I have just received a private message from the poster "dohene", and IT WAS A SCAM OR PHISHING MESSAGE!!
I looked his/her profile up, and he/she just joined today, with no posts.
I tried to find a way to contact the moderators, wirth no success, so I am taking this public action.
I got the same message.
I reported it as abuse.
Thanks for the "LERT"
Jim
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Matter of Fact this is the msg:
Good Day Please Read, I am (Ambassador .Daniel Ohene Agyekum)General supervisor of inventory section attached to this bank I know that this memorandum will come as a revelation to you, since we don’t know each other, but concentrate and appreciate my basis of contacting you via this date site, introduction purpose, I need your imperative support to reassign an neglected summation of ($14.5 Million) dollars absent by a deceased client of my depository instantaneously to your account. We shall go halve in ratio of 40% for you and 60% for me. in conclusion, should you be interested to operate this project with me? Respond directly and I will give you the full niceties for us to move onward and the secret is bound between me and you your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated and also Your Full Name and Phone Number are needed for trouble-free communication. Yours faithfully, Mr.Daniel Ohene AgyekumEmail address for more details (dohene111@gmail.com or dohene@rediffmail.com)
Deleteed Msgs
I just deleted it in my TRAINS mailbox because I couldn't find an "abuse" icon.
RIDEWITHMEHENRY is the name for our almost monthly day of riding trains and transit in either the NYCity or Philadelphia areas including all commuter lines, Amtrak, subways, light rail and trolleys, bus and ferries when warranted. No fees, just let us know you want to join the ride and pay your fares. Ask to be on our email list or find us on FB as RIDEWITHMEHENRY (all caps) to get descriptions of each outing.
I wish there was a general e-mail address and bank account setup someplace to give to these nuts to make them think they are getting someplace. Keep the occupied for a long time conversing with an automated reverse-scam system.
I used to know a girl that had memorized the Police Vice Squad telephone number to give to creeps that asked for her number.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
Below is the message. Remember back in about 3rd grade, some goober you hung out with would always loosed the lid on the salt shaker, knowing full well that he wouldn't be around when some helpless soul dumped all the salt on his lunch. I figure that goober now gets his jollies doing imature stuff like this on the internet. I was all ready to contact him, but it doesn't say from what country he is the Ambassador. Imagine that! I wonder if he's interested in buying a car off Craig's list? Good Day Please Read, I am (Ambassador .Daniel Ohene Agyekum)General supervisor of inventory section attached to this bank I know that this memorandum will come as a revelation to you, since we don’t know each other, but concentrate and appreciate my basis of contacting you via this date site, introduction purpose, I need your imperative support to reassign an neglected summation of ($14.5 Million) dollars absent by a deceased client of my depository instantaneously to your account. We shall go halve in ratio of 40% for you and 60% for me. in conclusion, should you be interested to operate this project with me? Respond directly and I will give you the full niceties for us to move onward and the secret is bound between me and you your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated and also Your Full Name and Phone Number are needed for trouble-free communication. Yours faithfully, Mr.Daniel Ohene AgyekumEmail address for more details (dohene111@gmail.com or dohene@rediffmail.com)
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
I received two messages from this person. I am sure that all of us, long ago, came to know (I hope not through experience) that such messages are attempts to get money from unsuspecting persons, and delete such without responding.
I have read an interesting book which comprised back and forth messages between a man who was not taken in and the entity that tried to steal his money. As I recall, the title was something like "Delete This at Your Own Peril."
May none of us fall prey to this would-be thief.
Johnny
THREE direct e-mails to my e-mail account from the Forums within seconds of posting to a forum topic here.
This one will no doubt generate a fourth.
Is there anyone left still stupid enough to fall for those exceedingly polite Nigerians/whoever?
I got it, too. Terrible that they're using these forums to do this. I hope no one falls for it...
There is (hopefully) no one on this forum so gullible (though I have known of people tempted to try it -- desperate times make desperate people!).
I primarily wanted to get the attention of someone on forum "management" who could figure out how to shut this guy off (at least off of these forums), so that posting a message here doesn't become an act of frustration!
Another poor Nigerian coming too late to the dance.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Dang! And I already had that $14.5 million spent.
I just got one from him or her also.
Russell
That is the classic "Nigerian Money Letter" scam. It is always the same basic story. Somebody in an African country has a wad of money through some kind of inheritance, but can't use it because the government will take it if they find out about it. So they need to get it out of their country, but they need a place to put in the U.S. So they ask to borrow your account as the destination for the money, and for that, they offer to split the money with you. So you give them your account and they take all your money.
I got an email from Dohene too! Where do these creeps get our email from? I too am a Nigerian, probably the only one in the planet who's into trains instead of scam!
I got that e-mail too.
Just hit the delete bottom..he isn't worth more than a nanosecond of your time..
I love his initials - "DOA" !
