Unsoliciited message

[Yellowfin]

I just received a private message which I have cut and pasted below.  I have no idea who it is, but I do not think they belong here. Does anyone else kno this person or have you received messages?

YF
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Sent by geogline88love 9 minutes ago
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This is a voice from a lonely heart,im geogline by name i pass through
ur profile today at (www.medhelp.org) and was move with passion of love
please i
will like us to hold our dream together,here are my mail
box(***@****)
remember age or colour even distance has nothing to do with love, so
pls we can move from here, contact me to have my personal picture,the
greatest is love,
thanks miss geogline,
my dear please send mail to me directly with my email adress so that i will send you my nice pictures and also tell you my purpose of contacting you
thanks.

[IAmTheWalrus]

I am sure the next message is that the crown prince of the Grand Poohbah just needs a US bank account to stash millions of his of ?-gotten wealth, to protect it from the oppressive regime (his father's) in Lower Ecrookistan. Wait a minute, you've got a US bank account! I know what, you give me your bank account numbers and I will share the millions with you 50/50, Deal?  Maybe get a marriage in the deal, too.

I called for the prospectus but all I got was a dialtone. ;)

[sfbaygirl]

LOL....it looked like a tuna to me! Nope, it wasn't me...I don't have time to send emails or PM's like that. That salmon looked awfully handsome though!  

Linda

[alagirl]

these emails are common on any service such as this one where someone can easily register for free, then email a bunch of people, leaving their email address.  Even if reported, as you did, and therefore canceled, they've still already gotten their email address out to a lot of people and at least some small percentage may contact them at the other email address they gave.  The net result, for anyone choosing to email them at their private email, would have been that they wanted money from you.

You can tell this was written by someone from another country, most likely nigeria, as that is where most of these originate.  Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it.

[working dog]

thats too much..i would watch for a virus....good luck...billy

[GrandmaA]

Be careful on 2-14, there are supposed to be some bad viruses coming disguised as Valentines.

[Yellowfin]

It must have been self distructing.

[Yellowfin]

Hey this is really strange I went back to my messages to block the sender as Deb suggested.  IT"S GONE.

If I hadn't copied and posted it here I would be wondering if something weird might be going on with me.  

Checked everywhere...GONE!  But where?

[Yellowfin]

Well sfbaygirl, at least I know the message wasn't from you. You can't tell a tuna from a salmon.  :)

[l-horn]

You caught me...

[sldb]

son recieved similar emails. His were from south africia and they were trying to get money from him.

[sfbaygirl]

Now I got it! It's that big fish!  I too would love a piece of that fish. That is tuna, right?  Love it as sushi!

[sfbaygirl]

Hmmmm. Gonna have to look at your profile now!! That is strange. You have an admirer!   You must have something they like...I would worry if you get anymore of these!  

linda

[Deb_c430]

that was cute! :)  
it is probably a program,    

[Trish77]

Sounds like a Russian trawler to me....going fishing.  You would at least have that in common.  ;->  

I wouldn't concern yourself.  The same bait message probably went to a whole bunch more hoping to hook a "fish".  

Just practice "catch and release".

[Deb_c430]

This looks like spam to me,  pure mischief,

Did you block them in private message?  You can you know. Don't answer them,  or they can capture your email and know you read them,  surprised they got through med spam filters.

Then you will get rubbish on your private email.  Ignore it, delete them and you did the right thing reporting them.  

Deb