gatzdon

Got a PM today that is an obvious nigerian type scam

"Hello my friend, i felt so happy and imppressed, after reding your profile, my name in Mabel Kone i am from Ivory Coast west africa, Please there is something very important and urgent i will like to disucuss with, i will want you to write me on my email address to enable us discuss in details, i will also send you my picture as soon as you contact, this is my email address mabelk225ci@yahoo.fr
I will be expecting to hear from you soon.
Mabel Kone."

It appears the account Mabel03d was created for the sole purpose of sending this junk.

In the future, do we just delete it and move on, PM it to a Mod so they can clean it out of the system, or what??

Sorry to make this a public post, but I know the mods here do strive to keep this site very clean and I don't know who else this junk has been sent to. Also, if there was ever a scammer here who knew english, there is a chance that some of the younger folk who don't know better could really be taken in,

hence I'm asking now what is the preferred method to report these types of PM's?

Thanks in advance.

CappedBustDimes

sounds legit to me..

Treashunt

Hey, what is wrong with that PM?

I'd do it.
(yeah, right).

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Topher

www.419eater.com <-- for your education, and amusement, regarding these types of scams.

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gatzdon

I personally am well aware of these types of scams.

I still say the Apple Powerbook Revenge was the best.

http://www.newssocket.com/features/article/231/

Topher

Then you'll like these:

http://yeawhatever.catholiccall.org/

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umtrr-author

In addition, it is quite amazing how many bank accounts I have that I'm not aware of, where immediate verification of my personal data is required immediately!!!! (Also, !!!!!.)

If I had a dime for every bank account I allegedly had...

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johndo

I've just recently heard of some scams coming out of Africa. The check cashing scams....could be

John

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900fine

[sarcasm]I'm not suspicious unless they try to sell me some SGS slabs. [/sarcasm]

Treashunt

SGS is in Nigeria now?
Wow, that explains where ebay sent all of those slabs.

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GDJMSP

Best way to report PMs is to just forward them to one of the mods. Then we'll deal with it.

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