Not that I think you are STUPID, however ......

Thought everyone should know this MONEY SCAM is now being sent via Poor But Happy by some low life idiot. Got it in my email today.

PETER, THROW HER OFF THE SITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALICE, KISS MY ASS !!!!!!

(This message was sent from the PBH website by another user. The user
does NOT have access to your email address directly, but if you reply
to this message, they will see your email address. You can turn of
messaging in your account settings.)

From Alice Daniel
West Africa.
( alicenicegirl4you at yahoo.com )

Dear after going through your profile i decided to contact you for
friendship and assistace.I am Miss Alice Daniel the only child of Mr
and Mrs F . Daniel,my father was posioned to death by his business
associates because of his wealth and during my fathers sickness he
called me on his sick bed in a private hospital as his only child
because my mother died when am young and told me about the
money($8.500.000) he deposited in Abidjan the economic city of Cote
d'Ivoire that it was because of this money he was posioned that if he
die i shall look for a trustworthy person to help me transfer this
money out of this country to his account for investment purpose
overseas for me to relocate there to continue my education then the
person will be managing the investment.

Dear am solicating your assistance to help me transfer this money out
of this country for my life sake while i will come to meet you to
continue my education in your country.
Dear am looking forward to hear from you so that we can discuss on
what will be your compersation for this assistace.
Please reply me directly on this my private mail address for more
detail

( alicenicegirl4you at yahoo.com )

Thanks
Alice

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By BAQ on Jul 31, 2007, 08:50 in Friendly Talkzone.

Leeroy says on Jul 31, 2007, 08:59:

I just sent peter an email about that.

I saw once (albeit a long time ago) a racist website where white supremacists would "play along" with these people, telling them that they would meet them in such-a-place and then not show up, with the express intention of wasting the con-men's time and money (all the while delivering commentaries about the, (ahem) to paraphrase, "unintelligent people of African origin".)

It was a rare case of a cool idea being executed for utterly the wrong reasons.

RUV says on Jul 31, 2007, 09:50:

I got the same thing.

I have been getting these types of emails for a while. This time it mentioned PBH. No big deal, but it would be nice how they got the info from PBH. Maybe Peter sold the mailing list or Peter is Alice. Just kidding.

Just delete it.

Peter (Moderator) says on Jul 31, 2007, 09:54:

Thanks (and apologies for this!). I already threw them out.

They can PM you (which is what happened) unless you turn it off. As long as you don't reply they don't have access to your email address.

Peter

Poor but snappy

BAQ says on Jul 31, 2007, 10:20:

Not your fault Peter, no apologies necessary my friend. Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. 99.9% of folks know its a scam but there are a few, especially the elderly who have fallen victim to this scam in the past.

Semper Fidelis !

Mario says on Jul 31, 2007, 10:43:

They emailed me too. I just hit the "junk" button.

houstongal says on Jul 31, 2007, 11:22:

I feel left out....I didn't get any junk mail!

Culture is language and language is culture - Dr. Annamaria Napolitano

Robert Jorge says on Jul 31, 2007, 11:38:

I got the Email also. I was going to tell Peter about it, but then saw this thread and realized others beat me to it. Houstongal, I guess the emailer (scam-artist) didn't like your profile! jaja

--"I believe in making the world safe for our children. But not for our children's children, because I don't think that children should be having sex." - Jack Handy

Brians says on Jul 31, 2007, 13:23:

Well I just got finished sending her all my wiring info etc.. It looked like a good opportunity to me.

houstongal says on Jul 31, 2007, 16:16:

Ignored by a scam artist! How pathetic! ;-)

Culture is language and language is culture - Dr. Annamaria Napolitano

Mario says on Jul 31, 2007, 17:19:

Don't feel badly about it... ;-) It's because they're aware that women are smarter.

houstongal says on Jul 31, 2007, 18:12:

ha ha! good one mario!

Culture is language and language is culture - Dr. Annamaria Napolitano

jinksmiester says on Jul 31, 2007, 20:28:

I get lots of crap email like this...but missed this one....gee and i really would have helped her out... NOT....DUH! The rolling stones said it best....Alice...who the f..k is alice.

A man is not old until regret takes the place of dreams

Peter (Moderator) says on Aug 1, 2007, 08:35:

Hahaha you made me laugh there Mario. Damn this board can be funny sometimes.

Poor but snappy