Phishing eMails received through WP PM box

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I got this PM from the WP forum, and it appears to be a scam. Here's a copy & paste:

Inbox :: Message
From: melisababe
To: kx250rider
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:20 am
Subject: Hello Dear Quote message
Greeting Dear,
I know you will be surprise to receive my mail since we have neither seen nor met before but after going through your profile and more consideration about this offer. I have decided to contact you and introduce myself. I am Ms Melisa Kwema the only child of late Mr Kwema Damain, I wish to request for your assistance in a financial transaction and wish to invest in Manufacturing and real estate management in your country. I have Six million five hundred thousand united states dollars.USD($6.500,000) to invest in your country, and I will require your assistance in receiving the funds in your personal account for investment, I will be gladly to give you 10% of the total sum for your assistance. Please it is very important you contact me immediately on my email for further explanation on how we will proceed.
Awaiting your immediate response.
Thanks and God bless.
Best Regards
Ms Melisa Kwema
N/B PLEASE REPLY WITH THIS MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE TRANSACTION (melisa.kwema@yahoo.com)

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Charles

I got the same spam today.

Yeah, it's the Nigerians. Nigerian scammers are a recurring problem on WP. If they make zero public posts, they can just spam away until the mods are notified. The software is old and creaky and can't deal with PM spam. If you get any future Nigerian spams, look at the sticky threads on this forum, you can post it in the "moderator attention" forum or the Nigerian scam one.

Report PM scams either to the moderator attention thread here: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt181777.html
or this one: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt141259.html
But it's Ok, we have the name now so thanks kx250rider for reporting it.