Possible scam warning

[fred2010]

An example for the kind of scam mails I get

First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude involving a pending transaction requiring maximum confidence.

We are top official of the federal government contract review panel who are interested in importation of goods into our country with funds which are presently trapped in Nigeria. In order to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us transfers into your account the said trapped funds.

The source of this fund is as follows; after the death of our former president Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar"adua on the 5th may 2010,the government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various ministries.

The present civilian government by Mr.Goodluck Jonathan as the new president and commander in-chief of the army forces set up a contract review panel and we have identified a lot of inflated contract funds which are presently floating in the central bank of Nigeria ready for payment.

However, by virtue of our position as civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names. I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of us$21,320,000.00(twenty one million, three hundred and twenty thousand us dollars). Hence we are writing you this letter. We have agreed to share the money thus; 1. 30% for the account owner 2. 60% for us (the officials) 3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses. It is from the 60% that we wish to commence the importation business.

Please, note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7) banking days from the date of the receipt of the following information by Tel/fax; ~~~~~~~~~~,my private email address~~~~~~~~~) your company's signed, and stamped letterhead paper the above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way we will use your company's name to apply for payment and re-award the contract in your company's name.

We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction. Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above Tel/fax numbers and email address. I will send you detailed information of this pending project when i have heard from you.

Yours faithfully,
Dr Michael Usman

[fred2010]

by the way, the above is a copy and paste of a scam email i received and i post it for reasons of humor.....

just wanna make sure i don't get in trouble

[AndrewG]

Friend of AJ perhaps?

[Sarahdk23]

I get these scam emails costantly. And sadly some peope fall for it...

[RadioMaster]

Originally Posted by fred2010

by the way, the above is a copy and paste of a scam email i received and i post it for reasons of humor.....

just wanna make sure i don't get in trouble

Made it a little clearer this is actually a quote

[AndrewG]

Originally Posted by Sarahdk23

I get these scam emails costantly. And sadly some peope fall for it...

I don't know. I think more than half of these things are just fishing out to see if it is a genuine email address they are sending to, if there is no bounce back they have an email address which they can potentially then use for other scams or perhaps sell in bulk load, so it is not necessarily that email itself which is the scam in such cases I believe.
I replied to one of these things once and said yup no problem give me the money, but you will most likely find all the contact details not to be working or invalid anyway. Good is that spam blockers will usually filter it really well these days. Gmail does a great job in particular in my opinion but you do sometimes find genuine emails end up in the spam box, very occasionally though.

[Wario]

it seems to me that in another month or so when the anger subsides about the scam, the name "AJ" will be used to censor bad words in posts

[mariella]

I had my doubts ever since I saw him post about his so-called misfortune, on every occasion he could ... glad the mods sorted this out!

I truly believe in helping ... but not in being taken for a ride!

However, I did see posts at facebook, from this concert he went to, saying ML was travelling with a tributeband ... so, he either made this posts himself or he may have deceived, the band at least!? (Internet! - you cannot tell who is posting what!)

... bad taste in mouth ...

Karma!!!!...that will get him!

[fred2010]

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[Vickip]

Originally Posted by A Slice Of English

I giggled like a girl at some rubbish joke Meat made to try and set me at my ease when I met him at Broadlands in '08. The guy was a true gent and I found myself totally overwhelmed by his presence, despite his obvious desire to be easygoing with us. I was a dick and completely pathetic in my lack of response but I was starstruck, well and truly!!

Don't feel bad .. I still get tongue-tied when I try to talk to him

[24K]

Originally Posted by tink

yes it was ... for me... the meet is part of the show... part of the whole experience... i so enjoy watching Meat interact with the fans and there was quite an assortment to observe this time... as has been mentioned, the lady in the wheelchair (who sat next to me at the show and had a great time rockin' out ! ... lol... i told her after how much fun she was to sit beside ... she having so much fun! ) ... and Laurence ... the "special needs" man ... and then there were Karen's two little girls ... not sure of their ages... Michelle, you'd know, i think ... about nine, ten... the older one maybe and the other about 7 ? ... watching the girls interact with Meat and vice versed put a smile on my face ... yeah ... i really think this was the bestest meet ever for me ...

Yea Meat was wonderful with Kaz's 2 girls, one aged 7 who said she was Meats biggest fan, Meat replied with mm, i don't think so i once met a fan who was 7ft tall ! Cracked me up ! LOL..The girls had a wonderful time and Meat made it special for them, he waved at them during the show as well which they thought was awesome ! As did Kaz, me and hubby !

[Vickip]

Originally Posted by 24K

Yea Meat was wonderful with Kaz's 2 girls, one aged 7 who said she was Meats biggest fan, Meat replied with mm, i don't think so i once met a fan who was 7ft tall ! Cracked me up ! LOL..The girls had a wonderful time and Meat made it special for them, he waved at them during the show as well which they thought was awesome ! As did Kaz, me and hubby !

