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[Analysis] Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?
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misterpib
Kilroy

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 		Looks like subliminal message software.

If you go to that Elite Inner Circle site, they are selling books by Dr. Robert Anthony...who is a real person (maybe a real doctor) Razz

Looks like horrible spam...

PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 3:32 am
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Tarq
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ItWasntMeISwear wrote:
Quote:
"Control your emotions as simply as flicking a switch? Improve your physical performance and strength?"


In other words, it can turn any man into a menopausel woman. Laughing


True, true.

Yeah, I'm inclined to think this is just spam. See if you get anything else from them - if you do, you know it's spam! Razz

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VarinModerator
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 		since the brainbullet thing appears to be just spam, I moved it to the SPAM? thread.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:56 am
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Hedgemon
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 		This one I have no idea about. The company mentioned, plus the guy's return address both appear at first glance to be completely on the level. However, his "offer" and the fact that he apparently e-mailed it to himself has my BS detector going off like mad.

The only reason I'm posting this here, instead of just deleting the gorram thing is that it went to my GMail account, which is usually (read: nine times out of ten) spam-free.

What's your thoughts?

E-mail follows:
X-Gmail-Received: ea8ecb2022507f481579a8489d9bd71e71a2c553
Delivered-To: [my e-mail address]
Received: by 10.70.65.20 with SMTP id n20cs25079wxa;
Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:33:41 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.65.53.11 with SMTP id f11mr1511292qbk;
Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:33:41 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <robertdube2005splatrahnema.com>
Received: from mydomain.com (nngy-165-160-145.telkomadsl.co.za [165.165.160.145])
by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id f16si5899471qba.2005.10.13.18.33.37;
Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:33:41 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 165.165.160.145 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of robertdube2005splatrahnema.com)
Message-Id: <434f0af5.5f6e97bc.0a70.5c6fSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.gmail.com>
Received: from mailin-01.mx.aol.com ([112.120.100.210]) by mailin-02.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC
id 18AC6EBA;
Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:33:14 -0000
Received: from mailin-03.mail.lycos.com ([240.151.219.205]) by mailin-04.google.com with SMTP
id 07444678;
Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:33:04 -0000
Received: from mx1.excite.com ([144.129.192.196]) by mx2.linksynergy.com with ESMTP
id 04BFAEEC;
Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:32:54 -0000
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:32:54 -0800
From: robertdube2005splatrahnema.com
To: robertdube2005splatrahnema.com
Subject: Contract Payment
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT

Attention: Chairman/CEO


I am Mr. Robert Dube a former employee of Anglo Gold Ashanti "www.anglogold.com" mining company in South Africa. I am contacting you in good faith regarding a contract payment that is in the final stage and yet to be effected to the contractor's account because of the sudden death of the contractor. The contract job was awarded in the year 2001 and was completed after six months and the contract sum after taxes is US$9.6Million.

I can provide you with exacting information that will enable you apply as the ONLY NEXT OF KIN for the release and transfer of this fund into your nominated account. Upon completion of this deal, I would need 60% of the funds and you can keep balance 40%.

I await your urgent response.

Regards,

Mr.Robert

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Axys Denyed
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 		Wow, it looks like someone's come up with a new version of the deposed Nigerian prince scam. The IP even belongs to someone in Africa.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:10 pm
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Scisco
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Joined: 03 Jan 2005
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 		And I thought...
And look at this, thought I'd left.

No clue, not that interested really, but I searched and found nothing about the email's text, so here goes.
EDIT:Subject "possible"
dglm81lsfxSPLATisomedia.com

I got it at 3:15 PM today.



Content-Type: text/plain;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit

pray



www.isomedia.com gives me a internet provider's website. But not one I've ever heard of. Is it real? Is it spam? I don't know!
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:11 pm
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Puppy_Zwolle
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The Watcher wrote:
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:49 am

I'm afraid that this topic will sink to the bottom of the heap and be ignored.

But a good idea, nonetheless.
Well well, if this is ingnoring a topic what would a popular one look like? Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:57 am
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Daveman424
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 		Check this out...weird stuff.

Quote:
Chen Qingxuan
Lloyds TSB Pacific Limited
Hong Kong Branch

Thank you for giving me your time. Please be patient and
read my email to you.

