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Arjunn
03-08-2006, 04:40 PM
hi guys, i got a message thru this forum from a person i didnt know of. and its content is different from the normal topics discussed here.i have a sneaky feeling that this might be a spam and someone is using this forum to spam messages to the users of this forum.hence i will post the message i got below.ill be glad if any of u would shed some more light on this matter

Ps:did u folks get the same message?

the message is as follows
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To: starsiege2005@yahoo.com
Subject: Kindly fulfil my last wish
From: Send an Instant Message "haammed @ Israel Forum" <haammed17@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 01:58:41 -0800 (PST)

To email haammed, you can use this online form:
http://www.israelforum.com/board/sendmessage.php?do=mailmember&u=24894

OR, by email:
mailto:haammed17@yahoo.com

This is the message:

From: Hassan Mohammed
Email: hasmed45@maktoob.com

Greetings.

As you read this, don't feel sorry for me, because it is the destiny of
everyman to die someday. I am Hassan Mohammed a trader in Dubai, in the
UAE. I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer.

It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have
only about a few months to live, according to medical experts. I regret
that I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really
cared for anyone (not even myself), but my trade. Though I am very well to
do, I was never open handed; I was always hostile to people and
regarded them like they never had hopes of becoming as successful as myself.
Now I know that there is a lot more to life than just prosperity.

I believe that when I am given a second chance to come to this world, I
would live my life a different way from how I have lived it. Now that
death is eminent, I have willed and given most of my belonging to
immediate and extended family members, as well as a few close friends. I want
Allah to be merciful to me and accept my soul. Hence I have decided to
support charity work; this is what i want to be remembered for. So far,
I have been able to reach out to a few charity organizations in the
UAE, Algeria and Malaysia. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I
cannot do this myself anymore.

I once asked members of my family to aid me in giving of alms to those
organizations catering for the less privileged in Bulgaria and
Pakistan; they refused and kept the resources to themselves. Hence, I do not
trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contempt with what I have left
for them.

The last of my belonging which no one knows of, is the huge deposit of
eigteen milion US dolls that I have in a safe keeping compnay abroad,
which I will want you to secrue and bestow to charity organizations.

Please endaevour to reply me on hasmed45@maktoob.com for intimacy. For
your time and devotion, I have set aside a tenth of this for you. God
be with you.

Hassan Mohammed.

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this looks so like a nigerian scam
i await ur views on this matter.cos im sure we dont want scammers spamming messages using this forum.

:)

Mira
03-08-2006, 04:44 PM
I've never gotten anything like that here, but I've gotten ones similar through my yahoo account. I'm almost 100% positive that the sender is just fishing for personal information.

Arjunn
03-08-2006, 05:02 PM
of course im not gonna reply to his email cos i know its a fake . i opened this post so the mods would know that someone is using this forum for their own nefarius purposes.

Ariksan
03-08-2006, 06:27 PM
This is not automated spam, it's a nigeria scam mail. Just delete it. Welcome to the internet.

Arjunn
03-09-2006, 12:02 AM
"This is not automated spam, it's a nigeria scam mail. Just delete it. Welcome to the internet."

i know its nigerian..hehe its just that i was thinking that they might tap into the list of folks in this forum