Yesterday a member registered and started to send spam using the email link in some of the member profiles, possibly only in the FR forums but I want to warn you in case…
It is a "nigerian fraud" scheme : in a convoluted mail about some obscure political reason, Africa related, someone you never heard about before asks you for some help in some financial operation with a huge sums of money in the balance and a % for you. this is what you must know:
IMPORTANT!
- Don't EVER answer to them. They use the email sending facility of the forums, they don't have your address. But if you answer they will! Your emails have never been, are not and won't ever be public in any way. Don't make their job easier.
- The whole affair is a fraud. The only money in the balance is yours, don't even think it may be a good opportunity, there's no millions awaiting for you.
- Report the offenders with the mail to the moderators using PMs. We will ban the offenders on the spot.
In case you received on of his emails, mrs56 our first offender will be banned as fast as possible by our webmaster.
I'll look forward to find a way to keep the email service and to keep these morrons away. Sorry for the inconvenience.
In case you need some hint on the kind of mail I'm talking about, here is the email our member Uther received. It involves always a deal of money, some obscure political trouble in Africa, assets which needs to move by your accounts etc.
The only attention it deserves is the bin!
I had this mail a few days back
I just binned it straight away
Some members didn't know the all fraud stuff. Now it's done.
And this offender at least is out!
I got a mail from a macmusic member asking for help and just an email address.
I couldn't remember if I'd exchanged with this person in a forum, so I would have liked to search for any posts he/she made. However, I don't know how to search for a member
If the person has never said anything reasonable in the forums, or anything at all, it would be safe to zap them.
Usually the emails i've got from members are genuine and no spammer would ask a non standard blahblah just to take the email and go. Now it doesn't mean I will answer techie questions thru email: I DON'T, I don't have time and it's not beneficiable to anyone (if everything is done in email, what's the use of the forum and the search button uh?).
Now another "nigerian" spam session happened 2 days ago, unfortunately for him he started by spamming the team itself… GOOD IDEA
Banished on the spot.
We are thinking on a few tricks to prevent this to happen again, I won't talk more about it
If it happens again, tell the moderators immediately with the login of the offender, the faster we know the faster he's out with bitume and feathers
Just in case I'm not the only one (I'm not the only one usually), sadlove who spammed me earlier today just got banned, nigerian scam…
It is possible thru normal email, but this one was using the internal mailing system of the forum, that is: he posted from the forum to members with the email link (he can't see the address but we sure receive the email…).
And the sanction for this is the ban.
It wouldn't be right by the rules!
http://nav.440network.com/out.php?mmsc=forums&url=http://wiki.aa419.org/index.php/Main_Page, in English, note the kind of demo they prepare is illegal. Lots of links of use in case you have an issue or a doubt.
Now they give the persons to contact when you're screwed in UK: the Metropolitan Police. They can be reached at:
fraud.alert [remove this and replace by an @) met.police.uk
http://nav.440network.com/out.php?mmsc=forums&url=http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/419.htm
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