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Scam Using WonderMail

I've just received the following email in my WonderMail Inbox, and  I suspect it's a scam. I post it here as cautionary information.

Between grammymouse and mrs101

mrs101

Jan 28 at 1:22am

 Beloved In Christ,

 

Greetings in name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am Mrs. Erlat Bituin 

Belinario,69 years old widow & a new Christian convert,suffering from long

time cancer of the blood (Leukaemia According to my doctor my condition is

critical and I might not survive.

 

Although as a christian,I beleive God and I know that I will not die,but

will live to declare the glory of God. My late husband (Dr. Manuelito

Belinario )and my only son were killed during the (ABIDJAN- BOUAKE) Crisis

some years back.

 

Our Lord Jesus Christ is my only comforter.

 

I have the sum of Two million Eight hundred thousand US Dollars The 

fund is deposited in the Bank in United State Of America for security 

reasons.

 

I in herited the money from my late husband who was an industralist and

international business man. I have prayed concerning this donation for

God's guidance and if in your heart you geniunely and faithfully desire-to

use this fund for the propagation of God's work in any form whether for

charity, ministry evangelical work,building a Clinic, school,

orphanage,library and drilling of water for the orphans, local community,

widows, Old Aged, Haiti's catastrophic earthquake-aid and people living

with HIV AIDS who can not afford to pay for health,school and foodstuff or

otherwise in relation to God's work,do get in-touch with me.

 

God bless you once again and as you receive,give and give God all the

Glory. My obligation is to do the right thing, the rest is in God's hands'

 

* One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the

house of the LORD all the days of my life. Psalms 27:4, 8-9

 

I want  you to know that after sending you this mail I will delete my id from this site for my own security reasons,So you should write me through my private email box,

(erlatb1@yahoo.com)

 

Remain blessed in the Lord

Yours in Christ,

Mrs. Erlat

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chemgal's picture

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 Hi grammymouse, quite a few people got this, including me.

There's 2 topics in social about this already.

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Thank you, chemgal.  I wondered which category was appropriate to post this in, and although I considered "Social", I didn't check there.  I guess it doesn't hurt to spread the info.   

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and these things pop up on occassion--if the price of liberty is eternal vigilance the price of the internet is eternal scams

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Well said, Gord.  Despite the truth you state, I'm still infuriated by these predatory, despicable attempts to exploit the vulnerable.

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and even if one person falls for it, it spurs the scammer to keep it up.  Nice to meet you Grammymouse!! 

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grammymouse

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Thank you, Birthstone.  I agree, and it's nice to meet you too.

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 HI there Grammymouse!  I really love your avatar picture. Where is it? It looks like the UK.  Either way it makes me pine for spring. Got my seed ordre ready to go, now I am just waiting for the pesos to come down the pipe.  Once again, welcome!

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trishcuit

 

And if we continue to have this weird weather in Ottawa, raining now and supposed to be +7C later this week, I'm liable to be digging the garden by the end of the month

 

IT

 

 

Russ

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Maybe I can cash in on this.  Everybody send me a mere twenty bucks and we'll call it even.  Fair enough?

graeme's picture

graeme

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Gee! Maybe it was unwise of me to sign all those paper for the BMW.

Elis's picture

Elis

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 And I thought I was the only one who got one :( LOL

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Me too! Glad to see others' responses.

I haven't been on the website for quite some time, so just discovered today that  I had received the same email. Shouldn't there be some way to block spam on this site the way we can on our regular email services?

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What sort of filter would you recommend?  There's little about such messages that could be reliably used to distinguish them from other, genuine messages - at least, not by a computer program.

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Users who join simply to spam usually have their accounts deleted fairly fast.  My university email gets way more spam.  IMO there isn't enough spam here (yet) for a spam filter to be worthwhile.

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