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Author Topic: nice personal message just received from a new friend  (Read 16689 times)

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nice personal message just received from a new friend
« on: December 09, 2011, 12:08 PM »
f_77 was so kind to send me this personal message via the forum:

Dear Friend,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics although, I wish to use this medium to get in touch with you because of its fastest means.

I am Barrister.Jafiq Bello, The Solicitor and Executor of my late client,who died of kidney cancer with un-identified family or relative. I am contacting you to stand in as a next of kin to his deposit of 12.500,000.00(Twelve Million Five Hundred  Thousand Dollars ) with one of the leading banks here in West Africa.

On confidence of patent recovering, I will give you more information, hence you will corporate with my due understanding and knowledge of bringing this claim to a best conclusion,i want you to understand that i am contacting you for your family inheritance,I will like you to contact me with my private email address([email protected]) so that i will give you more information regarding your family inheritace.

Regards
Jafiq Bello

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2011, 12:10 PM »
Your dear friend has now got him self banned.

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2011, 12:18 PM »
I got it too

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2011, 12:22 PM »
Me too, but apparently it was flagged as spam by the forum :

"Spam detection software, running on the system "main.donationcoder.com", has
identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message
has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label
similar future email. If you have any questions, see
the administrator of that system for details."

Good !

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2011, 12:24 PM »
my late client,who died of kidney cancer

On confidence of patent recovering

Does that mean we only get the money if the guy that died comes back to life?  ;D

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2011, 12:28 PM »
US Dollar or Zimbabwe Dollars ?

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2011, 12:30 PM »

awww,
I didnt inherit nothin :(
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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2011, 01:00 PM »
On confidence of patent recovering

Perhaps it was really he who patented the iPhone, and you all get your money if he recovers his patent.  :D


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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2011, 01:03 PM »
On confidence of patent recovering

Perhaps it was really he who patented the iPhone, and you all get your money if he recovers his patent.  :D

I misread that. I thought he said patient.

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2011, 01:07 PM »
I misread that. I thought he said patient.

I'm assuming he meant patient.  :)

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2011, 01:48 PM »
I got it too!

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2011, 01:49 PM »
He patently meant something else.

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2011, 02:34 PM »
Where there's a will - there are relatives.

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Wow! 12.5M...

That's better than the best offer I got in my inbox this week. Seems some charming young Russian woman (here on student visa) saw me from afar at a recent (unnamed) gathering we both attended(?) - and has been frantically trying to get in touch with me ever since. Because I'm "everything ever dreamed of meeting."

Sent a picture along too. Nice dress. Very pretty legs! (Even my GF thought so.)

Hmm...why does a crack at that $12.5M somehow seem more believable than the above offer?  ;D

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2011, 04:33 PM »
Hmm...why does a crack at that $12.5M somehow seem more believable than the above offer?  ;D

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2011, 11:55 PM »
Wow! 12.5M...
$12.5M here, $12.5M thereā€¦ pretty soon it'll add up to some serious money. Seems to me this guy has a b in his jello.

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2011, 12:07 AM »
I never make any new friends. :(

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2011, 02:50 AM »
I never make any new friends. :(

http://www.rentafriend.com/

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2011, 08:04 AM »
Just as a follow up -- I'm glad someone alerted me to this spammer -- he sent a couple hundred forum spam messages before he was caught.  I'm putting in place something to stop this from happening again.

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2011, 02:46 PM »
I never make any new friends. :(

http://www.rentafriend.com/

Wow. I don't have the words to describe how I feel about that. That's really. . . useful! Thanks! :Thmbsup: ;D

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2011, 03:09 PM »
I never make any new friends. :(

http://www.rentafriend.com/

Imagine how many friends you could *rent* with 12.5 million ...  ;D

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2011, 02:02 AM »
Another follow up -- several people actually emailed me or forum messaged me right away to let me know about the forum personal message spammer -- but when they copied me the message he was sending in their email, what happened was that the emails to me got filtered out by spamassassin as speam and never made it to me!!

so if it happens again, someone make sure to send me a note about it without including the actual text of the spam message.

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Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend
« Reply #21 on: December 11, 2011, 02:10 AM »
Why is everyone doubting this guy? People are so cynical these days.

I feel for you, Jafiq!  :-*

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