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Anyone else get this message or one like it?
HELLO DEAR,
************Name and email
my name is *****, i find a very big interest in your profile, wish gave me the joy and courage , i will like to know you, if you are interested to know me, please send me mail and tell me more about you so that we can get to know each other better, well most tell you that i will like to know you for good long term relationship,
here is my email,
I'm only posting this b/c years ago when my hubby and I were trying to adopt, we got emails from people trying to scam us. Most of them were traced to Cameroon and were known as Cameroon Scams. If you read the message, you'll see that the English is off, such as "I find a very big interest in your profile, wish gave me the joy and courage, etc."
Luckily we didn't lose any money to it but if you're getting these messages, don't engage them! They're here to do things that are illegal, immoral or both. I know most of you know not to befriend a stranger, but in a sense we are all strangers so there's always a first time. I fell for a slick one once, a woman (American) saying she wanted us to adopt her son. We spoke on the phone and later I got a phone call from a "friend" of hers saying she was in jail and needed money and then she'd just "send" us the baby.
It's amazing what people will do to get money from others. Later we found she had 5 kids, 4 in foster care and 1 (the 1 she was going to let us "adopt") who was taken from her after we didn't send the $. (Never knew if she was ever really in jail or not.) She was a drug addict and later called me infuriated, telling me that we were "square" and that she shared drugs with her eldest daughter (AGE 9!) and she was "just fine". Yeah, and taken away from her DUE to drugs.
I'm not trying to insult anyone's intelligence, but as I know the right story can get anyone to get involved, I just wanted to bring it up. There's nothing mean or rude in this message, but she's not from our board and I've never heard of her. She doesn't even mention CP!
None of us need more stress to add to our CP, and after what we went through with both the Cameroon scam attempts (which this looks a lot like) and the scamming American woman, I'm always leery when I see this stuff.
Just don't engage these people and don't give them ANY info at all. And thank God they give themselves away b/c of their improper use of the English language! Or shall I say, TOO proper? Delete it or contact DS if you receive something like this. They prey on people who have specific needs or problems (people looking to adopt or people who have medical troubles, among other things.) We don't want or need a scam here. If you have any questions, Google Cameroon or African scams. They have rows of buildings with computers and spend their lives trying to get $ from innocent victims.
Just a warning from someone who was almost burned by one of the better organized scams. Be careful!
-Jen
HELLO DEAR,
************Name and email
my name is *****, i find a very big interest in your profile, wish gave me the joy and courage , i will like to know you, if you are interested to know me, please send me mail and tell me more about you so that we can get to know each other better, well most tell you that i will like to know you for good long term relationship,
here is my email,
I'm only posting this b/c years ago when my hubby and I were trying to adopt, we got emails from people trying to scam us. Most of them were traced to Cameroon and were known as Cameroon Scams. If you read the message, you'll see that the English is off, such as "I find a very big interest in your profile, wish gave me the joy and courage, etc."
Luckily we didn't lose any money to it but if you're getting these messages, don't engage them! They're here to do things that are illegal, immoral or both. I know most of you know not to befriend a stranger, but in a sense we are all strangers so there's always a first time. I fell for a slick one once, a woman (American) saying she wanted us to adopt her son. We spoke on the phone and later I got a phone call from a "friend" of hers saying she was in jail and needed money and then she'd just "send" us the baby.
It's amazing what people will do to get money from others. Later we found she had 5 kids, 4 in foster care and 1 (the 1 she was going to let us "adopt") who was taken from her after we didn't send the $. (Never knew if she was ever really in jail or not.) She was a drug addict and later called me infuriated, telling me that we were "square" and that she shared drugs with her eldest daughter (AGE 9!) and she was "just fine". Yeah, and taken away from her DUE to drugs.
I'm not trying to insult anyone's intelligence, but as I know the right story can get anyone to get involved, I just wanted to bring it up. There's nothing mean or rude in this message, but she's not from our board and I've never heard of her. She doesn't even mention CP!
None of us need more stress to add to our CP, and after what we went through with both the Cameroon scam attempts (which this looks a lot like) and the scamming American woman, I'm always leery when I see this stuff.
Just don't engage these people and don't give them ANY info at all. And thank God they give themselves away b/c of their improper use of the English language! Or shall I say, TOO proper? Delete it or contact DS if you receive something like this. They prey on people who have specific needs or problems (people looking to adopt or people who have medical troubles, among other things.) We don't want or need a scam here. If you have any questions, Google Cameroon or African scams. They have rows of buildings with computers and spend their lives trying to get $ from innocent victims.
Just a warning from someone who was almost burned by one of the better organized scams. Be careful!
-Jen
Good info about the "keys". I've clicked those "Leave site" boxes so now I'm a bit worried. Thanks, Calebjax for the info!
That's when I quit using a pic of myself as my Avie. Got really paranoid and probably should have!! Obvious they were trolling!! Just my pups now for Avies. I ignored the friend requests. Didn't report since they said nothing inappropriate.