If this isn't appropriate for this area, mods please take it down and let me know.
Anyway, a couple of users on Howardforums recently got scammed by a member in Lakecity, MI (username Lakecity, how creative), and are contacting law enforcement, service providers, and anything else possible to get this guy. If anybody on here lives within driving distance of Lakecity, please contact me either through PM or email me at [email protected].
I'm actually only out a Blackberry Pearl 8100, but I just hate scumbags that do stuff like this and want to bring justice.
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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
Actually no true invitation, but there are several members that are wanting to get up a meet up, and I thought that it would be a good idea to invite people who are on other boards. obviously this would be geared towards americans, but anyone would be eligible to come. i am going to attempt to get some type of sponsorship from large companies to cover meeting area and other things, maybe have speakers from said companies, and showing off new devices. We also would like to have some of the pocketpc power people that are essential to these online communities do some classes or something. It is all really up in the air. Location, time, everything. I guess you could really call this the initial planning but if you are interested please say so in this thread.
this is the ppc geeks thread url http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=21783&page=5.
Hello
If you are capable of producing a solution to unlock new models of blackberry,
please contact me by PM to start our conversation.
I work for someone who will pay big $$$$ for a solution, which will be kept for our use only not for resale, similar to what DM3 have done. So no need to fear the crackers as solution will be kept private.
We can supply all the handsets, for experiments and trials. Have a ready constant market, been wholesaling and trading in blackberry for over 3 years.
Anyone know which team produced the first blackberry solution for the 7290,7100 etc??
Apologies if this has been posted in the wrong section
am so specialize to unlock phone and produce blackberry phone applications so why you not contactme at 07943496257 to make beter deal out on the corner
I dont know whether its allowed to post a topic related to personal business here.. If its not allowed, MODS please close!
We are from india and used to import copier machines from various countries and sell it in india. A year back we tried to import machines from a canadian company and after so many talks/mails we made a agreement(this is the usual procedure we follow with any companies and so far everything went fine except this canadian trade). as per the agreemnt 50% payment we need to send first, then they will despatch the machins(through big container) and once it reaches india, we need to pay remaining 50%, then only only they seller will send the orginal docs, which is required to clear it from customs.
So here we paid 30K USD(yes 30,000) to that canadian company a year back... but after that they were not responding to any mails/calls.. we've even tried to contact through embassy, they told, they cannot interfere with individual business matters, of course they were in talks with that company once. but nothing was successful, embassy advised us to proceed with legal way and advised us to contact some of lawyer's forum and we contacted several and no one was helpful in this matter.
Now we are clueless, how to proceed further and i thought of posting here, so that any canadian member who is in to law(yer) or having high position may be help us to proceed further.
Expecting some favour from fellow members, thanks!
PS: MODS, sorry to open this kind of topic and i know this is no where related to any technical, and if its against forum rules, please close it, Thanks!
Hello everyone,
my name is Henri and I want you to gift me five thousand three hundred and eighty-nine dollars.
5437$ or about 4800€. (Rates May 13,2015 GMT)
If you have not clicked away yet, let me explain:
I live in Berlin, Germany and I am 21 years old.
When I was about 16 years old I was moderate to severe depressed. Thought about killing myself, cried myself to sleep et cetera. I don't want to go into detail with this, because you have all heard those heartbreaking stories before.
Anyway, I got over it. I did not go into therapy. Instead I decided to fix the problems which depressed me. Those were mostly that I did not have a social life at all and had a good amount of social anxiety.
I wasn't able to ask an elderly woman for the time on the streets, started sweating when people I didn't know talked to me in school and so on.
And obviously, I didn't have any female contact besides my mother and sister.
In 2011 I had a breakdown and decided that I had to change or I would eventually kill myself in a weaker moment.
I went out to fix my social life and become happy. And I succeeded.
Long story short: I pushed myself into social interactions, pushed myself to talk to girls. On this journey I found awesome friends, two especially which could not be closer to me. One of them had the same goals as I, wanted to overcome all social borders there are.
I also met a lot of great girls, eventually other guys asked me for advice.
I was the happiest person I knew.
This is when I and and the friend mentioned above decided that we could actually teach other guys to get to where we are.
We are currently building a German website where we want to give advice for young guys on talking to girls, fitness, having great sex, fashion, hygiene, motivation, discipline, managing happy relationships and ironically living a happy life.
Ironically, because right now I am depressed as f**k again. This is because I don't have money, my parents don't have enough to support me. I got a job, but I literally started crying there because I felt so miserable. At home I feel miserable because I have no money. I am working in sales without base salary.
My expenses are about 600€ a month. In Germany, parents get some money for their „childs“ as long as they study, so I get close to 200€ a month from them. 400€ left.
My options right now are :
1) „Manning up“ and work and hope that therapy fixes this.
2) Getting student loans and go to university in a field with which I will be able to pay back the roughly 20.000€ in loans, just so that I do not have to work right now and can put my energy into the website.
3) Moving back into my parent's place on the other side of the country and everything on hold. They live in small village, so I won't be able to meet and advice people, talk to girls, network etc.
I would give up everything I built here.
Yesterday I decided to give another idea a shot. The idea you are reading right now.
I figured if I could get 4800 people to give me 1€ each, I could live one year without stress.
12 months times 400€ is 4800€.
I am convinced that my website and other projects will make enough money for me after this year.
If not, and this is a very small if, I will be where I am right now again, hopefully with more valuable lessons learned, happy and therefore able to work a normal job if I have to.
You see, I am basically asking you for time. I realize that 1$/1€ isn't much, but if you gave it to everyone you'd be dead broke. I do not know how I can convince you that I deserve this money more than anyone else, but I know that all I need right now is this money to handle this situation and put all my energy into the website and hopefully helping others.
I am asking you to gift me your next coffee, ice cream cone or burger.
If just 1% of the people reading this decides to help me out with one dollar, I have to show this to 543,700 people.
This is why I actually looked up the biggest online communities and I am posting this to every single one that can somehow relate to my situation or the subjects of our site. Some just seem to have cool people in them.
As you will see, there isn't any content up yet. We already have a lot but want to publish about ten good articles for the start. And yes, this is a working-title
If this post gets removed because it violated any specific rule I understand that and want you to know that it wasn't on purpose. I also tried to post into Off-Topic or similar.
If you have any questions, I will answer them as soon as I can.
Please don't give us advice on the design or that wordpress „is bad“. I appreciate it, but I want to answer questions about the content, our goals and whatnot instead of discussing webdesign. So far we have been working on content only.
The site as it stands is just a vehicle for the donate page, since sites like „fundme“ take 30cents per donation plus fees.
Again, all I am asking for is 1$ to solve all my problems for one year.
Thank you for your time.
Mod edit: Link removed
Perhaps you should be reading the forum rules before posting stuff like this, as you were clearly aware that those exist.
CoolApps said:
Perhaps you should be reading the forum rules before posting stuff like this, as you were clearly aware that those exist.
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While many of us, myself included, sympathize with your issue, this site is not the place for raising funds for yourself. This is against forum rules and is simply not allowed.
Thread closed.