I just received the below SCAM on my Active Rain Comments and in my email account. It even had Links on the page... I didn't open them and wouldn't advise anyone else to. I did not include them.
Now these creeps are tying to steal money by using Active Rain! Most of us know these are scams. Unfortunately there are people that don't. How do we make sure that all active rain readers don't think these are coming from Active Rain?
This is the SCAM email and Active Rain Comment:
You've received a contact message from your Contact Form on the ActiveRain network.
Message details from both Active Rain Comments and the email:
| Name: |
JUDITH KINGSTON |
| Email Address: |
judith_kingston1@yahoo.co.jp |
| Subject: |
REPLY PLEASE |
| IP: |
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| Message: |
Dearest Mrs Pam,
With due respect and trust, permit me to inform you of my desire of going into a good relationship with you.
I know that my mail will come to you as a suprise but i will like you wellcome my proposal to you. I am looking for a God fearing one to entrust my future in his or her hand and after much prayers and consideration, God led into my heart to write to you and that is why i have contacted you for assistance.
l am Miss judith kingston, the only daughter of late Mr. Yao kingston. My father was an engineer and a contractor with the Government of Cote D'Ivoire. He was mysteriously poisoned to death by his business associates over a row of a contract award in the Agricultural ministry of our country.
Before the death of my father in a hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called me on his bedside. When I sat down to listen to him, he started crying complaining that I am too young to be manage my life, and there is no body to take care of me again as a young girl. After weeping, He narrated to me how he deposited a trunk box containing the sum of US$800.000. (Eight hundred thousand United States Dollars) in a security company as valuable family items here in our country because there was serious political crisis then, and the banks were under attack by the rebel forces. He told me that he used my name as his only daughter as his next of kin in deposit of the box.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that l should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice where l will transfer this money and use it for proper investment purpose.
For this reason, I seek your assistance to serve as my guardian and help me in the retrieval of this deposit from the security company and to aid me in the investment of the money in any company in your country. I also require you assistance to continue my education in your country because I am only 21yrs old and a student.
Please, l am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for assisting me in this regard. Hoping to hearing from you soonest.
May God bless you as you extend your helping hand to me.
Yours Sincerely.
Miss judth kingston |
The email account one had this on the bottom along with 2 Links.
ActiveRain Sponsored Ad
How would you like to boost your sales in a down market?
End of Scam Email (Less the Links they included)
I get 12 of these a day in my company email, my personal email, and even here on active rain! I wonder if anyone still actually gets fooled by these! I would like to meet the person that truly believes they are getting 800k in free stuff just for checking the good old emails.
Tracey :)
I get these too. I posted listings on Postlets over the weekend, and craigslist. I got the same email response to every one of my listings- same message- but every one of them were from a different email address! ???
I would venture to say that they are wasting their time bothering with active rain members. In our business, we are the best and the brightest bunch!
Thanks for posting this. I do get quite a few of these as well. Most recently, I have been getting a lot from responses to Craigslist ads; originating from a gmail account. They are bold.
I'm new to active rain so this was a first for me. I've had many of them appear in my junk file over the last 10+ years but never saying they came from a professional group I was associated with.
There was a recent local news program (Spokane, WA / Coeur d'Alene, ID) that warned of this type of scam and said that people actually fall for it. Elderly people were one of the highest fall groups. It really makes me sick to know there are people that stoop this low.
Did you happen to hear violins playing while you were reading this story? I heard them! Maybe that was just my overactive imagination at work though. Great story! A load of malarkey but a great story!
~Renae
I didnt even read the story. Obviously these people do not speak our language as a primary, and their dialect is muddlesd. I have seen a huge increase in spam from these types over the last few months and I guess I'm getting slightly annoyed. Sometimes I can laugh it off, others it just irritates me.