SPAM ALERT, please read it could happen to YOU Juliet NKAJE
Question Posted Monday April 13 2009, 5:32 pm
Hi guys ATTENTION!!!
FAKE SPAMS have been going around and trying to get ADVICENATORS.....dont be caught in penpal spam
Young women (pretending to be from west africa like senegal or dakar) will send you emails stating something along the lines of "my father was a millionaire, my mom died and i'm the only one that survived, and now i'm in a refugee camp"
DO NOT BELIEVE THIS.
this is what she sent me
""HI
My name is Juliet nkaje ,i saw your profile today in (www.advicenators.com) and became intrested in you,i will also like to know you more,and i want you to send an email to my email address so i can give you my picture for you to know whom i am.
Here is my email address (julietnkaje2007@yahoo.com)
I believe we can move from here!
I am waiting for your mail to my email address above..
(Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life) yours "
and again :
"My dear,
Am happy in your reply to my mail. How is your day over there in your country i hope you are fine? My name is Juliet nkaje ( 24 ) single and never married, i am 5.6 height 49 wight, fair in compilation nice looking understanding and sincere young girl.i am from Liberia in west Africa but presently i am residing in refugee camp here in Dakar Senegal,as a result of the civil war that was fought in my country then i found my self in UN refugee camp and i am writing you with the hope that you be a help hand to me over my situation.
My late father Mr Morgan nkaje was the one in charge of the diamond sales in Government in monrovia the capital of Liberia and he is also the personal advice to the former head of state before the rebels attacked our house one early morning and killing my mother and my father,
It was only me that is alive now and i managed to make my way to near by country Senegal where i am living now as a refugee under UN refugee camp in Senegal so .I will like to know more about you. Your likes and dislike,your hobbies and what you are doing presently you work all about you as. I will tell you more about myself in my next mail . Attached here is my picture and i will like to see your picture too, Hoping to hear from you
Yours Juliet"
karenR answered Thursday April 16 2009, 7:05 am: I got it too but I don't respond to fishy email.
Advicentors doesn't recommend that you answer ANY unsolicited mail with its name in it. You have answered it twice already, had it been any other kind of virus you would have it by now. Yikes! [ karenR's advice column | Ask karenR A Question ]
Trauma answered Tuesday April 14 2009, 12:17 am: Thanks for this. Same exact thing happened to me. I thought it seemed pretty suspicious, so I didn't reply to it. [ Trauma's advice column | Ask Trauma A Question ]
Chicka376 answered Monday April 13 2009, 9:16 pm: OMG THAT HAPPENED TO ME TOO. I didnt think of anything of it tho. she gave me a "Weird vibe" tho. So i didnt send back.... That is so weird... ppl these days!!!!!! [ Chicka376's advice column | Ask Chicka376 A Question ]
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