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May 22, 2004 at 8:34 am #3656Jeff HesterKeymaster
Once every year or two, some knucklehead scum bag tries to pull some nonsense here. You’ve probably seen the old Nigerian-policitician’s-surviving-family email scam, where they promise to share millions of dollars with you. Who on earth possibly could fall for these stories is beyond me — thankfully our BigBlueBall members are a bit more saavy. You already know that if it looks, like a scam, smells like a scam, and tastes like a scam, it’s probably a scam.
And yet, some people keep trying.
I got an email alert from Brian, one of our sharp-eyed members, informing me that someone who registered as peter122 had emailed him another variation of the same old scam.
I’ve locked the account of peter122, and reported him to Yahoo (his email provider) but I could not track his IP address (recorded as 196.201.64.242) back to his ISP.
For reference, here is the scam he emailed:
Quote:quote:
Original Message
From: “peter122”To: “Brian”
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 6:06 AM
Subject: Sent From BigBlueBall Forums by peter122> Hello Brian
>
> You received the following message from: peter122
([email protected])
>
> At: https://bigblueball.com/forums/
>
> FROM PETER ADAMS
> +[EDIT: REMOVED PHONE NUMBER]
> Dear belove one,
>
> MY name is PETER ADAMS age 27 a student of computer science. I am writing
> with deep sorrow and weeping concerning my condition of living here. My
> life is in danger crying for your help in a family of seven (7) concerning
> the death of my father and brother. My father is ANTHONY ADAMS a well
known
> rich man. we are occupaying a small village near abidjan capital city of
> (cote d ivoire) being a well known cocao and coffe producer a transporter,
> gold and diamond dealer.
>
> The sudden disapearation of our father and brother brought our family
separation
> from each other, but for me I am with a pastor at bassam a town close to
> abidjan. On the 9th of may 2002 my father was arrested by unknown soldiers
> at about 8pm when we were taking our dinner in the presence of our mother
> and his children they kill him and his body were not seen till today,
after
> his arresting my elder brother 30, went in search of him was beaten and
> he became parallised of which he later died in the hospital here.
>
> On that night my father was arrested, the soldiers looted our home, took
> away my father coffre-fort (save) contaning his jewelries and money valued
> over fifty five million fca (55,000,000fca) it was after the second
raiding
> of our home that I ran away because these men raped my younger sister age
> 17 and turtured my mother becaused she resisted in opening the family
safe,
> still mouring for the death of her husband and son on her sick bed she
revealed
> the family WILL, which is my purpose of writing to you.
>
> For we northerners have been marginalised in this country and my father
> been a rich man from the northern side was assasinated out of greediness
> by his business/political opponents, with the intention of claiming his
> wealth, and they succeded even his younger brother was murderd also.Now
> I am afraid becaused of my age I don’t know what to do I discoverd in my
> father’s will that he deposited Seven Million Dollars ($7,000,000.00) for
> the family now I am the only hope of the family.
>
> My sick mother and my sister’s situation lead to my surferings now, due
> to the political situation in this country, I have to leave my education
> to support my poor family, our condition here is too bad for us, we are
> refugee in our mothers land for now and I don’t know when this will be
over,
> unless you help us but now we have decided to seek for your assistance to
> provide us with the account where the Seven Million Dollars
($7,000,000.00)deposited
> by my late father will be transfered to as our father’s foreign partner.
>
> Because of my age, I don’t know what to do. If we don’t do something now
> we may also lose this money, so we need an external Asissitance that will
> present as our father’s foriegn business partner for the claim of the
money,
> PARDON if you can help my family out from this condition by asissting us
> for the transfer and investment in your country,you will have your reward
> and percentage is negotiable and this is our only hope for now.
>
> Please help us confidentialy as you can and God will
> bless you and your family.
>
> Yours sincerly
>
> ADAMS PETER
> PLEASE CALL ME I NEED YOUR HELP.
> +[EDIT: REMOVED PHONE NUMBER ]Special thanks to Brian, who alerted me to this jerk’s scam and the abuse of his membership. If you ever receive any spam or scam from another member here, I will deal with that member swiftly and remove them — just send me a copy of the email so we can track them down.
And remember that for your privacy, we conceal your email address. No other member can see your email address unless you email them first (all email being routed through the forum).
May 22, 2004 at 11:15 am #44850Jeff HesterKeymasterHe sure did have allot of time to email all of us. I got it as well.
May 22, 2004 at 3:51 pm #44856DavidParticipantinetnum: 196.201.64.128 – 196.201.64.255
netname: COMETE
descr: ISP Cote d’Ivoire
country: CI
admin-c: CB1370-RIPE
tech-c: AB4432-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: CIT-DT
mnt-lower: CIT-DT
mnt-routes: CIT-DT
changed: [email protected] 20040203
source: RIPEroute: 196.201.64.128/25
descr: COMETE
descr: CI
origin: AS29571
notify: [email protected]
mnt-by: CIT-DT
changed: [email protected] 20040219
source: RIPEperson: CHOUMALI BILAL
address: Immeuble SIFCA SAzone portuaire en face Grd Moulin d’Abidjan
address: 01 BP 1289 Abidjan 01
phone: +225 21 75 75 75
fax-no: +225 21 25 45 65
e-mail: [email protected]
mnt-by: CIT-DT
nic-hdl: CB1370-RIPE
changed: [email protected] 20021224
source: RIPEperson: AHUA BERNARD
address: Immeuble SIFCA SAzone portuaire en face Grd Moulin d’Abidjan
address: 01 BP 1289 Abidjan 01
phone: +225 21 75 75 76
fax-no: +225 21 25 45 65
e-mail: [email protected]
mnt-by: CIT-DT
nic-hdl: AB4432-RIPE
changed: [email protected] 20040130
source: RIPEMay 22, 2004 at 6:22 pm #44852Jeff HesterKeymasterQuote:quote:Originally posted by AmyHe sure did have allot of time to email all of us. I got it as well.
Sorry about that Amy (and anyone else he targeted). Because email addresses are hidden, the only way for him to email you was by registering with a valid email address (which he did) and then clicking the email link either on your profile or in one of your posts, sending emails one-at-a-time.
He was still on the site when I got the notice from Brian, and I immediately locked his account and blocked his IP address to prevent him from sending any more.
I hope he gets what he deserves.
May 23, 2004 at 9:28 pm #44855CharlesMemberGot it too…on an old e-mail account.
[goes to update email]
May 23, 2004 at 10:09 pm #44853detn8rParticipantDid the idiot send it to someone more than once? He emailed me 3 times. I’m not impressed.
May 24, 2004 at 5:50 pm #44851Jeff HesterKeymasterAs a follow-up, I received this from Yahoo! France today:
Quote:quote:Bonjour,Thanks for contacting the Yahoo! France Mail Abuse Team.
We have taken appropriate action against this email address.
Thank you for working with us to keep Yahoo! a friendly email
environment. In the future, if you receive an unwanted email message
that appears to derive from a Yahoo! Mail account, please forward the
message including original subject line, full Internet headers and full
message body to us at this email address.Regards,
Cordialement,
L’iquipe Support Yahoo!
May 28, 2004 at 12:35 am #44854FaizanMemberThanks for replying to my email Jeff. I somehow did not notice this topic as I do not come to BigBlueBall that often, so sorry if I cause any trouble forwarding emails. [:P]
Great thing I do not update my profile, old email addresses are always excellent for this stuff. 😀
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