MARTIN!!!

You lucky dog. How’d she pick you of all people?

And why here?

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

Sounds fishy to me, I would be extremely careful, especially since they have asked for your account info

-- My job is to give my kids things to discuss with their therapist....medic20447@gmail.com

Wow, how can you not go for this!

If you want to see scams post a Craigslist ad. Last one I posted had a scam to real response ration of 5 to 1.

-- You're a unique and special person, just like everyone else.

I got the same email. Exactly….

I’ll split the money with you Todd…

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

I hate to disappoint you all but I got one too and she really sent you one of these letters by mistake since I am going to respond first. By the way I decided to go ahead and put a new Sawstop on order. I figure that my “cut” should be enough to pay for one.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

I got one too. I’m sure it’ll make the rounds until Martin stops it. Greg, you got that right. Every time I list something on Craigslist, the retards come out.

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

I got one too….I wish someone would teach these people that almost never works. Its just annoying.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

How can you guys be so insensitive? – SHE LOST HER HUSBAND TO THE REBELS!

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

She still has her ONLY SON Ken lol

This one is for Martin

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

Hell, I’m going to move to Sierra-Leone with my cut and start a coco processing plant..

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

Got the same one here too.

-- Tyler, Illinois

Dang! I specifically told my wife NOT to try that stuff through this forum cuz nobody had any money left after buyin tools anyway. When is she gonna learn?!!%$#

-- Use the fence Luke

This is a good way to help my woodworking fund. Please send all your money to me and I will put it into a wood fund. After that You can send me another 20% so that I can buy a new saw. Please let me know as soon as you can my only Son Stanley and I are waiting for my new tools. So please send the money as fast as you can. You may also call me at 555-wood. Thank you for helping me, Wanting my new saw in Northern Cal.
Now thats just funny!!!!!!!!!

-- Davesfunwoodworking

I have received messages like this before on my yahoo account, but I think this one must be legitimate.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Sure give it a try lol lol

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

Todd, you can buy a lot of tools with that loot. LOL

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

I got the same one and PMed Martin. I wouldn’t have of course had I come to the blogs first and saw this thread. Sorry Martin.

-- ~ Inspiring those who inspire me ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0r_FbARIn8&NR=1

For a change check this one out

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

I was all excited I thought someone was commenting on one of my projects. :<

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

Same one here this needs to be stopped now!!!!!

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

I know what you mean mtnwild. Same thought here.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Well now I feel special, I checked my messages after reading this and I got one too. Just think how this will help stimulate the economy if we help her move here and spend this money. I wonder if she needs any upfront money to get this going. Anybody want to buy me a ticket and I’ll go help her.

-- Ron Central, CA

Thanks Gman, very cool.

DON,T EVEN THINK OF RESPONDING TO THIS EVEN AS A JOKE! this has been around since the seventies and none of it is true ,come on use your common sense! 10.5 million is the GDP or the entire nation of sierra leone!These used to come from nigeria before the internet was around, only the countries name has changed .Would be nice if it was true and the fact that this scam is still going means there are plenty of fools out there who still dont get it.

-- if the hand is not working it is not a pure hand

Wow! I feel really left out; I didn’t get a personal message from her. And with the state of the economy, this would be my big chance to get rich quick. You suppose she thinks that women woodworkers are too smart for this?! Or maybe she thinks other women would just be too insensitive. ;-(

I just noticed her email address with the 666. She’s got the mark of the beast!

-- "But godliness with contentment is great gain." 1 Timothy 6:6

I thought I was the chosen, special one. Good thing all I gave her was my social security number, bank account numbers, 401K account, and money market account numbers. I did not tell her that I hide my rings inside the Snow Trojan. Go figure…

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

I got the same letter. Is this somthing we need to deal with on LJ’s…...I would hope not.
Fix this please Martin!

-- Can't never could do anything, to try is to advance.

Well, it looks like I’m in the money!
Just too bad youse guys can’t see a sweet deal when you have one!

Mine came frome Washington!

