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I was pretty sure about the scam part, now how do i break the news to a sweet old lady from a charity who would never think anyone would try to scam her?

and for the email header... what do you mean? She sent it to me as an attachment, but i have the email address.

:) thanks guys

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p.s. have cleaned out my pm's
sorry :o

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You say: "Hey kind and gullible old lady....this is from some nasty bugger on the other side of the world who has never met you yet wants to scam you out of your money. The world is full of tw@ts like this....now please forward me the original message so I can pass it onto to some acquaintances who will gladly sail forth and kneecap this sad sick bastard"

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well done ray :rolleyes:
next you'll post the beer roasted cat recipe:D

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ok. i will slightly adapt your words, it that's ok. :D

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Artistic license is allowable. As long as the general flavour remains.

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An email "header" is the address part of the message which you normally cannot see. It contains the actual source of the message and the route it took to get to the addressee.

Email addresses can be "spoofed" so that apparent return address is not the originating address.

When you report a phony email such as this you should, if possible, include the message header. The way you do this varies between email applications.

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so i checked, and she did fwd the message, but it arrived as an attachement for some reason. Can i still use this?

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If I were you I would take the simple route, just delete it and also go to your friend's PC and delete her copy too.

As others have said, nobody gives donations in this manner. It has to be a con in the making.

As a general rule, if an email seems unlikely it is unlikely.

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I know, but the thing is I'm pretty sure it must have been sent to a mailing list of pet charities... it wouldn't be worthwhile to send only one. I'm worried that someone may fall for it. Targeting charities is really sick:mad:, and i don't just want to leave it there. Maybe there is nothing i can do, but i want to try at least.

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Give us what you have ....

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Forward it to me at the email address below:-

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thanks ray, i couldn't figure out how to post it, but i sent it to TRPardoe and he helped me out.

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Thanks to everyone who posted. My friend is quite upset because, as i said, she is a very sweet old lady, and didn't think someone would write an email like this and not be genuine.

Thanks all for doing good :)
you bunch of do-gooders:D

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Than YOU for being so cute (about it all)................ :cool: