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Hoptis sent me an email telling me that she got an email from one of our
Posters named Winne; which I have not seen in a long time, asking for money.
Hoptis newsgroups on her internet server are acting funny so she ased me to
post this asap.
Here is the email IF this is true I am sorry but Winnie and Hoptis are
not close enough friends to ask for money and she has not had any contact
with Winnie since last xmas. This is what was sent to hoptis at 11pm last
night


Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:25:21 -0700
From: I REMOVED THE EMAIL FOR PRIVACY JUST IN CASE
Subject: Hi
To: Hoptis

I really hope this gets to you in time, I was robbed during my trip to
Swansea, Wales. All my belongings including mobile phone and credit card
were all stolen. I asked my bank to cancel my cards and place hold on my
account to avoid unauthorized access. I need your help flying back home.

Am cash strapped at the moment. I've made contact with my bank but the best
they could do was to send me a new card in the mail which will take 3-5
working days to arrive here. I need you to lend me some money to sort my
self out of this predicament, I will pay back once I make it out of Wales.

Western union is the fastest option to wire funds to me, let me know if you
can help me with the funds i need so that i can send you the details you
will need when sending the funds.

I await your response.

Winnie

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On 2012-07-12 1:14 PM, Matthew wrote:
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This is certainly a scam. I got a couple of these - one, a year or so
ago almost word for word the same supposedly from an aquaintance who was
actually out of the country at the time, so some people in our circle
panicked a bit, although I think no one sent money.

All it means is that someone's managed to fake an email from Winnie.

One of the ones I got was actually a bit funny, when you stopped to
think about it - this person was supposedly in dire straits and
absolutely penniless and without ID, but could still send emails and
make arrangements to receive money...


--
Cheryl

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"Cheryl" wrote in message
...
On 2012-07-12 1:14 PM, Matthew wrote:
Snip tale

This is certainly a scam. I got a couple of these - one, a year or so ago
almost word for word the same supposedly from an aquaintance who was
actually out of the country at the time, so some people in our circle
panicked a bit, although I think no one sent money.

All it means is that someone's managed to fake an email from Winnie.

One of the ones I got was actually a bit funny, when you stopped to think
about it - this person was supposedly in dire straits and absolutely
penniless and without ID, but could still send emails and make
arrangements to receive money...


--
Cheryl


I got one of these too, but it was signed by someone I had never heard of.
Needless to say, no money was sent anywhere.

Jay

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"Matthew" wrote in message
ng.com...

Hoptis sent me an email telling me that she got an email from one of our
Posters named Winne; which I have not seen in a long time, asking for money.
Hoptis newsgroups on her internet server are acting funny so she ased me to
post this asap.
Here is the email IF this is true I am sorry but Winnie and Hoptis are
not close enough friends to ask for money and she has not had any contact
with Winnie since last xmas. This is what was sent to hoptis at 11pm last
night

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I have received messages from various people, often using almost the same
words as in "Winnie's" message. I placed Winnie in quote marks because it
undoubtedly was not from her. One of my messages was from a good friend who
supposedly was stranded in London--but I had had lunch with her only a
couple of hours earlier! Some of these people could probably earn a good
salary if they would spend as much time and effort on a real job as they
spend trying to cheat people out of their money. They are harvesting real
names from various groups, and they are even good at making their email
addresses look legit. This undoubtedly was not from Winnie, and she
probably does not know anything about it. Incidentally, this is one of the
reasons why I always use Bcc when I send messages to a group of people so I
don't reveal a whole list of addresses.

MaryL

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"MaryL" wrote in message
...


"Matthew" wrote in message
ng.com...

Hoptis sent me an email telling me that she got an email from one of our
Posters named Winne; which I have not seen in a long time, asking for
money.
Hoptis newsgroups on her internet server are acting funny so she ased me
to
post this asap.
Here is the email IF this is true I am sorry but Winnie and Hoptis are
not close enough friends to ask for money and she has not had any contact
with Winnie since last xmas. This is what was sent to hoptis at 11pm last
night

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I have received messages from various people, often using almost the same
words as in "Winnie's" message. I placed Winnie in quote marks because it
undoubtedly was not from her. One of my messages was from a good friend
who
supposedly was stranded in London--but I had had lunch with her only a
couple of hours earlier! Some of these people could probably earn a good
salary if they would spend as much time and effort on a real job as they
spend trying to cheat people out of their money. They are harvesting real
names from various groups, and they are even good at making their email
addresses look legit. This undoubtedly was not from Winnie, and she
probably does not know anything about it. Incidentally, this is one of
the
reasons why I always use Bcc when I send messages to a group of people so
I
don't reveal a whole list of addresses.

