Scam Warning

Submitted: Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 18:38
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Got an advertiser enquiry via this site.

My response is immediately below.

I have forwarded you enquiry to scams@fraudwatchinternational.com, and have warned all other EO members of your scam. Please inform you people to stay away from ExploreOZ and me.

David O

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On 24/01/2007, at 5:29 PM, ExplorOz Advertising wrote:

You have just received an email enquiry from the 4WD Business Search Engine at www.ExplorOz.com.

The request was lodged by akissi dasse

The Enquiry:
From : Miss Akissi Dasse
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
West Africa.
Reply me through my private mailbox: (akissidasse2007@yahoo.com)

Dearest One,

It's my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country, Though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

My name is Akissi Dasse the only daughter of late Mr.and Mrs. Lambert Dasse. My father was former director genearal GOLD/ DIAMOND mining field Kono district sierra-lone West African also a very wealthy Coccoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory coast West African, my father was poisoned to death by his business associates during one of their outings on a business trip .

My mother died when I was a just baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on June 2004 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of seven million,five hundred thousand United State Dollars ($7.500,000,00 US ) left in fixed / suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan,that he used my name as his only daughter for the next of Kin and beneficiary in depositing of the funds. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates.

Due to the insesant political crisis that is happening here and my father enemies are runing after my life in order to kill me now I decieded to leave this country and invest this funds in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security purposes. Please I want you to help me to transfer this fund into your country for investment purposes on the followings below:

Telecommunication
International School
Five star hotel
and you will also help me get a good school where i will continue my educational carrier.

If you can be of an assistance to me I will be pleased to offer you 20% Of the total fund.

Thank you and God bless you.

Sincerely yours

Miss Akissi Dasse.
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Reply By: mike w (WA) - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 18:46

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 18:46
I cant believe you are turning this down, it sounds almost too good to be true ;)
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Follow Up By: David from David and Justine Olsen's 4WD Tag-Along - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 18:50

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 18:50
Almost??
It is too good to be true.
Wish I was smart enough to scam them such as these guys do.
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Reply By: DIO - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 18:51

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 18:51
This type of scam has been around for a long time. It often goes by the name of 'Nigerian Scam'. Anyone silly enough to get involved WILL loose their money - guaranteed.
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Follow Up By: Member - Crazy Dog (QLD) - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 20:13

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 20:13
I reckon she could "Akissi Myasse" as well....

What a buncha...

Grrr!!!
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Follow Up By: Member - Andrew (QLD) - Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:12

Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:12
come-on now, that may be a legitimate name somewhere ;-)

Andrew
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Reply By: Grungle - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 18:57

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 18:57
I love the name "Akissi Dasse". Sounds like she has been doing this quite a bit to get anywhere with the scam.

Regards
David
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Follow Up By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 19:25

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 19:25
what makes you think its a she?
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Follow Up By: Member - Phil G (SA) - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 22:49

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 22:49
Yeah, I'm with Roachie here - sounds like a transvestite.
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Follow Up By: Member - Matt M (ACT) - Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:41

Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:41
A rich transvestite.............stop teasing you guys!

If you have a few spare minutes and want a laugh, check out this site.

www.419eater.com

Matt.
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Follow Up By: Bonz (Vic) - Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 22:38

Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 22:38
surname is D'Asse if it is correctly spelt
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Follow Up By: Alloy c/t - Friday, Jan 26, 2007 at 17:17

Friday, Jan 26, 2007 at 17:17
Asskissin DeGoat ,is he/she/its real name.
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Reply By: Member - Teabag (Queanbeyan) - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 19:21

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 19:21
Unfortunately this is one that the elderly tend to fall for due to them not generally being in touch with technology and have a tendency to feel sorry for the so called person in question......Yes, it stands out like a set of dogs you know what. I got one recently that was pretending to be from the National Bank, who I contacted and forwarded to their IT section to get it shut down......Got to have your wits about you has there are rip off merchants every where......
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Follow Up By: Member - Steve (ACT) - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 19:39

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 19:39
Definitely have to watch out for our elderly, my grandmother is 86 and a little dotty at times! (thank god she doesn't have a computer let alone the internet) and I have to explain each scam she gets in the mail to her, she doesn't understand what can be produced on a computer and to her it all looks so official. She gets quite distressed sometimes!

