withyou55 removed, scammer

Uses e-mail address diana_turey@yahoo.com

Sample e-mail:

Hello
My name is Miss Diana,I saw your profile today and found you as someone with good personality and someone who I can depend on as far as life is concern,someone very honest and trustworthy please for convenience and privacy,please contact me directly via my private email:
( dianaturey200@yahoo.com )

I have issue to discuse with you, very important If you don't mind and also for me to give you my pictures and tell you more about me.

I will stop here until I hear from you.

Thanks and remain bless.
sincerely Miss Diana

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True.com admits to sending fake winks

True.com CEO Herb Vest admits that his site sends members fake winks:

The site has also been criticized for generating random "winks"--the industry term for messages of interest from other members. Dan Consiglio, a 49-year-old engineer from Vancouver, Wash., said he received dozens of winks from women after signing up for True, and responded to many of them. He got only one response, from a woman who kindly informed him that she had not, in fact, winked at him.

Vest acknowledged that the service sends artificial winks, but he said users have the option to disable them and that they serve an important purpose. "We try getting people who otherwise might be very retiring or shy to meet each other and fall in love and have children," he said. "We are just trying to do our job as a matchmaker.

Thinking of canceling your membership?:

On many Web forums, online daters have shared horror stories of trying to cancel their True.com accounts. True requires members to telephone the company to cancel, but it appears to go the extra step of sometimes failing to honor those requests.

Preston Roder, a 54-year-old liquor store manager in Mundelein, Ill., said he tried to quit True.com last September after an unfruitful yearlong membership but was still hit with an array of charges over the next four months.

"True is a big company, but they could care less when you try to cancel," said Roder. "They got your money so they are through with you."

Vest said the company recently revised its policy on cancellations. "We are not as good as I want to be. We still have an ongoing project to improve," he said.

An ongoing project to improve? It's not difficult to stop charging members. As a matter of fact it's easier to stop billing then to start billing. No credit card authorization is needed to stop billing.

Read the whole story here.

Using your Treo to avoid traffic

Use your Treo to avoid traffic and get detailed directions on Google Maps. You don't need a TomTom, no monthly subscriptions, you don't need GPS on your Treo. You'll also have access to Google Earth images.

Real-time traffic stats are available in 30 major metropolitan cities. Go here to see if yours is listed.

Follow the easy download instructions at http://www.google.com/gmm/treo

Things I'd like to see in Gmail

I've been using Gmail, including Mail Fetching (pulling your e-mail from another mail server into Gmail). It took one month for Gmail's SPAM filter to kick in, but this may be due to the large amount of SPAM I receive. I love Gmail, I've stopped using Eudora, and stopped using Outlook several intrusion attempts on my laptop ago.

I do have a few features I'd like to see added:

1) I'd like to have a different signature for each e-mail address I use in my Gmail account. I have three addresses in my Gmail account, and each one has a different purpose. I'd like the opportunity to have three signatures.

2) In Gmail mobile for your browser I'd like to be able to select which of my three e-mail address I am mailing from. Currently, when I send an e-mail, the return address is the default address I set in my account settings.

Tip: If you are using Mail Fetcher, it can take a long time to download all your previous e-mail. One address I have has so much SPAM that Mail Fetcher cannot keep up. The mail server continues to have approx 40,000 e-mails on it. Mail Fetcher pulls in the e-mail every hour, 200 at a time.

OpenOffice.org 2.2 is here

If you are still using MS Office, why?

OpenOffice.org is free and has 99.99% of all the commonly used features in MS Office.

If you haven't tried it, you should.

OpenOffice.org

Nice rant about e-harmony

here

Who has it in for True.com's Herb Vest

Look at the comments by "FYI" about True.com's founder Herb Vest. A similar comment was post on my blog posting about True.com's advertising a few weeks back, but I accidentally deleted it when moderating SPAM.