MaryL

Which is why is use a fake email eddy Just wanted to give the group a
heads up I remember as Cheryl stated when we had a group member email get
hacked and the scammers did the same thing

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"Matthew" wrote in
ng.com:

Hoptis sent me an email telling me that she got an email from one of
our Posters named Winne; which I have not seen in a long time, asking
for money. Hoptis newsgroups on her internet server are acting funny
so she ased me to post this asap.
Here is the email IF this is true I am sorry but Winnie and Hoptis
are
not close enough friends to ask for money and she has not had any
contact with Winnie since last xmas. This is what was sent to hoptis
at 11pm last night


snip

Just for the record, I'm not planning a trip anywhere, so ignore "my"
requests for money!

Bobble

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Matthew wrote:
Hoptis sent me an email telling me that she got an email from one of our
Posters named Winne; which I have not seen in a long time, asking for money.
Hoptis newsgroups on her internet server are acting funny so she ased me to
post this asap.
Here is the email IF this is true I am sorry but Winnie and Hoptis are
not close enough friends to ask for money and she has not had any contact
with Winnie since last xmas. This is what was sent to hoptis at 11pm last
night



Sounds like spam to me! I got a similar E-mail, a while back,
purportedly from the manager of my former apartment building in L.A.
Since we were fellow cat lovers but not intimate friends and, so far as
I knew, neither she nor her husband had any plans for traveling to
Europe, I reported it as spam. (Also, she knew I was living in a senior
retirement residence, so I would be a rather poor prospect to "lend"
anyone money.)

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Cheryl wrote:
On 2012-07-12 1:14 PM, Matthew wrote:
Snip tale

This is certainly a scam. I got a couple of these - one, a year or so
ago almost word for word the same supposedly from an aquaintance who was
actually out of the country at the time, so some people in our circle
panicked a bit, although I think no one sent money.

All it means is that someone's managed to fake an email from Winnie.

One of the ones I got was actually a bit funny, when you stopped to
think about it - this person was supposedly in dire straits and
absolutely penniless and without ID, but could still send emails and
make arrangements to receive money...

W-e-l-l--- there ARE "internet cafes" and Western Union, but why would
anyone but family or a really intimate friend be likely to lend money in
such circumstances? (Also, that's one reason developed countries
maintain embassies - to assist citizens who have that kind of misfortune.)

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"MaryL" wrote:
"Matthew" wrote in message
ng.com...

Hoptis sent me an email telling me that she got an email from one of our
Posters named Winne; which I have not seen in a long time, asking for money.
Hoptis newsgroups on her internet server are acting funny so she ased me to
post this asap.
Here is the email IF this is true I am sorry but Winnie and Hoptis are
not close enough friends to ask for money and she has not had any contact
with Winnie since last xmas. This is what was sent to hoptis at 11pm last
night

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I have received messages from various people, often using almost the same
words as in "Winnie's" message. I placed Winnie in quote marks because it
undoubtedly was not from her. One of my messages was from a good friend who
supposedly was stranded in London--but I had had lunch with her only a
couple of hours earlier! Some of these people could probably earn a good
salary if they would spend as much time and effort on a real job as they
spend trying to cheat people out of their money. They are harvesting real
names from various groups, and they are even good at making their email
addresses look legit. This undoubtedly was not from Winnie, and she
probably does not know anything about it. Incidentally, this is one of the
reasons why I always use Bcc when I send messages to a group of people so I
don't reveal a whole list of addresses.

MaryL

I wish more people learned to use BCC it would save a lot of problems.
--
Adrian

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"Adrian" wrote in message
...
"MaryL" wrote:
"Matthew" wrote in message
ng.com...

Hoptis sent me an email telling me that she got an email from one of our
Posters named Winne; which I have not seen in a long time, asking for
money.
Hoptis newsgroups on her internet server are acting funny so she ased me
to
post this asap.
Here is the email IF this is true I am sorry but Winnie and Hoptis are
not close enough friends to ask for money and she has not had any contact
with Winnie since last xmas. This is what was sent to hoptis at 11pm
last
night

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I have received messages from various people, often using almost the same
words as in "Winnie's" message. I placed Winnie in quote marks because
it
undoubtedly was not from her. One of my messages was from a good friend
who
supposedly was stranded in London--but I had had lunch with her only a
couple of hours earlier! Some of these people could probably earn a good
salary if they would spend as much time and effort on a real job as they
spend trying to cheat people out of their money. They are harvesting
real
names from various groups, and they are even good at making their email
addresses look legit. This undoubtedly was not from Winnie, and she
probably does not know anything about it. Incidentally, this is one of
the
reasons why I always use Bcc when I send messages to a group of people so
I
don't reveal a whole list of addresses.

MaryL

I wish more people learned to use BCC it would save a lot of problems.
--
Adrian

Most of us know how to use it, but sometimes we forget.

Joy