I today got the message below PM'ed to me requesting money. Everybody take note it is a con as I have seen these before they usually end up sending you a fake cheque or you send them your account details and they take money from your account.
cheers
steve
From: andfransisca933
To: stephenjubb
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:23
Subject: From Fransisca Dikko
From Fransisca Dikko
Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire
Please reply to my private email address below:
( [email protected])
My Dear,
Greetings !
With due respect I write you this mail hoping that you will lend ear to my request.
I got to your profile in the site in my search for a honest and trustworthy person who will assist me as my father instructed before his death, and after days of prayers I decided to contact you.
I am Miss Fransisca Dikko, 22 years ,I am writing you from the Abidjan Cote Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa.
As the only child of my late parents,I inheritated an important sum of money from my late father who was a prominent Gold and Cocoa marchant who died in recent crisis here in Cote d'Ivoire. My mother died when I was a little child in the year 1986.
I wish to request for your assistance in investing this money in lucrative venture under your directives and guidiance in your country. I want you to assist me for the transfer of this sum of Five million, five hundred thousand United State Dollars (USD5.500,000) to your account in your country hence I will give you the contact of the bank where the money is so that you can contact them immediately and discuss with them since I do not know much about financial issues.
I will gladly give you some resonable percentage from the total sum for your assistance while I pray that you do not betray me at last. Please it is important you contact me immediately for more clearification on the next step for smooth conclusion.
Awaiting your immediate response so that i will know my position.
Yours Sincerely,
Miss Fransisca Dikko
NB:Reply to my private email address below for more explanation.
( [email protected] )
_________________
i am looking for a business partiner that will help me.
Never encountered this my self but I heard about this scheme and it is running for years now.
Just one question:
How do you search for "a honest and trustworthy person" on the Internet?
Is it a special google feature, or do I need to install something? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Yup I got this also and only joined the forum yesterday.
i got the same in my businness email twice, and saw it on another forum. its everywhere
hi this is Shekhar from india
please take a look at following link
http://www.helpgaurav.com/index.asp
Gaurav Tandon is a 34 year old professional working with Datacraft Asia (a private IT firm) in Mumbai, India. His small family comprises wife, a 6 year old son. He has two elder sisters both are happily married and a brother who is serving as Captain in the Indian Army.
Gaurav was detected with AML (a type of Blood Cancer) in November 2008. He has responded well to chemotherapy, but must get a Bone Marrow Transplant as the only possibility for a cure. Unfortunately the HLA typing test of his siblings is negative. Doctors have therefore strongly recommemded a Non-Related Allogenic transplant. Since such transplantations are rarely performed in India, there is a high chance that we have to take him to places like Singapore, UK or the USA.
Gaurav's wife is a teacher in my college
So this is her student asking for help
please try to help and pray if you can
you may donate on the links on the above site
OR
you may also donate on my paypal account and leave me a mail at [email protected]
i will make sure that you help reaches the right place....
THANK YOU ALL
Everything was hacked!
Paypal
Email
XDA
All my passwords were changed and I am being held at ransom!
he wants 250,000 euro
for all my info
F%#*& You!
I got some passwords and **** back but I AM PISSED!
He stole money from my paypal over the weekend... $687.83 which i am getting back through paypal
Im supposed to call the FBI number the cops gave me... but I want to meet this guy in person.. he better hope to God he doesnt ever see me!
Just a heads up on me right now.... been going through a lot of **** right now!
I just went and changed my paypal password to protect the donors. And remember, most of the time when people hack your accounts they dont figure out the password, they answer the security questions correctly.
Yeah watch what you put up on any of your online profiles, not too much personal information, like your dogs name, or favorite color.
dude that blows, but like brandenk said, they usually get the security quesion right so i would suggest changing all of those too. i'm a security freak and i use keyscrambler to encrypt my keystrokes so phishing scams and fake pages can't get my info. hope your day get's better man
damn your life just got hacked. Wish you good luck bro
WHAT THE!
