Nigerian BS Email| Other Email Scams

Ekka · 6th December 2007, 09:40 PM

Here we go, cop a load of this crap.

Quote:

----- Original Message -----
From: atm.dept.22@aol.in
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 6:49 PM
Subject: ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT(CBN)

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATION
ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT(CBN)
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA.
TEL LINE: +234-803-898-647-6
DATE: 06/12/2007

SIR/MADAM,

THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE VERIFIED YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE/LOTTO FILE AND FOUND OUT THAT WHY YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR PAYMENT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT FULFILLED THE OBLIGATIONS GIVEN TO YOU IN RESPECT OF YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE PAYMENT.SECONDLY WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT YOU ARE STILL DEALING WITH THE NONE OFFICIALS IN THE BANK ALL YOUR ATTEMPT TO SECURE THE RELEASE OF THE FUND TO YOU.

WE WISH TO ADVISE YOU THAT SUCH AN ILLEGAL ACT LIKE THIS HAVE TO STOP IF YOU WISHES TO RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT SINCE WE HAVE DECIDED TO BRING A SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM. RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ARRANGED YOUR PAYMENT THROUGH OUR SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTER ASIA PACIFIC, THAT IS THE LATEST INSTRUCTION FROM THE NEW ELECTED PRESIDENT UMARU MUSA YAR'DUA (GFCR) FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.AND EFCC NIGERIA.AS WELL THE INTERPOL AND FBI.

THIS CARD CENTER WILL SEND YOU AN ATM CARD WHICH YOU WILL USE TO WITHDRAW YOUR MONEY IN ANY ATM MACHINE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, BUT THE MAXIMUM IS FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER DAY, SO IF YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE YOUR FUND THIS WAY PLEASE LET US KNOW BY CONTACTING THE CARD PAYMENT CENTER AND ALSO SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

1. YOUR FULL NAME
2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
3. ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND THE ATM CARD
4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION
5. ATTACH COPY OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION

THE ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER HAS BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT ($6,000,000.00) AS PART PAYMENT FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR 2007.ALSO FOR YOUR INFORMATION, YOU HAVE TO STOP ANY FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH ANY OTHER PERSON(S) OR OFFICE(s) TO AVOID ANY HITCHES IN RECEIVING YOUR PAYMENT.

FOR ORAL DISCUSSION, CALL AND EMAIL ME BACK AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR FURTHER DIRECTION AND ALSO UPDATE ME ON ANY DEVELOPMENT FROM THE ABOVE MENTIONED OFFICE.

NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF IMPOSTORS, WE HEREBY ISSUED YOU OUR CODE OF CONDUCT, WHICH IS (ATM-811) SO YOU HAVE TO INDICATE THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE CARD CENTER BY USING IT AS YOUR SUBJECT.

REGARDS,

DR TONY AMODU
DIRECTOR,ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT(CBN)
TELEPHONE LINE: +234-803-898-647-6
EMAIL:tonyamodu@hotmail.com

Also, worth reading this thread for Australian users and how to report and deal with email and SMS spam.

Prank calls - telemarketers - internet spam - hacking - SMS's

newguy18 · 6th December 2007, 11:59 PM

You got that one too.

windthrown · 7th December 2007, 11:22 AM

Trolling for information. I get them regularly, for about 5 years now. Several flavors:

1) African son/daughter/wife of deposed dictator with millions US
2) Asian company looking for US bank accounts to deposit millions into
3) UK or Irish lottery winning in the millions US that I won (but never bought a ticket for or heard of)
4) Italian endowment wishing to give me a several million dollar grant

All the same: Give them information, they will ask for you to open a bank account with severl hundred to several thousand dollars (just to open the account mind you). Or better, they like you to have a Paypal account. Then they ask for access to that account so that they can deposit the millions in US funds into it. Of course, theya re really going to withdraw whatever you were dumb enough to put in there for them to take. Of course even if you do not open the bank accounts, they have information on YOU that they can sell as a target for other frauds (read below).

