(September 21, 2010 at 5:55 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: Haha! I just got a PM from a "member" named samanta4you.
samanta4you Wrote:Hello my dear!!,
My name is Samanta. I am a female. I am nice and loving and very good looking. I am looking for a nice person for a nice friendship. I saw your profile today at atheistforums.org and liked it. I will like to open up a friendship with you.
please write me on my email ([email protected]) so that i will send my photograph to you and more about me.
Hoping to hear from you.
Miss Samanta.
How sweet. Should I take her up on it?
I've had them too. It's a version of the advance fee scam aka 'The Spanish prisoner 'and Nigerian Scam'.
The pace varies,but she (?) WILL ask you for money within a few emails.Often for health emergencies.The more patient will string you along and get you to send them money for airfare. These are very bad people.
Quote:The Spanish Prisoner is a confidence trick dating back to the late 1800s.[1] In its original form, the confidence man (con-man) tells his victim (the mark) that he is in correspondence with a wealthy person of high estate who has been imprisoned in Spain under a false identity. The alleged prisoner cannot reveal his identity without serious repercussions, and is relying on a friend (the confidence trickster) to raise money to secure his release. The confidence trickster offers to let the victim supply some of the money, with a promise that he will be rewarded generously when the prisoner returns: financially and perhaps also by being married to the prisoner's beautiful daughter. However, once the victim has turned over his money, he learns that further difficulties have arisen, requiring more money, and the trickster continues attempting to get more money until the victim is cleaned out and the process ends, presumably with the victim realizing he has been defrauded and that there is neither a rich man, nor a reward coming to him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Prisoner