Is there a way of tracing his communications with you? If you can, you may be able to take some legal action bro... Check out some internet forensics on the matter. I work at a Law Firm, so I'll check out some of their tools for this.
That's sooooooo not cool... People die for stuff like that man.
Wow!
Very bad situation
Wish you patience and for sure hackers will pay
Good luck and good vibes to you mate
Thanks all,
Sorry bout the post in the wrong section but I had to release my frustrations fast before I exploded
I think I got it all taken care of through paypal, my bank, and google.
I lost some data but i dont think its anything he can really use against me or even if he saved it before I deleted everything...lol
Seems like a newb job after I think about it...
I was kinda like... " hows this fool gonna hold me for ransom with useless info that I went in and deleted myself once i got my mail back... lol"
I dont have anything anyways and my credit is shot... Good Luck...lol
I have his info now... how you gonna hold ransom with payment through paypal and get away with it anyway? lol
That sucks bro glad you got it all fixed.
LOL...def a noob job...I hope he pays for it.
I had someone try to steal my information once. I fell for a weak phishing scam like 6 years ago through AIM...luckily my aim pass was not any of my other passes.
Ummm, if anyone knows how to get aim S/Ns back hit me up...please...I have a lot of old college contacts that are now gone.
bummer...glad you got your stuff back from the noob hack!
Randum that sucks! you have any idea how he got all your info? Anything to do with the G1 you think?
Even now that it's all resolved you should call the FBI.
The F**** should pay for what he has done!
paypal number generator thingy, verifies identity
a few months back I got an email from paypal and they offered me one of those encryption key fobs , lotsa people have them for work nets etc, after I give my login and password then the # key the fob gives me , if I dont have my key there is a phone #(my cell) that paypal will call me at and a computer reads me my number so I can log on when im not home or just dont have the fob, I keep the thing velcro'd to my desk...
ask paypal, it was free and adds a pretty darn good security layer to paypal and fleabay also they both use it everytime i login.
bhang
RandumAccess said:
Everything was hacked!
Paypal
Email
XDA
All my passwords were changed and I am being held at ransom!
he wants 250,000 euro
for all my info
F%#*& You!
I got some passwords and **** back but I AM PISSED!
He stole money from my paypal over the weekend... $687.83 which i am getting back through paypal
Im supposed to call the FBI number the cops gave me... but I want to meet this guy in person.. he better hope to God he doesnt ever see me!
Just a heads up on me right now.... been going through a lot of **** right now!
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/01/12/thoughts-and-prayers-haiti
I know people in Haiti (Family) so I ask XDA if they can simply help out! with our devices simply text to help out please.. I am sure 5 or 10 bucks added on to your next bill wouldn't hurt..
simply text "HAITI" to "90999" and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill.
Here is a secondary option. We're asking individuals to donate $5.00 by texting 'YELE' to 501501. This amount will be billed on your next cellphone bill, simply meaning that you will receive an additional charge on your next bill. If you're unable to use this method, you may visit the site http://www.yele.org. Ladies and gentlemen, the people of Haiti are in great need of our help.
My condolences go out to all of the families that have been affected by this tragic event.
-- evolve
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come on guys.
Just thought I'd mention this:
You can raise money for Haiti when you search the internet by following this link:http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=803086
Searching from that link donates to Yele Haiti NY
>Dream General
Yep this seems related.
I have a friend that his child born with his heart in the right and has a hole in it, we are trying to collect some money for his boy that has just 2 weeks.
We really need to make 5000 euro for a very hard operation in Spain.
I know that are people out there that doesn't believe in this type of messages but i hope that my message will make at least 2-3000 people make a donation with at least 1 euro over the million ones we are in the internet.
I know that people in general does not have money too much but i hope...i hope 1 euro is not too much to ask.
I have an old paypal verified account and true that i'm trying to raise the money...Let's hope for the best.
The paypal email account where everyone can send money is [email protected]
I am bathing admins and moderators to not delete this this topic...it's harmless and maybe the rooms will be spread for this to come to a happy end.
I wanna say i wish lot of good health and much happiness to all that makes a donation or at least spread the word.