People who do this are worthless - "They'll none of them be missed !" (Those who know the source of that quote will get my intended message . . . ).
- Paul North.
I got one (and reported it) as well.
I've seen a couple of instances where the scammers got scammed by people who basically threw the game right back in their faces.
Rather like the telemarketer who gets taken in by somebody pretending to be a police officer investigating a murder...
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
I got it in my e mail also. I am going to report it asspam, and then delete it. It'sa classic scam message allright. Thanks for the warning. But the big question is how did the person who sent it get our e mail addresses?
Look to the left of this message you will see my user name. Click on it and you can send me a message and the web site will forward it to me via my e-mail address. It is also in the "Conversations" feature of the web site (look to the right side where your avitar always shows with a list of links, the 3rd one down is "Conversations").
All this poor fool had to do was open any posting, click the first user name, paste in his blathering, and click Send. Then click the next name and do it again. It is something that any illiterate animal can be trained to do. It does serve the purpose of making them feel like they are doing something and it keeps them from sitting on the curb all day.
RudyRockvilleMD I got it in my e mail also. I am going to report it asspam, and then delete it. It'sa classic scam message allright. Thanks for the warning. But the big question is how did the person who sent it get our e mail addresses?
Be careful about "reporting it as spam." Since it came from the Trains.com server (at least mine did), by telling your email service that it is spam, it may treat all messages and notifications from these Trains.com forums as spam
Apparently Trains.com turned into a dating site.
"No soup for you!" - Yev Kassem (from Seinfeld)
ericsp Apparently Trains.com turned into a dating site.
I like long walks in the ballast at night, snoot noses, and dinner by LED lantern.
(worth a shot).
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.t fun any
zugmann ericsp: Apparently Trains.com turned into a dating site. I like long walks in the ballast at night, snoot noses, and dinner by LED lantern. (worth a shot).
ericsp: Apparently Trains.com turned into a dating site.
I was thinking a can of beans and a bottle of water, 1999 vintage (I hear the water was really good that year).
Dragoman RudyRockvilleMD: I got it in my e mail also. I am going to report it asspam, and then delete it. It'sa classic scam message allright. Thanks for the warning. But the big question is how did the person who sent it get our e mail addresses? Be careful about "reporting it as spam." Since it came from the Trains.com server (at least mine did), by telling your email service that it is spam, it may treat all messages and notifications from these Trains.com forums as spam
RudyRockvilleMD: I got it in my e mail also. I am going to report it asspam, and then delete it. It'sa classic scam message allright. Thanks for the warning. But the big question is how did the person who sent it get our e mail addresses?
The guy (or more likely computer program) did not send the e-mail to me. It sent private messages. The server at Kalmbach then sent e-mail notifications of these private messages to me.
ericsp zugmann: ericsp: Apparently Trains.com turned into a dating site. I like long walks in the ballast at night, snoot noses, and dinner by LED lantern. (worth a shot). I was thinking a can of beans and a bottle of water, 1999 vintage (I hear the water was really good that year).
zugmann: ericsp: Apparently Trains.com turned into a dating site. I like long walks in the ballast at night, snoot noses, and dinner by LED lantern. (worth a shot).
And pasties on a coal scoop.
This is known as an "advance fee" or "419" scam (419 being the section of the Nigerian legal code that deals with frauds). It all looks so obviously fake and false that you think, why are they wasting their time? But the amazing thing is, people do fall for it. In fact at least one person in the US who fell for it went right to Nigeria to find and punish the scammers -- and ended up dead. And as I understand it the local authorities did not seem too interested in doing much about the scam or the murder.
Often if you Google the names in the scam message you will learn either that 1) it has been used often before and folks posted joking messages about it or 2) it is very close to the name of an actual government authority.
The funniest one of all was the woman in the US who got the message and replied, playing coy, but eventually she established regular contact with the scammer. She pretended to be "interested" in him and sent a photo which she claimed to be hers. In reply he sent a photo which WAS of him! Which she promptly posted on hte internet with the entire "romantic" correspondence. I seem to have lost the link or I'd post it here.
I work for a large firm and we get hit a lot by these and similar scam messages. Back in the day they'd arrive by mail and the envelopes would have beautiful Nigerian stamps which I'd give to the stamp collectors, so at least there was some good that came of it.
Dave Nelson
tree68 ericsp: zugmann: ericsp: Apparently Trains.com turned into a dating site. I like long walks in the ballast at night, snoot noses, and dinner by LED lantern. (worth a shot). I was thinking a can of beans and a bottle of water, 1999 vintage (I hear the water was really good that year). And pasties on a coal scoop.
ericsp: zugmann: ericsp: Apparently Trains.com turned into a dating site. I like long walks in the ballast at night, snoot noses, and dinner by LED lantern. (worth a shot). I was thinking a can of beans and a bottle of water, 1999 vintage (I hear the water was really good that year).
You guys are such romantics!
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