Similar fraud schemes are that they ask you to open Paypal or other US bank accounts and deposit checks into. They then take their 80% 'cut' out of your account and you get to 'keep' the 20%. Of course, the checks are all bad, and after a month the FBI will be knocking on your door, and you will be lucky if you do not do time in jail. Parallel scheme is that they deposit checks into your Paypal accounts for you to buy stuff for them on Ebay and online retailers and send overseas. In some cases they even 'hire' you as an employee of an off-shore company and pay you with bad checks/credit into your Paypal account to launder the bad checks into cash and merchandise. Or they send merchandise to you at your address that they bought online using a stolen credit card and you are supposed to divvy up the stuff and send it to them overseas.

Beware Tarzan, its a jungle out there!

newguy18 · 7th December 2007, 02:29 PM

i get quite a few still how about the ones where the daughter of a wealthy oil dealer is left the family company when the rest of her family dies in a car crash.

Ekka · 9th December 2007, 01:01 PM

I just got this one, Froggies are in on the act to now it appears.

Quote:

THE FONDATION DE FRANCE(FDF)
Lutece
16 Rue Lanterne,
Lyon 69001, France.

The Fondation De France(FDF) would like to notify you that you have been
chosen by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of a cash
Grant/Donation for your own personal, educational, and business
development.

The FDF, established 1977 by the Multi-Million groups and now supported
by the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS), United
Nations Organization (UNO) and the European Union (EU) was conceived
with the objective of human growth,educational, and community
development.

In conjunction with the ECOWAS, UNO and the EU, We are giving out a
yearly donation of US$350,000.00 (Three hundred and Fifty thousand
United states dollars only) each to 100 lucky recipients.

These specific Donations/Grants will be awarded to 100 lucky
international recipients worldwide; in different categories for their
personal business development and enhancement of their educational plans.
This is a yearly program, which is a measure of universal development
strategy.

The objective is to make a notable change in the standard of living of
people all around the Universe (From America to Europe, Asia to Africa
and all around), probably like in the next 20yrs.

Kindly note that you will only be choosen to receive the donation
once,which means that subsequent yearly donation will not get to you
again.
Take time and thought in spending the donation wisely on something that
will last you a long time. Recipients are only eligible to be awarded
this donation once.

Based on the random selection exercise of internet websites and
millions of supermarket cash invoices worldwide, you were selected among
the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of US$350,000.00 as
charity donations/aid from the Fondation De France, ECOWAS, EU and the
UNO in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament. (Note that all
beneficiaries email addresses were selected randomly from over 100,000
internet websites or a shop\'s cash invoice around your area in which
you might have purchased something from).

You are required to contact the Executive Secretary below, for
qualification documentation and processing of your claims. After
contacting our office, you will be given your donation pin number, which
you will use in collecting the funds. Please endeavor to quote your
Qualification numbers (FDF-444-6647-9163) in all discussions.

Executive Sec. Mark Williams
Email: markwilliamsesq_barr@yahoo.co.uk

Please note that these donations/Grants are strictly administered by the
EU, ECOWAS, UNO. You are by all means hereby advised to keep this whole
information confidential until you have been able to collect your
donation, as there have been many cases of double and unqualified claim,
due to beneficiaries informing third parties about his/her donation.

Finally, all funds should be claimed by their respective beneficiaries,
not later than 20 days after notification. Failure to do so will mean
cancellation of that beneficiary and its donation will then be reserved
for next year?s recipients.

On behalf of the Board kindly, accept our warmest congratulations.

Regards.
Mrs. Carol Smith

newguy18 · 9th December 2007, 03:15 PM

Hey Eric how do you post those without going into your personal email?i'd like to post some of mine.