Sandy
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Follow Up By: Member - Teabag (Queanbeyan) - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 20:29

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 20:29
Yes, the elderly are an easy target.......These clowns that take advantage of the elderly need a little contact counselling......
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Reply By: Mr Fawlty - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 19:53

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 19:53
For those who have a desire to have some callous unaustralian fun at the expense of these scammers go here and have a look at some of the totally brilliant responses to these scams...
www.419eater.com/
maybe not today maybe not tommorrow but soon & for the rest of your life...
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Reply By: obee - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 20:06

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 20:06
Surprising how many they trap including otherwise sensible people who hold responsible positions. So the consumer people say anyhow.

Owen
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Reply By: Willem - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 20:50

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 20:50
A'kissi D'assi....hahahahahahaha

Geez Dave baby...these scams have been around for 5 years, at least

Shift=Delete.......................thats all.......

Sometimes when I am bored, I reply in 72 point font with a word beginning with F....lol...in colour!!!!!!!!

Cheers
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Follow Up By: David from David and Justine Olsen's 4WD Tag-Along - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 20:59

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 20:59
Oh I know they have been around a long time, I get at least 3 a week, but that is the first I've gotten via my ad on EO. Peeved me a bit. Maybe I am sensitive today :-)
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Reply By: porl - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 21:02

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 21:02
It's very sad but I have read of both lawyers and accountants that have lost tens of thousands from these scams, to me they are absurd, to someone whose judgement has been smashed by personal loss, bad business decisions, greed, etc, it's like gambling, hard to stop ....
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Follow Up By: Member - John (Vic) - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 21:10

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 21:10
Just because your a Lawyer or an accountant does not mean your intelligent!!
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Follow Up By: Muddy doe (SA) - Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 00:35

Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 00:35
Only problem here is that the Lawyers and Accountants use the money in their Trust Accounts in order to make up the "fees and charges" that are involved in these scams and then it all collapses and the people that lose are the clients.

Muddy
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Reply By: TerraFirma - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 21:57

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 21:57
Old as the hills..! Does anybody ever fall for these..?? Come-on you gotta be serious, but wait there's more, I have a new Pyramid Flight thats going to the Moon, then onto Mars..! Come-on..! Let's Fly.....
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Follow Up By: David from David and Justine Olsen's 4WD Tag-Along - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 22:02

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 22:02
and let me guess I pay $4 million deposit which is to assist the release of funds from a government department. I send you a cheque for 4 million and you will pay the 3.8 million back one week prior to the flight...do I have that correct?
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Reply By: Off-track - Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 23:05

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007 at 23:05
I get a lot of fake eBay emails giving the amount to pay for the item I 'Bought'.
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Reply By: David from David and Justine Olsen's 4WD Tag-Along - Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:45

Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:45
We could have some fun with that yahoo address
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Follow Up By: David from David and Justine Olsen's 4WD Tag-Along - Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:52

Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:52
Not condoning this, but wouldn't it be great to have 100 people do this to them.

HOW TO MAIL BOMB USING YAHOO! EMAIL
BY: DIzzIE ©2001

I have recently found out an easy way that you can mail bomb (send an enormous amount of emails) anybody using the free, well known Yahoo! email service. Here are the few simple steps to accomplish a little mischief ;) :

1) If you don't have a Yahoo! email account, the first step is to obviously sign up. Go here: mail.yahoo.com and sign up. Afterwards, login and click "compose" to create a new email message.

2) Select the email address of your target (for this example, I'll use stevewozniak@microsoft.com)

3) In the "To:" field, type in the email followed by a comma and a space: stevewozniak@microsoft.com,

4) Copy and paste that email address ten times or more, (remember to copy the coma and space also). Delete the comma after the last copied email.

5) Now, all you have to do is capitalize random different letters (or groups of letters) in the email address, copy the ten variously capitalized email addresses for later use, type in a message of your choice and click send.

