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Wasn't her account banned?

These types of messages are spams, do not add the email address as this will spam your email inbox and I don't think its a nice thing to be going through at all.

Wrongplanet is not a dating site, its a forum for autism & aspergers and family members who have a member who has autism.
I doubt you'd get luck out of it?

Too late ! !

I've promised to pay the £500 to help secure that £20,000,000,000 held in the Bank of Umbongo in da Congo.

So...quite a bit more than the GDP of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Mate, you have to do some research before you fall for these scams.

And yes, I am being facetious. I am practising my Avon-style deadpan snarking.

I just sent a short, to-the-point note back to the sender of this:

"From: jgood
To: Niall
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:38 am
Subject: happy beautiful day my dearest one Quote message
How are you doing this beautiful day?. I hope you are having a pleasant working day over there and you are also in good health, i know you would be surprised seeing this mail, please do not be surprised, it is my interest after viewing your profile today.in(www.wrongplanet.net.com] and it impressed me in having a friendly approach to a sincere relationship to you. My name is miss joy, i am writing to acquaint you of my interest in building a strong and reliable relationship, Remember that age and distance or even color should never be a barrier to my request,could you please write me through my email.( ) so that we will know each other more and also share our pictures for a sincere and long lasting relationship, i will be so glad hearing from you soonest.Thank you for your understanding,

From miss joy"

Please could the mods ban this clown?

I believe it is not a good idea to respond to SPAM, and maybe other people here can post more about what can happen after someone does that.


Done.

I'm sorry. I'm a useless sh!t who can't do anything right. I should know this by now. I should stay away from all attempts at human interaction.

Don't be so hard on yourself, you did nothing wrong. Such spammers will show on all kind of forums trying to fool people, it has nothing to do with the way you interact with others. You already did the right thing by reporting it .

Yes, and please forgive me there. I should have removed your name while meaning to only offer a caution to all.

i have a very similar pm from babyrita

its very tempting to play along, but on a site like this it is just isnt safe. Ask yourself, if someone skimmed through 100s of a your posts/topics, including links to other sites and collated individual clues about your lifestyle, you can be tracked down surprisingly easily. Some people dont even realise that photos can have GPS coordinates , but IMO even the relatively savvy security-minded people grossly underestimate how vulnerable to being identified they are.

The only conclusion you can make is - be nice to everyone on the internet

if you really want to try your hand scambaiting, you can harvesting scam emails safely via fake internet personas.

Last edited by psych on 28 May 2011, 4:33 pm, edited 2 times in total.

babyrita has been dealt with. Thank you.