I say this imply because I received an PM on the forum site a little while ago from this email address...


cynthiakofia407@yahoo.com


she wrote the following message:

How is your day.......
I saw your profile at www.theforumsite.com and some thing about you move my intress to comminicate with you so how is life treating you.
Please i want you to use this email address to write me back(cynthiakofia407@yahoo.com) so that i can give you my picture and tell you more about me ok.stay cool and enjoy your self.kisesssssssssss
Yours lovely cynthia

I emailed her and I received this long and detailed email back...

My Sweet Heart
I am more than happy in your reply to my mail.How was your day?,Mine is a little bit hot over here in Senegal My name is cynthia Kofia from lvory Coast in West Africa i am 5.6ft tall,
Fair in complexion,(never married before )and presently i am residing in the refugee camp here in Dakar as a result of the civil war that was fought in my country.My late father Dr. Mike Kofia. was the managing director of Kofia and Associates (Ltd) and he was the personal advicer to the former head of state before the rebels attacked our house one early mornining and killed my mother and my father in cold blood.It was only me that is alive now and I managed to make my way to a near by country Senegal where i am leaving now.I would like to know more about you.Your likes and dislikes,your hobbies and what you are doing presently.I will tell you more about myself in my next mail.Attached here is my picture though l am not photo ok but l want you to take me as l am ok.you are really a nice person from your mail and your words, i think you are the very type of person i 'm looking for, i feel you are serious and i will like to be a part of you if you wouldn't mind . I will love to be for you till the rest of our lives, i only need very serious and committed people like you . I 'm not so okay over here honey, here is just so uncomfortable , and i am making all effort to leave here to have a happy and comfortable living with you if you wouldn't mind accepting me to be a part of you; like you know, i am living in the refugee camp here in Senegal.It's just like one staying in the prison and i hope by Gods grace i will come out from here soon. I don't have any relatives now whom i can go to, all our relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only person i have now is Rev.Ebel Moses who is the reverend father and the general over seer of the church over here in the camp, he has been very nice to everyone of us here.
The Church's office Tel number is (00221-77-200-83-45) if you call the reverend father there, that you want to speak with me; he will send for me in the female hostel and i will come to speak with you. You can call from 2pm to 6pm, London GMT time ,every weekdays excluding Sundays; this is the time the church office is opened .
As a refugee here i don't have any right or privilege to any thing be it money or whatever because i have not got the residence permit of this country which will entitle me to be a bit free in doing certain things and moving to the city.
I want to go back to my studies because i only had a certificate in general nursing and i was about to enroll for a degree in Nursing and Midwifery before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.
Please i would like to let you know that i have got with me here, my late father's statement of account and death certificate here with me which i will like to send to you latter, because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a leading bank in Europe which he used my name as the next of kin,the amount in question is $3.8M(Three Million Eight Hundred Thousand US Dollars).He saw this country to be the most peaceful and secured country in Europe to deposit this money,
So i will like you to be aware of this and see how possible you can assist me get this money transferred to your account and from it you can send some money for me to get my traveling documents and wait for you to come over here and pick me up to visit you.
I kept this secret to people in the camp here the only person that knows about it is the Reverend Father who is just like a father to me.
So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and don't tell it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people gets to know about it.
However i like you to send me some of your pictures and also try to call me through the reverend office phone line which i have giving you here, my favorite language is English but our official language is French , but i speak English very fluently because i attended an American and English speaking private school all in my country for almost all my school.
I will like you to call me as i requested so that we can hear our voices, i have a lot to tell you. Have a nice day and think about me. I will be waiting to hear from you soonest.
Yours Forever in love,
cynthia Kofia

For those of you that have read all of this to where I am now writing this, DO NOT FALL FOR IT...

It is a scam, I'm only posting this as these people got me over TFS and I'm concerned they may well have emailed others, type it up on google and you'll be immediately told it's a scam. If i were to have emailed back to these people with my account details I would have lost a load of money in the form of fees!

Please do not lock this I can assure you this is true!

I never thought I'd have someone try and scam me over TFS so for those of you who have been emailed by her...do NOT respond to it! Ignore it, they just want account details!

there is a report PM feature next to every PM you get, a red triangle next to the red X.

If you get any scam PM's please report it.

In this case the user has already been banned.

oh and becky, never ever e-mail someone asking for you to e-mail them, its most likely a phishing scam.

alright, thanks, I'll remember that next time, I just wasn't sure what to do as they messaged me over this site, I simply thought they were a member

we get people join up solely to PM spam to people. The sooner it is reported, the sooner we can ban thier asses. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do until it comes to our attention. Live and learn

i got that pm too i just ignored it lol

Haha, i told them to F off

Thing I don't get is how that the scam somehow has a senagal number, howd they manage that?

we have had them,i could have married hubby off a couple of times for large sums of money too

w0w did she ask you for any account details? i once got a similar email but it was not from the same sender it was different i thought of replying but i changed my mind and didn't do anything, so he/she kept of sending me emails and she/he are still sending me emails today it's been over a month.

LOL I can show you more like that one! For some reason there are a lot of
thse coming out of africa, so they say. But it leads to the same, send me
money and I'll return you much more. Really though, when was the last time
that something like that ever happened to you, never! All that you have was
earned the hard way, not somebody giving it to you, not talking about loved
ones, strangers! And you are not the only one that has gotten that specific
email, she is trying real hard to find a sucker! And I imagine thatshe has
found some. And the worst part about all of this, is that the governments,
Yours and mine all support this type of scamming on line! There is no sense
in reporting them in, cause it'll backfire on you. Just delete those, and leave it
at that. Because once your report it in, you'll be receiving emails from all of
those that do this kind of thing, to the tune of about 50 + emails a day.

Be careful with the phone numbers too. NEVER call them or you may end up with an outragious phone bill. Something like this was on our local news a while back and people were making fortunes just by having people call their phone numbers.