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Kat
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 01 August 2002 : 04:41:25
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Everyone,
Today I received this email after asking the guy who he was and why he had mailed me from my Snitz profile:
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 7:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Sent From Snitz Forums 2000 by Charlesdomkat1
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> Attn: Kat
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> It was really nice reading from you today, so how are you doing?I hope
> things are going on pretty well with you.
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> My name is charles Domkat, i am from angola , but presently in
> Lome Togo, i
> needed your assistance in :
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> Like I said that I needed a favour from you, I need your
> assistance to claim
> a consignment deposited by my late father at a security company which was
> declared to contain valuables and government classified documents.I am the
> only one in the possession of documents and secretcy of the
> consignment. The
> major reason why I require a foreigner like you to claim this said
> consignment is because it was agreed by my father and the security company
> in Lome Togo in the agreement of deposition that the consignment is meant
> for a foreign client.
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> As regard the legal aspect of it,I think you are on the safest side
> considering the content of the agreement of deposition because
> the security
> company from the onset gave my late dad the immunity of not
> scrutinising the consignment even right from the port of
> departure/origin of
> the consignment.
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> The first thing I will want us to do is to do the change of ownership
> document to your name as the recipient of the said
> consignment,which I have
> to secure an understanding lawyer to do that for us.But before this and
> before I can provide you with adequate informations,I will like
> you to forward to me the agreement which shall serve as the legal basis
> between you and I.I am ready to offer you 40% of the total amount of $10
> Million Dollars, and you will also guide me on how to invest this
> money when
> its gets to u.
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> As soon as I receive the agreement,I will forward to you all neccessary
> document and if we speed things up;you will be able to receive the
> consignment within two weeks.
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> I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
> I could be reached on this number: 00228-945-3228
>
Now please everyone if this wasn't obvious already - THIS IS A SCAM!! Do not under any circumstances reply to this guy if he spams you and block him immediately. Huw has locked his account and I have reported him.
This stuff really makes me mad  .
KatsKorner
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richfed
Average Member
United States
999 Posts |
Posted - 01 August 2002 : 07:00:49
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Just so you know, this is a very wide-spread scam, not specific to Snitz at all. The details, i.e. country & situation, may vary, but the general theme is the same ... it's a variation of a theme.
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
6907 Posts |
Posted - 01 August 2002 : 07:02:03
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Same thing happened to me Kat several days ago. I also reported him.
Nikkol
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Kat
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
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Bookie
Average Member
USA
856 Posts |
Posted - 01 August 2002 : 08:43:50
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I got an email from him the other day that just said, "I have a question" or something like that. I didn't want to reply because then he'd have my email address. I figured if he had a question or needed some assistance that he would have asked me in his original email. Also, I was going to post something here about it but I figured if it was a widespread problem then someone else would mention it (like Kat).
I'm glad you guys took care of it.
Bookie
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 01 August 2002 : 09:04:37
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I got just a simple email with I need help and nothing else, replyed asking him what he wanted help with and never heard back.
richfed - what was specific to Snitz here was the fact that he was using this forum to send the emails to people by clicking on the send email to user button from peoples profiles.
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Posted - 01 August 2002 : 09:15:12
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richfed - what was specific to Snitz here was the fact that he was using this forum to send the emails to people by clicking on the send email to user button from peoples profiles.
It is very interesting to see that "manual spam" is getting popular here. I start to think if they did find a way to auto-script it or not.
Think Pink
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 01 August 2002 : 09:49:44
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I suspect it is possible to script it actually, I don't have time to test right now, but I've a hunch you can do it (allbeit with some effort)
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Kat
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 01 August 2002 : 10:12:05
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True, though I think the benefits of having a few people knock about some "possibilities" is worth it, espceially if it does in fact lead to finding a security leak.
The amount of attention the source code has had since the members.asp incident though I'd have guessed if there was any further issues they would have been identified by now.
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
5820 Posts |
Posted - 01 August 2002 : 10:33:23
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I've gotten this SCAM/SPAM message as well. I forwarded all emails with headers to ISP's that I could identify. Of course most of these bogus scams are bouncing off of unprotected email relay servers 
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Kat
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
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Wyrlin
Starting Member
USA
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 01 August 2002 : 15:15:19
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That email sounds like the good old "letter from <put name of country here>" and "fax from <put name of country here>" scam gone digital.
At work we get one of those letters every three or four months. I didn't have the patience to read that entire email, but it's usually about a big sum of money that has to be put in a, for them, foreign bank account to be then transferred somewhere else. You will get to keep 10% or something like that. All you have to do is give them total control over you bank account and you can get rich.
Yeah right! But believe it or not, people still fall for it and get tangled up with those criminal organisations.
I'm glad you posted that Kat.
Roland
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 01 August 2002 : 15:30:06
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I suspect it is possible to script it actually, I don't have time to test right now, but I've a hunch you can do it (allbeit with some effort)
www.daoc-halo.com
I think if it was scripted, there would be more than just a handfull of you who had them
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Rasco
Advanced Member
Germany
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Posted - 01 August 2002 : 16:14:30
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I remember to receive that mail, but it got trashed right away
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