So who has it in for Herb Vest?

christjon222 removed, scammer

christjon_2004@yahoo.com

Sample e-mail:

Am kelvin 36 years old from London and single.After going through your profile,my interest was aroused so i had no option than sending this message to you.I would love to know more about you and will not hesitate to tell you all about myself.

Briefly am from a small family of 3,my eldest sister is married and stays with the husband in the States while my junior is still studying here in London.My parents are both passed away.I finished from London Institute of Commerce but decided to take to soccer because of the renumeration and i was good then in college with soccer.

This is my prime and i feel i have all it takes for me to have someone i can permanently call my own and also a happy family.Life is too short to keep waiting.If you dont mind,i would love we correspond through our respective mail address and mine is christjon_2004@yahoo.com.

While looking forward to hear from you soon,i wish you have a wonderful day and my sincere regards to the whole of your family.

Yours,
Kelvin

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mjohn45 removed for sending death threats

mjohn45 has been reported to the police by the person he threatened.

Uses e-mail address: mich_nt4@yahoo.com

Sample e-mail to a particular member:

hello look do you know me well do you know the kind of person you are talking to look wacth out and see what is going to happen to you and your family i will show you how to kill some one am going to kill all of you because am not a scammer you told me and a scammer and also insulting me thank you for all that hahahahahaha you are making me funny if you know like you are begging me am micheal and i have your name and your pics on here also..... i will take you to my spirite and show you how to kill soo soon so if you know you have come back on here and begg and go back free because you are going to die with this your foolish face of yours bye may my spitrite kill you and your family ..................AMEN....FUNNY WOMAN LIKE YOU .........HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ONE MAN DO ONE MAN DIE

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awalov removed scammer

Uses e-mail address silviaofor@yahoo.com

Sample e-mail:

Hello My name is Silvia i saw your profile and admire it i think we can make it together, therefore i would like you to contact me back throug my email address thus:(Silviaofor@yahoo.com i will tell you more about myself and i will also send you my photo as soon as you contact me back. Hopping to hear from you soonest, UNDERSTAND THAT LOVE IS ONE, Silvia WITH LOVE AND TRUST (Silviaofor@yahoo.com) Love & Kiess

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maatrt5 removed, Nigerian scammer

Sample e-mail:

From Mary Koroma Dearest one, permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you , l got your name and contact through the help of a friend who works in internet here in Abidjan and I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature and the recommendation by the director for a reputable and trustworthy person l can do business with and by the recommendation l must not hesitate to confid in you for this simple and sincere business. l am Mary Koroma the only daughter of late Mr and Mrs Mohammed Koroma.My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan here, the economic capital of Ivory Coast, he was poissoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on business. My mother died on the 20th october 1988 and my father took me so special because l am motherless. Before the death of my father on 29th november 2001 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called me on his bedside,when I sat down to listen to him, he started crying, why? (1) he conplained that I am too young to be managing my life, (2)that I have not finished my university education as he planned for me, (3)no body to take care of me again as a young girl, but after much crying, he still passed an instruction to me that he has a sum of US$9.500.000.(NINE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) left in a security company here in Abidjan, that he used my name as the only daughter for his next of kin in deposit of the funds. He also informed me that the security company where he deposited the consignment (box) does not know the real content of the box because he declear it as family valuable for the safety of the money. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was posisoned by his business associates , that l should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice where l will transfer this money and use it for proper investment purpose ,that I must finish my university education by the help of a business partner abroad,that he or she should help me obtain a resident permit in his or her country. He also gave an out standing instrution to the security company that the consignment must be transfered outside this country before use, this is to make sure that I did not begin to make use of the money here so that his enemies will not get at me. I am now ready to do all these since my father my bread winner is no more. l am honourable seeking your assistance in the following ways. ( 1) to provide a bank account into which this money will be transfered to. (2) to serve as my gaurdian in your country while I will depend on your expert advise since l am a girl of 21 years. ( 3 ) to make arrangement for me to come over to your country in order to further my university education and to secure a residential permit for me in your country. Moreover sir, l am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort /input after the successfull transfer of this funds to your account overseas. Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me as l believed that this project would be concluded within fourteen ( 14 ) days you signify interest to assist me. Hoping to hearing from you soonest. May God bless you as you extend your helping hand to a needy fellow. Best wishes Mary Koroma Please even if you don't want to assist me. Please keep it confidential for my safety. PLease contact me through my private email for security reasons mary_koromax122@yahoo.com

