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WORNING PLEASE READ
2:43 PM on Aug. 6, 2008
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i had a message yesterday from a enderlin muoka asking if i would like to be friends with him/her and asking me to email him/her (not sure witch) at enderlinmuoka@yahoo.com if i wanted to be friends i been the trusting kind of girl did this thanking him/her for asking to be my friend i did not going in to any detail about myself just that i lived in the uk and and had 2 kids and that i have been diabetic since jan this year and tat i try to go the low carb route .

well this morning i got a very long winded email back with a sob story about living in Liberia and have to go and live in Senegal and needing to get   a lot of money out this is what he/she put ( $2.6M (Two Million Six Hundred Thousand USA Dollars) and you should understand that this money is one of the problem I'm having with my father's relatives in Liberia, they were trying to kill me so that they can take over the money. Now, my dear, i will like you to help me get this money out and transfer this money to your account and from it you can send some money for me to get my traveling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you.)

now im not daft so i have reported this as spam and will not reply but i throught i should worn everybody here what this person is doing as some one some were will fall for this so please if this person or anybody else gets in trouch with any of you out there do not email them as this person now has my email address and will then have yours sam
 



Comments (4)
WiseWords4Diabetics - 9:33 PM on Aug. 10, 2008  [ message ]
If you write to the person with your real Email address, you may find a lot of SPAM showing up because they will then have a real Email address to add to the SPAM lists. Selling Email addresses is a big business. That is why websites such as this one, use their own Message center. No need to give out an Email address to a stranger. You can exchange messages right here. Other places such as MySpace also have their own in-house message system for members. The African scam from Liberia or more often from Nigeria is old, but still used. NEVER give out any ID info related to these "proposals." Although, if you have money to burn, you can just send it directly to me. With the inflated prices for test strips and insulin, I can use all the money you don't want. Ha-ha
Trunkles - 12:11 PM on Aug. 7, 2008  [ message ]
I get lots of them every day. There the bane of the net. If my memory serves me, something like SEVENTY percent of all e-mail sent is spam. They get your address by all sorts of semi-nefarious means. For example, web crawlers, that hunt through all the web pages looking for e-mail addresses. They even use random addresses; I own the domain name drsimon.co.nz, so they send e-mails to random names @drsimon.co.nz on the principle that they might just strike lucky. As sending them costs the spammer nothing, they simply don't care.

The rule for us is simple. Any sob story or vast sum of money is a scam - hit the delete button. Don't reply! Sad to say Sammy, but your e-mail address is now KNOWN to be real, so you'll probably get more spam now.
sammy - 4:07 PM on Aug. 6, 2008  [ message ]
i wrote the blog thing here as he/she contacted me through this site so i throught i better worn others what he/she is doing
slearn4240 - 4:01 PM on Aug. 6, 2008  [ message ]
I get similar e-mails almost on a daily basis. I don't know where they come from or why I get them.
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