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Help me please!!!! I know all of you people are loving and caring wood workers, and wouldn’t want to see your fellow LJ in a desperate way, but I must plead for your help. I need more WOOOOOODDD!!! It has gotten so bad that I have started gluing sawdust together, that has been donated to me by the horse stables down the road. Please help, that sawdust was used by the horses as bedding, and I am having trouble with keeping a good color consistency and it smells a little. Whew, a fan helps, but you can see that this is not what a woodworker wants to go through to satisfy his addiction. If you can send me…........ say….....well maybe $4,000,000.00 I can buy some more lumber. I promise to pay you, some of it back, ASAP, or 25 years from now, which ever comes first. I live in Nige….. , well I’m thinking of living in Nigeria, or Detroit, so you can find me there, no problems when you need your money back, I’ll be there for you, you can count on that. Oh, and ignore the picture of me…... I mean my friend up in the corner of this message. Thats not me, I’m much better looking, many people mistake me for Pierce Bronson or carrot top if I had a few too many.

-- Dan Wiggins

I just removed this stupid spammer.

Todd, I also deleted your pasted spam email ;)

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

The weird thing is, the so-called “Nigerian” scam, which it’s called whether or not it claims or indeed comes from nigeria, is not only the most common “phishing” scam, but overall it’s by far the most successful internet based scam! It works because they send out millions of phishing emails, and over the course of a year, can get several! Success rates claimed vary from .1 to .03%, but like the LA times story below says, in 2006 290 people REPORTED (meaning you know there’s more than didn’t even report it!) losses, median loss of $5,000.
Plus, they’re now branching into things like puppies! Read the aussie article for that…Personally, I found the wiki article on it pretty fascinating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/mar/02/local/me-nigerian2
http://www.news.com.au/business/money/story/0,25197,25039150-14327,00.html
“We have confirmed losses just in the United States of over $100 million in the last 15 months,” said Special Agent James Caldwell, of the Secret Service financial crimes division. “And that’s just the ones we know of. We figure a lot of people don’t report them.”

According to a 1997 newspaper article:

-- "That which has in itself the greatest use, possesses the greatest beauty." - Unknown Shaker

It wasn’t worth saving – just followed a wild hare after receiving it.

Actually, Will’s post is pretty interesting.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

I forwarded mine to Martin, he’s such a nice guy. <(:O)#

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

well thats just great , i hope martin is prepared to cover the money he just cost me !! i already ordered the new tools . lol

Be carefull of another one that I’ve received a few times (Not via LJ). They want to by your products, usually they are too agressive and too quick to buy. Will even give you a credit card number. After securing the sale they tell you their international shipping company takes money orders or transfers only. They want you to transfer them the shipping for them and you can put it on their card.

I assume the scam is you get a charge back on the credit card for being stolen and then you are out the couple hundred dollars for shipping charged your paid. You never ship the product so your not out there, but time wasted if you’ve built it.

Tips:
Don’t pay 3rd party shipping
If you take Credit Cards run a deposit at the beginning of building the project, so that there is time to see if a charge back comes.
If it is too good to be true, It probly is

I can usually tell in the first sentence if it is a scam. The usually address you formally and have broken english.

-- Watch live video from our shop. http://wwbeds.com/live.htm

A church up the road from me got taken for about 350K. The pastor believed it and got a lot of his church members to keep funding him through all of the steps. He actually went to Nigeria (or where ever) to pick up his money that was colored black and with an expensive chemical it would turn back into US dollars. He got black construction paper.

Their story with other prominent people taken The church story is Dec 6, 2006.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Well, add me to the list ! I just got the same PM…...........

-- Gene, Majestic Eagle Woodworks, http://majesticeagleww.etsy.com/, http://www.flickr.com/photos/majesticeagle/

Martin,
Are you sure you got the spammer off? I just got one this morning at 10:46 a.m. CST.

-- "But godliness with contentment is great gain." 1 Timothy 6:6

Martin,

I just got a spam mail too, (same exact one as all the others) although mine came at 11:47am this morning. I do truly feel sorry for those that are taken in by this. I mean I know lumberjocks aren’t silly enough to be taken in but all those normal folks out there who don’t work the wood, it’s a pity when they get suckered.

~isaac

-- "Who but a fool would discard seeminly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent engineering" -- Aldo Leopold

Thanks for the reminder and advice Brian. I have been careful to follow these rules.

