I got it in my e mail also. I am going to report it asspam, and then delete it. It’sa classic scam message allright. Thanks for the warning. But the big question is how did the person who sent it get our e mail addresses?
Look to the left of this message you will see my user name. Click on it and you can send me a message and the web site will forward it to me via my e-mail address. It is also in the “Conversations” feature of the web site (look to the right side where your avitar always shows with a list of links, the 3rd one down is “Conversations”).
All this poor fool had to do was open any posting, click the first user name, paste in his blathering, and click Send. Then click the next name and do it again. It is something that any illiterate animal can be trained to do. It does serve the purpose of making them feel like they are doing something and it keeps them from sitting on the curb all day.
Be careful about “reporting it as spam.” Since it came from the Trains.com server (at least mine did), by telling your email service that it is spam, it may treat all messages and notifications from these Trains.com forums as spam
Apparently Trains.com turned into a dating site.
I like long walks in the ballast at night, snoot noses, and dinner by LED lantern.
(worth a shot).
I was thinking a can of beans and a bottle of water, 1999 vintage (I hear the water was really good that year).
The guy (or more likely computer program) did not send the e-mail to me. It sent private messages. The server at Kalmbach then sent e-mail notifications of these private messages to me.
And pasties on a coal scoop.
This is known as an “advance fee” or “419” scam (419 being the section of the Nigerian legal code that deals with frauds). It all looks so obviously fake and false that you think, why are they wasting their time? But the amazing thing is, people do fall for it. In fact at least one person in the US who fell for it went right to Nigeria to find and punish the scammers – and ended up dead. And as I understand it the local authorities did not seem too interested in doing much about the scam or the murder.
Often if you Google the names in the scam message you will learn either that 1) it has been used often before and folks posted joking messages about it or 2) it is very close to the name of an actual government authority.
The funniest one of all was the woman in the US who got the message and replied, playing coy, but eventually she established regular contact with the scammer. She pretended to be “interested” in him and sent a photo which she claimed to be hers. In reply he sent a photo which WAS of him! Which she promptly posted on hte internet with the entire “romantic” correspondence. I seem to have lost the link or I’d post it here.
I work for a large firm and we get hit a lot by these and similar scam messages. Back in the day they’d arrive by mail and the envelopes would have beautiful Nigerian stamps which I’d give to the stamp collectors, so at least there was some good that came of it.
Dave Nelson
You guys are such romantics![:‘(] [:’(]
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…Received my “scam” message via email. Hit the spam button.
Laugh all you want, but when I get my 40% of the $14 million I will be the one laughing!
You know, if I had a nickel for every time I saw this scam, I’d have about $14.5 million right now.[:-,]
As already mentioned, if you get email notification of personal messages from the Forum, then that’s not wise. You may find that all such notifications from Trains (including those you want to see) could be labelled as spam.
I sent a message to the Trains webmaster. Odds are the spammer hit other forums as well, and if (he) didn’t, (he) will…
And if you ever need help moving that money out of South Dakota…
I’m glad you provided a link. I had a whole other image in my head.
And don’t try to pass yourself off as the Ambassador from Iowa. I know better.
You must never have eaten pasties. I used to make and eat them for work lunches. Having no coal scoop, I was reduced to heating them in a microwave oven.[:)] I wish now that I could remember what I put into sausage pasties besides apple; it seems to me that I had something additional.
The Wiki article tells us that beef pasties must have rutabagas (yellow turnips) in them. I found that rutabagas required long cooking before they were edible, so I seldom used them; instead I added Irish potato and carrot to the onion and beef.
When I was quite young, I enjoyed eating rutabaga–until I learned that they are yellow turnips (and I have never liked white turnips). In later years, I realized that rutabagas not only have a different taste, they are much more nutritional than turnips are.
Johnny:
I think we must be on a similar wave length…[alien][alien]
I was thinking they went on pole dancers.[banghead][X-)]
They must be one of those Foreign inventions.[#oops]
’ Better quit before I hear the sirene of the Forum Police.[:-,]
Seems that just about everyone in Nigeria wants to leave me in their will…
I have also been told that I won the Hong Kong Lottery about 15 times…Well over 100 million…