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Wellish removed, Nigerian scammer

Uses e-mail address: hookswellish@yahoo.com

Sample e-mail:

Wooooooooooooow....dear first i have to remind you on how beautiful you look,i think you're the woman who match my heart desire i've seen on this site so far by far and i am glad i've not met any other lady beause i wouldn't have been able to find you...Well i would like you to know that i came across your profile and was stunned,i deemed it fit that we should get to know ourselves as i am a man with so much to learn and also so much to give out,i heart skipped a beat for a slight second when i saw your profile and said to myself that knowing you would be great and that if i ever had the chance to chat or talk to you i would make sure you enjoyed every bit of our conversation,so please do me a favour and allow us know each other by sending me your regular email adress or yahoo address so i can add you to my messenger and there we can really talk and know more about ourselves.your looks is the type of looks that i trully desire ....,,i am actualy looking for a long term relationship ,,someone that will bring out her time to know me ,,some one that is honest,,doesnt lie ,,i have
been in this site for sometime now and i am looking for some one that is real
it would trully be nice and interesting if we could have a conversation on either by chart or emails.,,,.......hope to hear from you soon,,,you can contact me at my personal email address ,,,hookswellish@yahoo.com,,
i would get back to you on time ,,,
wish you luck

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mate1.com's Terms of Use

From mate1.com's terms of service:

You may cancel your subscription for a refund, without any penalty or obligation under two specific conditions, as outlined below:
(a) Within 3 days after the date that you subscribe for a three day trial or reactivation (by clicking "Submit Order" or "I Authorize Transaction" or "Submit Details"); or
(b) Within 3 days after each time your credit card is billed for auto-renewal of your subscription with any subscription plan.
In order to cancel your subscription under this 3-Day Cancellation With Refund Policy you must mail or deliver a signed original letter stating your FULL NAME, your Mate1.com Nickname, the billing address used for your subscription, your email address, and your desire to cancel and apply for a refund. This notification must be postmarked and/or delivered no more than 72 hours after the initial date of the subscription, reactivation or rebill for which you wish to claim a refund. This right to refund does NOT include charges from previous billing periods. Under this policy, you are entitled to only one refund. Any requests for a refund on a subsequent subscription will be refused. Please note that members who continue to use the paid features of the site after the 3-day period following the subscription, reactivation or rebill in question are not entitled to a refund under this policy.
If you are a Utah resident, you can also fax your request to (514) 393-1231.
This request must be sent to:
3-Day Cancellation Department
Mate1.com Inc
334 Cornelia St, #354
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
United States
THE FOLLOWING REFUND REQUESTS WILL NOT BE PROCESSED:
(A) REQUESTS MISSING YOUR FULL NAME, MATE1.COM NICKNAME, OR BILLING ADDRESS,
(B) REQUESTS SENT BY EMAIL, OR
(C) REQUESTS SENT BY FAX IF YOU ARE NOT A UTAH RESIDENT
(D) REQUESTS SENT AFTER THE FIRST 3 DAYS OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OR RENEWAL OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION.

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adding messenger system

I'm in the process of adding a messenger system. Until it's implemented you will see a link to it for testing purposes. I'll post here when it's ready.

e-mail spammers and scammers

Very light posting lately. I have been busy implementing a system that will automatically remove spammers and scammers based on the e-mails they send. This will keep them from having a run of the site while I am out.