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i received a private message from this person asking if she could send me 12zillion pounds from the uk. ok...maybe i am exaggerating...it was 12 million. she has cancer...she has two children...and she wants me to hold the money for them.....so she is among for my bank details so she can send me money....wow

i would never post negative about a member on here...ever but she not a real member.....i really don't think anyone would fall for this story but who knows if pain meds or stress of what we are going thru could lead us to a poor decision....some of us have big hearts here.... i reported them btw

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Damn swype is making me talk like her message to me...lol

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If you get messages like that make sure you hit the 'report' button in the PM. Probably Nigerian scammers, or alike.

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really...huh, do they get people to fall for this...i was going to play around and waste their time but then i realized i had already wasted enough of my own.

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Yeah. Normally they convince somebody to 'help' them. Then the victim either hands over bank account deatils or pays them money on the promise or a big payment.

I'm not saying this member was doing that, but that sort of activity is rampant.

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It's amazing how many people there are in this world that will try to take advantage of people. I can't believe those schemes are still around.

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Wait...that's a scam?

honey...we need to freeze our bank account ASAP.

I've had some really long, elaborate, and good email conversations with those folks.

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Just sit back and wait for the money to come in!!

Sory I mean wait, and wait, and wait .......

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Please please REPORT these spammers the second you receive anything from them. We normally delete all their sent PM's and immediately suspend their account.

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They can have all my bank details. I'm a single mum with a 5000 dollar surgery debt. Good luck getting any money out of that .... Suckers!!!

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alex...i did report

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8 years ago I tried to sell a big-ticket item on the internet. Someone contacted me saying their lawyer would mail me a cashier's check (drawn from an American bank) and that I should wire something like $1500 to London for the shipper's expenses. Their check cleared, so I wired the money.

WELL, Western Union called me because it seemed suspicious to them. They told me that most banks will automatically clear checks after two business days but can take 10 days to discover fraud. By that time, the fraudsters have scored and the bank comes after the account owner to pay back the cleared deposit.

Western Union returned all the money (the scammers were pretty mad, called me twice from Nigeria!), but my bank froze my account for two weeks and I had to pay for several bounced checks. It was a mess. Beware!

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