Con artist at work on forum - Princess Scam

[freddy888]

Look out for unsolictied mail folks - this one grabbed my email from here, and is not registered under the username the email gives.
This is a pretty common scam, I think they bought the 'Scamming for Dummies Pack" where you fill in the blanks, as the wording for this kind of scam hasn't changed much in years.

This is what to look out for :

 

quote:Hello freddy888

You received the following message from: pyasmine (pyasmine2@yahoo.fr)

At: http://www.zabaware.com/forum/

Heartiest Greeting From Princess,
From Princesse Yasmine ettenyen.
PLEASE REPLY ME WITH THIS MY EMAIL ADDRESS(pyasmine7@yahoo.fr)

My Dear One,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business
relationship with you. I got your profile and name though this dating web 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 do business with and by the recommendation , I
must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business .
 
I am PrincessYasmine Ettenyen the only daughter of late Chief. and
Mrs.Anthony Ettenyen.My father was former Director of finance Sierra-Leone
diamond,Gold and mining corporation, in Free Town , the economic
capital of Sierra Leon, my father was poisoned to death by his business
associates on one of their outings on a business trip .While my mother died
when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before
his death on october 2004 in a private hospital in Free Town Sierra
Leon. he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum
of Nine  Million, United State Dollars. US($9,000.000.00) left in fixed
/suspense account in one of the prime bank in Abidjan the economic
capital of  Cote d'Ivoire,that he used my name as his only daughter for the
next of Kin in depositing of the fund. He also explained to me that it
was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business
ssociates.That incase he die I should move out of the country down to Cote d'
Ivoire where he made the deposit to seek for a foreign partner in a
country of my choice where i will transfer this money and use it for
investment purpose after my education such as real estate management or
hotel management.I am living in Cote D'Ivoire since 3months now.
Dear I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways,To
provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to,To
serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 20years and To make
arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education
and to secure a resident permit in your country while you will be take
care of investing this money.
Moreover, Dear, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as
compensation for your effort/ input after the successful transfer of this
fund into your nominated account overseas Furthermore, you indicate your
options towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would
be concluded within Seven (4) days you signify interest to assist me.
 
Anticipating to hear from you soon.
 
Thanks and Regards,
Princess Yasmine Ettenyen

Its another obvious Scam.

You know whats really daft is if anyone did have that ammount of money tucked away, they would just go and open a bank account or get professional help - not ask some complete stranger half way across the world if they can do it for them lol

Nice story Princess, but try working for a living and in those imortal words, passed down through the ages, "**** off".

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Hi freddy.

Yep, The suspect e-mailed me with the same spam.

Jerry[8D]

[Duskrider]

Hey Princess!!![!]
I thought I was your "dear one"[!]

Two-timing %*#&^#% !!![!]


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[vrossi]

I've received today 2 identical messages like this, with subject: "Sent From Zabaware by pyasmine".

What particularly worries me is that pyasmine is not a registered member, so he (or she, since she's a Princess [] ) can't have used the "e-mail to a member" function in the Forum. So I think that someone has managed to get access to the Zabaware Forum mailing list. Since I am the Admin of other Snitz-based Forums, I hope this is not a security-bug in the software. I regularly apply all the security notes released by Snitz, and I am certain that Robert does the same on this Forum.

It would be interesting to further investigate, in order to understand how it happened, so that we can set up some stricter check on the e-mail database security (both here and in other forums).

[Duskrider]

She (it) was a member for a few hours.
Robert must have deleted her
[8D]

[GamerThom]

A few hours is all it takes Dusky. I received the
same piece of e-mail early this morning and forwarded
it to Robert. Then reported it as spam to AOL. I think
that temporarily it would be prudent to make all our
e-mail addresses private in our profiles, just until
we see if there are any more scammers lurking around.

I'm not positive but I wouldn't doubt that this person
or persons is also actively seeking info at DG forum &
VHumans as well.

[markofkane]

I don't get spam.[]

[aladyblond]

well there goes my dreams of fame and riches []~~alady

[Carl2]

Thanks,
  Seemed to good to be true.
Carl2

[Bill819]

Hey guys you are not alone. I awoke this morning to find the same email message written to me. This is an ongoing scam that has been tried all over the world. Everyone who has forwarded them their bank account numbers has quickly had their bank accounts not only emptied but have had several other charges made against it.
Glad to see that most of  you are aware.
Bill

[danbaltzell]

I could have invested that money and made a gazillion buckaroonies!!!

[freddy888]

hehe, I feel like we're the Magnificent Seven (and more), I can hear that music playing as we head off into the sunset once again.

daa daa du du du daa daa....duh duh dah dah du du du du dah....

[Testlund]

Yeah, Prinsesse Yasmin is really desperate to give us her money. I just got a second email from her, so I have now set my email address so people can't send me emails from here, hopefully.

[markofkane]

I get so disgusted at parasites not getting a real job, but sit on their fat butts all day trying to scam people.

That goes for all unsolicited sales, like telemarketers, door to door salespeople(ok, they don't sit on their butts), (excluding kids trying to sell cookies or something), email and message board spam, phishing, pidgeon drop, and pyramid schemes.

I'm too smart to fall for any of that, because I don't trust people, especially strangers.

ANYTIME you have to give money to get money, it's a scam. (except for state-run lotteries in this country, and casinos. (Not online casinos)

[Duskrider]

...and I'm not too sure about lotteries and casinos
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