Spam through this site?

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lg Posted: Sun, Dec 20 2015 12:30 PM

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Hello

I signed up for this site yesterday and posted a questions. Within a couple of hours I received a PM forwarded to my e-mail address from a "Hilda" asking me to send her my e-mail address.

Hilda herself has the quite questionable address rita.abdul007 () gmail.com.

Does anyone know this Hilda? Is this spam or something else?

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Dillen replied on Sun, Dec 20 2015 1:17 PM

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I also received the email;

Hello Dear
can we talk privately,send me your email id to rita.abdul007@gmail.com
Hilda

The user has been banned and I suggest you don't answer.

Martin

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9 LEE replied on Sun, Dec 20 2015 1:17 PM

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Please do not reply. It's spam - and we're looking into it..

So typical of the internet. The bigger you get, the more people want to spoil it. Sad...

Lee

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Dillen replied on Sun, Dec 20 2015 3:20 PM

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Just another "Nigeria"-type fraud attempt. Now confirmed.
I wrote to "her" from a "Mickey Mouse" email address and got this reply:

Dear Mickey,
I am sorry to have contacted you without your prior notice; this is a
matter of utmost importance. I contacted you out of luck and goodwill
with hope of getting your urgent attention my name is Mrs.Hilda Asiatu
coulibaly the wife of Ibrahim Coulibaly from Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory
Coast)
This site will help you to understand more about my husband
personality (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/28/ivory-coast-renegade-warlord-ibrahim-coulibaly)
I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment which i am
receiving from the family of my late husband since after his untimely
death since four year ago as they wanted to claim all his acquired
wealth simply because i have no male child as they said that the
tradition demands not considering the facts that i have 3 girls for
him but no mail child.
As a result of their maltreatment i have decided to move out Ivory
coast entirely with my 3 daughters we are now taking refuge in Lome
Togo while going through my late husband fills i discovered documents
related to the funds he deposited with a local bank in Lome Togo that
has been the main reason why we chose to settle here in Accra ghana
for now with my three daughters to enable me transfer the funds out.
My late husband of blessed memory deposited the sum of US$18.2M
Eighteen million Two hundred thousand United States dollars only in
Ecobank with my name as the next of kin.
I have located and contacted the Bank to claim the deposited funds but
the Branch Manager told me that my late husband place an instruction
on the deposited fund that I must present a foreign trustee who will
help me in investment and management of the funds as the trustee it
was on this background that I want you to stand as my guardian and my
trustee.
As soon as you indicate your interest to help me,I will give you the
all the necessary documents related to the funds as i have them and
put you in direct the with the bank where my late husband deposited
the money with my name as the next of kin i will offer you 25% of the
total amount as your compensation for helping me to receive the funds
in your designed bank account.
Thanks in anticipation of your positive response.
Yours sincerely
Mrs. Hilda Coulibaly

Needless to say, this is all just bogus.

Martin

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Jeff replied on Sun, Dec 20 2015 3:27 PM

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Maybe the message is from B&O, and they've found a new way to help balance the books...

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Mark replied on Sun, Dec 20 2015 4:00 PM

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I could see my wife posting such....

"Help me sell all my husbands B&O and I will offer you 25%....."