That's excellent

[Vickip]

I have a question that maybe R or one one of the Mods could answer for me.

Last night I logged on and saw meat_loaf2008 signed on.
So does that mean AJ can still sign on and read the forum even though he is
banned Can he still read what we have posted here or send people private messages

I don't mean it to sound like I'm paranoid .. I'm just curious.
Thanks
Vicki

[AndyK]

Originally Posted by Vickip

I have a question that maybe R or one one of the Mods could answer for me.

Last night I logged on and saw meat_loaf2008 signed on.
So does that mean AJ can still sign on and read the forum even though he is
banned Can he still read what we have posted here or send people private messages

I don't mean it to sound like I'm paranoid .. I'm just curious.
Thanks
Vicki

When a user is banned, they can still log in to the forum form the home page. However, after they've entered their username and password all they get is an error message informing them of their ban, they can't interact on the forum in anyway. All they can do is read the open areas that anyone can read as a non-signed in guest.

[Sue K]

Originally Posted by A Slice Of English

I was a dick and completely pathetic in my lack of response but I was starstruck, well and truly!!

ohhh... don't say that... i love it when a fan is "starstruck" ... or very excited at meeting Meat... whether first time or 1,000th ! ... imo ... i repeat... IMO ... lol ... it shows one isn't jaded by it all ... lol ... i was pretty good this time round ? ... but then... yepper... hehehe... when i went to sit my knees got the wobbles... and brain screamed... "wtf did you just doooo ?" ... lol ... meaning no more than just standing next to 'Imself... and actually being able to put a couple words together... lol ... happiest couple minutes i've had in a very long time !!! ...

[suzieq]

Originally Posted by tink

ohhh... don't say that... i love it when a fan is "starstruck" ... or very excited at meeting Meat... whether first time or 1,000th ! ... imo ... i repeat... IMO ... lol ... it shows one isn't jaded by it all ... lol ... i was pretty good this time round ? ... but then... yepper... hehehe... when i went to sit my knees got the wobbles... and brain screamed... "wtf did you just doooo ?" ... lol ... meaning no more than just standing next to 'Imself... and actually being able to put a couple words together... lol ... happiest couple minutes i've had in a very long time !!! ...

Ditto for me! My self evaluation concluded ...I was pretty good this time around...however the knees and brain definitely weren't working properly. And I almost cried this time. WTF ME? No matter how many conversations I have with myself, I can't seem to pull it together. I dork out everytime. But a happy dork!!!!!!

Suzieq

[Netty]

well guys, you're starting to scare me off from a M&G

[R.]

Originally Posted by AndyK

When a user is banned, they can still log in to the forum form the home page. However, after they've entered their username and password all they get is an error message informing them of their ban, they can't interact on the forum in anyway. All they can do is read the open areas that anyone can read as a non-signed in guest.

It's worse, the only thing a banned user will see is the error message - no homepage, no non-interactive content, no nothing.

[Vickip]

Originally Posted by R.

It's worse, the only thing a banned user will see is the error message - no homepage, no non-interactive content, no nothing.

Thank you

[Wario]

But he can theoretically Wipe his browser history and be signed out of MLUKFC. In turn being able to view the forum as an un registered guest.

Dont think this thread is accessible to un registered folks though.

[Vickip]

Originally Posted by suzieq

Ditto for me! My self evaluation concluded ...I was pretty good this time around...however the knees and brain definitely weren't working properly. And I almost cried this time. WTF ME? No matter how many conversations I have with myself, I can't seem to pull it together. I dork out everytime. But a happy dork!!!!!!

Suzieq

Aside from Boston I was better this time too
I always have things I want to ask Meat, but by the time I get there, my mind usually goes blank so I just go with the flow and have fun

Originally Posted by Netty

well guys, you're starting to scare me off from a M&G

Don't be scared Netty

[Vickip]

Originally Posted by WarioLoaf

Dont think this thread is accessible to un registered folks though.

Yes it is .. I just tried You can read the thread without signing in,
but can't post a reply.

[Netty]

Originally Posted by Vickip

Aside from Boston I was better this time too
I always have things I want to ask Meat, but by the time I get there, my mind usually goes blank so I just go with the flow and have fun

Don't be scared Netty

yeah you're right, as i read these posts about the meetings and how nervous can be anybody at a M&G, i got a feeling that i'll be able to forget how to speak in english i think i'll have to write some notes to myself, just in case

[R.]

Originally Posted by WarioLoaf

Dont think this thread is accessible to un registered folks though.

It is.

[24K]

Originally Posted by Vickip

Aside from Boston I was better this time too
I always have things I want to ask Meat, but by the time I get there, my mind usually goes blank so I just go with the flow and have fun



Don't be scared Netty

Strangely i always have plenty to say, i was telling Kaz to stop being a sackless hoe, ( cos she was ) Meat said i have such a way with words, well thats one way to describe it LOL...