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I just received a scam email and thought I'd share in case anyone receives anything similar. It's a definite scam, and not a very good one at that, but I know some people get caught out.

Here's the email:

Mr. Cherif Soro.
Assemble of God Mission Chr.
Lot 4521 Ilot 85 ,Koumassi 32
Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire

Good-Day.
Mr Cherif Soro is my name a citizen of IVORY COAST Africa I belive you are the rightful person to assist me and my Sister without any problem or betrayal of trust among each other and I want you to know that it is the spirit of the Almighty God that directed us to you.

This is to introduce you into project of transfering the sum of ($10.5million) .,which I needed it to leave here soon regarding the same political problem if not we shall lose it.

However,the fund belonged to my late father Engr.Alex Konan Soro) but he died due to the political problem .please if my proposal accept kindly send your full informations to further you in more details I needed your assistance.

Mean while hope to talk about your percentage in the next mail,,,Enclose your full contact details for more trust.

Best regards
Cherif Soro.

Stay sharp people!

Wayne

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated - 25th August

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Ah yes! The Nigerian/419 scam see here : Nigeria - The 419 Coalition Website

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"I prefer rogues to imbeciles as they sometimes take a rest" (Alexander Dumas)

Thanks Wayne, I'm sure if you hadn't said anything, I might have sent my full informations, for more trust....

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Sarah

http://wixypixies.blogspot.com/

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

Don't thank me, thank the spirit of the Almighty God!

I know I'm MOM an all, but still...

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated - 25th August

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I think you are so unkind.

Al these nice people write to me and promise me loadsofmoney... and they're from Nigeria.. who says charity begins at home?

I'm still waiting for my 5% of the $300 million stolen in 1981, in 1982, in 1983, in 1984...........

Well me and Charles Taylor, son of the ousted leader of Libya, are like that. I think I get to be Queen once that lovely family are reinstated.

I have to say I found these emails totally funny, until someone on another messageboard I post on told us of his father and how he believed the emails he was getting to be true and had been sending them money. Difficult to believe really.......so I still laugh but not quite as much.

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

Most of these scams are blatantly obvious, but I received the following on Wednesday. Its a bit more worrying. It mentions the Lottery and Camelot, is in better English than the usual scams:-

YOU HAVE WON.

The Camelot Group,:
Operators of The National Lottery,
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD
REF Nº: UKL/74-A0802742008
BATCH Nº: 2008UKL-01

We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer
balloting held on 21st January 2008. This is a Millennium Scientific
Computer Game in which email addresses were used. It is promotional
program by Great Britain aimed at encouraging internet users;
therefore you do not need to buy ticket to enter for it. You
have been approve for the star prize of £891,934.00(Eight hundred
and ninty-one thousand, nine hundred and thirty-four Great Britain
pounds) in the 2nd category.

To claim your winning prize you are to contact the below appointed
Casino agent as soon as possible for the immediate release of your
winnings:

Telephone lines are open between the hours of 8.00am - 9.30pm on
Monday through Saturday

Customer Service Unit,
Telephone: +44-703-194- 7341
Reply email: ukclaims20089@yahoo.co.uk
Contact person: MR.FRED MARTINS.

You must contact the appointed agent with the below informations:
VERIFICATION FORM
1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________
2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________
_______________________________________________
3.SEX:__________
4.AGE:__________
5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________
6.OCCUPATION:_______________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:__________________________
9.AMOUNT WON:______________________
10. COUNTRY________________________________
OFFICE USE ONLY
Verified by:________________
Confirmed by: ________________
CLAIMS AGENTS SIGNATURE:________________ via email to process the
immediate payment of
your prize.
The Validity period of the winnings is for 15 working days hence
you are expected to make your claims immediately.

Once again congratulations !!!

At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,
Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor
Online Games Director
UK NATIONAL-LOTTERY


INTERNET SWEEPTSTAKES LOTTERY COORDINATOR


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valmarg

i got an ivory coast one too!!


ann

stinkers eh?

