from crissi cromer via Jacqui Fordham

[Guest guest]

Dear All I am posting this on behalf of crissi cromer who cannot get

her emails through at the momemt

WARNING!!!

Did you see that email this morning from Anne Betz asking for money?

It is a scam. If you plug in to Google the name of the charity

organisation she claims to be working for, it comes back with warnings

about email requests very similar to this one. The point is not to

reply or respond in any way at all, otherwise the perpetrator will

know you're live and open to persuasion.

My first concern was that if it was genuine, we should help insofar as

we could. But since it as so lacking in character or personalised

information (e.g. " Hello fellow herbalists " ), and since it connected

with Nigeria, I was dubious...

I tried contacting Betz directly, but she is not available on any

of her numbers.

I contacted the NIMH, asking if they knew if was in Nigeria....

Then I looked for the charity itself, to determine its credentials and

maybe ask if they had information about . Well, all that came back

was warnings about such letters.

So this letter is a scam.

I wonder how they got hold of 's email account? The address is

genuine, and I suppose they got access to the forum via the email

account. A worrying precedent....

Crissi

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> How are you doing today? I am sorry i didn't inform you about my

traveling to Africa for a program called " Empowering Youth to Fight

Racism, Poverty and Lack of Education,It as been a very sad and bad

moment for me over here and the present condition that i found myself

is very hard for me to explain.

> I am really stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in

the Taxi where my money, passport,documents and other valuable things

were kept on my way to the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time

here because i have no money on me to clear my Hotel bill, I am now

owing a sum $1,440 for my Hotel bill.

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> Please I need you to help me out with a sum of $2,700 urgently so

that i can arrange and travel back home,I need this help so much and

on time because I'm in a terrible and tight situation now, I don't

even have money to feed myself for a day which i had been

starving,Please try to understand how important and urgent i needed

your help.

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> I am sending you this e-mail from the City Library and I only have

30 min, I will appreciate what so ever you can afford to help me with

here and I promised to pay back your money as soon as i return home.

Please let me know on time so that i can forward you the details you

need to transfer the money through Money Gram or Western Union.

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> Anne Betz.

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