weird e-mail

[Wendy]

I just received a weird e-mail that was subject, comment about your ad at scubaboard. I had recently put an ad up in the market place, anyway, this e-mail was one of the my dying husband said his put 10 million in a bank in the US please help me scams.

What's up with this?

See I told you the old gear exchange was better.

 

[Snowbear]

I just received a weird e-mail that was subject, comment about your ad at scubaboard. I had recently put an ad up in the market place, anyway, this e-mail was one of the my dying husband said his put 10 million in a bank in the US please help me scams.

What's up with this?

See I told you the old gear exchange was better.

It's a scam. I've had these before. If you left your email address as a contact, anyone can acess it. They offer to pay what you're asking if you cash a huge check that their "agent" will send. Sometimes it's entertaining to string them along for awhile.....

 

[Wendy]

It's a scam. I've had these before. If you left your email address as a contact, anyone can acess it. They offer to pay what you're asking if you cash a huge check that their "agent" will send. Sometimes it's entertaining to string them along for awhile.....

my e-mail is not listed. i think they clicked the make a comment button on the ad. do you not have to be a scubaboard user to access this new marketplace?

 

[Bob3]

I got one of those too, posted the contents in the "humor section".
New variant of the "Nigerian Scam".

 

[Ted S]

Odd, I will checkout the system to be sure it can't be exploited in any way.

 

[Scubamedicjoe]

wendy take it from someone sees these all the time more customers bring in pops up stop responding , weired emails , any way run two programs one is spybot other is called cwshredder and see what they find on your sysytem you would be suprised!!another good program is called adware

 

[Ted S]

While you are certainly right about evil spyware medic13, in this case someone did sit infront of a computer and spend an hour or two going through every ad and trying to maliciously spam users. Last night I switched us back to the old forum based classifieds so that shouldn't be an issue any more,

 

[Scubamedicjoe]

ok guess i was lucky didnt get one any ware if most would chweck there system they might be infected one good sight to get more info
http://209.133.47.12/~merijn/ go to his down load page to see them .

 

[Got2dive]

I got the same email. Poor woman in Ivory Coast, her billionaire husband had been poisoned and she couldn't trust anyone to help her get the money. Wanted me to open a bank account so she could wire me the $10 million he had; I'd get 20% for my trouble. Yeah, right!
I, too, just posted an ad in the Scubaboard classifieds.
Hmmm...$2 million, that would buy a nice dive vacation!

 

[underwater daphne]

i never got the point of those mails. what do they get from it? i mean so what if someone knows your bank account number?

spam just suxx.