Re: false message supposedly from Sean O'Hara

I got one of these last year.  On one of the plant forums I have a friend
from Valencia, Venezuela.  Anyway, I got an e-mail from my 'friend'
requesting something similar to your e-mail.  I did a little sleuthing on
the incoming ip addresses and discovered that the e-mail really came from
Nigeria.  So I actually did respond to the e-mail and asked where I should
send the Western Union money gram to.  I was given an address in London.  I
then reported the address and IP address to a site in London that deals with
such issues as well as the Internet provider in Nigeria.

I never did hear what happened.

-Ron-


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diane Whitehead" <voltaire@islandnet.com>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:10 AM
Subject: false message supposedly from Sean O'Hara


> I have just received a message titled My Plight!!! supposedly from
> Sean writing from this address:
>
> seanaohara@gmail.com
>
> and requesting money to pay bills so he can board his plane in North
> Wales after having been mugged.
>
> If any others have received this message, I feel I can safely assure
> you that it was not written by Sean, and you should not respond to it.
>
> Diane Whitehead
>
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