Did anyone else get spammed from this?

Lirpa

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Did anyone else get this spam? 

This is the email address I received the spam from  "Edina Coulibaly" <_couledin@yahoo.co.th>

I guess I should remove my e-mail from my profile?




Letter of Relationship and Establishment Aid.
From : Edina Coulibaly
Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire.Tel : +22508516696
For logistic reason contact me on e.mail:(_edinbali@_yahoo.co.th) Attention: Respectful,
Greetings and How are you dear Friend.I am Edina Coulibaly from Cote d' Ivoire  (Ivory Coast)in West Africa. I got your contact address  from  Cassiopaea Forums board Memberlist. Please  I would like you to kindly permit me to apply through this medium for your cooperation  to secure an opportunity to invest and do joint relationship and establishment with you in your country.  Hence I have  substantial capital which I honourably Inherited from my late father Chief Emile Coulibaly who was the minister of Interior and also have Cocao and Coffee plantation and deals in Gold, Diamond mining and Trading in bouake Northern District of Coted' Ivoire (Ivory Coast) in Western Africa. Before the Epmigo rebels killed him during the political crisis on the  mutiny rebellion upraising that equally lead to the death of former military junta Robert Guei.
I am contacting you because of my need to deal with honest person whom I can lay trust and personal confidence on with hope that he will not let me down,because since the murder of my father,I have been subjected to all sorts of harassment and intimidation with lots of negative reports emanating from the rebellion people due to this political crisis we are facing,which have resulted to war in some part of our country Cote d' Ivoire since this past years.I legitmately inherited this sum from my late father who died recently and I intend to invest this money in profitable areas in your country into a very lucratives business venture of which you are to advise and execute the  venture over there for the mutual benefits of both of us.
Most especially is for you to help me come over to your base if possible for You be able co-operate with me to become my business partner in your country and create ideas on how  money will be invested, properly managed and the type of investment after the money  is transferred to your custody with your assistance. I inherited this sum from my late father  whom the rebels killed because he was not supporting their selfish interest to topple the present government .I want you to consider my situation and reply me on  indication of your willingness to  handle this transaction sincerely by protecting my Interest and upon your acceptance of this proposal.I will furnish you with the full details information, procedure on how to continue.The exact amount involved is the sum of Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand  USD ($9.500.000.00)USD. If you accept to associate with me,both of us will mutually agree on your percentage interest and share holding for helping me to secure the release of the deposit and investing the money into  lucratives profitable venture in your care.I will be glad to reserve this respect and opportunity for you if you so desire to relate with me with good mind and honesty.I do urge  you to kindly give this matter your immediate attention and the maximum seriousness it deserves for the smooth achievement of the aim.
I want you to be rest assured that everything is in order and legitimate it was due to the political crisis in our country that have resulted to war in some part of our region which have cause everybody to find a way of geting out from  the country,for this reason I use this medium to request for your assistance with hope that you will not let down the confidence I have already reposed on you.
This money is legitimately acquired by my late father from sales of Cocoa and Coffee and Diamond dealings. If it interests you Please forward your reply including your telephone number and fiscal address to my private email address so that I can provide you with more clarifications and details about it all.
Looking forward for your prompt response on e.mail:(_edinbali@_yahoo.co.th)
Thanks for your understanding and future cooperations.
Sincerely
Edina CoulibalyAbidjan


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Bizarre - this is the first I've heard of this. I'm sure our tech geniuses will look into in the morning. To my knowledge, there is no way they could get your email if you checked it to not be publicly available. Even if it is publicly available, I'm not sure how a bot could grab it unless it was typed out in a post - but it's not my forte, so the techies will have to chime in.
 
Maybe a year ago I received an email of this type, too. Only the person neither mentioned where she got my email address from, nor the exact amount of money. Seems a greater number of gullible victims is needed, thus "Look how much I have and out of generosity --and some other 'minor' expectations-- offer you lucky one to share it with me".
Who's behind this? And who's buying this?
 
I received the same email this morning, maybe that's because I'm newbie...

(by the way hallo everybody :cool2:)
 
To my knowledge, there is no way they could get your email if you checked it to not be publicly available. Even if it is publicly available, I'm not sure how a bot could grab it unless it was typed out in a post

:rolleyes: The "publicly available" option does not work, for me at least.
 
Kruk4droga said:
I received the same email this morning, maybe that's because I'm newbie...

(by the way hallo everybody :cool2:)

Hey!

Yea I have that newbie thing in common and just received the same thing too :shock:

Seems this might be quite widespread.
 
This is strange: I received the mail around a year ago, while around that time I first registered for this forum.
 
Funny thing is...well probably not funny to the poor lady that fell for the trick...I just read a couple of weeks ago about how a woman fell for an e-mail simliar to this and paid the scammers 400,000.00 or close to that figure :scared:
 
[quote author=email]...that you will not let down the confidence I have already reposed on you[/quote]

This is precisely why they call it a Confidence Game.
 
Ellipse said:
To my knowledge, there is no way they could get your email if you checked it to not be publicly available. Even if it is publicly available, I'm not sure how a bot could grab it unless it was typed out in a post

:rolleyes: The "publicly available" option does not work, for me at least.

Actually, according to our techies, that's just a forum glitch - your email address still appears to you (since you are you) - but not to anyone else (other than moderators) - It is not visible to other regular members or to visitors.
 
Hi,

I have found out this afternoon that I had this same email. I did not trust it so I immediatly did send and email to Laura. I had no time to read this forum, cause I was on my work.
Hope no one fell for this trick.

greetings
Little _star_orion (Sandra)
 
anart said:
Ellipse said:
To my knowledge, there is no way they could get your email if you checked it to not be publicly available. Even if it is publicly available, I'm not sure how a bot could grab it unless it was typed out in a post

:rolleyes: The "publicly available" option does not work, for me at least.

Actually, according to our techies, that's just a forum glitch - your email address still appears to you (since you are you) - but not to anyone else (other than moderators) - It is not visible to other regular members or to visitors.

Prior to receiving the spam, I had my e-mail on my profile as public but now have switched it to private. It appears slanted now so I assume that indicates that moderators and myself are the only ones that can see it.
 
April said:
Prior to receiving the spam, I had my e-mail on my profile as public but now have switched it to private. It appears slanted now so I assume that indicates that moderators and myself are the only ones that can see it.

Yes, this is correct. I just went to your profile and it says "hidden" next to email. And under your avatar in your post there is no email icon. :)
 
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