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Another Email Scam - Using Sportsshooter.com
Andy White, Photographer
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Neenah | WI | USA | Posted: 9:41 AM on 12.28.04 |
->> I got this in my inbox this morning, which I know is a scam.
This is a message sent from your SportsShooter.com member page at: http://www.sportsshooter.com/hssportspix
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Sender: Cynthia_cynthia11@yahoo.com
Phone: nonr
Email: Cynthia_cynthia11@yahoo.com
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This user's message:
Cynthia_cynthia11@yahoo.com
Dear,
How are you today?
With due respect and humility I write you this letter which I believe you would be of great assistance to me .
I am Miss Cynthia Milan the Daughter of Dr Clement milan, he was international business man timber marchant importer and exporter.
though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount of Two million U.S dollars($2,000,000.00) which my late Father kept in one of the security company here in Abidjan before he,my mother and the only sister i have died on motor accident here in Cote d'ivoire.
Now as i'm the only person left in the family i decided to contact you to help me invest this money in your country.i want you to help me claim and retrieve the money from the security company where it was deposited as a family valuable by my late father and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes,in any profitable investment in your country.
If you can be of an assistance to me, i will be pleased to offer to you 10% Of the total fund after the money have been transfered in to your account and you will arange for my coming to meet you in your country.
I wait for your urgent response.
Thanks and God bless you
Miss Cynthia Milan.
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Time: 7:33 am Eastern
Date: December 28th, 2004
Sender's IP address: 196.201.73.122
Browser info: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
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Brian Light, Photographer
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Pennsville | NJ | USA | Posted: 9:43 AM on 12.28.04 |
| ->> I got it this morning as well. |
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Randy Janoski, Photographer
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Chapel Hill | TN | USA | Posted: 9:53 AM on 12.28.04 |
| ->> I remember a post or story somewhere, and the con was turned back around. The recipient ended up scaming some money from the scamers. |
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Caleb Simpson, Photographer, Assistant
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Dallas | TX | USA | Posted: 10:02 AM on 12.28.04 |
| ->> you actually read these? As soon as I see those first couple lines I delete them!!! Never give them a second look. I get so many now I can usually tell them before I even open them. |
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Matthew Hempel, Photographer
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Texarkana | TX | USA | Posted: 10:07 AM on 12.28.04 |
->> Randy,
Check out
http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/
I believe this is the scam you are referring to. It's a pretty long, but awesomely funny, read.
Enjoy,
Matt |
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Andy White, Photographer
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Neenah | WI | USA | Posted: 10:37 AM on 12.28.04 |
| ->> I have a spam filter, but since this came from Sportsshooter.com the filter let it pass. In fact I didn't read the whole thing, after I figured it out, I just posted the whole thing here. |
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Henry Hsu, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 11:34 AM on 12.28.04 |
| ->> wow. that pppoowerbook thing is genious. |
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Will Powers, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | USA | Posted: 11:42 AM on 12.28.04 |
| ->> I laughed till I hit my head. If the story here is true, and there is no reason to believe it isn't. Good work! If it isn't true, it's a great piece of fiction and worth the read. |
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Jason Ivester, Photographer
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Rocky Mount | NC | USA | Posted: 11:43 AM on 12.28.04 |
| ->> Wait a minute. That's a scam? Crap, I guess I can just trash that list of stuff I was going to purchase with my 10%. I hope they don't use my bank account information. |
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Chris Williams, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Rancho Cucamonga | CA | USA | Posted: 12:31 PM on 12.28.04 |
->> Also got the email. Read it, laughed, deleted. Need I say more?
Chris |
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D. Ross Cameron, Photographer
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Oakland | CA | USA | Posted: 1:18 PM on 12.28.04 |
->> I can't believe that woman only offered a measly 10%! What kinda cheapskate bimbo is she? I wrote back and told her it's 50-50 or nuthin'.
Still waiting to hear back. I'll keep you posted.
Gullibly,
DRC |
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Joe Livingston, Photographer
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Douglasville | GA | USA | Posted: 7:36 PM on 12.28.04 |
| ->> I got it also.Does anyone ever really fall for this crap? I just cant see anyone with even a small brain going for such a scam. |
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Nick Doan, Photographer, Assistant
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Scottsdale | AZ | USA | Posted: 2:45 AM on 12.29.04 |
| ->> Oh, you mean I'm not going to get any money? Darn... |
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Bill Taylor, Photographer
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Westerville | OH | USA | Posted: 8:32 AM on 12.29.04 |
->> The scary part is it's like hate ads in elections, or really cheesy car dealer ads, if they didn't work no one would spend the time to use them, but there are desperate people out there looking for anything that would change thier lives in an instant. Thats why the States all have lotteries, and it's the ones who can not afford it that lose the most. We all think "who would fall for this?", but obviously some one is, sad :(
If the time spent on these scams was put to good use....well you know the rest. |
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Gary Lake, Photographer
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Morgantown | WV | USA | Posted: 1:19 PM on 12.29.04 |
->> Ahhhhhhhh.........the good old "Nigerian Scam". So named because in the original versions of this scam the perpetrators identified themselves as deposed Nigerian royalty who needed your help to sneak millions of dollars of their money out of the country. As a reward you'd get several million dollars for letting them deposit their money in your bank account. Sadly, these people were actually successful in tricking a lot of people into giving them their account numbers - after which of course everything they had in them would be stolen. This thing has so many different versions it's taken on a life of it's own.
Obviously someone has stumbled onto this SS site and is firing off shots at members. Don't think they'll see much success here - this crowd is way too technology savy. 8^) |
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