Scam Alert! How Do You Block This?

[Mrjlh]

Just popped up in my T.V. message box? I blocked out the name but will gladly post it if I get another message for (her) them. Now maybe some really lonely desperate and very gullible man out there might accept your offer but I'm sorry. I'm not interested. A person must really be dumb not to read that this not a scam. Oh wait...it was on the Internet so it must be true and not a lie.

So... TV administrators and mods how do you propose stopping this scam?

From XXXXXXXX - A minute ago

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Hello dear, this message is not a spam or a scam message, I am 100% real. My name is XXXX an orphan and need a man to marry me and be my guardian to help secure and invest my inheritance fund 8.5 million dollars in your country which is in a security vault. I will offer you 15% for your help. Contact me on my email below for more details. XXXXX @email.com.

[Songhua]

Yeah, just got the same thing.

[anton01972]

Hi,

I also got the same.

[MJCM]

send it support [at] thaivisa.com or report it and the sender will be banned ! Easy peasy

[LivinginKata]

This member has been suspended/banned. I apologise on behalf of Thaivisa for the many PMs sent to members.

[craigt3365]

Let's try this in the support desk forum.

Topic Moved.

[george]

You can also report spam PM's with the Report button in the PM.

[sbk]

Yes please always use the report button on any spam personal message you receive, this allows a mod to access it and ban the spammer, thanks.

[MJCM]

Yes please always use the report button on any spam personal message you receive, this allows a mod to access it and ban the spammer, thanks.

For people who don't know where the report button is in the Personal Messenger !

Edited February 18, 2013 by MJCM

[weegee]

Sounds like the same scam that originated in Nigeria some years back....would you believe some actually believed it and replied....lost money as well.

[MJCM]

Sounds like the same scam that originated in Nigeria some years back....would you believe some actually believed it and replied....lost money as well.

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is

[craigt3365]

Sounds like the same scam that originated in Nigeria some years back....would you believe some actually believed it and replied....lost money as well.

You won't believe this. I was in a bank a few months ago in the US. Some guy was getting into an argument with the bank manager over something. It got heated and loud.

It was an older guy, filipino wife, saying he needed to transfer money to somebody as they needed the money to help secure a million dollar "whatever". Inheritance or lottery winning or something like that. This guy was going to transfer 10k, and was being promised 100k USD in return in 1 month. He got this via an email.

Eventually, everybody in the bank was following the conversation and literally yelling at this guy to no do it. He was hard headed and wanted to do it. Not sure what eventually happened as we left, but this guy was serious about sending money overseas for this scam.

As P.T Barnum supposedly said, "there's a sucker born every minute".

[David48]

^^ I read somewhere that the Nigeriaian guys actually keep the scam easy ... dumb it down so that then they get a bite, they know that it's easy meat to reel in ... as your story aboves sort of confirms ...

[Payboy]

Even the scammers are ignoring me.

[smokie36]

Even the scammers are ignoring me.

They are scared of us Payboy.