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Degazon
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So I recieved an e-mail today -

From: mounace33@att.net

Hello,
my name is Mounace i was looking for a real and everlasting relationship and i came across your profle in this site armorgames.com and it attracted me to write to you.I will like you to write to me with my private email address for more introduction and also to see my picture.
I will be waiting to receive your mail soonest,remember color,race,religion,etc does not matter in real love but care,love and trust matter a lot.Till then remained blessed.
Miss Mounace


I'm amused that it linked to AG. Just thought I'd throw this out there. A grammar nazi's nightmare.

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Freakenstein
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What's scary is that ArmorGames is mainly for teens 13+....

"Uhh...Mom? There's a scary woman that like, E-mailed me, and she wants me to like, see her picture..."

Reton8
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The old 419 scam taking a different shape .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scam

I got one like that it went something like:

"It was nice talk to you, a real spark was felt with the connection I made. I had a great time with you and it helped me feel better after my families has died in war. I plan on living the country, soon. Please responded to my other e-mail at something423342324@yahoo.com"

First of all I never talked to anyone with the same name the e-mail had and I never gave my e-mail address to anyone. Second, the other e-mail they wanted me to respond to had some California based IP or something.

I found out how this type of scam is supposed to work. The "romantic interest" in the e-mail is supposed to be from another country. They are trying to get out of the country and will ask you for money to stay in hotels or for bus fare. It's a bit more complicated than the typical:

"You were entered in the (Country Name) Lottery claim your $5000000000.00 prize. Give us credit card number and other personal info to collect your money."

These types of scams can get you into harms way as they can not only lead to you losing money, but some people have been kidnapped and even killed.

Degazon
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Lolz at all the people correcting eachother.

I'm a pretty reclusive person, and on top of that I am highly suspicious of everything. Whenever something pops up, I just think of what trusty ol' Ackbar would say.

There's no way I'd fall for anything like this, and I get a ridiculous amount of things like this(Hotmail does a good job of throwing it all in the junk folder). I just enjoy reading some of the crap they come up with and the horrid english.

What's truly unfortunate is these wouldn't be popping up if people didn't fall for it, though I believe it's usually the truly desperate people.

took95
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That is wierd as all heck... multiple people shouldn't be getting spam letters via there armorgames acounts. Whoever this is is stalking around getting information on different peoples' accounts. I suggest each of you e-mail back with a response asking her/he/them to leave you alone, and if they continue, press harrassing charges. This kind of stuff really annoys me because they are un-educated spamers, with nothing better to do than advertise themselves through a gaming website? What's up with that? It rather obnoxious, and I have gotten similar e-mails from 2 different email accounts, and I first told them to not e-mail me again, they continued, then I told them that I was a minor and if they didn't stop not only would I press harrasment charges, it would probably be sexual harassment and whatever happens for me being a minor, I looked it up at the time. I never heard from them again, if its the same people, do the same, and if your not a minor, you can still press harassment. (or at least make them think you can :P)

(Yes, I CAN write correctly, just I prefer NOT to while typing, I am not a typer, I am much better at writing)

Legion1350
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The old 419 scam taking a different shape .

I have to agree. I would never reply to anything like that. For all you know, it could be a 40-year-old fat dude.

Also, I have yet to see a combination between a spelling and grammar Nazi besides me.
Reton8
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That is wierd as all heck... multiple people shouldn't be getting spam letters via there armorgames acounts. Whoever this is is stalking around getting information on different peoples' accounts. I suggest each of you e-mail back with a response asking her/he/them to leave you alone, and if they continue, press harrassing charges.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scam#Romance_angle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scam#Physical_harm_or_death

You guys, read the links! They aren't going to responded to any e-mail you send them unless you fall for the scam. It's a 419 scam using a "romance angle" the first e-mail is most likely copy and pasted into multiple e-mails with the name changed and then sent out. It might not even have been a real person who sent it. It could be a bot (an automated program).

They won't e-mail you again because they are looking for people to scam and get money from. When you don't respond they can see that you aren't gullible enough to scam. Plus the first e-mail is probably from a bot!
Degazon
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It's very possible that it's a bot program. It saves scammers -alot- of trouble, and aren't that difficult to produce.

After googling "mounace" here and there, I found multiple instances of this e-mail going around, using the email mounace<insert number here>@att.net, though the actual e-mail is different here and there, but it's the same all around.

Being that the e-mail did not actually include anything about 'money,' I will presume Reton8 is on the money. They send these generic e-mails, and when people reply(which proves their gullibility and targets them as prey), they copy paste all the addresses and start their actual scams. Quoting from wiki -

"Although there is no serious physical injury, many victims of con-men speak of the betrayal as the psychological equivalent of ****"

cormyn
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multiple people shouldn't be getting spam letters via there armorgames acounts.


If someone can forward it to me where it includes the original mail headers, I'll have a look at it.
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