I've just received an email from the above person through Allotments-UK. He says he is in the Ivory Coast and is having problems transferring some money out of the country !!! Now I can spot a 419 a mile off but could anyone answer me why he would use an allotment site to find me ???
Yours disgusted
Adam
Mail is as follows:
"Hello Board Stupid
You received the following message from: frank4u (frankdikko4u@yahoo.com)
At: http://www.Allotments-UK.com/forum/
From Frank Dikko
Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire
Please reply to my private email address below:
(frank_dikko901@yahoo.com)
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 my prayers I decided to contact you. I am Mr. Frank Dikko, 22
years ,writing you from 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,
Mr. Frank Dikko
NB:Reply to my private email address below for more explanation.
( frank_dikko901@yahoo.com )
"
I've received a few from them today, it looks like the site has been compromised, hope they fix it soon.
Dan
Maybe I shall read up on scamming back ;)
I've had one too. I'm gullible, I must be to have taken on an allotment mostly covered in 8 foot brambles, but really............
Can I suggest that somebody reply to Frank stating that we are a desperate group of allotment holders working on impoverished soil in urgent need 5000 tonnes of manure.
If he can arrange a full shipment of highest quality bulls**t to be delivered to Felixstowe we might be able to grow enough vegetables to sell at our local markets in order to raise the funds he needs to release his dead relative's fortune.
Obviously we won't be able to pay for the shipment until the vegetables have grown, and knowing that the hurricane season is about to hit the UK we might not be able to raise the funds for some time.
this is awful stuff. i'm sure you haven't....but pelase don't fall for it. i've had this happen to me several times and the first time i fell for it....and nearly sent them money.
there is a site you can use to find out more info on it. probably search under ivory coast scam.
Any preoccupations & Francis D*ckhead is a personal friend of mine - send the money to me & I'll see it gets to the right place....
8) ;D
419s have been going for years. Just ignore them.
Oh god Cotswoldlass, I'm well aware of these sort of scams lol Seen many variations on them. Just wondering if there's any point in a)reporting the mail addy to yahoo and b) scamming the little bugger back LOL
it cant hurt the address is usualy abuse@<domain>
Its possible that they have not compromised the site it could be that they just fished the details out from unsecure posts.
The other spam scam is that you get an email from a ligitamate address like from Dan but its got a label that looks real and is actualy going elsewhere :-)
Or you get an email from a ligitamate address and you email them or it bounces to the real address and this is used to crash mail servers and is usualy a mini dos attack.
You can try the abuse@ route, what I mean is these wretched things cause so much upset, it is better to try and ignore them. Enough said! Cheers guys
Can I just ask ??? are these sent to Hotmail accounts ??? Reason I ask is I have been inundated with this crap in the early days to my Hotmail account and adjusted it accordingly to stop the rot (so to speak). ::) and have not been hassled since. 8)
I have never had anything similar on other email accounts ;D Have I been lucky ???
I reported mine as spam toYahoo. Best not to reply direct to the sender, as they then know that its a reall e-mail address .... which could lead to more intense spamming ...
Roy, yes, I think you have been lucky. I've not had them on my current email as they are filtered pretty efficiently but on the previous one they did slip through the net.
Also got the same mail today. Never happened before, and can't believe that anyone would be so daft as to get in touch with him when this sort of scam is so well documented - hope they don't anyway! Good idea about the manure though Matt - inspired! :D busy_lizzie
Note: NEVER reply to this sort of email! Report as spam. Let it go.