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Old Feb 20, 2006, 12:51 PM
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Email SCAM

Hi

Please see a scam thats doing its rounds across the web again, I found this in my inbox this morning....

Email sender = "vivian amana" <sister_vivian_002@yahoo.com>

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Dearest in the Lord,

PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO USE IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD.

I am Mrs Vivian from Bahrain. I am married to Dr.Andrews Amana who worked with Bahrain embassy in cote d'ivoire for nine years before he died in the year 2000.
We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days.
Before his death we were both born again Christians. Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against.

When my late husband was alive hedeposited the sum of (6Million U.S. Dollars)with one BANK in cote d' ivoir e.Presently, this money is still with the BANK. Recently, my Doctor told me that I would notlast for the next three months due to cancer problem.
Though what disturbs me most is my stroke Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to church or better still a christian individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here in.
I want a church that will use this to fund churches, orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and I don't
want my husband's hard earned money to be misused by unbelievers. I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner. Hence the reason for taking this
bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bossom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace.
I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health because of the presence of my husband's relatives around me always. I don't want them to know about this development. With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the BANK in ivory coast.I will also issue you a letter of authority that will empower you as the original- beneficiary of this fund. I want you and the church to always pray for me because the lord is my shephard. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian.
Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and truth.Please always be prayerful all through your life. any delay in your reply will give me room in searching for a church or christian individual for this same purpose.
Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein.

Hoping to hearing from you.

Remain blessed in the name of the Lord.

Yours in Christ.
Mrs Vivian Amana.

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Old Feb 20, 2006, 01:05 PM   #2  
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Yes this is a scam, best to just delete or foward it to the proper law agency.

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Old Feb 20, 2006, 06:26 PM   #3  
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my god, do people actually believe these things though? i get a couple of these EVERY day but just delete them. I'd like to ask on this thread - what proportion of you report these emails? And who should they be reported to since they are sent all round the world?
Your post has made me think i might be a little negligent for just deleting them. Is there anything else i should be doing?

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Old Feb 20, 2006, 07:18 PM   #4  
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I don’t get them as I don’t give out my email to a bunch of places.

In fact, I have a second email account I use to enter online contests and stuff.

That being said, when I do get them, I just delete them.

You ask if people fall for it, and unfortunately, some do.

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Old Feb 20, 2006, 07:44 PM   #5  
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Yep, get at least 3 or 4 wanting to give money to a religious group, get 2 or 3 more every day abotu someone who died.

They use all sorts of mailing lists or blanket emails to known email groups.
My hotmail has been filtering alot out lately but our official church web site gets tons of these.

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Hi,
Yes, this is familiar. Others want help for their "families", maybe true or not, but it's all asking for money, in one way or another.
"Do people actually believe these things?" was one comment. Apparently Yes, they do. Some people respond to stuff they know nothing about.
Another big one is getting an email asking to "verify your information", we need to "confirm your information". So, they go to the website, filling in credit card numbers, social security numbers, online banking numbers, etc; not knowing it's all a Scam.
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My standard procedure is to find the email address they are using (often it's not the return address but one they give you in the body of the email) and forward to the abuse department of the ISP. Pretty much all ISPs have an [email address]. So if the email address (known as the drop box) is [email address] then I would forward the email to [email address].
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Hallo there.My name is Nez.At the moment I am a lonely poster on AMHD.My house fell down,I got fired from work,my family left me with depts the size of China.As a devout Cylon,could you please donate as much as possible,to the Nez scam account,care of Gough's Cave,behind the water pipes,door two,Cheddar,Somerset.Cheques not accepted,cash in wheel barrows only.

For your efforts,I will send you a post card from my mansion in the Maldives.God bless you all.







Hallo...Rick....only kidding!!!!!

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I get two or three of these a day, do not even open them, just delete them, they drive me crazy, the sad part is some one will offer to help them, and give up their personal info and bam, life savings gone, the person that generally answers things like this are the senior citizens, it is so sad
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