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Howdy,

Received an email from

Celina Amina Doudou

with subject :

  I am member of forums.christiansunite. I need Your urgent asistance. 


If you want the email forwarded to you for investigation, please email me with an email address and I'll forward it to you.

Otherwise - candiate for expulsion?

Hi WolfBrother,

Did you receive that from Christians Unite? If so in what time frame?

We have the PM's shut off right now so you shouldn't be receiving anything from the forum unless it is from a moderator.

If the source is from somewhere else other than Christians Unite I would suggest contacting Admin by using the "Contact Us" at the bottom of the main page of the forum, as Admin doesn't come to the forum very often.

I also have recieved a email from Celina. I did reply, but am not sure what she wanted.

it isn't from Christians Unite

Vous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : celi_amin1988@yahoo.fr

I need your urgent asistance for investment fund transfer & establishment of aid do get back to me

- Celina Amina Doudou

This is simply a scam email that is definitely not from Christians Unite. Please do not reply to it!

If you have fallen prey to this scam then I suggest that you report it to

http://www.ic3.gov/

Yep a scam. 

I got one too.

:)

I just received one in my old email address.

I have found a person as a member here on CU that fits the description of this person. They have now been banned. Do not I repeat Do Not respond to this person.

To prevent this sort of thing from happening again I suggest that you go into your profile settings and insure that you have your email address marked as hidden.

I got the same e-mail just a few minutes ago in my gmail inbox. I deleted because it's in french and those who know me know that I speak english, but it is definately a scam.

I feel left out, I didn't get one.  But I also have my email address hidden. :D :D :D

I can take care of that if you really want me to.   ;D ;D ;D ;D

 :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

No thank you brother........

I didn't think that you would.   ;D ;D

Brothers and Sisters,

I would simply repeat

Please double-check your profile settings and make sure that your email address is checked hidden.

Any email from Christians Unite will be official and easy to check the source.

This French person obviously collected email addresses that weren't marked as hidden and sent out her con-game letter. If your email address isn't marked as hidden, anyone on the Internet can get it. If your email address IS marked as hidden, it's completely safe and our ADMIN goes to great lengths in protecting private user information.

For the above reasons, I highly recommend that you mark your email as hidden on every forum or online community that you use. Your email should be reserved for official communications that you have authorized.

Lastly, there are a million con games on the Internet using every scam you can think of. Christians are usually pretty easy to con because they are so soft hearted. As an example, there was nearly 2 billion dollars of con games associated with Hurricane Katrina. Criminals acted like churches, had bogus web sites, bogus telephone numbers, and all kinds of things set up to steal money intended for the victims of the hurricane. SO, keep your BIG HEART - just go to some extra effort to make sure your donations are going where you intended them to go. Hand carrying your donation to a local branch is the best - AND get a receipt. We do have some threads on the forum about making sure that criminals don't get your donations.

I got the same message today. I made the mistake of clicking on it since I thought it was someone from this Web site. It didn't make any sense, and I just deleted it.

This is also one of the reasons the PM feature is turned off.  We have had several people PM'ing on con games. 

For your own safety, I also urge you to check your profile settings, and make sure that your email address is checked hidden.

I went into my Profile and couldn't find anything like that.

On the leftside of your profile you have


That will bring up
These are your account settings. This page holds all critical information that identifies you on this forum. For security reasons, you will need to enter your (current) password to make changes to this information.

Go down to your email settings.

Email:
This must be a valid email address.
   
Hide email address from public?    <---- click this one
Show others your online status?    

at the bottom on the right is a button (Change Profile) click on it, and allow it to reset your settings.