Danfalc

Hey people

On of our members was cool enough to let us know that someone contacted them via this site.From what's been said it sounds like some sort of money scam asking people to invest.If anyone else has had simlar things pm one of us *blows dust off the ban hammer*

Serioursly though,this person was able to obtain an email address which was not just ready available,so be extra carefull what info you give out,because apart from the info you guys give out its only us mods who "should" have acsess to that sort of stuff.

PunkRotten

Yeah once someone mentions money about anything be very careful.

FOR REAL

dont give anyone your bank details or anything like that, theres loads of con artists out there!
if they dont have any of these kind of details, they cant harm you.

FOR REAL

thanks danfalc for letting us know about this though. cheers

Danfalc

No problemo dreamer777,thanks to a few of you guy's getting in touch we know its just the one person trying to scam people.Her email address is mariamelias@yahoo.com .

So if you get any email's off this person,block it so the emails either get deleted or put in your junk mail box.Or feel free to spam them like mad till we overload their computer lol joking about that.

I think if enough people mark this persons emails as spam,this person will end up blacklisted,that's about the only thing I can think of until we get a letter written up for yahoo about this person.

Again,if anyone else gets similar things,please contact one of the mods,hopefully the more evidence we have the better.

2ate

people would still fall for those scams?

hoddesdon

Another way of dealing with this is to report the email address to the relevant provider. With the email it is important to forward the full headers (or whatever it is called by that provider). The full headers are the metadata for the email.

These are the addresses for complaints:

Yahoo abuse@yahoo.com
MSN report_spam@msn.com
Hotmail report_spam@hotmail.com
Gmail abuse@gmail.com
Live.com report_spam@live.com

Sending spam is contrary to the "Terms of Service" or "Terms of Use", so the account can be cancelled.

Jin

someones taking advantage of us...... i pity them......btw good work guys.....keep it up...

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other...."

hoddesdon

There is no need to write a letter to Yahoo - just forward the email with the full headers to abuse@yahoo.com. There is a link below the email hard on the right saying "full headers". Click on it and the full headers appear. They disappear again when forwarding the email being complained about, so copy them and paste them into the forwarded email. Full headers are metadata about the email.

Ken Randall

James1

Thanks for letting me know about this possibility; it seems there are so many people out there who would do anything to make money.