I have today received a message that is obviously a scam.
Please can you tell me how I can report this and get the member removed from the site.
I've pasted the message below so that you can see what I mean.

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From : Zaina Ishaaq

Hello Dear,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or written before.

Afer you receive this mail kindly contact me on my private Email contact below. introducing myself, I am Zaina Ishaaq, the Only Daughter of the late Ishaaq Ismail, my father was a gold and cocoa mercahnt based in accra, ghana and Abidjan (Ivory Coast), he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips recetly.

Before his death, He called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $6.500,000USD deposited in one of the prime bank here in abidjan ivory coast, that he used my name for the next of kin in depositing of the fund.

Reply to my private e-mail box below: ( zaina.ishaaq1985@yahoo.fr ) Anticipating to hear from you soon.

Awaiting your urgent reply


Regards,

Zaina Ishaaq.

Reply to my private e-mail box below zaina.ishaaq1985@yahoo.fr )

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I have just received the same message. This needs nipping in the bud, it is bad enough getting these daily in my own spam box never mind in my Holistic Local messages!

Last edited: 7-10-2008 09:43:24 PM

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me too.... annoying isnt it.!!!

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Hi, me too, just sent email to holistic local contact. These scams are normally emailed. How do we stop them?

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All spammers are deleted from Holistic Local as soon as they are brought to my attention.

It's not very often that this kind of thing happens, but unfortunately there's not much that can be done to prevent it. There's no mind reading software that can read peoples intentions when they join Holistic Local to prevent them from joining if they plan to spam everybody.

The best I can do is to delete these people as soon as I know about them, so thanks to all the people who emailed me yesterday to let me know about this.

I find this kind of thing just as annoying and insulting as everyone else.

Thanks
Andy

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Nice one Andy ....

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Now I don't feel so bad, I got one too. Delete is easy though.
Andy, are you sure you deleted this person?

Last edited: 11-10-2008 08:58:06 AM

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The scum keeps coming back. Unfortunately I've had to delete this person about 5 times now.

Andy

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I get some strange messages too.......received this one late the other night ...

u online now?
Message hiya hon. love your profle on here...
i enjoy all aspects of massage...
u tried tantric massage before?

love to hear from you soon
regards simon
p.s
msn me if poss +++++++n2@hotmail.com
or yahoo : s+++++n2

or text or call if u are genuine 079+++++++++

Is there no way you could incorporate a 'report post' button??

Yasmin

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how 'bout we all use our individual and collective talents in the holistic healing field and send these wayward individuals some light, love, peace and Ho'oponono? that way we fill the air waves with a healthier frequency.

Effectiveness is the measure of truth.
Serg King

many blessings to all.
bw

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Oh I'm glad it wasn't just me! I got it too.

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I just received the same scam yesterday, but didn't read it until today. The net is such a wonderful resource. Why can't people just use it for good? Think what wonderful things could be accomplished if the scam artists spent the same amount of time in helping make this world a better place.

Connie

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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. - John Maynard Keynes.

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Oh, help ..... does anyone actually respond to this trash. I am flooded on my email and all business communities (who remove them as they can).

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I didn't get this message here, but got it as a comment from my own website. He has even tried to join my forum. I expect he found my details here, unless he's just trolling the net looking for holistic webpages.

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Hi all,
I got one too, and reported it straight away. Who on earth would fall for these things???

I'm with Bernita, lets just respond to these messages when they come with a swift dose of compassion and light. It might just reach them and dissolve the connection they are creating between them and whoever they plan to spam.

What did Osho say? Something like you can't fight darkness, you can only bring in light.

Anna x

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I have also recieved this spam email and ones just like it, but I couldn't say that it came direct from holistics this person has been getting into everyone, whenever we put our business details on any website we are open to this sort of thing,a gentle warning don't attempt to reply to this email just delete it straight away, no doubt everyone will have or had at least one of these at some time. If we don't reply they will eventually go away.
Love and harmony
Joyce

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I also got this scam message. It really annoys me that people have the gall to try and con hard working people out of their money.

At my old work I had a call from an elderly lady who had responded to such a scam and had given over £2000. She called up because she wanted to know where her new car was. The sick minded people were using our business name in a Yahoo email account and telling people they'd won a car. All they had to do was pay for two years insurance, costing £2000 and their prize would be delivered.

All I could do was advise her to contact the police, but what are they going to do?

It really makes my blood boil that people are so willing to take advantage of others like that.

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Why don't we all reply to them advising that we are not interested in their scam. That way they will be spending all their time deleting their mail from their in box and might decide its not worth it!
Fiona

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Bamboo, I always reply to these e-mails with the following;
I was born at night, but NOT last night.
Funny, I never hear from them again.

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