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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?
I also received the email;
Hello Dearcan we talk privately,send me your email id to rita.abdul007@gmail.comHilda
The user has been banned and I suggest you don't answer.
Martin
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
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 amatter of utmost importance. I contacted you out of luck and goodwillwith hope of getting your urgent attention my name is Mrs.Hilda Asiatucoulibaly the wife of Ibrahim Coulibaly from Cote d’Ivoire (IvoryCoast)This site will help you to understand more about my husbandpersonality (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 amreceiving from the family of my late husband since after his untimelydeath since four year ago as they wanted to claim all his acquiredwealth simply because i have no male child as they said that thetradition demands not considering the facts that i have 3 girls forhim but no mail child.As a result of their maltreatment i have decided to move out Ivorycoast entirely with my 3 daughters we are now taking refuge in LomeTogo while going through my late husband fills i discovered documentsrelated to the funds he deposited with a local bank in Lome Togo thathas been the main reason why we chose to settle here in Accra ghanafor now with my three daughters to enable me transfer the funds out.My late husband of blessed memory deposited the sum of US$18.2MEighteen million Two hundred thousand United States dollars only inEcobank with my name as the next of kin.I have located and contacted the Bank to claim the deposited funds butthe Branch Manager told me that my late husband place an instructionon the deposited fund that I must present a foreign trustee who willhelp me in investment and management of the funds as the trustee itwas on this background that I want you to stand as my guardian and mytrustee.As soon as you indicate your interest to help me,I will give you theall the necessary documents related to the funds as i have them andput you in direct the with the bank where my late husband depositedthe money with my name as the next of kin i will offer you 25% of thetotal amount as your compensation for helping me to receive the fundsin your designed bank account.Thanks in anticipation of your positive response.Yours sincerelyMrs. Hilda Coulibaly
Needless to say, this is all just bogus.
Maybe the message is from B&O, and they've found a new way to help balance the books...
Jeff
I'm afraid I'm recovering from the BeoVirus.
I could see my wife posting such....
"Help me sell all my husbands B&O and I will offer you 25%....."
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