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I received an Email from a Lucie Guessan addressed to me as centipede. She said she went through my profile on this website and wants to enter into a business relationship. She said her father was a chief and was a gold and cocoa merchant in Accra and Abidjan (capitals of small East African countries) and that he died after returning from a business trip from France. She said he "used her name" as his only next of kin, that he called her on his death bed and told her he had a sum of "$9.500,000 USA" in a bank in Abidjan. She gave me her personal Email address and is awaiting input.
And that's about it.
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Dude:
2 threads about this already. My advice is don't bother giving any personal info to dear Lucie since you're quite probably right its a scam. Best to be safe than sorry though I suppose but thanks for posting this for a 3rd time just to be sure.
Andrew
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Andrew, this is my first posting on the issue and I wasn't aware of any others. I have no profile on this website.
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I decided to have some fun, and to get an indication as to how Lucie follows our forum, so I sent our friend an Email indicating that I was nibbling at the bait, and the next thing I know, I'm getting a message from that miserable MAILER-DAEMON telling me that my communication wasn't sent. Her Email is lucie606@yahoo.fr which I guess means France but in any case, go figure. A financial predator goes through all this trouble and doesn't have the means of getting a reply from a potential sucker. Something is out of the ordinary here...
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Lucie, in case you're reading this, please be advised that it's anti-social creeps such as yourself who are among the main reasons for our being stalled in this monkey stage of development. Yet I have good feelings that one day, in time, brains of your caliber will go extinct. And if you really are reading this, then have some guts and say something. I believe your code name is Lucie22.
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Since there is so much of this bait repeatedly, it leads one to think it must work at least a little of the time. I can't imagine who in their right minds would be taken in! Amazing...
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Always good to hear your thoughts, Pam. As to who would be taken in by such idiocy, a man once said "There's a sucker born every minute" and after that, it's purely mathematical.
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The respondents greed is always required to make this work, on the other hand you can always give your $$ to the likes of madoff or stearns, same players, different league
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It is not just through this forum, I got that email through here and to another email address, that one went directly to my spam folder where it belongs. This stuff goes on all the time.
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Jen
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While I've known about these creatures for many years, this was my first actual encounter with one and since there are a lot of us hooked into this Forum and I don't see many coming forward with similar stories, I don't know whether to be flattered or insulted by their picking me.
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