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Saildad
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 Posted - 07/22/2011 : 07:00:21 AM
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Hey did you all get this one? I am glad it wasnt packing a virus because it got right thru the fiewalls
Hello Saildad
You received the following message from: tinakoutoua (tinakoutoua0@yahoo.com)
At: http://www.SouthCoastAPA.com/snitz/
From Miss Tina Koutoua Tegro
I am From Lome Togo West Africa,
Please try to copy my private email address use it to reply me back.
t_koutoua@yahoo.com
My Dear,
In confidence,I have to introduce myself for I am Miss Tina Koutoua Tegro, the only child of late Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Koutoua Tegro, I wish to request for your assistance in my efforts to procure the transfer of my inherited funds for investment ventures Overseas which was secured in one prime bank here in my country by my father before his death.
The amount is five million dollars( $5.000.000.00 ) Deposited in a Suspense account with one prime bank here in my country with my name as the next of kin to the deposit, I will require your assistance in receiving the transfer of the funds in your local bank account for investment purposes. As it is my desire to come over to your country to further my education after the transfer while you take care of the investment of the money.I will be glad to offer you a reasonable ratio for your co-operation in investing this money and everything is going to be under your care while i am in school to accomplish my studies. Please and please I will be highly appreciated if you can return to me with urgent dispatch with my private email to enable me contact you with more details.
I await to receive your immediate response.
My Kind Regards!
Miss Tina Koutoua Tegro.
Bad times.
Hope the filters for the APA site are working |
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Phil
USA
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Posted - 07/22/2011 : 10:06:46 AM
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Impressive. A spam bot that knows how many little pigs there were and can create a user account that requires clicking on a link in an email message. More likely a human who created the account, then fed the credentials and the answer to the security question to a bot that went through the member list and sent the spam. I got a "test" email in addition to the scam email, since I am at the top of the member list...
It's no more dangerous than any other message that finds its way into your inbox, though. Less dangerous, actually, because they don't get to see your email address UNLESS YOU REPLY TO THE MESSAGE.
I have locked the user account so they can't use it again. It won't prevent them from creating a different account with a different email address, so lets hope they don't return. If they do, I will have to turn off the email capability of the message board or switch to CAPTCHA security, which I detest.
Phil
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Bogus email
