Internet con men.

Mudricky talk about the gift of the gab.these men and woman who do this have no concience whatsoever.

You can't really trust anyone, especially online.

A know, but having been tested on this subject,learned me a lot about who to allow into your internet world.

Great post.  In the words of the old X-Files people -- trust no one.  Even on this site you can get some weird messages.  I usually tell my husband I'm going to play with my imaginary friends.  The old send money to Nigeria has been around for a long time.  Sometimes you will get a letter addressed on official government letterhead.  Glad you weren't burned too badly.

Now, now ... there are internet conwomen too, or men pretending to be women, preying on vulnerable men.  The thing about the internet is that anyone can be whomever or whatever they want.  Most learn after the first time, hopefully without losing anything but their pride.

If you google Nigerian dating scam, you can check out sites with some pretty funny stories and pictures, of people scamming the scammers.

Wow 150 grand! Gee who would have seem that one coming?  The Nigerian email address could have been a REAL CLUE!

Some good advice http://spam.abuse.net/bits/makeadifference.shtml.

I often try to trace the spammer and have had there many email accounts taken of by their email server hosts. The story about the solicitor con interested me as if its the same one as this 

"On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr. Mohammed Madij. I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter were returned undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address on the WILL. I wish to notify you that Late Engr.Mohammed Madij made you a beneficiary to his WILL. He left you 15% of some funds amounting to Thirty Million, One Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD$30, 100.000.00) to you in the  last testament to his WILL.   This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and true. Being a widely traveled man, he must have been in contact with you in the past or simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends abroad who wished you good. Late Engr.Mohammed Madij until his death was a member of the Helicopter Society and the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers.  His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during his life time. Late Engr.Mohammed Madij died on the 13th day of December, 2004 at the age of 80 years, and his WILL is now ready for execution. According to him this money is to support your humanitarian activities and to help the poor and the needy in our society. Please if I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. I hope to hear from you in no distant time.     Yours in Service,   Barrister Martin Byrom"

I traced the IP to a email server in Spain and informed the owner of whom delete all the criminals accounts. I also informed Martin Byrom who in fact worked for a different pratice in Bury Yorkshire and not the famed Howarth Maitland Solicitors in Bury as suggested by the email address of which was howarthmaitland@aol.com, lol 

 

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Thanks for the article. The Internet can be misused.  Some who try to use it for positive purposes have trouble. Since I wrote tonight about the Army lab losing the DISEASE SAMPLES at Ft. Detrick, I was shut out of my Yahoo account. 

That could not have been intended as a secret, because I got it off the Internet - Citizens for Legitimate Govt. is carrying it.  Is news that Mary Neal carries more relevant than CLG?  No.  So I don't know why I would get a 48 hour timeout on Yahoo after writing about the lost disease samples here at NowPublic.

Perhaps it was the blog post I did in my Care2 Sharebook with first-person accounts by Pennsylvania prisoners who are being tortured.  They report being terribly abused - especially the African Americans who claim increased torture after President Obama won the election and on his inauguration day.  It is awful if half of what they reported is true!

I certainly hope they did not electrocute my mentally ill, physically handicapped brother, Larry Neal, like some of the prisoners claim was done to them.  It has been more than 5.5 years, and the government refuses to tell us exactly what they did to Larry Neal.  Secret.  http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

People should not be Internet con men.  Folks look for any excuse to shut down the Internet.  Usually, when Americans lose their rights, it is proclaimed as being done "for their own good."  I would not want anyone to shut down the Internet to "save" us from con men, would you?

My Yahoo message says I was shut out of my account for 48 hours due to "unusual activity."  I only read one or two emails there today and wrote about both of them - the CLG report on the Army losing the disease samples, and the long email with all the Pennsylvania prisoners telling how bad they are treated - worse than dogs, actually.  So I presume that shutting me out of my Yahoo account was also  done for "my own good."

What is planned for U.S. Mail, I wonder?  We are sending out the notices for the Human Rights for Prisoners March via U.S. Mail.  Umph!  I hope the postal workers don't get laid off early on our account.

Blessings!

I think a lot of people, do! mistake kindness as being a weakness. When in fact it is a strength.

Had a few interesting chats and emails with scammers over the years. Most recent was last Nov. I recommend telling your circle of friends to verify all suspicious emails, especially the FWD:fwd:forwards by going to Snopes or a similar site.

Snopes.com says 'the schemes of those intent upon separating you from your money are many and varied.'

I can't tell you haow many thousands of these scams I have gotten in my emails. Even had a friend fall victim trying to help out a friend who fell for one, doubt he's been repaid yet by that friend.