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Spammy invitation.
I just received an invitation from someone that was extremely spammy. The email was from kofiecollins0 [at] yahoo.com.
to: [private information removed]
date: Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM
subject: [Satisfaction] kofie collins has invited you to join!
mailed-by: getsatisfaction.com
From: Dr. kofie Collins. I am Dr. kofie Collins, chairman of the contract-awarding & auditing committee of the economic community of west African states (ECOWAS) with its fund headquarters in Accra Ghana.. I am making this contact with you based on the committee need for an individual/company who is willing to assist us with a solution to a money transfer. This amount $45.5m represents the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of ECOWAS for supply of hospital equipments from foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately, of which the actual sum has been paid. Should you be willing to assist us in the transaction? Your share of the sum will be 30% of the $45.5million, 65% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses. To enable us commence, You should provide the followings for immediate kickoff of this deal if it interests you; your company's names with complete address, tel. and fax numbers.Thank you and God bless, as i wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation. Yours Faithfully, Dr. Kofie Collins.
http://getsatisfaction.com/people/new...[snip]&signature=[snip]&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_topic
See you on Satisfaction!
kofie collins
P.S. If you're not interested, just ignore this email. Get Satisfaction won't bug you again.
to: [private information removed]
date: Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM
subject: [Satisfaction] kofie collins has invited you to join!
mailed-by: getsatisfaction.com
From: Dr. kofie Collins. I am Dr. kofie Collins, chairman of the contract-awarding & auditing committee of the economic community of west African states (ECOWAS) with its fund headquarters in Accra Ghana.. I am making this contact with you based on the committee need for an individual/company who is willing to assist us with a solution to a money transfer. This amount $45.5m represents the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of ECOWAS for supply of hospital equipments from foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately, of which the actual sum has been paid. Should you be willing to assist us in the transaction? Your share of the sum will be 30% of the $45.5million, 65% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses. To enable us commence, You should provide the followings for immediate kickoff of this deal if it interests you; your company's names with complete address, tel. and fax numbers.Thank you and God bless, as i wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation. Yours Faithfully, Dr. Kofie Collins.
http://getsatisfaction.com/people/new...[snip]&signature=[snip]&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_topic
See you on Satisfaction!
kofie collins
P.S. If you're not interested, just ignore this email. Get Satisfaction won't bug you again.
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Update: We have not only removed this user from the system, but closed the vulnerability in our invite process that allowed this to happen in the first place. Thanks for the report.
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Inappropriate?You are the second person to report this this morning. Thank you for doing that. We shut off this person's account and are looking into the details.
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Inappropriate?Chris, I'm going to remove your email address from your topic post.
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Inappropriate?So this user somehow got your email address from somewhere else and then used our invite form to spam you. Another person who notified us via email of the same thing happening to them isn't a registered user on our system.
As Eric said, we shut the user down. Just be careful not to publish your email address anywhere public that isn't protected. And do let us know if you see this happen again. -
Inappropriate?from kofiecollins@hotmail.com
to [me]
date Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:31 AM
subject [Satisfaction] kofiecollins has invited you to join!
mailed-by getsatisfaction.com
hide details 9:31 AM (54 minutes ago)
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From: Dr. kofie Collins. I am Dr. kofie Collins, chairman of the contract-awarding & auditing committee of the economic community of west African states (ECOWAS) with its fund headquarters in Accra Ghana.. I am making this contact with you based on the committee need for an individual/company who is willing to assist us with a solution to a money transfer. This amount $45.5m represents the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of ECOWAS for supply of hospital equipments from foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately, of which the actual sum has been paid. Should you be willing to assist us in the transaction? Your share of the sum will be 30% of the $45.5million, 65% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses. To enable us commence, You should provide the followings for immediate kickoff of this deal if it interests you; your company's names with complete address, tel. and fax numbers.Thank you and God bless, as i wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation. Yours Faithfully, Dr. Kofie Collins.
http://getsatisfaction.com/people/new...[me]&invitation=13928&signature=ezm%2FOS9mddGuiQ%2BI%2FKFFI1EO6K0%3D&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_topic
See you on Satisfaction!
kofiecollins
P.S. If you're not interested, just ignore this email. Get Satisfaction won't bug you again.
Old topic, I know. Just wanted to let you know that they're still in action.
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Damn spammers. Thanks for reporting. I'll see if I can spot them with this info. Very helpful. -
Inappropriate?from briggsbenson@administrativos.com
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date Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 17:30
subject [Satisfaction] Briggs Benson has invited you to join!
mailed-by getsatisfaction.com
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Good day, This email transmission is coming to you from my residence because of it's confidential status. However, this letter contains some confidential materials and should be deleted from your mail box indicating that you are not interested concerning the proposal. For the formality of this transaction I would appreciate introducing myself, My name is Mr.Briggs Benson, I am the regional manager of Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Ltd Kumasi branch of Ghana. I got your information in the Internet today , I write you this proposal in good faith; I am 48 years old married with Two lovely kids. I am a man of peace. in my next mail i will send to you my international passport for you to know whom you are going to deal with, I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and me, as the regional manager of the Standard Chartered Bank of Ghana it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each business year. On the course of 2008 business report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Ten million Two hundred and fifty thousand united state dollars ($10,250,000.00) which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this funds on what we call escrow call account with no beneficiary. As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you is to assist me receive this money in your bank account and get 30% of the total funds as commission. There are practically no risks involved the transfer will be carried out legitimately, it will be a bank-to-bank transfer and all I need from you is to stand and claim as the original depositor of these funds as who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account. If you accept this offer to work with me, and you find this proposal Suitable for you do furnish me with the following information. Full Name.......................... ...................... Contact Address..................................... Private Telephone Number.................... Age.......................................................... Occupation and Position........................ I will appreciate it very much, If this proposal is acceptable by you,do not make undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed on you, and I assure you we can achieve it successfully.Thank you in advance and May God bless you and your family. Yours truly, Mr.Briggs Benson Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Ltd
http://getsatisfaction.com/people/new... &invitation=14660&signature=FRSkSK%2Frxje2GZv%2FKkh5T0E7vMU%3D&utm_medium=email&utm_source=reply_notification
See you on Satisfaction!
Briggs Benson
P.S. If you're not interested, just ignore this email. Get Satisfaction won't bug you again.
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Inappropriate?Thanks for this extra report. I think this may help us track it down once and for all.
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Inappropriate?Update: We have not only removed this user from the system, but closed the vulnerability in our invite process that allowed this to happen in the first place. Thanks for the report.
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