Mamapedia members: Please beware... I just received this classic Phillipine scam in my private mailbox 2 times. PLEASE do not fall for this SCAM. I reported it as well.
I do not know if I was targeted because I am a widow or if I just got lucky. They messed with the wrong mom
See profile and message below and please report it if you get one. Let's keep this trash off our site.
TF
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"Lacson A's Profile
New Orleans, LA
ABOUT ME
Lost husband and currently facing charges with the Philippines Government,
planing to relocate"
"Hello
My name is Mrs Alice,wife to Mr.Panfilo Lacson a senator here in Philippine.who is receently killed .
During my husband's regime as a senator,I realized some reasonable amount of money from various deals that I successfully executed and my buisness in the united state of which the Government has block all of my account in the bank of america,trying to leave me with nothing.
well before my late husband was killed, I secretly put in a box the sum of $10,000,000 million USD (Ten million United states dollars) and deposit it in a security company abroad. I am contacting you because I am now facing charges laid against me and my late husband, I want you to help me in securing the money for the future of my children since the government now monitor all my movement.all of our properties has been confiscated by the government.
I hope to trust you as who will not sit on this money when you claim it.i will give you 15% of the total money for your assistance.if you are willing to help me.
Please reply me via my email address (____@____.com
Best regards"
Thanks everyone so far! I'm glad I'm not specifically targeted and that you are all reporting is as well!!
I got 2 more messages from this person. One was asking me if I'm the type to not believe it until I see it.
Keep reporting!!!!
UPDATE: I received a message from our moderator, Valdis, and they are on it!!
Wow - and quite the powerful MP Profile "About Me" statement!
I did not get it (yet), but she might have avoided me since my troll sensor has gone up recently even for a child who wants to tell mom she needs glasses.
(And my sensor is going off for her too - although 15% of that money will be a nice reward for the more trusting "just in case this is a real question" person!!)
Thanks for reporting this. We have removed this person from our system and have deleted all the messages that were sent out.
Thank you TF!
I received it also and reported.
hi from Lacson A.
Yep, just found it in my inbox. This is new ... at least I've never gotten a message like this here.
ETA - Woke up this morning to 4 more messages from Lacson A.
ooh this makes me SSSSOOOOO FREAKING angry!!
I reported it and deleted it. Figured it wasn't worth it to respond to the POS!!
I got it too and reported it immediately. I hope the new moderator figures this out quickly.
I got it too. REported it and then deleted it.
I have not received here, but have gotten a lot of that in private emails in the past. Thanks for the heads up.
Thanks for notifying us! I hope MP can get this junk off of here.
Yes, me too.
A scammer is making the rounds.
Tempting as it was to respond to it to tell her where she could shove it, I ignored it and reported it.
I can only hope someone did this by hand (paste/copy, etc) because if they have some sort of spider program that will read user names off the system and automate sending out this scam spam - this is going to get really old really fast.
I've gotten emails like this. Like Nigerian scams. It always amazes me that people fall for this stuff.
Chacha, just to let you know, these scams have been around for a long time. They are never real. They get people hooked and get money out of them. People give money once, and then they tell them they need more money. It's really terrible. If you read about these scams, you'll find out the nitty gritty.
Thanks TF. I had 3 scam messages in my inbox - I reported also.
Added: got a couple more messages from 'her' since and also a friend request
