Fraud Email through my Cpod account
man2toe
August 05, 2007, 02:52 AM posted in General DiscussionIt got two of these emails today through my Cpod messages .
Cpod, whats going on with this.
http://potifos.com/fraud/
This is a COPY of the received EMAIL. DO ＮＯＴ BELIEVE ＩＴ
helenmack@aklan.com from: Helen Edward Tel:
+225 07 59 8653
Dearest, PLEASE REPLY ME WITH THIS PRIVATE EMAIL helenmack@aklan.com I know that this mail may come to you as surprise ,I am Mrs Helen Edward the wife to Dr Joe Edward the former director general of Sierra-leone Gold and diamond corporation who was assasinated by the rebels loyal to Foday Sankoh the (R U F)leader. I managed to escape my country with my son Mack. It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my Son (Mack)intend to establish in your country. 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 Fifteen million U.S dollars($15,000,000.00) which my late Husband kept for us with a Fiduciary Fund Holder in Abidjan Cote d\'Ivoire before he was assasinated by the Rebels in a one Metallic Trunk Box. Now I and my Son have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough for security and political reasons. We want you to help us claim and retrieve this box from the Fiduciary Fund Holders and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes in any areas. Now permit me to ask these few questions:- 1. Can you honestly help me as your Sister? 2. Can I completely trust you? If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you 10% Of the total fund. I await your soonest response. Respectfully yours, Mrs Helen Edward PLEASE REPLY ME WITH THIS PRIVATE EMAIL helenmack@aklan.com please my dear call my son mack on this line for more details +22507598653
maxiewawa
August 06, 2007, 01:07 AMI saw a 'the Chaser's War On Everything' stunt where one of the hosts tried to get the woman to marry him. He sent her love letters, trying to get her to commit to marriage. He kept harassing her so much that she eventually gave up on trying to get his money. He ended up sending her so many emails that SHE asked HIM to stop contacting her.
tianfeng
August 05, 2007, 03:15 AMI got them tọo
tianfeng
August 05, 2007, 03:15 AMNigerian?
leviathan
August 05, 2007, 03:21 AMSomeone has abused the free trial. i'm annoyed cause i have lots of junk on my email address. I think that chinesepod should create a referral system for the free trial. cause the email address is not verified on signup
davelandis
August 05, 2007, 03:28 AMI received it too. I'll simply mark it as spam. Cpod, if you folks could find a way to prevent this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thx!
Lantian
August 05, 2007, 03:44 AMI got it too. Sent a copy to Eileen. But do you think the $2,000 I deposited to their account will be enough for them to faciliate transferring the millions to me? I'm always willing to help out.
maxiewawa
August 05, 2007, 03:49 AMIn 'the Chaser's War On Everything' they try to get senders of these messages interested in a romantic relationship. It was really funny how they tried to fraud the fraudsters.
aeflow
August 05, 2007, 03:56 AMI guess rebels get pretty ornery when they're stuck inside a metallic trunk box for too long. Next time, invest in a good padlock.
frank
August 05, 2007, 04:12 AMYep, I got one, too. Has anyone ever been foolish enough to fall for this Nigerian thing?
leviathan
August 05, 2007, 03:04 AMi have 4 in my inbox
yanou
August 05, 2007, 03:23 PMI got it too, once through cpod, once directly to my e-mail address.
wei1xiao4
August 05, 2007, 03:32 PMI also got one. Now how do I block it?
bazza
August 05, 2007, 03:33 PMI think I got it 4 times, aren't I lucky? ;)
dlfr
August 05, 2007, 07:28 PMI received it too.
henning
August 05, 2007, 07:36 PMAnyone here collecting those? http://server-wg.de:8080/nigeria/inhalt_a_z.html
leviathan
August 05, 2007, 08:19 PMhelenmack2000@yahoo.ca returned "This Yahoo! Account Has Been Deactivated" it would be cool if i could grab their ip address. helenmack@aklan.com is a fake email address.
rich
August 05, 2007, 10:14 PMI actually saw a 20/20 or 60-minutes or whatever the show was that the reporter went undercover and acted as if he was interested in making an investment with this "Nigerian woman" who even sent him pictures and a bio of who she was. You may wonder, why don't they quit saying they are from Nigeria and use another country at least? Because they are actually located in Nigeria... the report even had someone go in as a spy to where banks of computers are being used by Nigerians to constantly be sending out these kind of emails, and they need to apparently actually be there for this scam to work. Sad sad sad.
lydia1981
August 05, 2007, 10:26 PMthought someone from C-pod was so nice to send me an email, then I got this junkmail from 'Helen Edward' too :-(
leviathan
August 05, 2007, 04:22 AMMostly old people and the mentally ill fall for scams like this! Nigerian, Canadian . disposable email addresses are good for combating spam!
leviathan
August 05, 2007, 03:02 AMi think i know who's behind this. just block the emails