[UgaBYTES] FW: Help Me Immediately/YES, this is a scam!

[Janet Feldman]

Hello Dear Michael and All,

Happy New Year to You and everyone!! I look forward to more exciting and 
informative posts and activities in 2009 in this venue, and thank all those 
who contributed in 2008.

On the subject at hand, YES, this is a scam!  Ken Chelimo is alive and well 
and currently in W Kenya. This very same text has gone out now a number of 
times over the past year or so--supposedly from friends--and it is always 
the same scenario (robbed while at a conference in another country, need 
$2000 or more right away).

I have had it sent from at least 3-4 sources myself, each time supposedly 
from someone I know fairly well. So whoever is doing this is clever enough 
to find out who one's friends are, or to make a plausible link between 
themselves and who they are sending their request to, as they have in the 
case of Ken and UgaBYTES.

In any case, FYI!  All best wishes and scam-free regards, Janet

(ps but if you now get a desperate mailing from me, asking for a large sum 
of cash, you'll know it's for real, he-he!!)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>
To: <ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 10:03 PM
Subject: [UgaBYTES] FW: Help Me Immediately


> I'm assuming that this is a scam.
>
> MBG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chelimo kenneth [mailto:chelimoken at yahoo.com]
> Sent: December-29-08 2:10 AM
> To: Ken Chelimo
> Subject: Help Me Immediately
>
>
> Hello,
>
> How are you doing? i had sent you an email earlier today,please i need 
> your
> urgent assistance, I had traveled to England for a Vacation , 
> Unfortunately
> for me all my money was stolen with other items at the hotel where i 
> lodged
> and i cannot call all my contacts because i lost my phone where  phone
> numbers were kept ,nobody even know where i am now, I am so confused right
> now, I don't know what to do or where to go,I have access to only emails, 
> No
> phone
>
> Please kindly loan me 1200 Pounds and also send it by western union to me
> with the below details
>
> Name:  chelimo kenneth
> Address: 108 Linden Road. Bournville. B30 1LA UK
>
> Write me immediately so i can know when you will have sent it today, and
> immediately you have sent it , scan and send me the western union money
> transfer receipt or just write out the details on the receipt and send to 
> me
> . Please keep this to your self only please
>
> Please come to my rescue
>
> Yours
>
> Ken Chelimo
>
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