, 12:58 PM
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Cars & Coffee Killer
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Probably just fishing for some lonely guy to bilk out of cash.
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02-02-2005, 01:13 PM
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exactly!!
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02-02-2005, 01:16 PM
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Well the email is registered to a Yahoo-like portal with a personals section. Ya never know if this is legitimate or not.
My rule for anything internet is that if I can't trust people who are relatively close geographically I'll be damned if I'm reaching out farther. Wasn't Richard's current squeeze here already when they met?
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02-02-2005, 01:23 PM
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Seems a little bogus but definitely someone from another country. My opinion is if the basic stuff doesn't add up then I wouldn't mess with it. But send an email and see if you get a response - worst case scenario you can block the email account in the future.
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02-02-2005, 01:35 PM
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02-02-2005, 01:39 PM
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Until I sorted my firewall etc properly I used to get hit with this type of thing. They usually lead to an internet pay for porn site or similar.
There was a period about a year ago that I was being bombarded by MSN messenger for everything from carpet sales to the plate of the day at a fairly local restaurant.
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02-02-2005, 01:54 PM
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Does the "ru" at the end of the email address mean Russia????
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I kind of liken this board to an amusement park. All of the attendees are here because we share an interest in thrill rides. But for the most part that's where it ends. I need to be prepared to see an overwheight woman in spandex shorts, hear "colorful" speech while meandering through the crowd, endure smokers, be subject to people chewing their food like cows in the food court, stand downwind of the guy who has never heard of deoderent on a 95 degree day, etc....etc.... All of these things offend me but if I want to enjoy the rides then sometimes, unfortunately, I need to tolerate my fellow man. It's part of the price of admission. Not saying don't speak your mind but I doubt socal meant to offend anyone. Afterall that is an urban legend is it not? Scott
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02-02-2005, 02:06 PM
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I believe I heard recently that they can now somehow attach a virus to a JPEG image.
Personally, I just delete those types of messages. -Z-man.
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Some of my clients now automatically delete any electronic communication when they don't recognise the sender.
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I got another one, this one was more elaborate:
Hi my friend. I for the first time in life to write to the person who is absolutely in other country and absolutely with other culture. It is possible, if you will not understand me it only because I for the first time have decided to take advantage of the Internet. For me it very much is not familiar, but I hope, that I can find the true person, with which in the future I would like to create family. I could not find such person in the country and consequently I have decided to take advantage of the Internet and as I see, that I have made a correct choice, having registered on this site of acquaintances. Probably after that letters you will look my structure and you will see there, that I to live in America. But the business I live in Russia in city of Kaluga. When I have come in agency of acquaintances to me have advised to place the structure on this site. And then, as I could learn on this site of a fabric it is impossible to place a structure with residing at Russia. Now you understand why in my structure residing is specified in America. I think, that I should tell slightly about myself. Forgive me, that I at all was not presented you. My name Olesya. To me of 27 years and I was born 1977 June, 13. On a mark of the zodiac I Libra. I hope, that this letter will mention your heart and you write to Russian princess some lines. I with impatience shall wait the letter from you and as soon as I can receive your mail I shall write at once to you other letter with more detailed information on and certainly to put to you one more fine picture. And we with you shall start the novel which I hope will result us with you in more serious relations. Enter contact to me to you it will be necessary to write to me the letter on this E-Mail: malyshkaya@rambler.ru Your future friend Olesya.
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