I am a staff of Lloyds TSB Group attached in Private Banking
services. I am contacting you concerning a customer and, an
investment placed under our banks management 3 years ago, I
contacted you independently of our investigation and no one
is informed of this communication and I would like to
intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of
interest to you.

In 2000, the subject matter; ref: bb/tsb/bank/73 came to our
bank to engage in business discussions with our Private
Banking Services Department. He informed us that he had a
financial portfolio of 8.35 million United States Dollars,
which he wished to have us turn over on his behalf. I was
the officer assigned to his case; I made numerous
suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief
operations officer of the Private Banking Services
Department, especially given the volume of funds he wished
to put into our bank. We met on numerous occasions prior to
any investments being placed. I encouraged him to consider
various growth funds with prime ratings. The favored route
in my advice to customers is to start by assessing data on
600 traditional stocks and bond managers and alternative
investments. Based on my advice, we spun the money around
various opportunities and made attractive margins for our
first months of operation, the accrued profit and interest
stood at this point at over 10 million United States
Dollars, this margin was not the full potential of the fund
but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments.
In mid 2001, he asked that the money be liquidated because
he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash
payments in Europe. He directed that I liquidate the funds
and had it deposited with a firm in Europe. I informed him
that our bank would have to make special arrangements to
have this done and in order not to circumvent due process,
the bank would have to make a 9.5 % deduction from the funds
to cater for banking and statutory charges. He complained
about the charges but later came around when I explained to
him the complexities of the task he was asking of us. Cash
movement across borders has become especially strict since
the incidents of 9/11.

I contacted my affiliate in Europe and had the funds
available in main land Europe. I undertook all the processes
and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the
letter and had the funds deposited in a security consultancy
firm, the firm is a specialist private firm that accepts
deposits from high net worth individuals and blue chip
corporations that handle valuable products or undertake
transactions that need immediate access to cash. This small
and highly private organization is familiar especially to
the highly placed and well-connected organizations. In line
with instructions, the money was deposited. He told me he
wanted the money there in anticipation of his arrival from
Norway later that week. This was the last communication we
had, this transpired around 25th February 2002. In June last
year, we got a call from the security firm informing us of
the inactivity of that particular portfolio. This was an
astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the
fact that I managed the private banking sector I was the
only one who knew about the deposit, and I could not
understand why he had not come forward to claim his deposit.
I made futile efforts to locate him I immediately passed the
task of locating him to the internal investigations
department of our bank. Four days later, information started
to trickle in, that he was apparently dead.

A person who suited his description was declared dead of a
heart attack in Cannes, South of France. We were soon enough
able to identify the body and cause of death was confirmed.

The bank immediately launched an investigation into possible
surviving next of kin to alert about the situation and also
to come forward to claim his estate. If you are familiar
with private banking affairs, those who patronize our
services usually prefer anonymity, but also some levels of
detachment from conventional processes. In his bio-data
form, he listed no next of kin. In the field of private
banking, opening an account with us means no one will know
of its existence, accounts are rarely held under a name;
depositors use numbers and codes to make the accounts
anonymous. This bank also gives the choice to depositors of
having their mail sent to them or held at the bank itself,
ensuring that there are no traces of the account and as I
said, rarely do they nominate next of kin. Private banking
clients apart from not nominating next of kin also usually
in most cases leave wills in our care, in this case; he died
in testate.

What I wish to relate to you will smack of unethical
practice but I want you to understand something. It is only
an outsider to the banking world who finds the internal
politics of the banking world aberrational. The world of
private banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for
those who occupy certain offices and oversee certain
portfolios. You should have begun by now to put together the
general direction of what I propose. There is US$
8,370,000.00 deposited, I alone have the deposit details and
they will release the deposit to no one unless I instruct
them to do so. I alone know of the existence of this deposit
for as far as the finance firm, the transaction with our
deceased customer concluded when I sent the funds to the
firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file
are just customer services and due process. The finance firm
has no single idea of what's the history or nature of the
deposit. They are simply awaiting instructions to release
the deposit to any party that comes forward. This is the
situation. This bank has spent great amounts of money trying
to track this man's family; they have investigated for
months and have found no family. The investigation has come
to an end. My proposal; I am prepared to place you in a
position to instruct the finance firm to release the deposit
to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of
the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you in
half and no more. That is: I will simply nominate you as the
next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We
share the proceeds 50/50.

