Wednesday, May 22, 2013

A word of warning- PLEASE BE AWARE OF CON ARTISTS

Dearest facebook friends and blog readers,
Please be very careful with who you interact with on any social networking site. There are loads of weird people out there with fake profiles. There was someone out there who made a fake profile with my pictures on another networking site as well as facebook. After reporting the matter to facebook the account is now shut down. I receive many strange emails and inbox messages like the ones below....Obviously con artists...

My name is Joy, Am very interested in you, i will also like to know you more,i want you to send me a Message Here is my Emails weahJoy@live.com i have good reason for contacting you which i will tell you latter, contact me with my Email because we have important matter to discuss through my Email i also want to bee your good friend, Notice we have important matter to discuss so contact me with my Email now weahJoy@live.com. Am English Speaking Girl, i will bee very happy if you can contact me with English language through my Email below ok(weahJoy@live.com)
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Hi Dear !
How are you doing today, i hope every thing is fine,? if so thanks be to
God almighty who made it so ,My name is Linda brown and i am a girl. I saw
your email today and I personal become interested in being your friend
even more than that ,but as time goes on we will know better. I will be
very glad if you can contact me through my email address, so that i can
send you my picture and tell you more about myself
Hoping to talk to you soon ,have a nice day and remain Blessed.
Regards
Yours Linda
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Greetings,

For your kind attention, i will be very glad if you do assist me to relocate a sum of (US$8,200,000.00 Million) into your personal bank account for the benefit of both of us.

This is a genuine business transaction which i can not operate it alone without using a Foreigner as required in my bank law, therefore i am contacting you to stand before my bank as the beneficiary next of kin of this fund, that is my aim of contacting you in this manner to assist me actualise this grate opportunity and share the benefit together with me Insha'Allah.

Because there are 99% of businesses truncation going on all over the world today but all work’s out with matured trust and sincerity together with confidential.
In this case i can assure you that there is no involvement of risk in this business transaction hence you will follow my directions as an insider in the Bank, in which we have100% chance to claim this money into any of your personal bank account that you will provide to my bank.

You will be entitled to have 35% of this fund as a foreign partner, since you will provide a bank account where this money will be transferred to, while 65% will be for me, by indicating your interest on assurance of trust, i will send you the full details and how this business will be executed.

Please keep this proposal as a top secret between both of us because the secret of this transaction is as well as the success of it, and if you are really sure of your integrity, trustworthy and confidentiality reply back to me immediately to prove your integrity, And if you are not interested about this business please i am sorry for contacting you and you delete it immediately in your email box.
I will be looking forward for your urgent response @ mrs_alhash@voila.fr

Regards, in sincerity,
Mrs.Al-Mansour Hashemi.s.
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If anyone out there receives an email like the one above, please do not fill in your details. This is a classic example of phishing allowing hackers to gain access to your personal info.


Despite numerous warnings I don't quite understand how some people can be soo gullible. I heard a story about a lady in Laudium the other day. She was duped by a group of con men who told her that she must give them one hundred thousand rand cash and they will give her two hundred and fifty thousand rand in return. The woman was so excited that she actually withdrew that amount of money and handed it over to the con men after agreeing to meet them at a specific location. They waved at her goodbye after they received the money. Then only did she realize that they had taken her for a ride...How silly could the woman be? My advice to everyone out there is this, if you receive strange emails like the ones above, do not reply and do not open up any attachments either. It is common sense that no one out there will give you money for nothing. Money can ONLY be acquired through hard work and perseverance, unless you are a criminal of course.