Ekka · 9th December 2007, 03:31 PM

Copy/paste then wrap with quote tags

windthrown · 10th December 2007, 07:17 AM

My Fellow TreeWorlders:

I am the captive daughter of an online Arbor Forum dictator living in the United States of America. I have the sum of ONE MILLION US online reputation points that we are wanting to deposit into an AU or NZ Arborist Forum. Please contact me with an account that we can deposit these valuable reputation points into, and you will be receiving 20% of those online reputation points into your own personal online forum account. This is not a joke! I am really looking for somepace else to keep them! Do not miss this opportunity to have something of great value that you can pass on to your children and grandchildren, and gloat over with great pride. With these points, you can smear someone or give them great reputation credits with on some other arbor sites online. You will feel the power!

Kind regards,
Miss Candy Barsaw
Colorado, USA

newguy18 · 10th December 2007, 08:11 AM

Good one windthrown.

JayD · 10th December 2007, 08:24 AM

Funny stuff, You know you might just get a bite from other sites members...LOL..Hmmmm...20% of a million..That's a deal...Get in quick folk's! Don't miss out on this once in a life time Deal!

Ekka · 10th December 2007, 09:16 AM

And you wont have to beg for rep anymore.

newguy18 · 10th December 2007, 09:18 AM

Mb started a similar thread I think he called it beg for members.

Ekka · 10th December 2007, 09:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newguy18

Mb started a similar thread I think he called it beg for members.

LOL.

And donations whilst click frauding Google. You know they start threads on specific topics to see what ads pop up so they can click on them etc?

For example, adsense works of keywords. Insurance companies and banks etc might be paying $5 a click where as crumby chainsaw sellers payin 0.05cents. So they start a thread on insurance or banking or fast food etc, click the ads and earn MB some money.

That's click fraud, you are not allowed to entice or solicit clicks from your members.

You know when I was running an adwords campaign, where I pay Google out of my money for every click, that bastid was organising people to track my ads and click them to increase cost of gaining members!

That is what the man is, kiddie porn scum.

And birds of a feather ................

newguy18 · 10th December 2007, 09:36 AM

I know he's scum but its fun to make mb jokes every now and again.gives us something to laugh about and don't get me started on as jokes.

windthrown · 10th December 2007, 06:25 PM

Oooooh, AS jokes, please!?!?!

Ekka · 10th December 2007, 06:31 PM

Windthrown, you're a member over there with some 1200 posts.

What's up?

I got like 3000+ posts there but you can only talk so much trees and stuff so I get caught in those off topic threads that just get all fired up. LOL

windthrown · 11th December 2007, 04:50 PM

Yah, I stihl post over there. But mainly in winter when it rains here. In summer I am too busy. Last spring (March here) I got into a riff with Ralph and the other mods over posting issues. Ralph removed several of my entire threads, and there was a falling out. I got 2 infraction points for daring to criticise the mods. Then Ralph sent me a (in his terms) 'reaching out' PM while he blasted me on one of his 'I'm gonna nuke this guy' threads where he let everyone bash a guy in CA that wanted off of AS. Anywah, Ralph claimed that the guy in CA (Randy) and I were the same person, and I got into it with him again. At that point I stopped posting and reading AS for about 6 months, until I heard of Ralph's demise. He is no longer a mod there, got a divorce, and last I saw was posting from a library computer becasue his wife got his laptop. His replacement is much much better. TreeCo.

But yah, only so much stuff you can post about trees and chainsaws. I wish there was more of a logging forum someplace. I do not climb much any more, and we manage an 80 acre tree stand here. We planted over 10,000 trees in the last 3 winters. We are finally done with planting and do not need to plant any more this year (to avoid taxes for felling, we planted up about 10 acres). We are also felling a lot of trees here lately, thinning and clearing a 2 acre area of old growth oaks of fir trees. I dunno, I've cut maybe 1,000 some odd trees in the past month here. 20 cords of wood piled up and another 20 cords of limbed poles to block, and huge slash piles that will be torched in the spring. We are about half way through that now. Mostly grand firs, (sucky sappy tres and lousy firewood) and doug fir (better firewood, but I am thinning the grand fir out and leaving the dougs in).

