Rescue Me Please!? Rescue Linda. Be aware! Scam?!! - Page 1

Recently I was contacted by "Linda"  who claimed that she knows me from PDB. She periodically e mailed me Questions about weather and other "what ever questions". She claimed to be a dog person. Than I got e mail from her to send her money. $1500 to be precise. It sounded like a scam. I told her that and she said NO NO NO NO! It is for real she claimed. Than she got away. Now I got the EXACTLY same  e mail n again  there was bunch of other e mail address of people who got the same thing. You be the judge but I say Be aware! SCAM!
Here is her e mail:Hello,

Am in a hurry writing you this note,Just wanted to seek your help on something very important, you are the only person i can reach at this point, and i hope you come to my aid. Because something very terrible is happening to me now,i need a favor from you now,I had a trip to United Kingdom

Unfortunately for me all my money got stolen on my way to the hotel where i lodged along with my bag were my passport was ,And since then i have been without any money i am even owing the hotel here.


So i have limited access to emails for now, please i need you to loan me $1500, so i can make arrangements and return back please,i have spoken to the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively, I will return the money back to you as soon as i get home, I am so confused right now.Hope to hear from u soon.My hope on you...Lida
"BEAUTIFUL IS WHAT SERVES A PURPOSE"
MAX V STEPHANITZ
FOUNDER OF THE GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG

I googeled her e mail and got bunch of adds for dogs in generic webside. Probably scames too.
Prager Hans

Prager,

thanks for the warning

this is a common scam going on now on a lot of social networking sites like facebook, sometimes the persons account is hacked and its done without thier knowledge

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/forum/34033.html

I think someone else got the same email or something like it a while back. Guess it is going around again. I never answer emails if I don't know the person. THanks for the heads up though.
~L~

Her e-mail account was hijacked......she (Linda) is a victim also.....disreguard all e-mails asking for money to be sent to distressed individuals over the internet!

I got this email or one very similar a few times.  Each time it was on my yahoo email address and was determined that the author received my email information from a dog forum as it usually had something stated in it relative to connecting them & myself with GSD's.

Each time the email addresses were not valid. 

"Unfortunately for me all my money got stolen on my way to the hotel where i lodged along with my bag were my passport was ,And since then i have been without any money i am even owing the hotel here."

Just send 'em here:

london.usembassy.gov/cons_new/visa/lost_and_stolen_passports.html

Judrons correct. 

I have gotten two emails from my sister- in- law advertising Viagra.  At first I thought, WT*? so I emailed her and asked her if she was hinting to us about something...

anyway she knew nothing about it.

Red Sable- My friend asked if I got any strange emails from him about the viagra thing.I hadn't but others he knew had.Shortly after he warned me that they were some scam/virus I got a few. I didn't open them cause in the subject line there was someone elses name that I didn't know even though it was from his email. Why do people have to be such crappers and do that?

Why would you send someone 1500.00 you never met...................................................wtf   thats alot of money.. Call the police and file a report of fraud and email the amidistrator of were her email address is from and they can track her  IP address and the police dept can lock them up.........Sorry to hear about this and i hope you catch the retard that got your money...

These things are a dime a dozen.  I work in IT and we get calls about this all day long and customers forwarding them to us like we can do anything about it.

Don't always hold it against the "sender" either.  Say I get a virus on my computer and your e-mail is in my address book.  The virus takes that e-mail address, sends out a bunch of crap and puts your e-mail as the "sender".  The sender is not necessarily the one doing anything.

These are just spam, plain ol' "phishing attack" spam, just delete them and don't get worked up over it.  You can call the police if you want but there's millions of these circulating.  It's like telemarketing - an annoyance that comes with having a phone line.  These are an annoyance that come with having e-mail.