I just wanted to give a heads up that if you put your email down in your user profile, that you'll get this crap in your email:


Biff,

Barbara Ann Briggs has sent you this email from http://www.thechemic...orum/index.php.


Greetings from me. My name is Mrs. Barbara Ann Briggs. I am terminally ill and have decided to donate my inheritance from my husband to you. No doubt, you may wonder how I got to know you and your email/names and what informed my decision to will my fortune to you, when I have lots of people I know better to whom I should have willed my fortune here. Dear, you have no cause to worry about these questions, for I mean no harm.
Regarding how I got your personal details, it is via the internet with the help of the nurse assigned to attend to me in my private ward here in the hospital. Because I cannot surf on my own due to partial stroke, it is the nurse who surfs for me under my direction. On deciding to donate my fortune to an individual, I instructed her to search from the net 15 individual profiles at random and to conduct randomized sampling on the profiles and whosoever the profile is chosen shall donate my inheritance to, hence your profile was chosen. Therefore, I am donating my fortune to you partly because of your selection random sampling experiment and because my husband and I never had any child, despite all our attempts at child-bearing.
Again, it may interest you to know that I am 59 years old and have been diagnosed of acute cancer for about 2 years now, shortly after the death of my husband, which made me hypertensive and resulted in stroke. In my present condition, life is without meaning to me and hope has since eluded me. Each day I give my entire existence a thought, I feel over-powered by gloom and despair and saw nothing but death lurking around. All these are my reasons for deciding on using anything in my name for charity in which co-incidentally you have been favoured as the beneficiary. I must tell you that I was truly touched to take this decision/action
I decided not to donate my inheritance to the people I know around me but instead a stranger, because if I did, upon my death, my husband's relatives will engage the beneficiary in litigation (court case), claiming the donation is without their consultation and consent and to that extent my decision/action is null and void, and they may use their connections and influence to reclaim or recover it, a thing I hate to imagine! My husband's relatives are such that it will amount to betrayal of my late husband if I let them have his hard-laboured fortune and enjoy it, despite how they
Mistreated my late husband under my very nose. forbid it that I will let them reap where they did not saw. This is, again, part of the reasons for my decision/action.
I will expect that you will as am about doing to you this day do to the lives of others, for life is better lead on the philosophy of give and take. I will advise that you don't see your windfall as avenue for pleasure spree but should see it as an opportunity to build and grow your personal finances to an enviable level, for both your benefit and the benefit of others.
Always put me in your prayers and ask the forgiveness of my sins and trespasses. I shall be undergoing major operations in less than a month from now and have willed/donated the sum of £1,950,000.00 (One Million Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds) to your for personal use and for the purpose of helping the needy and less-privileged around you.
Pls, note that, because I do not want my husband's relatives, who have spies all around me, to know of the latest developments, coupled with my worsening health condition, I shall not entertain phone calls and conversations. If you are sure that you will use the donated fund as I have advised here, contact my Lawyer, Barrister David Ovenden, with the specified email address to help you arrange the transfer of the fund to your account. You may reach my Lawyer via the details below: you may contact him on both email address.
DAVID OVENDEN CHAMBERS
EMAIL: info@dlawassociates.org
Tel: + 44 20 3411 2028
When contacting my Lawyer, it is necessary to furnish him with the details below so that all the paperwork in your name to facilitate the transfer can be arranged
Full Names:
Address:
Telephone number:
Age:
Occupation:
Country:
You should give my Lawyer your cooperation so that he assists you fully in the processing and remittance of your donation/bequest. All the best!
Mrs. Barbara Ann Briggs.
briggs1950@googlemail.com
CC: Barrister David Ovenden

Take the money. £1,950,000.00. What are you waiting for?

.org is a non-profit organisation domain isn't it?

hmmm....a non-profit law firm....sounds trustworthy if you ask me.

Which you didn't.


At least some of them are honest though:

I haven't gotten any spam but that's really messed up, highly annoying and invasive.

Keep the email just in case and alert 3evismon. I wouldn't doubt other mods and the admin will see this thread. When someone is emails directly from their profile, the content is logged and accessible to admins - so maybe there's a way for them to trace the IP and if possible ban it from the site.

Given what happened to you, I don't like that our profiles are accessible to the general public. The only people that should have access are other members, when they are logged in. This spam thing is not good at all.

This Barbara person is a member, has been reported as a spammer. If anyone else gets spam email or is contacted by a spammer please let me know via my profile.

Argh, so annoying!

Second time it's happened to me. Cheers Whirly for giving Barbara das boot, we wish "her" well.

Did anyone see the Flight of the Conchords episode where the manager falls for it and the thing was actually real and he got money? Probably one of my favorite jokes of all time

I still have to watch the show. I have the first season on my computer

Was that Mr Nigel Seladoo? Excellent episode....as all of them are.

I saw the Conchords last night in Glasgow. Extremely funny - if you get the chance to see them either in Europe over the next few weeks, or the States (they're in Berkeley and LA) you won't be disappointed. To hear the audience join in a chorus of "think about the epileptic dogs..." is one of the funniest things I've been part of!