Eh... long cold rainey nights. The girlfriend reads mostly. Not much else to do here in late fall and winter but watch TV, drink beer and post online. Not bad though, I could be in Tromso above the arctic circle like Troll and the Witch. They do not get a sunrise for another couple of months! That would drive me insane. Stephen King kind of insane...

newguy18 · 11th December 2007, 11:40 PM

Actually Ralph is still a mod over there I talked to his girlfriend two nights ago.

windthrown · 13th December 2007, 05:48 PM

I believe that he is not a mod there any more. I read a post of his saying that he was not a mod any more, and that he hoped to be a mod again in future. TreeCo replaced him. Ralph's last post on AS was over 2 months ago. He cannot be a mod if he is not online and posting there.

Ekka · 13th December 2007, 07:06 PM

I think mystery mods are way better anyway, you just dont know who is one and when ya gonna cop it.

newguy18 · 14th December 2007, 09:18 AM

how many of you guys get this one?I don't even have a paypal account.
From: info@PayPal.Inc.com
Subject: Dispute transaction
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:31:16 -0800

Dear PayPal Member,

This email confirms that you have sent an eBay payment of $147.85 USD to
achad13@yahoo.com for an eBay item.

-----------------------------------
Payment Details
-----------------------------------

Amount: $147.85 USD

Transaction ID: 2LC956793J776333Y

Subject: Digimax 130

Note:
If you haven't authorized this charge ,click the link below to dispute transaction
and get full refund

Dispute transaction (Encrypted Link )

*SSL connection:
PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information
in transit from your computer to ours using the Secure
Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length
of 128-bits (the highest level commercially available)

-----------------------------------
Item Information
-----------------------------------

eBay User ID: scratchandgnaw2

----------------------------------------------------------------
Edward Harrell's UNCONFIRMED Address
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Edward Harrell
211 David St.
Springtown, TX 76082
United States

Important Note: Edward Harrell has provided an Unconfirmed Address. If
you are planning on shipping items to Edward Harrell, please check the
Transaction Details page of this payment to find out whether you will
be covered by the PayPal Seller Protection Policy.

----------------------------------------------------------------
This payment was sent using your bank account.

By using your bank account to send money, you just:

- Paid easily and securely

- Sent money faster than writing and mailing paper checks
- Paid instantly -- your purchase won't show up on bills at the end of
the month.

Thanks for using your bank account!

----------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
PayPal Email ID PP118

Ekka · 14th December 2007, 05:36 PM

PayPal would be interested in them, they have a dodgey email forwarding section so they can investigate them.

windthrown · 14th December 2007, 07:40 PM

I get these spoofs, or phish by the billions. Just forward the email with headers included to spoof@paypal.com. Then delete it. They will deal with it. Do not even try to click on the link. I just move the mouse down to see where the link goes... usually some bozo_online_account_dot_paypal_dot_ com. Paypal are better than most regarding online fraud (I had my Ebay account jacked a few years ago, and there was an attempt to hack into my Paypal account about a year ago). They spoofs are many, some claiming that you have to log into to unlock your account, some saying that you need to log in to change your password, some saying that there is a problem with your account. Same with Ebay, forward spoofs to them at spoofs@ebay.com. I get them claiming all kinds of things, like I did not pay for an item that I did not bid on, or I am being suspended for shill bidding, or I won some item that I did not bid on.

Its a jungle online, Tarzan.

clementine · 14th December 2007, 10:57 PM

This last few days I've had two emails arrive, both said "virus found" in them and not to read anymore, just delete straight away. Thank f*** the virus scan works!
I deleted them straight away, so can't post what they said, they had very little content though, just a little verse or poem, if I get another I will make a note of the content.

windthrown · 15th December 2007, 05:07 PM

Yah, there have been several viruses going around lately that are in emails and attached files. One reason I use something like Yahoo as an email service provider, is that I do not download anything when I read it online. My GF has an email system that downloads all here emails to her laptop. She has 10x the virus problems that I do (same brand of laptops). I also have an up to date virus protection program always running on my system.

newguy18 · 16th December 2007, 01:05 AM

thats what I like about hotmail they do the same thing.You don'tdownload a thing to your computer you open it on thier site and my virus thing is always up to date.

olyman · 16th December 2007, 08:07 AM

wouldnt you just love to step into the room where the idiot is typing up that email, man or woman, and give them a little correction lesson??????????

