Email details picked from BAJR spoof

[easydigger]

Hi Admin team I received this email tonight has anyone else received this or am I the only target?I did not think anyone else could see you email apart from members..?A bit worrying..

cheers

Lesley

Hello easydigger

You received the following message from: john123 (john_beniz4u@yahoo.com)

At: http://www.bajr.org/BAJRforum/

DEAREST ONE,

I GOT YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION THROUGH THIS SITE (http://www.bajr.org) AND I DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU DIRECTLY,HOPING THAT BY ALMIGHTY GOD GRACE YOU WILL SUCCESSFULLY ASSIST ME OUT FROM MY SITUATION AFTER MY SEVEN GOOD DAYS PRAYERS AND FASTING OVER SEEKING FOR AN OVERSEES GUARDANCE .

I AM JOHN BENIZ (22 YEARS OLD) THE SON OF LATE JOSEPH BENIZ WATTARAH WHO WAS A FAMOUS POLITICIAN BASED IN ABIDJAN,THE ECONOMIC CAPITAL OF IVORY COAST WHO WAS ASSINATED. I AM SEEKING FOR YOUR URGENT ATTENTION TO HELP ME TRANSFER THE SUM OF (US$10,500,000.00 )TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE OF AMERICAN DOLLARS INTO YOUR NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT OVERSEAS FOR AN INVESTMENTS PURPOSES,SUCH AS REAL ESTATES MANAGEMENTS AND STOCK MARKERTS.

PLEASE SWEET HEART, I AM WILLING TO OFFER YOU 15% OF THIS MY TOTAL FUND AS YOUR COMMISSION FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE TO ME.PLEASE KINDLY WRITE FOR MORE IMPORTANT DETAILS CONCERNING THIS MY MUTUAL TRANSACTION. SEND URGENTLY REPLT TO (johnbeniz70@yahoo.com

YOURS SWEET HEART,
JOHN BENIZ

[angi]

I haven't (yet).

[attack of the penguins]

I got this email too. I was wondering how his father was "ASSINATED". I don't know what that means, but it sure sounds painful!

[BAJR Host]

The problem was that he registered... I have now required every member to know pass a full security check via me... It is a pain... but I can't apologise enough...

I had a previous security system where everyone goes through a filter.. it gets rid of bots and the like... this guy is a real person ... I caught him but... he had started to email everyone .. one at a time (now that is desparate!)

I sure as hell want to ASSINATED him though!

I hope to have this new form of attack under control soon.

Another day another WSI?

[easydigger]

nae bother Admin team sent him a nice reply anyway..naw ma type.

http://www.sargclub.co.uk

[troll]

yep-me too. Bassa`s

..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)

[getatrowel]

yeah I got this - cant remember the login process, but do you use a CAPTCHA? (http://www.captcha.net/)

Ian

http://www.getatrowel.co.uk - trowels for archaeological excavators

[Orkynowot]

Have had two from here now

May god go with you in all the dark places you must walk.

[aelfreda]

I received two of those 'Dearest One' emails this morning, so I was pleased to find this thread and am glad that it has been jumped on.

[BAJR Host]

Trouble is that Capcha would not work i this case as he was a real person... Yup... this is a new one!! A eral person signs up for a board, they look genuine, the name is sensible and the email address valid.. no russian or dodgy mail.com addys... once they are registered they manually go through each member... he joined and was verified .. and I even saw them browsing the forum... sadly it was 3/4 of an hour before I realised what he was... when he started to send the first of his mails... This is new territory .. and is very very very difficult to deal with... ie... how can I tell if you are a digger in Derbyshire or a spammer in Nigeria? because many people use Yahoo and Hotmail, it is not even that useful to use an ip trace on them... unless I spend a lot of time in a full trace ... and frankly spending a day searching out the details of each new member kind of defeats the purpose .. All I can do now... and I once again apologise for this breach - though may I suggest people get a spam filter installed! ---

I am now on the 2nd highest level of security on the site... Every new memmber must register, an email is sent to me, I then check the member, email them back.. and if I am happy with the reply (again not foolproof) I will allow them access to post... which will then allow them to see each of us - The final level, which would exclude all but signed up members seems to be of little point.. as they (the spammer) would still register anyway to get access.

This is bloody annoying, and very unexpected (I am ready to beat the bots! but not humans bots!)

I guess this new generation of spammer could do it to anything, from Britarch to any emal or webbased forum... something to watch out for in the future I fear.

Another day another WSI?