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This is an urgent warning to all our members...

A recent twist to Online email scams is that some
fraudsters, mainly of African origin, have been creating
fake profiles on dating and PenPal sites, complete with
very attractive looking photos that they have copied off
genuine profiles on other dating sites!

Probably their email scams have become too well known so
now they are seeking fresh ways of defrauding people.

A large amount of financial fraud originates from countries
like Nigeria and Ghana because these countries do not have
laws against wire or internet fraud and they have therefore
become centres for Internet frauds and scams.

We have some concerns that a couple of our recent new
members are in fact Nigerian scammers who have created some
of these fake profiles (complete with fake photos) so that
they can scam money, tickets and visas from our genuine
members.

For this reason if someone's profile says they are in
North America or Europe, but in their communications with
you they come up with some story about being temporarily in
Nigeria or Ghana or some such far away place, and they ask
for your help with either money, tickets and/or a visa to
get back home to America or Europe , then there is a strong
chance they are one of these con artists running one of
these scams.

In fact anyone from overseas who almost as soon as you get
to know them suddenly wants money, tickets, visas is quite
possibly running a scam.

Another scam to beware of involves Cashiers Checks and
postal money orders...

A person from another country, usually an African country,
or someone claiming to be an American temporarily visiting
or working in an African country will ask for your help to
cash a check or postal money order.

They will claim that they will be charged very high fees in
the country they are in so they will suggest they send you
the money order so that you may cash it at your bank and
send them back the money via Western Union.

Do NOT fall for this very common trick. The check or money
order is almost certain to be either stolen or a forgery
but your bank will not discover this until several days
after they cashed it for you so you will end up being stuck
with a bad check and out of pocket for the money.

Never under any circumstances, send money to a stranger via
Western Union. Western Union does not require any ID from
the recipient, just a code number supplied by you. Once you
have sent the money, you can't recover it. You may never
hear from the recipient again, and they will be untraceable,
and you will be in trouble with the authorities for
cashing a bad check!

The granddaddy scam of them all of course is that they
claim to have a substantial sum of money tied up in a
"lost bank account" or "deceased relative's estate" and
for some long and complicated reason they need your help
to get these millions of dollars released and they are
willing to split the amount with you .... we hope none of
members fall for that tired old trick.

For those who don't know, in that trick despite being heirs
to a huge fortune they are temporarily penniless and need
you to wire them some of your money to pay bribes, taxes,
fees and legal expenses to get their fortune released.
Be warned that they will bleed you dry until you get
suspicious and stop sending them money.

The fortune never existed and never was going to be split
with you, they only wanted to scam all the expense money
out of you!

Other warning signs are that right from the very start they
seem very eager to get you away from using our confidential
message board system and using either your real email or an
online instant messenger system such as Yahoo! Messenger or
MSN Instant Messenger, or even telephone.

Genuine contacts are never in a rush and will be quite happy
to communicate with you on our secure system for several
weeks or even months before swapping to something more
personal.



With all these dangers in mind, please report any suspicions
you might have about any fellow member to us at
with as much detail as you can give so we can investigate
and block the accounts of any offenders.

Apologies to any genuine members from Africa - sadly a few
bad ones have spoiled it for everyone else.



Regards,


~Jeff,
Help Desk
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