Ekka · 16th December 2007, 09:24 AM

Thing is, they must get the odd idiot who believes it or they wouldn't bother.

newguy18 · 16th December 2007, 10:39 AM

They hire blondes to do the spam mail?

windthrown · 17th December 2007, 03:17 PM

I got a new phish today... saying I was due an IRS tax refund for $800. All I had to do was log in, give them my SS#, DOB, a valid credit card number, and credit card details, and they would deposit the money RIGHT AWAY into my credit card account!

I forwarded it to the IRS for investigation. The IRS does not apply refunds toward credit cards, and they do not even take credit cards without your paying a fee to use them. There is no end...

6th December 2007, 11:59 PM	#2
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,184	Re: Nigerian BS Email You got that one too. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

7th December 2007, 11:22 AM	#3
windthrown Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: On the slopes of Mt Hood Posts: 736	Re: Nigerian BS Email Trolling for information. I get them regularly, for about 5 years now. Several flavors: 1) African son/daughter/wife of deposed dictator with millions US 2) Asian company looking for US bank accounts to deposit millions into 3) UK or Irish lottery winning in the millions US that I won (but never bought a ticket for or heard of) 4) Italian endowment wishing to give me a several million dollar grant All the same: Give them information, they will ask for you to open a bank account with severl hundred to several thousand dollars (just to open the account mind you). Or better, they like you to have a Paypal account. Then they ask for access to that account so that they can deposit the millions in US funds into it. Of course, theya re really going to withdraw whatever you were dumb enough to put in there for them to take. Of course even if you do not open the bank accounts, they have information on YOU that they can sell as a target for other frauds (read below). Similar fraud schemes are that they ask you to open Paypal or other US bank accounts and deposit checks into. They then take their 80% 'cut' out of your account and you get to 'keep' the 20%. Of course, the checks are all bad, and after a month the FBI will be knocking on your door, and you will be lucky if you do not do time in jail. Parallel scheme is that they deposit checks into your Paypal accounts for you to buy stuff for them on Ebay and online retailers and send overseas. In some cases they even 'hire' you as an employee of an off-shore company and pay you with bad checks/credit into your Paypal account to launder the bad checks into cash and merchandise. Or they send merchandise to you at your address that they bought online using a stolen credit card and you are supposed to divvy up the stuff and send it to them overseas. Beware Tarzan, its a jungle out there! __________________ Stay thirsty my friends... Work saws, all modified Stihls: 310, 4 x 026 / 3 x 361 / 1 x 044 / 066 I ship saws down under... PM me if interested.

7th December 2007, 02:29 PM	#4
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,184	Re: Nigerian BS Email i get quite a few still how about the ones where the daughter of a wealthy oil dealer is left the family company when the rest of her family dies in a car crash. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

9th December 2007, 03:15 PM	#6
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,184	Re: Nigerian BS Email Hey Eric how do you post those without going into your personal email?i'd like to post some of mine. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

9th December 2007, 03:31 PM	#7
Ekka Admin - Dip Arb & Hort & Seldom Wrong Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 9,764	Re: Nigerian BS Email Copy/paste then wrap with quote tags __________________ TAS Training & Assessment Services\| Arb and Hort Training available here Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld Free Tree and Green Industry Deep Link Directory ... Yes, I also SEO (Optimize) and build websites that fly high in Google Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist, Tree and Arborist Reports \| Project Arborist

10th December 2007, 07:17 AM	#8
windthrown Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: On the slopes of Mt Hood Posts: 736	Re: Nigerian BS Email My Fellow TreeWorlders: I am the captive daughter of an online Arbor Forum dictator living in the United States of America. I have the sum of ONE MILLION US online reputation points that we are wanting to deposit into an AU or NZ Arborist Forum. Please contact me with an account that we can deposit these valuable reputation points into, and you will be receiving 20% of those online reputation points into your own personal online forum account. This is not a joke! I am really looking for somepace else to keep them! Do not miss this opportunity to have something of great value that you can pass on to your children and grandchildren, and gloat over with great pride. With these points, you can smear someone or give them great reputation credits with on some other arbor sites online. You will feel the power! Kind regards, Miss Candy Barsaw Colorado, USA __________________ Stay thirsty my friends... Work saws, all modified Stihls: 310, 4 x 026 / 3 x 361 / 1 x 044 / 066 I ship saws down under... PM me if interested.

