This was a response to one of my classified adds: What the hell is this???? Call her up she has 2 million waiting for you.

The following message was sent to you
regarding your classified ad on F150online.
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From: Mrs.Rita Kabila
Email: ritakabila01@yahoo.it

Message:
CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE.

Dearest one.

I am Mrs.Rita.W. Kabila, from Democratic Republic of Congo.
There is an information I would like you to keep very confidential, There is sum amount of money my Husband Late President Laurent Kabila, deposited in a security company Abidjan Cote d'ivoire for safe keeping Before he was killed by his Eldest Millitary Son.
The squable happened as immediately we returned back
from our London trip. My husband married us three.I am the second wife.I will not be able to give you the full details that led to that urgly incidents. The Eldest Son is the current President of our country now.
For now I am staying in Abijdan, the capital of Republic of Cote d'voire,just to save my life,with my three children. The money in question, is 22, Million U.S.Dollars. I can not make the withdrawal of this fund, because my husband registered the Beneficiary of the fund as his (Foriegn Bussiness Patner) and also (Family valuables as the content of the deposit) The documents of the deposit are with me. What I would want you to do, is to assits me to get the consignment withdrawn from the security company, and open a small account in a Bank here in your name, and transfer the money to your country, through the account .
We shall replace the name Foriegn Patner to your own name, because the code was used for security reason.
I will give you the 10% of the money for your assitance.
There is no risk in this transaction. I will use the remain balance of the money for an investiment in your country for the future of my children. If you are intrested,and can maintain the very confidential of this transaction,you e-mail me immediately for more clearification, and also note that I am a refugees in Abidjan, Cote d' lvoire becuase of the assasnation of my late husband, and the civil war going on in our country, Democratic Republic of Congo.
I can speak little english, but my son speaks good english, well his name is David and our direct telephone number is:+225 07 93 73 86. you can call for more information.

Thank's and God bless you.

Mrs.Rita.w.Kabila.

NB: please do reply me through my private email address at (ritakabila01@yahoo.it ) thank you.
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Fuggit........I'll call....

 

I got the same respone. Someone is using the F150 online forum to access email addresses to send this junk out to us. I am sure I don't have to say this, but this is a hoax, DO NOT respond to this. I work in IT and I see these on a a daily basis. Later!!!

P.S. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!!!

 

Got the same thing. The moderators should have a way to prevent this?

 

Her email address is Italian. Yahoo has several sites, with an extension at the end of the url. email addresses by yahoo ending in "it" means the person sending the emails reads Itialian, and uses all of yahoo under the Italian language, and probably is Italian. All in all though it HAS to be a joke...I seriously doubt a widowed political/war refugee would just be emailing anybody out there about her 22million that shes got.

 

Yep... this is what I got...

Dr. Dao Richardson
#102,4th Floor
Hedrick Towers
89 Market Street
Johannesburg 2000
South Africa.

Dear Sir,

I am Dr. Dao Richardson, the brother in-law of President Charles
Taylor of Liberia. I have the privilege to acquaint you the following,
hoping that, in all, things will work out for both of us.

My sister, who apparently is the wife of President Charles Taylor, the
immediate past president of Liberia, mandated me to search, negotiate
and conclude with a competent individual with a solid financial base,
on the below mentioned.

My sister moved out some cash from Liberia to South Africa at the tail
end of her husband?s regime which was few months ago, these funds runs
in millions of u.s.dollars and they are currently lodged in a secured
private security company?s vault here in South Africa.

The purpose of contacting you is to open up discussions with you on
how you will be of assistance in moving these funds out of Africa for
onward investment. If you indicate interest, you will be up dated with
details.

Note that for your involvement and your unreserved commitment towards
actualization of funds movement, a certain percentage of the total
amount, finally moved out of Africa, will be apportioned to you.

Do indicate your interest to go into co-operation with me by
furnishing me with your contact details via a return email or you may
contact me on this phone number +27 72 572 3881 immediately.

Best Regards
Dr.Dao Richardson

 

There is no way to prevent it. If you post a classified ad on a publicly viewable website, anyone and everyone can respond. If we limited the ability to respond to classifieds to registered users only, the audience for your ads would be quite limited.

Keeping current on what the latest Internet scams are (and this one has been around for about five years) is the best way to "prevent" this. You should also report things like this to your ISP, though this scam is so pervasive (I get it by email in some version or another about five times each day) I don't think the ISP's can do anything.

We have posted on our classified pages about another scam to look out for, which is far more believable than these, and we do remove SPAM classifieds themselves when we are made aware of them, so we do take action where we feel it is appropriate.

 

Here's what I got from two different people today:

The following message was sent to you
regarding your classified ad on F150online. ================================================== ==========================

From: MRS MARIAM D.KABILA
Email: mariam_kabila05@yahoo.co.uk

Message:
MRS MARIAM D.KABILA
email (mariam_kabila05@yahoo.co.uk) Greetings,
MYDear,

I Am Mrs. Mariam D.Kabila, from Democratic Republic of
Congo. There is an imformation I would like you to
keep very confidential, There is sum amount of money
my Husband Late President Laurent Kabila, deposited in
a security company in Abidjan , for safe keeping.
Before he was killed by his Eldest Military Son. The
squable happened as immediately we returned back from
our London trip. My husband married us two.I am the
second wife.I will not be able to give you the full
details that led to that urgly incidents. The Eldest
Son is the current President of our country now. For
now I am staying in Abijdan, the capital of Republic
of Cote d'voire,just to save my life, with my two
children. The money in question, is ($18 ), Million
U.S. Dollars.
I can not make the withdrawal of this fund, because
my husband registered the Beneficiary of the fund as
his (Foriegn Bussiness Patner) and also
(Family valuables as the content of the deposit) The
documents of the deposit are with me. What I would
want you to do, is to assits me to get the consignment withdrawn from the security company, you provide a new account for me in your name, and transfer the money to your country, through the account .We shall replace the name Foriegn Patner to your own name, because the code was used for security reason.
I will give you 20% of the total money for your
assitance.There is no risk in this transaction. I will
use the remaining balance of the money for an
investiment in your country for the future of my
children. If you are intrested, and can maintain the
very confidentiality of this transaction,please e-mail
me. and also note that
I am staying in Abidjan, Cote d'lvoire as a refugee
becuase of the assasination of my late husband,and the
civil war going on in our country,Democratic Republic
of Congo.
I can speak little english, and my son also speak
english very well his name is DANDDY.

Thank you very much.

MRS.MARIAM D.KABILA ================================================== ==========================

 

Got 2 of them already....any word on where it started???



I was kinda hoping for 10% of that 18 million!!!!

 

Old scam...

Just new cases of it.

I think they start up again every six months or so. I got the same thing. Was going to call and tell them I'd send them 6 million dollars - in Monopoly money

 

Ya I get those often, usually I go along with it for a while to have some fun, kinda like the mail order brides, now thats fun.

 

Dude,

I say you have some fun with them...check out the following site:

419 Scam

Seems you've already skipped right past the 'Baiting Tips' and should be well on your way toward phucking with these people for the next week or two.

You could always look here for some hints and tips too...

Lord Darth of Vader

Why couldn't you be Lord Darth of Vader for a while?

 

How could anyone be gullible enough to fall for that crap?

 

My question is how could anyone think that is a good idea. We have a family business and we get those through our fax about once a month.

 

messin with em is fun. I wanna get one of them to post a picture with a sign holding "Owned by Grino"