Spam, Spam, Spam...
user76423
June 02, 2009, 05:29 PM posted in General DiscussionToday I received this message in my CPod Inbox:
Hello My Dear. My name is Miss Vicky Mohamed, from Liberia I am 24 years,I know this mail will come as a surprise to you. i saw your profile today at () when i was looking for someone that can be a good and trusted friend, so i decided to contact you, and i hope you will be able to assist me in this.Please after reading this mail have pity on me. It is my pleasure communicating with you for the first time and believing that it will lead to a better relationship between us. I have an inheritance that my late father left for me in an international bank out side my country, before the death of my father on march 2006 in a hospital in Monrovia during the last crisis in my country Liberia, when the rebels came to my father and mother in our house and killed both of them, because my father was a politician, but before his death after two days of that attack, He secretly called me on his sick bed side and told me that he has a fund deposited in the bank that is containing (4.8 million dollars) which i am the next of kin as the only child of my parents. I would want to invest it in your country and also to complete my education under your care which i stopped because of the crisis. I want you to stand as my father's business partner in claiming the fund from the bank as i am still under age to claim the money from the bank before it is too late. I am ready to compasate you with 10% of the total sum if only you will assist me to transfer the fund from the bank to your account and assist me also in investing the money in any lucrative business and 5% is set aside for any expences that will arise during the transaction. I will give you more details and forward all vital information as soon as I hear your positive respond,this is my private e-mail address (vicky_mo1@yahoo.com) Best Regards. Vicky
ChinesePod seems to be a nice place to spam around, and CPod seems to do nothing against it, or?
What do you think - should CPod fight back and automatically purge such stuff?
BEBC
February 08, 2010, 07:22 PMHave you noticed how bababardwan is keeping schtum ? He lives in the land of opportunity, you know. So many sheep and so little time :)
sydcarten
June 03, 2009, 12:45 AMI got something very similar myself. The names and minor details change over time, but the tired old story remains the same
mark
June 03, 2009, 05:19 AM我也收到了。那种污染很普遍的而非常难避免。总之，自由地沟通有价格。
with_stupid
June 03, 2009, 05:31 AMHey, check this out! It's a website to tease fraudters like these for fun and revenge!
matt_c
June 03, 2009, 05:44 AMThis message went out to quite a few of you. We have deleted the user form the system and are looking into ways to better protect the system, and you, from further attacks.
sydcarten
June 03, 2009, 06:53 AMOne variation of the Nigerian scam I once received claimed to be authored by a 19 year old Saudi Arabian princess who was going to need a big strong man to 'protect' her once she deserted her family and fled to the West.
Had to laugh at that, the implication was that there was more on offer than just the $20mil !
miantiao
June 03, 2009, 09:25 AM哈哈哈， i pmed her and asked for her vital statistics and about other er, mmm, requirements that i have. said i wasn't interested in her money, just wanted her body. haven't had a reply yet. but i'm sure she has booty!
mickeytoon
June 03, 2009, 01:26 PMSo to be absolutely clear here (as I have my finger hovering over the button ready to send Miss Vicky an e-mail with my credit card details), the CPod community think this is a scam? Such a shame. I thought it was an fantastic money making opportunity!
Seriously though, does anyone ever fall for these cons? I can't believe anyone would not see through this one - it's about as believable as a politician's expenses claim!
Tal
June 03, 2009, 01:43 PMThose who fall for it would never up own up I guess. And there's always someone, otherwise how could these things just run and run the way they do?
bababardwan
June 03, 2009, 12:38 AMHey,I thought I was the only one specially selected.So what I now wanna know is do I still get my 10% plus expenses or do I have to split it with the rest of you guys?
EmmaLouise1
February 07, 2010, 01:02 PMYes, Hape, I got that same email!
oumaesofia@yahoo.com
Hello
I saw your profile today and it was so good to me.u know that i am interested to be a friend first.i also believe that coming to you will be a probability of meeting that very love that has been lacking in my entire life. please i will like you to contact me direct to my e-mail address,
oumaesofia@yahoo.com i dont know the posebility of remaing in forum for long time,i will give you a full introduction of my self with my pictures ok. i will be waiting for your mail to my e-mail adsdress
oumaesofia@yahoo.com as you know
there is no age,race,colour n religion bar when it comes to true love,
cares Sofia.
Is there a button we can press to block users/spam? I heard from someone that there was but I searched for one on the users profile but couldn't find one.
user76423
February 07, 2010, 02:00 PMYou can block users within the email, there is a link!
But nobody knows whether blocking really works or not.
EmmaLouise1
February 07, 2010, 04:18 PMAh, okay, thanks hape! ^^ I'll have a look. It's worth a go even if it doesn't work.
WillBuckingham
February 07, 2010, 05:34 PMNow I'm jealous. Until reading this, I assumed that I was the very love lacking in Sofia's entire life. Now I find that several other folks are as well. That's what I call fickle.
It's probably worth letting CPod know about spam by email (rather than just blocking), so that users who abuse the system can be removed. I sent an email this morning.
EmmaLouise1
February 07, 2010, 07:41 PMHaha, bad luck thinkbudda! It's even worse for me since Sofia's gone for me but I'm a girl! :/ Seems she's not fussy either way... haha
That's a good idea about sending an email to CPod. I'll bare that in mind next time someone else proclaims their love to me via PM :P haha
go_manly
February 07, 2010, 08:23 PM"there is no age,race,colour n religion bar when it comes to true love"
That (or variations on it) seems to be a common theme - I have received a lot of spam emails from sources other than CPOD ending with that sentence.
Surely the solution is simple - CPOD should block the private messaging ability for non-paying members. Why would a non-spammer, trying out the site for the first time, even think of sending a private message in his first 7 days.
Perhaps allow them to PM members of the CPod team only.
BEBC
February 07, 2010, 09:02 PM"there is no age,race,colour n religion bar when it comes to true love"
Is there a species bar ?
mickeytoon
Apparently not........
I fell in love with an alien being
whose skin was jelly, whose teeth were green.
She had the big bug eyes and the death-ray glare,
feet like water wings, purple hair.
I was over the moon, I asked her back to my place,
then I married the monster from outer space
The days were numbered, the nights were spent
in a rent-free, furnished oxygen tent,
when a cyborg chef served up moon beams,
done super rapid on a laser beam.
I needed nutrition to keep up the pace
when I married the monster from outer space
(John Cooper Clarke - (I married a) Monster from Outer Space)
BEBC
Have you noticed how bababardwan is keeping schtum ? He lives in the land of opportunity, you know. So many sheep and so little time :)
mickeytoon
February 07, 2010, 10:03 PMApparently not........
I fell in love with an alien being
whose skin was jelly, whose teeth were green.
She had the big bug eyes and the death-ray glare,
feet like water wings, purple hair.
I was over the moon, I asked her back to my place,
then I married the monster from outer space
The days were numbered, the nights were spent
in a rent-free, furnished oxygen tent,
when a cyborg chef served up moon beams,
done super rapid on a laser beam.
I needed nutrition to keep up the pace
when I married the monster from outer space
(John Cooper Clarke - (I married a) Monster from Outer Space)
user76423
February 07, 2010, 12:44 PMToday I received again 2 spam mails from ChinesePod in my email inbox, although I set "Forward Incoming Messages to Email?" to NO.
Hello
I saw your profile today and it was so good to me.u know that i am interested to be a friend first.i also believe that coming to you will be a probability of meeting that very love that has been lacking in my entire life. please i will like you to contact me direct to my e-mail address,
oumaesofia@yahoo.com i dont know the posebility of remaing in forum for long time,i will give you a full introduction of my self with my pictures ok. i will be waiting for your mail to my e-mail adsdress
oumaesofia@yahoo.com as you know
there is no age,race,colour n religion bar when it comes to true love,
cares Sofia. (User "sofiauu")
There must be something wrong with the system because this setting is not obeyed!
mickeytoon
June 02, 2009, 08:16 PMI'm sure a lot of the CPod community got this too (I did). I'm also sure CPod will do the right thing with the culprit. In the meantime, best just to delete, block the user and forget.