I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me,
but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my
involvement in claiming the deposit. But on the other hand,
you as a foreigner and also with all the necessary legal and
official documentations from me and the presiding attorney
and also with the authority vested upon me by the original
depositor, you would easily pass as the beneficiary with
the rights to claim. I assure you that I could have the
deposit released to you in a few days. I will simply inform
our bank of the final closing of the file relating to the
customer. I will then officially communicate with the
finance company and instruct them to release the deposit to
you.

With these two things: all is done. The alternative would be
for us to have the firm direct the funds to another bank
with you as account holder. This way there will be no need
for you to think of receiving the money from the firm. We
can fine-tune this based on our interactions. I am aware of
the consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you find no
interest in this project that you should discard this mail.
I ask that you do not be vindictive or destructive. If my
offer is of no appeal to you, delete this message and forget
I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you
do not approve of my proposal. You may not know this but
people like myself who have made tidy sums out of comparable
situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a
criminal and what I do; I do not find against good
conscience, this may be hard for you to understand, but the
dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move. Such
opportunities only come ones' way once in a lifetime. I
cannot let this chance pass me by I hope you understand
because for once I found myself in total control and face to
face with my destiny. These chances won't pass me by. I ask
that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with
me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not
destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity to
provide them with new opportunities. There is a reward for
this project and it is a task well worth undertaking. I have
evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from
you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the
only one who knows of this situation, good fortune has
blessed you with a name that has planted you into the center
of relevance in my life. Let's share the blessing.

If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me
through this email account: mrchenqingxuan_1986SPLATyahoo.com.hk
If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this
process towards a conclusion.

Please observe this instruction religiously. Please, again,
note I am a family man; I happily married with two kids. I
send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what
the consequences might be, but I know within me that nothing
ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never
come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I
have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray
my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a
meeting, soon.


I await your response.
Sincerely,


Chen Qingxuan
mrchenqingxuan_1986SPLATyahoo.com.hk


What does this mean? Is it serious?

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Puppy_Zwolle
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 		Shall I or will you take this one? Crying or Very sad

Its branded a scam.
http://www.talkaboutspam.com/group/alt.kill.spammers/messages/14027.html

Check this for more info.
http://colin2.muc.de/~hm/anti-spam/Nigerian/index.php
May scare you how BIG this is.. I mean WOW there's a lot of these out there.
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 		Daveman, Hedgemon,

This is a rather OLD internet scam known as the "Nigerian 419" scam (based on the Nigerian criminal code for mail fruad). It's best not to reply to this type of email at all. I'm surprised you've never gotten one before, or at least heard of them.

general info:
http://www.419fun.com/faq.htm

the most popular "scambaiting" site on the net:
http://www.419eater.com/
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 		Never believe a stranger who offers you something for nothing.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp
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brat-sampson
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 		Oops, sorry. I didn't know the riddlemask stuff had already found a new home... Embarassed
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Lysithea
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Location: Australia

 		I really don't know what to make of a recent email I received, so I thought I would ask for an opinion or two. Smile
Quote:
From : Postnet <witbank@postnet.co.za>
Sent : Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:04:54 PM
Attachment : id_passport.jpg (1.15 MB)


2005-10-25

Please find the attachments oft he id and passport above

Thank you
The attachment is a photo of 2 passports owned by Anna Susanna Elizabeth Troskie.
passport.jpg
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catherwood
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Lysithea wrote:
I really don't know what to make of a recent email I received, so I thought I would ask for an opinion or two. :)
{snip}
The attachment is a photo of 2 passports owned by Anna Susanna Elizabeth Troskie.


O.M.G. -- you opened an *attachment* to an email from someone you do not know, in zaire?? Please tell me you have anti-virus protection!
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 		Za is Zambia iirc (My uncle lived there for a while), but still... opening attatchments from people you don't know is never a good plan even if you DO have AntiVirus software.
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