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Jefffriday
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Initially Posted - 06/18/2009 :  16:05:37  Show Profile
Don't know if there is a way to stop this, but we all hate this stuff

Hello Jefffriday

You received the following message from: elody77 (elody002@yahoo.cn)

At: http://catalina-capri-25s.org/forum/

From: Mercia Akume
Abidjan,Ivory Coast
West Africa

My Dear,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you.

I got your contact and I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust worthy person that I can confide on and by the this recommendation I must not hesitate to confide in you for this legal, truethful and Godly relationship .

I am Mercia Akume the only daughter of late Mr and Mrs Akume. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan Ivory Coast (Cote d' Ivoire) , my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip .

My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Five million five hundred thousand United State Dollars. US($5.500,000), left in fixed / suspense account in one of the international bank here in Abidjan ,he used my name as his only daughter for the next of Kin in depositing of the fund.

My late father Instructed me to seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management .

Sir, I am honourably seeking for your assistance in the following ways:

(1) To provide a bank account in which this money would be transferred to .

(2) To serve as my guardian and of this fund since I am not capable to handle it.

(3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education.

Note: I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/ input after the successful transfer of this fund to your nominated bank account.


please make sure that you write me very fast, it is urgent.my email; m21ercia@yahoo.com

Anticipating to hear from you soon.

Thanks and God bless.

Best regards,

Mercia Akume

infinity
89 wk/sr #5860
Basalt CO.
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 06/18/2009 :  18:21:57  Show Profile
Funny thing is, they apparently don't get that it's a total waste of their time and energy. Nobody here is going to do anything but "game" them when something like that comes from the association, much less from anywhere else.

Any way, it's easier for us to delete them than it is for those guys to send them. We only read them voluntarily, for amusement...
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piseas
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Response Posted - 06/24/2009 :  14:50:57  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
Dave, my amusement days are over! I spend more time cleaning out my spam emails than I do read the good ones- only because some good ones get sent to span for reasons unknown.
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Peregrine
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Response Posted - 06/24/2009 :  15:49:11  Show Profile  Visit Peregrine's Homepage
<font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="2"><font color="navy">Just a thought, you might open an e-mail addy just for things like <b>open forums</b> and keep your business and personal e-mail address more private.
I keep a couple and organize them in MS Outlook so they go into different folders. It won't keep spammers away but my business/personal addy stays relatively clean.
Also, "block" the sender don't just delete it.
We are lucky that this open forum has stayed relatively clean over the years. </font id="navy"></font id="size2"></font id="Comic Sans MS">
Edited by - Peregrine on 06/25/2009 11:47:56
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Response Posted - 12/06/2009 :  19:14:11  Show Profile
This forum user has been deleted.
I setup a separate post for this type of problem in the future --&gt;[url="http://www.catalina-capri-25s.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20628"]Forum Complaints[/url]
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