I got one claiming to be from the tax office, binned that straight away!

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I get them all the time, you've won the lottery, please help us to get funds out of the country, fake charities etc. etc. I got one once in the post as well from one of the lottery scams & googled it to see how common it was & should I report it. I got one discussion board where a memeber was claiming it was genuine & that he'd sent the amount of money off & received a large amount in return, luckily everyone else on the board asked him how long he'd worked for the 'fake' lottery etc. , they really will try anything!

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Into every life a little rain must fall.

As if a lottery organisation would have a yahoo email address! I say if people are stupid enough to fall for it, then that's cool! It's a bit like natural selection.

Funny that they should use the lottery to try and con people - I always thought that was Camelot's job. Call me a cynic...

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Resistance is fertile

The person I mentioned before who posted that his dad had become entrapped in one of these scams also talked about the detrimental affect it was having on the rest of their family.

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

I used to get them at work - a school address. I don't get them at all through my own private email - good filtering I reckon.

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It takes more oil than vinegar to make a good salad dressing.

vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated Sept 2nd 2008

Ouch! That's a little bit harsh. The sad fact is that it's largely the vulnerable who are caught out by this sort of thing. Most of the ones I've had have been laughable (see above) but some do sound plausible, especially if you're not quite 'with it'.

I had one say it was from paypal and my account had been breached by a thrid party and for security i needed to email two forms of id a copy of my driving liscence and a house hold bill / bank statment so they can varify my account and unfreeze it. funny how when i log on to paypal it didn't say any of that. the email had also highjacked paypal address and came from same place as the receipts do, good job i don't even trust myself else i might have done it.

Ok, I'm running a competition for the best anagram of the bloke's name. Cherif Soro....Hmmm, keep it clean guys

Riches Roof

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Why keep a dog when you can bark yourself !

our lottie won the spanish lottery the other week according to the e-mail we got

How about ERR COO FISH

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/

I've got home to this:-


"Attention,

Please be informed that I have Paid for the delivery fee for your Cheque Draft. But the manager of Intercontinental Bank Plc told me that before the check will get to you that it will expire. So i told him to cash $800,000.00. all the necessary arrangement of delivering the $800, 000.00 in cash was made with FEDEX COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY. so they have aggreed to send it to you.

Below is the needed information to enable them deliver the fund to you immediately. the only fee you have to pay to them is $100 usd that they will use in obtaining the fund's insurance certificate and claims of affadvite that will prove that this parcel consist of total sum of $800.000.00 belong to you. Then be rest assure that all other fees have been paid by me.

1.YOUR FULL NAME
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS
3.YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE
6.COMPANY REGISTRATION NO AF70945
7.CODE NUMBER 2178234

Now contact FEDEX COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY'S DIRECTOR Mr. Cambell Desmond at onlinefedex@gmail.com for the sending of the fund to you. Please make sure you send the above needed information to them.

Note: The FEDEX COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY LTD don't know the contents of the Box. I registered it as a Box of family valuable belongs. They don't know it contents fund. this is to avoid them delaying with the Box.

Besides, don't let them know that is money that is in that Box.I am waiting for your urgent response.

Thanks.
Bruno Brawn. "

Yeah, yeah. Yawn.

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"I prefer rogues to imbeciles as they sometimes take a rest" (Alexander Dumas)

OH! Bother I'll have to try again?

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There is no such thing as truth. People who really know what happened aren't talking. And the people who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.
Tom Waits

Hi
I used to know someone who worked with a group trying to counter these fraud emails. They would enter into bizarre correspondence, promising all sorts, elaborating how to get their money they would be coming to Nigeria directly bringing various relations, needing accomodation, hard matresses for bad backs, diabetic food, south facing windows etc, the scammers got more and more annoyed but didn't want to give up just in case, took them ages to catch on.
Sue