10th December 2007, 08:11 AM	#9
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,184	Re: Nigerian BS Email Good one windthrown. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

10th December 2007, 08:24 AM	#10
JayD Moderator - Sponsor Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney Posts: 1,432	Re: Nigerian BS Email Funny stuff, You know you might just get a bite from other sites members...LOL..Hmmmm...20% of a million..That's a deal...Get in quick folk's! Don't miss out on this once in a life time Deal! __________________ Level 4 Arborist

10th December 2007, 09:16 AM	#11
Ekka Admin - Dip Arb & Hort & Seldom Wrong Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 9,764	Re: Nigerian BS Email And you wont have to beg for rep anymore. __________________ TAS Training & Assessment Services\| Arb and Hort Training available here Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld Free Tree and Green Industry Deep Link Directory ... Yes, I also SEO (Optimize) and build websites that fly high in Google Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist, Tree and Arborist Reports \| Project Arborist

10th December 2007, 09:18 AM	#12
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,184	Re: Nigerian BS Email Mb started a similar thread I think he called it beg for members. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

10th December 2007, 09:36 AM	#14
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,184	Re: Nigerian BS Email I know he's scum but its fun to make mb jokes every now and again.gives us something to laugh about and don't get me started on as jokes. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

10th December 2007, 06:25 PM	#15
windthrown Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: On the slopes of Mt Hood Posts: 736	Re: Nigerian BS Email Oooooh, AS jokes, please!?!?! __________________ Stay thirsty my friends... Work saws, all modified Stihls: 310, 4 x 026 / 3 x 361 / 1 x 044 / 066 I ship saws down under... PM me if interested.

10th December 2007, 06:31 PM	#16
Ekka Admin - Dip Arb & Hort & Seldom Wrong Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 9,764	Re: Nigerian BS Email Windthrown, you're a member over there with some 1200 posts. What's up? I got like 3000+ posts there but you can only talk so much trees and stuff so I get caught in those off topic threads that just get all fired up. LOL __________________ TAS Training & Assessment Services\| Arb and Hort Training available here Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld Free Tree and Green Industry Deep Link Directory ... Yes, I also SEO (Optimize) and build websites that fly high in Google Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist, Tree and Arborist Reports \| Project Arborist

11th December 2007, 04:50 PM	#17
windthrown Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: On the slopes of Mt Hood Posts: 736	Re: Nigerian BS Email Yah, I stihl post over there. But mainly in winter when it rains here. In summer I am too busy. Last spring (March here) I got into a riff with Ralph and the other mods over posting issues. Ralph removed several of my entire threads, and there was a falling out. I got 2 infraction points for daring to criticise the mods. Then Ralph sent me a (in his terms) 'reaching out' PM while he blasted me on one of his 'I'm gonna nuke this guy' threads where he let everyone bash a guy in CA that wanted off of AS. Anywah, Ralph claimed that the guy in CA (Randy) and I were the same person, and I got into it with him again. At that point I stopped posting and reading AS for about 6 months, until I heard of Ralph's demise. He is no longer a mod there, got a divorce, and last I saw was posting from a library computer becasue his wife got his laptop. His replacement is much much better. TreeCo. But yah, only so much stuff you can post about trees and chainsaws. I wish there was more of a logging forum someplace. I do not climb much any more, and we manage an 80 acre tree stand here. We planted over 10,000 trees in the last 3 winters. We are finally done with planting and do not need to plant any more this year (to avoid taxes for felling, we planted up about 10 acres). We are also felling a lot of trees here lately, thinning and clearing a 2 acre area of old growth oaks of fir trees. I dunno, I've cut maybe 1,000 some odd trees in the past month here. 20 cords of wood piled up and another 20 cords of limbed poles to block, and huge slash piles that will be torched in the spring. We are about half way through that now. Mostly grand firs, (sucky sappy tres and lousy firewood) and doug fir (better firewood, but I am thinning the grand fir out and leaving the dougs in). Eh... long cold rainey nights. The girlfriend reads mostly. Not much else to do here in late fall and winter but watch TV, drink beer and post online. Not bad though, I could be in Tromso above the arctic circle like Troll and the Witch. They do not get a sunrise for another couple of months! That would drive me insane. Stephen King kind of insane... __________________ Stay thirsty my friends... Work saws, all modified Stihls: 310, 4 x 026 / 3 x 361 / 1 x 044 / 066 I ship saws down under... PM me if interested.

