markal
Member
From: Tokyo
Registered: 2007-10-22
Posts: 84
I wonder how many other members have gotten these kind of solicitations through this forum (message below). I was surprised but I guess all forums get infiltrated at some point. Needs to work on her(?) English a bit first before tackling kanji, though there's no reason she couldn't do both at the same time.
From my lovestruck admirer from afar:
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I guess you will not surprise to receive my mail? i saw your profile in koohii and it sound well.I will like us to exchange good relationship.I am vera by name,No kid and never marriage.I will like to hear from your opinion, you can contact me at this email address ( veradavid99@yahoo.com) so that i can send you my pictures and more introduction about myself. Have a good day and waiting to hear from you soonest.
Thank You For understanding
Yours vera
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ファブリス
Administrator
From: Belgium
Registered: 2006-06-14
Posts: 4021
Website
You have the username of the person who sent you an email via the forum mail? (should be, but it's late here, brain is mushy 
). If so, please send it to me, I'll check the IP, the user account. I might have to add a minimum period before posting to solve this kind of problems if it becomes a nuisance.
As long as you don't answer, the "member/spammer" will not get your email address, since the message is sent via the forum software.
Even if you get a message from a regular member and for some reason you want to keep your email address private, you can use temporary emails like mailinator.com
Wally
Member
Registered: 2009-02-04
Posts: 276
ファブリス wrote:
Well the plot really DOES thicken. The first IP that matches the dating scammer "geo location" is a GET request for a smilie... that appears in a post.... on a certain KanjiHanzi page. Whoah. The law of karma in action, heheh. Could be that the spammer got onto that page per chance? Does KanjiHanzi live in Senegal?
EDIT: Looks like the scammer from South Africa actually read through KanjiHanzi's blog post about yours truly mercilessly banning his account here. After spending a good while reading the KanjiHanzi topics here, the scammer came back 10 days later to check a random topic, and again a couple days later, which is yesterday when he/she started to spam a bunch of people via forum email. Ah well. There you go, KanjiHanzi is avenged by a compassionate Nigerian scammer. Or maybe I have too much imagination (^_-)
I got one, too.
The atrocious English probably means it's not organized computer crime looking for more bots (they can afford native speakers to write or edit), and probably indicates a freelance scam artist wannabe. Gonna take some real numbers crunching for this one to get lucky. It will require an incredibly gullible person who also has lots of spare cash. It worked for Bernie Madoff of course, but then he wasn't sporting an obvious linguistic handicap.
