Strange Email

<p>I have just received this email through photo.net.</p>

<p><br /> **************************************************************************<br /> <br /> Dear Rashed Abdulla:<br /> <br /> The message below is from another member of the <a href="http://www.photo.net/" target="_blank">photo.net</a> community.<br /> <br /> If you suspect this message is a scam, please contact<br /> photo.net using our Contact Us Form: <a href="http://www.photo.net/contact-us" target="_blank">http://www.photo.net/contact-us</a> ,<br /> or forward this email to <a href="http://us.mc590.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gc-complaints@photo.net">gc-complaints@photo.net</a> . This will allow<br /> us to ban the scammer from our membership list.<br /> <br /> Please do NOT report this message to your ISP as spam. Since it was<br /> sent from the photo.net server, reporting this message as spam will<br /> result in photo.net being placed on your ISP's blacklist, not the<br /> scammer. If you do report this message as spam, we will be obliged<br /> to remove your email from our mailing list, which will prevent you<br /> from receiving ANY communications via email via photo.net.<br /><br /> Sincerely,<br /> photo.net Administration<br /><br /> **************************************************************************<br /> This message was sent by lilian williams. <br /> You can check this user profile using the link below:<br /> <a href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=5885013" target="_blank">http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=5885013</a><br /> **************************************************************************<br /> <br />My Dear Greetings to you,<br /><br /><br /><br />I know you will be surprise to receive my mail since we have neither seen nor met before. Well, let me start by first introducing myself to you. My name is Rose, the only daugther to Late Mr George Aruna. My father was assassinated on his way to his office and since the sudden assassination of my beloved father I have been leaving in terrible fear, couple with the political crisis here in my country cote d'ivore. I am planing to travel out of the country, that is why I have decided to contact you to help me contact the bank for the transfer of the money my father deposited the sum of $6.5 million US dollar in a bank here before his sudden assassination. I will give you more informations as soon as you guarranttee me that you will treat me honestly during the investment of this money in your country. <br /><br /><br /><br />Dear, as you can see this money is my hope of survival and I am entrusting this money on you with faith and believe that you will treat me in good faith during my stay in your country. I will like you to also assure me that you will honestly manage this money for me in the business which the money will be investied, as soon as you give me this guranttee I will then give you all the neccessary details concerning this money which will enable you contact the bank on my behalf.I shall send you the document the bank issue to my late father when he made the deposit in the bank and my picture for you to see me and I will also like you to send me your picture for more trust and confidence. <br /><br />Thanks and God bless you for your kindness to assist an orphan like me. <br /><br /><br /><br />Yours Sincerely. <br /><br />With love, <br /><br />Rose Aruna.<br /><br />Please reply to my private email address (<a href="http://us.mc590.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rose_aruna009@yahoo.cn">rose_aruna009@yahoo.cn</a>) For more details.</p>

<p>So did you follow the instructions about reporting it to the admins at photo.net?</p>

 

<p>Typical Nigerian Scam.<br>

If you have that kind of money you can easily have a private militia for protection and you don't need any help from strangers. I still wonder how people can fall for this kind of crap.</p>

<p>classical 419 scam<br>

As Bob wrote : the first step is to report it to the admins<br>

But here are some informations and a "fun" way of dealing with the scamers<br>

http://www.419eater.com/</p>

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<p>I did not know what to do specially after reading this :</p>

<p>Please do NOT report this message to your ISP as spam. Since it was<br />sent from the photo.net server, reporting this message as spam will<br />result in photo.net being placed on your ISP's blacklist, not the<br />scammer. If you do report this message as spam, we will be obliged<br />to remove your email from our mailing list, which will prevent you<br />from receiving ANY communications via email via photo.net.</p>

<p><strong>"Please do NOT report this message to your ISP as spam"</strong><br>

Rashed Abdula, this means that you should report it to photonet admin : Because if you rreport it to your ISP, they will lock <strong>all</strong> emails incoming from Photonet but not from the real scammer</p>

<p><strong>just complain here : </strong> please contact<br /> photo.net using our Contact Us Form: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.photo.net/contact-us" target="_blank">http://www.photo.net/contact-us</a> ,<br /> or forward this email to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://us.mc590.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gc-complaints@photo.net" target="_blank">gc-complaints@photo.net</a></p>

<p>photo.net is a photographic and a coomunity site, when there is a member with no any sort of activities, no posting images and not participating in the forums, just hidden their idle , he should be deleted from the system, what is the use of such people for the site or for the community, if it is a matter of just viewing images on site , those people could do that without opening an account .</p>

<p>Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Rashed. I'll report it to admin. They'll check to find out whether it's a scam account or a hijacked account and take appropriate action.</p>

<p>And now you know what moderators spend much of their time doing - chasing down fraudulent accounts, most set up for spamming, not too often for scamming.</p>

<p>It's interesting that the spammers/scammers have recently figured out a trick for faking a subscriber icon. Lately we've seen several new accounts with faked subscriber icons, some indicating memberships of several years, that might mislead the unwary into believing these are legitimate accounts. So be wary and check the public profile page when you receive e-mail from a photo.net account unknown to you.</p>

<p>Okay, that scammer account has been deleted. In future these types of problems should be reported to the <a href="../site-help-forum/">site help forum</a> .</p>

<p>Thank you my dear good friend Lex, I do not have the habbit of causing trouble to any one any where but I thought this might cause trouble to other members that why I brought it here specailly with my poor English I did not know what to do.</p>

<p>I will my friend next time report it to the site help forum for sure.</p>

<p>Thank you my friend I always approcaite that moderators are very helpful and very much doing hard work on the site, you specially always been too kind and gentlman.<br />Rashed</p>

<p>Keep it! Next time they sell an aircraft carrier on ebay you can use this to pay.</p>

<p>Where do you want it delivered Thomas?<br>

:o)</p><div></div>

<p>You can deliver my carrier to the Cumberland River in Nashville, TN.</p>