11th December 2007, 11:40 PM	#18
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,184	Re: Nigerian BS Email Actually Ralph is still a mod over there I talked to his girlfriend two nights ago. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

13th December 2007, 05:48 PM	#19
windthrown Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: On the slopes of Mt Hood Posts: 736	Re: Nigerian BS Email I believe that he is not a mod there any more. I read a post of his saying that he was not a mod any more, and that he hoped to be a mod again in future. TreeCo replaced him. Ralph's last post on AS was over 2 months ago. He cannot be a mod if he is not online and posting there. __________________ Stay thirsty my friends... Work saws, all modified Stihls: 310, 4 x 026 / 3 x 361 / 1 x 044 / 066 I ship saws down under... PM me if interested.

13th December 2007, 07:06 PM	#20
Ekka Admin - Dip Arb & Hort & Seldom Wrong Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 9,764	Re: Nigerian BS Email I think mystery mods are way better anyway, you just dont know who is one and when ya gonna cop it. __________________ TAS Training & Assessment Services\| Arb and Hort Training available here Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld Free Tree and Green Industry Deep Link Directory ... Yes, I also SEO (Optimize) and build websites that fly high in Google Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist, Tree and Arborist Reports \| Project Arborist

14th December 2007, 09:18 AM	#21
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,184	Re: Nigerian BS Email how many of you guys get this one?I don't even have a paypal account. From: info@PayPal.Inc.com Subject: Dispute transaction Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:31:16 -0800 Dear PayPal Member, This email confirms that you have sent an eBay payment of $147.85 USD to achad13@yahoo.com for an eBay item. ----------------------------------- Payment Details ----------------------------------- Amount: $147.85 USD Transaction ID: 2LC956793J776333Y Subject: Digimax 130 Note: If you haven't authorized this charge ,click the link below to dispute transaction and get full refund Dispute transaction (Encrypted Link ) *SSL connection: PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information in transit from your computer to ours using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length of 128-bits (the highest level commercially available) ----------------------------------- Item Information ----------------------------------- eBay User ID: scratchandgnaw2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Harrell's UNCONFIRMED Address ---------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Harrell 211 David St. Springtown, TX 76082 United States Important Note: Edward Harrell has provided an Unconfirmed Address. If you are planning on shipping items to Edward Harrell, please check the Transaction Details page of this payment to find out whether you will be covered by the PayPal Seller Protection Policy. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This payment was sent using your bank account. By using your bank account to send money, you just: - Paid easily and securely - Sent money faster than writing and mailing paper checks - Paid instantly -- your purchase won't show up on bills at the end of the month. Thanks for using your bank account! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team PayPal Email ID PP118 __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

14th December 2007, 05:36 PM	#22
Ekka Admin - Dip Arb & Hort & Seldom Wrong Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 9,764	Re: Nigerian BS Email PayPal would be interested in them, they have a dodgey email forwarding section so they can investigate them. __________________ TAS Training & Assessment Services\| Arb and Hort Training available here Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld Free Tree and Green Industry Deep Link Directory ... Yes, I also SEO (Optimize) and build websites that fly high in Google Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist, Tree and Arborist Reports \| Project Arborist

14th December 2007, 07:40 PM	#23
windthrown Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: On the slopes of Mt Hood Posts: 736	Re: Nigerian BS Email I get these spoofs, or phish by the billions. Just forward the email with headers included to spoof@paypal.com. Then delete it. They will deal with it. Do not even try to click on the link. I just move the mouse down to see where the link goes... usually some bozo_online_account_dot_paypal_dot_ com. Paypal are better than most regarding online fraud (I had my Ebay account jacked a few years ago, and there was an attempt to hack into my Paypal account about a year ago). They spoofs are many, some claiming that you have to log into to unlock your account, some saying that you need to log in to change your password, some saying that there is a problem with your account. Same with Ebay, forward spoofs to them at spoofs@ebay.com. I get them claiming all kinds of things, like I did not pay for an item that I did not bid on, or I am being suspended for shill bidding, or I won some item that I did not bid on. Its a jungle online, Tarzan. __________________ Stay thirsty my friends... Work saws, all modified Stihls: 310, 4 x 026 / 3 x 361 / 1 x 044 / 066 I ship saws down under... PM me if interested.

14th December 2007, 10:57 PM	#24
clementine Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Central Portugal Posts: 511	Re: Nigerian BS Email This last few days I've had two emails arrive, both said "virus found" in them and not to read anymore, just delete straight away. Thank f*** the virus scan works! I deleted them straight away, so can't post what they said, they had very little content though, just a little verse or poem, if I get another I will make a note of the content. __________________ Meddle not in the affairs of dragons - for you are crunchy and taste of chicken! Builder in Central Portugal

15th December 2007, 05:07 PM	#25
windthrown Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: On the slopes of Mt Hood Posts: 736	Re: Nigerian BS Email Yah, there have been several viruses going around lately that are in emails and attached files. One reason I use something like Yahoo as an email service provider, is that I do not download anything when I read it online. My GF has an email system that downloads all here emails to her laptop. She has 10x the virus problems that I do (same brand of laptops). I also have an up to date virus protection program always running on my system. __________________ Stay thirsty my friends... Work saws, all modified Stihls: 310, 4 x 026 / 3 x 361 / 1 x 044 / 066 I ship saws down under... PM me if interested.

16th December 2007, 01:05 AM	#26
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,184	Re: Nigerian BS Email thats what I like about hotmail they do the same thing.You don'tdownload a thing to your computer you open it on thier site and my virus thing is always up to date. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

16th December 2007, 08:07 AM	#27
olyman Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: iowa--usa Posts: 102	Re: Nigerian BS Email wouldnt you just love to step into the room where the idiot is typing up that email, man or woman, and give them a little correction lesson??????????

16th December 2007, 09:24 AM	#28
Ekka Admin - Dip Arb & Hort & Seldom Wrong Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 9,764	Re: Nigerian BS Email Thing is, they must get the odd idiot who believes it or they wouldn't bother. __________________ TAS Training & Assessment Services\| Arb and Hort Training available here Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld Free Tree and Green Industry Deep Link Directory ... Yes, I also SEO (Optimize) and build websites that fly high in Google Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist, Tree and Arborist Reports \| Project Arborist

16th December 2007, 10:39 AM	#29
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,184	Re: Nigerian BS Email They hire blondes to do the spam mail? __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

17th December 2007, 03:17 PM	#30
windthrown Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: On the slopes of Mt Hood Posts: 736	Re: Nigerian BS Email I got a new phish today... saying I was due an IRS tax refund for $800. All I had to do was log in, give them my SS#, DOB, a valid credit card number, and credit card details, and they would deposit the money RIGHT AWAY into my credit card account! I forwarded it to the IRS for investigation. The IRS does not apply refunds toward credit cards, and they do not even take credit cards without your paying a fee to use them. There is no end... __________________ Stay thirsty my friends... Work saws, all modified Stihls: 310, 4 x 026 / 3 x 361 / 1 x 044 / 066 I ship saws down under... PM me if interested.

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