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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 1:52 pm

Complete with idiot.

The subject line was "please read my testimony"....(will post in surplus if anyone would like to take a whack at this idiot)...

Check out this lazy idiot's first mistake

And now the "character switch"

Ok so our idiot sends us a testimonial.....

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Dear Friends.

My name is Erin Basset from USA i have a testimony to share. I have being married for 12 years with no child me and my wife has traveled overseas seeing all the medical doctors in the world but no good result. A friend introduced me to a spiritual doctor called Angelic Spiritualist via email,i contacted him and followed all his directives and guess what? the next month my wife was pregnant first i never believed until she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy just last month so i decided to tell others that are in need of any kind should contact Angelic Spiritualist with the email address above. What is your problem ? is it any kind of diseases such as
Cancer,diabetes or any of the below:

(1) If you want your ex back.
(2) If you always have bad dreams.
(3) You want to be promoted in your office.
(4) You want women/ men to run after you.
(5) If you want a child.
(6) You want to be rich.
(7) You want to tie your husband/wife to be yours forever.
(8)You want to win a court case
(9) If you need financial assistance.
(10) Have you being scammed and you want your money back etc.
I can assure you 100% that your problems of any kind will be solved if you contact him and follow his directives.

Sincerely,

Erin Basset

Well my character is quite intrigued.....

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Tell me more? Does my problem need to be one of the 10 listed or are those just examples?

Our idiot

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Good day friend,now there are different problems people encounters in life,by the help of God am able to solve numerous problems and putting smiles on peoples face just like this testifier Erin,yours can be same but you have to be specific with your problem,so i can direct you on what to do.
thanks
Angelic Howard

I thought it was "Howard Taylor"....anyway...time to have some fun....

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I am not sure you can help me with this. My name is Josfus Lenny Wilkeson. I am 78 years old, a widower, and I have been alone for the last 15 years. I spent my early years working hard so that I would have considerable wealth in retirement and my Mrs and I could travel the world. Well she passed away right before I retired. I did not get to spend the good years with her.

About two and a half years ago, I started trying some of this internet dating. I met a wonderful older woman who I fell in love with. She had fallen on hard times, she was never married, only child. Her father passed away about that time and left her a sizeable inheritance. The stipulation was that she needed to be engaged to be married or married in order to be able to receive it out of the trust fund it was in. So after weeks of communicating, I began to help her financially as she is too distraught to work. It started off small, helping her with a few bucks here and there for incidentals. Well after a bit we agreed to be married. I don't need her inheritance but this would help her in that way.

Well there were some legal fees and transfer fees and customs fees and such. Permits for her to marry. All in total it cost close to 35,000 us dollars. I then sent her money for a plane ticket to come to the USA. The first time she had to change the flight for a family emergency. I helped her financially through that, an sent her money for another plane ticket. I showed up at the airport to pick her up and she did not get off the plane. I have tried to contact her and am receiving no replies. This has been for three weeks now. I can not reach her via phone, text, messenger or email. Before her flight we would talk several times per day. I checked with the airline and she never got on the plane. I am not sure what happened to her. Was she abducted? Did she get ill?

I am hoping that you can help me find my new love, so that we may be together forever.

Josfus

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 2:03 pm

It's a spellcaster, which we don't bait.

From the rules

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We also do not bait 'spellcasters'. Belief in the occult is extremely strong in parts of western Africa, even among those who profess themselves to be followers of traditional faiths. It doesn't matter if you think their beliefs are bogus. If the person on the other end of that email does believe, and is willing to perform these spells or rituals, and he thinks he is getting paid for them, he just might do it. In that case, a baiter's encouragement has the potential to cause real harm to humans and/or animals. It is never a risk worth taking.

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 2:14 pm

B8er thanks for that.

I had never seen it before....assumed it was advance fee. Figured I would have to pay in order to get the secret/help/etc. Had no idea....I will abandon the bait.

Thanks for the insight. Mods please delete, or move to appropriate section and lock for education of others.

Looks like it has already been deleted from surplus.

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 3:58 pm

No worries. They can be hard to spot because some really are 419ers simply pretending to be spellcasters/witch doctors. The problem is, it's impossible to tell and there are enough "real" (ie, they'll really do the rituals, whether the rituals work is a matter of belief) spellcasters, especially on those facebook groups, that as the rules say, It is never a risk worth taking.

ETA... moved to Misc. scams.

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 4:12 am

So some of these spell casters will actually do animal sacrifices and such?
that's creepy

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 3:12 pm

Yes, they do. Let's leave it at that.

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 6:47 pm

Outside of your duties as admin, please do not interact on my posts.

Thank You

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 6:58 pm

There's also the whole issue with albinos who across africa are hunted for their magical body parts. I don't know if they would potentially be involved in spellcasting - but I'm not eager to take that chance.

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:15 pm

Jason, that is amazing. Learn something new every day. I Had no idea such things still existed in our world. Very interesting.

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:40 pm

sportbluecanyon wrote:

Outside of your duties as admin, please do not interact on my posts.

Thank You

This sort of comment is unnecessary and uncalled for. If you start drama in your threads they will be locked and then no one will comment.

Yes, violence against albinos is still very much a thing sadly.

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sportbluecanyon wrote:

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Outside of your duties as admin, please do not interact on my posts.

Thank You

You have been suspended. Not only did you abuse a mod, you made a public spectacle out of it. We will not tolerate such conduct.

You have a PM with the explanation of your suspension.

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