So the 10 variously capitalized email addresses should look something like this:

To: stevewozniak@microsoft.com, stevewoznIAk@microSOft.com, sTevewozniak@microsoft.com, stEvewozniak@microsoft.com, steVewozniak@microsoft.com, stevEwozniak@microsoft.com, steveWozniak@microsoft.COm, stevewOzniak@mICROosoft.com, stevewoZniak@microsoft.com, stevEwozNiak@microsoft.com,

Yahoo! enterprites capitalized emails as different emails, although they will all go to stevewozniak@microsoft.com, and therefore Yahoo!sends your email message 10 times to the same target!

After you have sent one email form, and the target will get ten emails, you can click "compose" again, and paste the 10 modified emails (that you copied previously) and send again. So if you send 10 emails this way (click 'compose' ten times), the target will actually get 100! And as you only have to type out the variations in the first email, this proves to be quite an efficient way to mail bomb someone.

*Note #1: If you just copy and paste the original email ten times, without any capitalization, it will only be sent once! You must capitalize different letters, or groups of letters.

*Note #2: There are many variations to which letters you capitalize, so if you do 20 variatons, copy them, and then send 10 emails, the target will get 200 emails! And so on?

*Note #3: It is best to create a special mailbombing account from Yahoo! because the target may notify Yahoo! of your "illicit" practices and your account will be canceled.

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Reply By: nasaman - Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:07

Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:07
Some people think the Nigerian scam has been there since the late sixties at the beginning of personal computers.
In actually fact it was there before that, they originally run this scam by letter.
Last I looked , over time they have taken more money than Bill Gates. ( 50 billion plus )
The last woman I seen caught up in this was only about a year ago. She was an American lawyer and actually embezzled over one million dollars from the law company chasing these millions.
I get these all the time, the latest ones are relating to money that has been discolored black and they need special chemicals to clean the money.
Yes they will fly you over there and demonstrate.
Of course they only have a small amount of this expensive cleaning fluid.
Once they can no longer extract more money from you they will hold you to ransom.
There have been several deaths over this and it hasn’t been stopped because it is the Nigerian government themselves that run this scam.
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Follow Up By: Member - Davoe (Nullagine) - Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:49

Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:49
I have heard of the odd person upon realizing theyve been had (duhh) have gone over to try and get there money back to never be seen again
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Reply By: Flash - Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:09

Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:09
Nah,
I'm sure it sounds genuine.
I'll send her some money immediately and await my fortune.
Akissi Dasse sounds like a young lady who has had a rough run and deserves a break!
>>>>>>>>
What idiots could actually fall for this???
I guess for every conman(woman) there are plenty of idiots just waiting.
Cheers
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Reply By: ExplorOz Team - Michelle - Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 13:56

Thursday, Jan 25, 2007 at 13:56
Firstly, to David and other advertisers reading this - (who has already sent me an alert via email but I'm responding publicly to let others know) from time to time you may receive spam emails of this sort and we are sorry but we can't stop that from occuring (the first time). To get the email to you they are using a form that goes via the ExplorOz mail server so your email address is actually protected as our system hides your email address. But if you respond, you are communicating outside the ExplorOz mail server - so you are sending them a message from your mail server with your email address. Protect yourself and do not respond. You'll just get yourself added to more spam lists.

We take some responsibility to protect our advertisers in that we view copies of every enquiry you receive via our system (checked daily) for such misuse and can block the senders address from our site so this one was in fact detected last night and so for this particular spamer, you won't see him again due to the block.

For the next ones that invariably will come along, we advise you don't respond, don't waste your time reading it, just delete it. Alert us yes, but 99.9% of the time we will have already found it in the logs and blocked the sender. Hope this helps.

David has advised me, and our staff, and we would advise those of you that don't know this, that it is risky to respond to any email you receive that you know is suspect. All this does is verify that your email address is valid to a server so you'll send exposure yourself to receive more. They aren't sent from real people but from sophisticated servers just waiting to bait you. It's a cruel world.
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Follow Up By: Andrew from Vivid Adventures - Friday, Jan 26, 2007 at 17:05

Friday, Jan 26, 2007 at 17:05
Hi Michellem

Yes, mostly common sense. It would be good to block their IP address too from using the site.

How about adding a real person verifier - puts up a blurred code which nees a human to read it ... a lot of these scammers use automated tools.

You may know if this is a real person or not ... I don't know, but that check should be there anyways.

Cheers
Andrew.
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