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Member 777111 has just sent you a new private message. The content of the message is below:

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Dearest respectiful,

With due respect, trust and humanity, I write this letter to you seeking your help and assistance, though it is difficult since we have not met before In Abidjan regarding your business profile and sincerity, I beleive that you are capable and reliable in handling this urgent international transaction of this sorft.

I am MISS ZEINAB DIKKO EMILE , The daughter of Professor EMILE BOGA DOUDOU. Former interior minister and a great politician in cote d' ivoire political arena. Because of my father's sincerity, He was killed on the 19th of september 2002 by unknown soldiers inhisresidential house during the coup plot in cote d' ivoire. See BBC news for more information about my late father's death.(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2268718.stm)


Before his death he disclose to me about the diplomatic money he deposited in a [security company] containing US$10.5million (Ten million Five hundred thousand dollars) on behalf of a foreign partner and the original document of deposit is intact. The fear of money not raising eye brows here. I decided to contact you seeking for your help, For you to stand as my late father's business assocaite in the security company to help me in retrieving this box from the Security Company and to open an account here from where it will then be transferred into your bank account in your country for investment purpose in any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life.Lastly what percentage of the total amount will be good for your assistance., I will give you more information as soon as you hear from you.

I want to assure you that this transaction is 100 % risk free as no other person knows this box and the content of it apart from me and you.
I planned to invest the rest of the money in your country under your guidiance if only you will believe me and be a trust worlthy, some body that I can trust with my life. If you are willing to help me try as much as possible to reach me through the email to enable us proceed in earnest towards concluding all transaction. dear, bear in mind that my life depend on this fund and I do hope that this money will be safe when finally transfer into your new account. I do hope of establishing a rewarding and good relationship with you and your family after this transaction hoping to hear from you as soon as possible.

I am 22 years old, single, I am also a Muslim but I was ment to understand that a woman has no religion untill she is under a man or family. I promised to abide the any religion you and your family are into

I will also like you to tell me if you can come down here so that you will comfirm every thing your self but if you can not come down here, there is no problem, I will give you the contact of the security company for you to contact them and discuss with them on how they will deliever the consignment to you over there.

Thanks for your co-operation and God bless.

Please urgently and strictly contact me with my e mail adresse (([email protected]))
Thanks for your co-operation and God bless.

Best regard

Miss Zeinab Dikko Emile.


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Dear Daibach

Thanks for reporting this, please see this thread: http://www.aditnow.co.uk/community/viewtopic.aspx?p=10427#msg10427  for how this has been dealt with.

Unfortunately this spammer registered with a legitimate email address and so followed the site's security steps to authenticate their account. However as soon as the problem was reported to me the account was deleted, any messages from this idiot deleted from the database and a message sent to the abuse department of Yahoo (the person's internet provider) to complain about the spam.

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Ruddy low lifes :devil:


thanks

Agreed :curse:

Running a small internet hosting company, we seem to be locked into a never ending battle with these idiot spammers.

Currently we're seeing spam accounting for 97.7% of all email through our servers, .3% virus laden and just 2% legitimate email. Filtering out all that junk at source is a hugely processor intensive and costly job.

This particular instance however is the first time I've ever seen a spammer go to the incredible effort of registering on a web site, authenticating and manually sending their junk messages one at a time. It really is very regrettable that they'll resort to these extreme measures to get their junk through.

Regard,
Simon

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Why don't you hack into his Yahoo account and and change the password, do not think the idiot would know what has happened if he or she is stupid enough to use a traceable email address.

All sorts of reasons...

- It would be illegal
- I wouldn't know where to start
- He/she probably has dozens, if not hundreds of email accounts

Far better I think to deal quickly with these incidents as they occur (fortunately very infrequently) and provide the internet service providers with the relevant details in order to close accounts down correctly.

For what it's worth the IP address traced back to Africa, Ivory Coast. No surprises there.

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i just got that email too i was cursing to say the least,i can think of various private parts that need removing on this person.
seems its happening a lot atm i got emails off banks i dont bank with telling me i owe them cash...some nigerian scam i beleave.

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Unfortunately spam is a huge problem at the moment.

I'm very aware something like this could dent confidence in the site, and I'd hate that to happen. But what happened here has to be very rare - spammers usually use software to send hundreds of thousands of messages in one go. This one when through the rigmarole of registering and authenticating, and then sending messages one by one to some random members.

For anybody still concerned, no security has been compromised and no personal details have been disclosed. Private messages do no reveal your email address to the sender.

Vanoord (one of the admins) has made the suggestion that new members do not automatically get access to the Private Messaging function - so this scenario can not happen again. I'll look at the additional code to implement this asap. We'll probably impose a minimum post count on the regular forum plus a manual admin upgrade to allow new members to use private messages.

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Hmm .. I got that private message too ... ah well ..it seems some people have nothing better to do !
By the way .. hope you all had a good christmas !::)
Barb x

Sorry you also received it Barb.

As per the service notice on the front page, the Private Message system is currently offline until additional security measures are put in place to make it even harder to abuse.

As it stands it works the same as countless other web sites and forums (you have to enter a valid email address, then authenticate with unique one-time code embedded in a link in the email) but this additional work will make it even more secure and mean that new members are not automatically given access to the PM system.

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Simon, a suggestion, however i don't know if its do-able...

I have deleted 3 accounts before they were activated, and im sure yourself and Vanoord have done a lot more. With 5 (?) administrators, how about every one has to be manually verified?

Some are obvious, one of them (i cant remember the details) seemed like a reasonable e mail address but when some of the key words are googled a dodgy website was exposed, so i binned it.

It's do-able, but I think it might hinder the site too much. If an admin couldn't check the account very quickly then the person might not bother coming back.

I've already put a lot more code into the private messaging system so that access to that has to be granted manually - this will stop what happened from ever happening again.

All sites like this get a lot of bogus registrations (which we delete on an almost daily basis), but 99.9% of them are using duff email addresses so they can't authenticate and therefore can't post anything. This example over the last day used a valid email address so it was able to authenticate and post. However from this point on with PM access being manually granted once we're happy the new member is legit, they PM system is immune from this sort of abuse.

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Im sure i speak for everyone here, you've handled the situation admirably Simon :thumbsup: