HEADS UP!!! We have another SCAMMER
By AskAlly
@AskAlly (3625)
Canada
January 27, 2007 3:50pm CST
I accept this guy/girl as a friend. This is the PM I got and the reply I gave back
DO NOT FALL FOR THESE SCAMS
I sent the following accepting Obisco as a friend .......read on
Just to let you know, I have a very awesome group of friends that start quality discussions and give quality answers. We make good earnings this way by supporting eachother. If you would like to join my friends and make contributions and answer my discussions, then I will answer yours as well. I check my list frequently and non contributors are deleted . Welcome to Mylot :)
THIS IS THE REPLY FROM OBISCO
Dear,
i saw ure messge in my mail,and i really love to among ure friends list,i will like to introduce myself to u frist.
I am the The Head Of File Department,
African Development Bank A.D.B
Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso
West Africa,dat is my occupation and also were i work,i will love to know u the more and also wht ure doing for a living,cox i havesome thing i will really like to disscuss with u,which i think will be better if i send it to ure mail address,so i will alo love if u can send me ure mail address so i can send my message to u to read,this is my email address atikbassem@yahoo.com,so u can always mail me thpough it.
Thanks,
Atik Bessem,
I hope to hear from u soon.
I SENT THIS BACK
You and your kind have already been exposed at mylot. You made it on television as well. 60 Minutes, 20/20 and the national news.
Let me guess, you are unemployed and are sitting in an internet cafe trying to scam me of my hard earned money. Nice try.
I am goig to copy and paste this email on mylot for all 60,000 members to read.
DON'T TRY AND SCAM HERE AT MYLOT
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84 responses
@xXmeganxX (4421)
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27 Jan 07
wow, so i take it that spammers on mylot, lol you gave a good answer back, tho i would of said worse to that person, hehe. delete them from your friends list if you haven't already, don't waste your time on spammers, there a waste of space, and thanks for letting all of mylot know! :O)
4 people like this
@ashumit02 (818)
• United States
28 Jan 07
spamming is a trick to grow online business.the spammers are same as door to door seller.this is my view.if wrong then plz tell me
@Stephanie5 (2946)
• United States
28 Jan 07
Head of the file department and that's the best they can type out a response....WOW!! LOL
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@keepermykitty (2573)
• Canada
28 Jan 07
EXCELLENT CHOICE I am so glad I came across this who knwe people actually have the gumption to do this type of thing. Especially here, however I am new to MyLot but I would never try such a thing here or anywhere as far as that goes I would like to shake your hand.
Thanks for as you said the HEADS UP
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@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
27 Jan 07
Wow girl. That's something interesting. And you told her, I wish I had a medal to put on you. Thanks for posting that for us. Glad you caught it. Keep up the great work here. Glad you are my friend, and not my enemy. Hehhe.:)
2 people like this
@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
27 Jan 07
That's good. You don't want someone like that attatched to your list. Have a great day.
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@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
27 Jan 07
Not sure I follow what transpired that was scam. I am skeptical of the obisco anyway since from Africa and possibility of asking for money! So what did he ask for from you? Who was on tv, mylot or African bank thing? Am unclear. Appreciate you bringing this to our attention!
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@BunGirl (2638)
• United States
28 Jan 07
Willowlady, there are a lot of scams that have been going around similar to this for years now. They usually come from Nigeria, but recently I've seen more from other parts of Africa as well. If you want to read more about it check out this link: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp
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@AskAlly (3625)
• Canada
28 Jan 07
Thanks for the link bungirl.
Willowlady, it was the scammers that made the news not mylot. It is very common and shows no sign of letting up. These people ask you to help them get money out of thier country. They have a good sob story to go with it. There is always a bank transfer fee and once you pay it you never hear from them again.
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@lesterdsa (1638)
• India
28 Jan 07
I tell u who dares win's good u thought it to expose the e-mail mylot will be happy with u for doing so , so am i
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
28 Jan 07
Love the typos and all. LOL. What a bunch of melon heads. Funny how they still lurk in the shadows preying on anyone they can.
@suchetan230044 (618)
• India
28 Jan 07
well nice job man....but the big question is HOW DID YOU COPY AND PASTE???UMMM they have even fixed mozilla now.umm fishy...
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@lelabrown (217)
• United States
28 Jan 07
This has been going on for a very long time. I knew a nice couple that worked at an airline with me about 7 years ago. By the time they told me about this 'great' opportunity,they had already sent the $5000.00 to a guy in Africa:(
I told them it sounded like a huge scam,but they were aminent that is was legit....Until they were informed by the government that they would never see that money again.
Why can't people just get a job?!?!?!?!?
Lela
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@Tsquared (44)
• United States
28 Jan 07
Sad thing is there are people out there that fall for this. We run a western union here in town and have had several people come in to wire money all over the world, because of someone going to come live with them and marry them or they won the lottery etc......
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@joshrulez2 (44)
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28 Jan 07
Thanks for that information AskAlly and LOL at your reply, I am quite new here and will try and post as much as I can and to hopefully help out many people along my way.
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@howard96h (11640)
• New York, New York
28 Jan 07
These scammers are sending emails like this every day, they should be punished and arrested. I've read nothing can be done to them because they reside out of the US. Come on, with online technology they can easily find out who the scammers are and take action.
@ossie16d (11821)
• Australia
28 Jan 07
Thanks very much for pointing this out AskAlly and also for reporting it to myLot. Let us all hope that they do something about this sort of thing as it is no different to the other scammers who come here. I would say that this person chose the wrong member to send the message to in the first place and I wonder if they are working alone or in concert with others. How on earth could they actually think that they could get away with it is one of the things that I am wondering.
Of course there are some gullible people around who actually do send their personal information through to these scammers, but I think they are people who are not at all worldlywise or perhaps a little greedy.
Bravo Zulu AskAlly for a fine job in exposing this sort of thing. :)
@AskAlly (3625)
• Canada
28 Jan 07
I got suspicious when his points did not go up even before I replied to his friends request. He just had an avatar and 0 posts. I wonder how many other friends requests he made? MyLot got rid of him quickly, because I do not even see the pm in my message list anymore.
@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
4 Feb 07
yes. this is a good warning sign especially to newbies. i had been here for long and i had received scam messages, too.
@patootie (3592)
•
27 Jan 07
Giggles, they just keep on trying don't they ...!
Mind you I have actually been to Ouagadougou, Burkhina Faso (luckily it was in a nanosecond between wars) .. it's a pretty bleak place, I bet all the income the government of the day gets goes on arms and nice palaces for the President, and if I lived there I'd be doing all I could to get away too ..
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@sarahbeth1977 (384)
• United States
28 Jan 07
Ack, sorry - I just got the same one from this guy and didn't see that you had already posted something. I just posted something similar asking what I could do about it.
Sorry about that!!
@Seattle2007 (344)
• United States
5 Feb 07
Hi Ally...unfortunately, these Nigerian scammers are everywhere on the Internet...even surprisingly in fee-for-services products. Anyhow, here's how one person had a fun at the scammer's expense: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/78395856.html The person who had fun messing with the scammer used the characters from the TV show or movie "Duke's of Hazzard".
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@Seattle2007 (344)
• United States
6 Feb 07
isn't it?!!! I thought you'd appreciate this too. I only wish I saw the look of this scammer's face--priceless, wouldn't you think?!
