FRAUDSTER BY THE NAME SARAH2016

[Themetropolitainline]

EVERYBODY NEEDS TO BE CAREFUL OF SARAH2016. I just had an email from this new profile with the typical sad story nd wanting investment,also asking me not to talk to anybody else and also chat privately by her/his private email... REPORT AND IGNORE ANYTHING FROM THIS PERSON

[Themetropolitainline]

COPY OF EMAIL

Sent Today, 11:30 PM

From Miss Sarah Anthony
Lome Togo .

(CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE)

Dearest One,

Good thing to write you. I have a proposal for you. This however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will.

I am Miss Sarah Anthony , the only daughter of my late parents Mr and Mrs Edward Anthony. My father was a highly reputable business magnet-(a Cocoa Merchant,Diamond and Gold Dealer) who operated in the capital of Lome Togo during his days. It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad.

Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of his who travelled with him at that time. But God knows the truth! My mother died when I was just 4 years old, and since then my father took me so special.

Before his death, he called the secretary who accompanied him to the hospital and told him that he has the sum of Seventeen Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars.(USD$17.7M) deposited in SECURITY COMPANY in Lome Togo.

For more details, Reply direct to my private E-mail ID: 

sarah2016anthony@gmail.com

He further told him that he deposited the Consignment in my name as the next of kin and he registered the Consignment as Family Values and finally issued a written instruction to his lawyer whom he said is in possession to handle all the necessary legal documents of the
Consignment which he deposited in the SECURITY COMPANY and he instructed the lawyer to handover the documents to me whenever I need it.

I am a university undergraduate and really don't know what to do. Now I want a foreign partner who assists me to retrieve this Consignment from the SECURITY COMPANY in Lome Togo .

This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in Lome Togo. The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life. I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards.

Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.

Now permit me to ask these few questions:-

1.Can you kindly tell me what the type of a profitable venture this
fund will used to invest avoid waste of it.
2). Can you honestly help me as your daughter?
3). Can I completely trust you?
4). What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for
you after you have collected this consignment on my behalf?

Thanks and remain blessed,

waiting to hear from you,

Yours Sincerely,

Miss Sarah Anthony.

For more details, Reply direct to my private E-mail ID: 

sarah2016anthony@gmail.com

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[serotta1972]

I got a message too. Deleted!

[Das Steinkopf]

Got the message and deleted it straight away.

[cteno4]

Sorry was out this afternoon. Sarah is zapped!

 

Any suspect posts please use the report function at the bottom of a message. This is the best way to alert admin of a problem like this. You can also pm an admin (Martijn, densha, or myself) if you have any questions or concerns. If it's a post please don't add posts of the message being spam, the report is more direct to get it taken care of.

 

AFAIK that was they first time a spammer got on the forum and used the pm system to send stuff to folks. No way to prevent that until some messages are posted or pms sent that alert us that the user is a spambot.

 

No worries the forum system does not divulge any info other than what you put in your profile. Your email address you signed up with is kept private and the forum software sends you the pm notice so the spammer never sees it. Of course if you put info in your footer that will be public as we are a public forum, so I would council not putting any personal info in there.

 

Just report and delete any spams like this. We erase them from the forum.

 

This was obviously a human spambot to sign up then start sending pms! I guess it jsut takes one bite in order to pay for months of doing this! I expect our members are savvy enough to be suspicious of this. But if anyone ever does have any suspicions of anything just report it or pms us and we will investigate straight away.

 

Thanks!

 

Jeff

 

Ps email account also reported to gmail

Edited September 15, 2016 by cteno4

[Edo-San]

message gone to the ashpit

[Martijn Meerts]

These were sent using the PM system?

 

If that's the case, there probably is the option to disable the PM system until someone has x amount of posts, but I'm not sure that's really a good idea.

[kvp]

If x is set for example to 2, that's reasonable. I would say disabling the posting of external links until at least 3 posts, would also help to get rid of the spammers. Or just set all posts _with_links_ to 'manually moderated' below 3 posts, which would automatically ban spammers. (Of course i don't know if these are actually simple options or require modifications in the software.)

[HantuBlauLOL]

These were sent using the PM system?

 

If that's the case, there probably is the option to disable the PM system until someone has x amount of posts, but I'm not sure that's really a good idea.

not a good idea imho.. but 1-2 post might works.

[Melandir]

 

COPY OF EMAIL

Sent Today, 11:30 PM

From Miss Sarah Anthony

Lome Togo .

 

(CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE)

 

Dearest One,

 

Good thing to write you. I have a proposal for you. This however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will.

 

I am Miss Sarah Anthony , the only daughter of my late parents Mr and Mrs Edward Anthony. My father was a highly reputable business magnet-(a Cocoa Merchant,Diamond and Gold Dealer) who operated in the capital of Lome Togo during his days. It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad.

 

Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of his who travelled with him at that time. But God knows the truth! My mother died when I was just 4 years old, and since then my father took me so special.

 

Before his death, he called the secretary who accompanied him to the hospital and told him that he has the sum of Seventeen Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars.(USD$17.7M) deposited in SECURITY COMPANY in Lome Togo.

 

For more details, Reply direct to my private E-mail ID: 

 

sarah2016anthony@gmail.com

 

........

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

Miss Sarah Anthony.

 

For more details, Reply direct to my private E-mail ID: 

 

sarah2016anthony@gmail.com

 

This is the old African scam,

If my memory still stand, the first time I saw it was over 20 years ago

[cteno4]

I don't think we need to do anything just yet as this many not occur again. The if it does it may require a couple of posts before activating it. We can see if it happens again.

 

Seems like a waste of time to try these this way, but just takes one to pay off! And one is born every minute to coin a phrase!

 

Jeff

[JR 500系]

This type of scam is still pretty rampant in Sillypore, and we do have some folks still falling for it... 

[velotrain]

One option might be to automatically moderate the first X posts from any new member - many forums do this.

 

If this is clearly announced, it might discourage spammers from even trying.