It helps drive the point home from someone with your background.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

It’s hard to believe in this age of computers that people still fall for these phisihng emails, especially the “we lost your information, please re enter it” emails. I just delete without opening. Any reputable company would NEVER ask for your login, password, SS#, or personal info through an email….NEVER. They try to get you nervous by saying your account will be closed/deleted/frozen if you don’t comply. I really think our country needs to crack down on all this internet hacking from foreign country’s. Allot of these attacks like the ones from Nigeria, and China are actually funded by the government. We need to get tough on these country’s and hold them accountable for policing this trash that emanates from their domains. I have a Friend who works as an internet security specialist for a large financial institution and he tells me they get attacked DAILY by hackers from China. It’s like an electronic war waging constantly…

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

I just got my copy. I feel so loved…

-- Steven

I dont get those anymore since I have installed a spybot and a anti malware

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

GMman – Does that work on a message that would have been sent through an LJ private message?

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

It must I never got one yet

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

I see them in my junk box and you know were they go

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

I never get anything like these messages through my .mac account unless it comes via LJ private message. I think that this is only the third or fourth time in a little over 2 years that I have received something like this.

My Yahoo account gets assaulted all the time but I never even open them and I am not paying for their pro account with extra filtering.

My gmail never gets any of this garbage.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

A year ago or so there was a story in an Atlanta magazine about a black man and his wife who “invested” in one of these scams. When they realized that they got scammed they then went to Nigeria, checked in with an embassy and were never heard from again. He was upset that some black brothers would scam a black man.

Some Texas lawyers got an email wanting them to collect a commercial account. They took the job. The “bad” company sent them a check which was deposited in the attorney’s escrow account. A week later they “verified” that the check had cleared and wired 2/3rds of the money off to the client in China or the Phillippines or wherever. Then the bad news hit.

Now they are suing the bank for falsely verifyiing that the funds were good.

We got two cashiers checks in our office on a deal. We called the issuing banks who advised us that one was check number 2315 with that number and the other was check number 1584 on the other check number. They came to us by FedEx so you know that FedEx got taken on the fees, too.

Some of our local banks have big signs warning of this type scam.

Lee

Lee

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

For just making fun of the message that I got, this has turned out to be an interesting thread.

This generated some conversation with my wife and she had some stories too.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

I got it also, and NO I am not her son….....lol

-- My job is to give my kids things to discuss with their therapist....medic20447@gmail.com

You are so right once you open one of those they have you and you will get more and more

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

I got one too. It is now deleted.

-- Making sawdust is what I do best

You should not get those on LJ if you have the right anti spyware

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

I am not sure how the spyware would work on LJ.

If a deviant individual sets up an account on LJ and then does a cut and paste message to several of the members, the spyware would not work in that situation. My computer is set up to accept messages from LJ and so it would be allowed in.

Even if my preferences were set so that I had to retrieve the LJ message I would get it at that time.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

How come I only get those in my junk box

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

That is a good question. We need to ask someone more tech saavy than me.

Maybe your spyware “reads” the email no matter what the source is and goes off of key words and phrases. Because all of these letters are similar it is sorted to the junkmail.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

MAYBE YOU SHOULD DO A CLEAN UP ON YOUR PC and get all the updates for your ani spyware and anti virus

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

I have a Mac and I have been running naked through the internet for 3 years now.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Tell you what I did last week the pc I am using is 4 years old and I downloaded all my personal stuff on a USB then I made a restore to the day I purchased my computer then I installed all updates and put back my personal stuff back in, now it is a lot faster and I have all latest updates

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

You better get it dressed up that may be your problem

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

My “boys” are out there and loving it GMman – Lovin’ IT!

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

OH, scary thoughts! I need a blindfold.

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I deleted mine as soon as i got it also.

It’s all Fake, Just someone trying to Phisie your Account to get info so they can pull money instead of deposit money.

A Gimick.

I’ve been using the internet since the early 90’s, and I’ve seen every Phishies type tryin to scam people outta money, passwords, account Numbers and the likes…

Not a Real latter, Not to mention if the guy or gal, was way out there, How did she learn to type English?

Handi

-- Jimmy "Handi" Warner, http://jwarner75.etsy.com, http://handisworkshop.blogspot.com

Install a good anti spyware something like spybot and they will all go to your garbage box

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--

I got the same thing from LJ…..since she didn’t offer me tools I deleted it…....

-- Todd, Oak Ridge, TN, Hello my name is Todd and I'm a Toolholic, I bought my last tool 10 days, no 4 days, oh heck I bought a tool on the way here! †

I think you guys are getting to like that stuff

-- --<<<<<< I will not stop until I get it right. >>>>>>--