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SITE NEWS: Please beware of private messages from strangers asking for money or promising riches!

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Question - (8 August 2007)

21 Answers - (Newest, 12 August 2007)

A male , *earCupid writes:

Hi everyone

We've had a couple of scammers posting private mails through the site.

Please everyone use your common sense and keep yourself safe. This goes for all sites, not just this one!

* Never give anyone your phone number or home email address through the site.

* Never even think about sending money to anyone you "meet" on the web. You may as well flush that money down the toilet.

* Never fall for sob stories from anonymous strangers, particularly when money is involved.

Please check out these links for more info:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud

I'm going to put in some software that tackles these kind of messages to stop them coming through and also will allow you to report them quickly if you do still receive one.

In the meantime you can private mail me with any reports of dubious messages.

These are all part of the growing pains of the site getting busier and busier and I promise to tackle them :-)))

Andrew

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A female reader, bubbloo24 +, writes (12 August 2007):

Awww I'm sorry salad barbarian.. we're all so depressed!!!!!

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A reader, anonymous, writes (11 August 2007):

Wait you mean my baby2love is cheating on me? But...But...WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!?!

(Breaks down in to sobs)

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A female reader, bubbloo24 +, writes (11 August 2007):

Haha! Ace Idea there Jamer70!!

And very true indeed. I want the witch's hussy love! lol!

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A male reader, Jamer70 +, writes (11 August 2007):

Well i think we all need to find a way to share baby2love evenly between Me, Bubbloo, Dr pete and wild thaing or theres gonna be fights.

We could throw that party and let her choose!

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A female reader, bubbloo24 +, writes (11 August 2007):

...A hussy witch who spreads the "love" ..

I think she's got some nerve to even think that we wouldn't see that she had sent messages to ALL OF US after saying that we'd all been "specially chosen" or something crap like that. So... she thinks we're gullible..

The nicest hussy witch I've ever been in contact with.

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A female reader, skye +, writes (11 August 2007):

Ive just got my message from baby2love and I think shes a home-wrecker!!! Im not that kind of girl (huffs).

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A reader, anonymous, writes (11 August 2007):

Guys, you're not going to believe this.

baby2love told me exactly the same things! What a hussy!

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A female reader, bubbloo24 +, writes (11 August 2007):

lmao! Jamer70! "send a little magic to make your heart a little lighter".. so she's witch now??!...

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A male reader, Wild Thaing +, writes (11 August 2007):

No no, say it ain't so. baby2love is not all mine? Oh woe to me...

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A male reader, Jamer70 +, writes (11 August 2007):

Martini i just got a "love" letter from a Baby2Love nearly had a heart attack from what she said.

"believe we can move from here,There's a sea between us, love. I wish I could send some magic to make your heart a little lighter" Mercy Reed - 3 hours ago

If only you could really find love this way!

Bubblo we should fly them out! Have a party

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A reader, anonymous, writes (11 August 2007):

Ah Butterflyfly, I am now in a passionate fit of rage and jealousy! Baby2love announced her love to me just this second! [laughs and chokes on my tea] I might end up submitting 'her' email address to a few freaky sites - opt-in spam shall we? [wink]

Bubloo, we should, indeed! 8D

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A female reader, Butterflyfly +, writes (11 August 2007):

yaayy i got one too! from baby2love who is a sea apart from me but he ( she?) still bets we're soul mates. sigh.. i wish my real life darlin would even consider BEING like that..

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A female reader, bubbloo24 +, writes (10 August 2007):

LMAO Martini! We should sooo fly her here

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A reader, anonymous, writes (9 August 2007):

[sighs]

Came back here after 3 weeks and found someone who is infactuated with me, and she wants to communicate through email. I was like, "I wonder who else is getting this?"

I was very tempted to email 'her' back with an interest in pursuing 'her' love. [laughs] Maybe I'll send her some money so I can fly her here and see her. Yeah that's right. [thumbs up, way way way up]

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A male reader, Peterk5699 +, writes (9 August 2007):

These also come in emails. So be careful with them also. And get this: I even got one on Flirtomatic, that's how bad it's getting.

FYI it's called a 491 scam. They come in 2 sorts - The money scam and the love scam.

If you want some fun reading visit 419eater.com. It has loads of stories where the webmaster managed to basically get the scammers wrapped round his little finger then after a while he gives them a big cyber punch and tells them the story will be on the site. It's well worth a read to kill some time and also teaches you how to stay safe.

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A reader, anonymous, writes (9 August 2007):

I'm currently corresponding with two of them, one of them owns a orphanage and the other is a pastor who is working with Jesus for the poor and homeless! I'm seeing what desperate lengths they will go to for money, low life's. :)

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A female reader, skye +, writes (9 August 2007):

Ive been getting these messages too. Its best to just delete them straight away. Thanks for your help and support on this issue Andrew.

Best wishes,

Skye

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A male reader, leonard j.Douglas +, writes (8 August 2007):

Thanks for the advice Andrew, Yes, I got one hit, but then the Delete button works just fine. You have a wonderful Website, keep up the great work, and God Bless tour work.

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A female reader, myp +, writes (8 August 2007):

ive got one too, some lady from nigeria...they claim

thx for lettin us kno about the reoccurence

-Myesha

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A male reader, Jamer70 +, writes (8 August 2007):

Ive been getting them.

Annoying that they're tryingto ruina site like this.

Thanks Andrew

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A female reader, bubbloo24 +, writes (8 August 2007):

Thanks Andrew, a lot of ppl are getting these messages, I'm one of them!

Thanks for the notice :)

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