sender: Theresa Hamza subject: A cry for help. Any suggestion to fight with it?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by kashem, May 22, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi I hv got the mail just now. I frequently get something like that.

    Do you receive some thing like this stuff?

    Any suggestion to fight with it?


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    Dear ;Friend,

    First, I must apologize if my mode of first contact is not acceptable
    to
    you and also solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by
    virtue
    of its nature as being utterly private and top secret. Though I know
    that a
    transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and
    worried.

    My Name is Theresa Hamza, I am the only dauther of late Mr. and Mrs
    Solomon
    Hamza who was assisinated in 2002 during a political unrest that
    engulfed
    my Country Zambia recently. They where shot to dead my unknown
    Person(s)
    who where accusing him of funding and sponsoring a factional
    Political group with his money. So in respect of this they came to our
    House
    and shot everyone dead including my two younger Siblings by then I
    was not
    at home,But fortunately my Father did not die instantly that day. It
    took
    him three Months later after that incident before he finally gave up
    the
    ghost.

    Before the death of my father, in October 28, 2002, in a private
    hospital,
    he secretly called me on is bedside and told me that it has the sum of
    five
    million, five hundred and thousand United States(USS5,500,000)dollars
    he
    deposited it in a Finance and Security company here Dakar Senegal. with
    my
    name as next of kin to the fund. Now, after the recent crisis that
    burstup
    in my Country I ran to Senegal where my father deposited the fund and
    seeked
    asylum, that is how I now went to stay in the United States Refugee
    Camp.
    So that is where am currently staying for now. But the problem am
    encoutering now is that when I went to the Financial holding company
    to
    withdraw the money. I was made to understand that with my status as a
    refugee I can not be able to clear the fund,but can do so with the
    help of
    a forieng partner. They told me that the local law hear does not
    Permit a
    refugee to operate any business atall, nor transact a fund of such
    magnitude. So please dear, I am pleading, if ou can help me and stand
    as my
    nominated next-of-kin and withdraw the fund for me (USS5,500,000) to
    your
    account in your Coutry and I will be very glad to you

    Please once can be able help and assist me with this project. I will
    offer
    15% percent of the money then after I will come over to your Country to
    start up a new life. And also go into any profitable business you will
    advise me to do.

    Please, you can reply me at is the the most
    confidential for me at the moment.

    I will be waiting to hear your favourable response.

    Sincerely,
    Theresa Hamza
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    kashem, May 22, 2006 IP
  2. Jim4767

    Jim4767 Prominent Member

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    Pretty much every day! They are usually from Ivory Coast or Nigeria, but can be from other countries as well.

    Just hit the junk mail button, or delete. Or, depending on your email program, you can set a "Rule", for example, that automatically sends to the Trash or to Junk any emails that have certain characteristics, such as:

    • All CAPS
    • The word "barrister" — a favorite term in these junk mails.
    • Any other terms or phrases that you notice consistently in these junk emails

    I prefer to set an email "Rule" that sends them to my Junk box. Then I occasionally check my Junk box, just to make sure that a legitimate email did not get there by mistake.
     
    Jim4767, May 22, 2006 IP
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    sizzler_chetan Prominent Member

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    I think.....if the mail comes to me i would just ignore it.

    I read these types of mails everyday and just ignore them :)

    If she needs such a big help.... she will just request the Govt. to do so :)
    She will never send such mails.
     
    sizzler_chetan, May 22, 2006 IP
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    rosiee007 Notable Member

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    I think these are spam emails. Please ignoree...
     
    rosiee007, May 22, 2006 IP
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    SFOD_D223 Peon

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    Ignore these type of solicitations as much as possible.It's a phishing scam only!!!

    Don't even reply with negative remarks.
     
    SFOD_D223, May 22, 2006 IP
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    Jim4767 Prominent Member

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    Right, don't reply. It only encourages them. As I mentioned above, you can spare yourself a lot of this stuff by picking out certain keywords that these spammers use (such as "barrister") and write a rule in your email preferences to forward such emails directly to your Trash or Junk box.
     
    Jim4767, May 22, 2006 IP