Completely OT, But kind of important. Did anyone get one through ABJD email?

[Ai Kazi]

Hi Everyone, I know this is kind of OT from abjds, but It was recieved through the Resinality email and I was concerned. Scamming is a serious thing and I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this through Resinality...so I thought it best to post this and ask if anyone else had gotten this same email.

I looked up in the member index if there was actually a flo123 and did not find one.

This is a message from flo123 at Resinality (
http://www.abjds.com/forum/index.php ). The Resinality owners cannot
accept any responsibility for the contents of the email.
This is the message:

From Florence Koneal
Avenue 16 Rue
Treichville Abidjan Ivory coast,

Hello dearest one,after going through your profile i decided to contact
you to help me out of my problem,however is not mandatory nor will i
in any manner compel you to honour against your will,but i promise you
that you will never regret helping me or knowing me, i hope and pray
that our friendship will be a happy and lovely happy one,I am Florence
Koneal 19 years old girl now, i was born on the 7of january 1989. to the
family of Mr and Mrs Koneal
my father name is Chief Mr Koneal, he is a very wealthy cocoa merchant
who based in ACCRA and ABIDJAN respectively,and my mothers name is
Chief Mrs Esthel Koneal,I am there only child,when i was a kid i went to a
private schools and things were going on well for me and my parents
till when i was in high school when my mother died on the 18 ST october
1995.

My father took me so special because i am motherless,and he shower all
his love on me and promised me that he will never take another woman
because he did not want any problem for me,but has fate may have it,I
lost him mysteriously after his last business trip to France last
year,though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been
masterminded by my uncle who travelled with him at that time,But only God
knows the truth,on the day he died in the hospital he called me on his bed
side that i should be very careful with his brothers and sisters
and/his business partners that they are the people that planned and
poisoned him acording to the doctors report.

He also and told me that he kept a sum of $10.300 000 dollar in a bank
in Abidjan Cote D'ivoire,and used my name as the next of kin in
depositing of the fund,he also explained to me that it was because of this
money he was poisoned by his business partner and his big brother my
uncle and that i should seek for foreign partner in a country of my choice
where i would transfer this money and use it for investment purpose,
such as,real estate investment or stock market investment,plesae,i am
honourably soliciting your kind assistance as follows,in case if he did
not survive the sickness.


1)To provide a bank account where this money will be transfered into.


2)To serve as the guardian of these fund,since i am 19 years old girl.


3)To make arrangement for me in your country to continue my educational
career and to

procure me a residential permit in your country.I am inclined to offer
you 15% of the total sum as a mode of compensation for your effort
after the successful transfering of these fund to your nominated account
overseas.Pleasei will be very happy if this transaction will be
concluded as soon as posible so that i can come over to your country and start
my new life and also finish my education, I am expecting to hear from
you as soon as possible, please reply me back to my private box
florencekoneal@yahoo.com May Almighty God bless you as you do care
for me Amen.


Best regard
Florence



Again, to the moderators...Delete and move if you deem necessary. I was just concerned since..well it's rather odd. and I was just wondering if anyone else got something similar.

[rattimoth]

yeah, I just got one.. was about to find a mod's address to report it.. looks like we have someone who is harvesting member emails :/

Seek peace

Carol

[decadentarisu]

That looks incredibly fishy... :/ I guess I'll have to go with Carol's opinion and say that there is someone sneaking through people here in the forum.

[Rai_Kamishiro]

I just got one today....... has this been reported yet?

[Ravendancer26.2]

I got one too. What a joke ... I hope no body takes this seriously. I haven't even been on Resinality in a few months either, so this is particularly stange in my opinion. -_________-;;;

[Pheonix]

This is actually a serious scam. I get them at work constantly, and I know people who have been scammed by these things. There's always millions of dollars in an account that they need to access, no heir, or some kind of descendant. It's ALWAYS A LIE. These type of scammers are SO annoying, because they try to tell you that for a small investment they will give you a huge return, and people are sucked in by these.

I personally haven't recieved this email, but I can guarantee it is a scammer. Sometimes they will even email you back a month or so later telling you that they found someone who helped them, and they got the money, and HA HA sucks to be you, basically. Lies. All of them Lies.

[Hitasura]

Argh~! Thank you for alerting us to this! It's definitely not something I would trust at all! I'm going through the forum settings right now to see what I can do to prevent this from happening any more. I will also be banning that email in the message as well.

For everyone who received this: Did they all come from flo123?

Added: There is a registered member under that name here, and they have been banned. Double-checking everything to make sure they can't send out any more messages.

[Ai Kazi]

It was my pleasure. ^^

It was just odd to see it coming from a abjd forum... I'm glad the user has been banned. Scamming is a serious matter ~ ~

[Loki's Mom]

Originally Posted by Pheonix

This is actually a serious scam. I get them at work constantly, and I know people who have been scammed by these things.

Ditto on this.. I get them in my Yahoo email accounts all the time.
You know the saying, if it sounds too good to be true... And not only does this sound too good, it sounds.. wrong somehow. Why would someone whom you don't know email you out of the blue to hold on to a huge sum of money for them. That alone should scream scam..

Originally Posted by Ai Kazi

....I am Florence Koneal 19 years old girl now, i was born on the 7of january 1989. ....when i was a kid i went to a private schools and things were going on well for me and my parents till when i was in high school when my mother died on the 18 ST october 1995....

Okay, maybe they have different names for school over there but high school to me usually means teenagers. If she says she was born in 1989 and her mother died in 1995 that would make her 6 years old but says her mother died when she was in high school. So, there's another red flag.

At any rate, these things are always scams trying to get you to part with money. Never, ever believe them. No one gives you money for doing next to nothing (although in this case she's asking you to sponsor her to your country which means you need to send her lots of money to do that).

LM

[Edtel]

Oh, yeah. Totally a scam. Trust me on this one. NOBODY BELIEVE IT. I've been receiving variations of this e-mail for years. It's known as the Nigerian or 419 scam.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp

You don't know what these scammers will do if you come in personal contact with them, so it's best to just report the e-mail or delete it.

[dragonesskirra]

Definetly a scam, they send those things all the time but I haven't seen any thruogh doll sites yet...I guess they ran out of ideas.
Report it thought your email service if they have it available, [msn does it].

whenever people ask for things like that its a scam. They got a few people with the first batch of letters but now its more common.

what people wont do... greed is peoples downfall.

[chiron2]

Another scam-geez!! I hate that people do that;[