Spam?

To the moderator,

I receive this message posing as a member with replies to channeled to BD .net but when I searched, she is not a member. How did she break in?

>Hello dear,
angza @ Boat Design Forums <angelazack60@gmail.com>
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Mon 11:50 AM
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This is the message:

Please I’m seeking for your assistance, because I believe you will not betray the trust which I am going to lay on you, Hope all is well with you and other members of your family.

Angela Zack is my name and I’m 18 years old girl. The only child/daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Zack. My father was a highly reputable business magnet-(a cocoa and gold merchant) who operated during his days in Africa and Europe. It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad on 12th. November 2012 when I was just 14 years old, though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of his who traveled with him at that time, but God knows the truth. My mother died when I was so little and I was raised by single parent.

Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding to succeed sometimes in life. There is amount of one million two hundred U.S dollars ($1.200m) which my late father Mr. Zack kept in a suspense account with one of the Bank here in Cote d’Ivoire. My father’s best friend told me not let any of our relations to know about this because he was killed by them and if they know about it, they will do nothing but to trace and kill me in other to take everything. He told me that I should seek for an Trustworthy person who will help me to transfer the money and also travel with him or her in other to continue my Life and finish my Education and also to start a Business relationship with the person, who can take care of me in the future

I am just 18 years old and a university undergraduate and really don't know what to do. The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life, my dear, I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards and your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.

Now permit me to ask these few questions,

1. Can I completely trust you?
2. Can you accept me as your own blood person?
Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible with your full assurance that you will not disappoint me in this issue so that I can put you in contact with the bank where my late Father deposited the money. So that after the successful transfer of the money, I will join you to finish my education in your country. I will offer you 20% of the total money if it is transferred into your account. Email angelzack60@gmail.com

Thank you so much for your understanding and may almighty God bless you and your Amen

My sincere regards,
Angela.<

 

What, no Nigerian Prince?

What's sad is there are probably still folks who may fall for this.

It's the Deep Net fishing to find the Derp Net.

 

It took me a second reading whether this is a scam or not so I checked the members file to see if s/he exist as a member. Wonder how s/he manage to make it appear its from http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/?

 

Good question.

Aside: if the scammers had REALLY been on their game, given the nature of this forum, the inheritance should have involved the likes of a classic Herreshoff or Garwood presently in immaculate condition but in dangerous circumstances ... rather than a miserable pile of cash....

 

This spam user's forum account was already terminated from the site yesterday so no longer appears in the member list.

(Added: If the email was received this morning, it may have been delayed due to greylisting or otherwise delayed due to spam filters but it had already been sent. I should also note that the member list only displays members with more than 1 post on the public forum.)

It appears this user signed up only to send junk mail to other members.

Sorry about that.

 

It's been a while since I've seen the 'African Letter' but sure enough like rx I got this one. Took all of 0.1 seconds to see what it was!.

Thanks for removing the source, though of course they may now have our e-mail address...

 

Receive Email from Other Members is disabled by default on new accounts, but can be enabled or disabled under UserCP Options.

If you then replied via email or the email link to him, he would have your email address, so I would recommend not replying.