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I just received a private message from "Sarah48" promising me $8.5MM dollars from somewhere. If anyone else gets a similar message, please understand this is the Nigerian scam that gets either personal information or asks for money from you in the hopes of getting more money.

Aging Care moderators, please check out Sarah48 and delete the account immediately! I had no way to report her message other than to post it here.

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For everyone: This is the "contact us" form URL:

https://www.agingcare.com/contactus.aspx

I'm wondering if anyone else has been contacted by this scammer. I've had a lot of these Nigerian scam attempts sent to my personal e-mail address, but not for a few years as Norton is apparently filtering them out.

Blannie, thanks for the alert.
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Geez, I hope it wasn't only ME that they targeted, now I'll get a complex, LOL!
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Should add that it might be that I'm not getting them any more because they've been taken care of by law enforcement agencies. Hopefully.

When I did get them I forwarded the entire message, with added full headers, to my ISP.

AgingCare can detect the scammer's IP address and report it to authorities.
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We have removed and blocked that member from the site. Thank you for letting us know and we are working on trying to prevent this from happening in the future.

Thank you!

Ashley T.
The AgingCare.com Team
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Now I have a complex because they didn't try to contact me. What's wrong with me?? Am I not good enough to scam????

Waaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
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Blannie and GladImHere, don't delete the messages - the Admins and IT staff will need them to get the IP address of Sarah48 and block the scammer as well as report the scam attempts to the appropriate federal authorities.
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I got one also... sent admin an email and it is now deleted from my wall... I posted on my 'home' thread also.... but I feel like admin has taken care of it..... I'm poor, but not stupid..... !!!!!
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Please try to avoid reposting the message. We do not want to support this scammer, especially when they have their personal email in the posting.
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O h gosh, I feel so special ;-)). I get at least one of those scam letters per week in my regular email. Must be my great smile
(false teeth) and winning personality. {:-))
Seriously, am glad to hear that the feebs are on the job. Several years ago a friend of mind fell for the scam and was a long time getting it straightened out.
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Blannie and GladImHere, you could also report this message to Yahoo (probably something like Abuse@Yahoo.com) so they can delete Sarah's account, if the scammer hasn't simply appropriated a legitimate Sarah's account. But at leas they could trace the account and take action as well.
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