Mary Mabou e-mail Scam

I don’t know if you have already experienced this scam but I would like to warn you against it by sharing my recent experience.

Few weeks ago I received a contact request on LinkedIn from a good looking girl supposed to be studying something at the college and that was willing to establish a connection with me.

I don’t know you, but I use to accept most of the requests even from strangers because they could be potentially interesting for new job opportunities or other. Well as soon as I accepted the invitation, I received a LinkedIn message saying something like: “Thank you very much for having accepted my request. Please write me on my personal e-mail in order to establish a better relationship and maybe you could help me.”

Well I sent a very short message to the girls saying “Hi, I read your message on LinkedIn, How can I help you?” and I received this extraordinarily sad story:

“Dearest, How are you today? I am very happy to your respond to the email I sent to you in your address at the site. I am Miss Mary Merab Mabou. Age 25 ft. 5/1 wt. 59. I am the only daughter of Late (Dr) Fedelix Ephraim Mabou, from Ivory Coast in West Africa, who died during the civil war in my country last (2009). My father was the personal adviser to our former head of state (Laurent Gbagbo). He was the owner of Mabou Cocoa industries (LTD) before he was assassinated during a motor accident alongside with my mother on a cold blood one morning. But I managed to escape for my dear life and ran into a neighborly country, (Dakar) the capital of (Senegal) and I am residing there now, as a refugee, in the refugee camp. Meanwhile, I am writing to you now with the Reverend’s computer and I will like to know you more before we move forward from here! I will like to know what you do for a living; remember that you caught my attention in that site that was why I wrote you at the first time. Here is my picture I came here with, I will show you more of me when I know and see yours. Waiting for your reply soonest from my heart, Mary.”

Well the curious thing is that I received exactly the same kind of e-mail from another girl few months ago with the same story but different names and locations. Aware of that, I tried to get more information about the girl saying that I am willing to help standing her availability to send more picture from her place and tell me something more about herself. Well, she disappeared.

The girl who wrote me before instead, after my compassionate reply asked me few thousand dollars in order to escape from her country and come to visit me and establish a durable and profitable relationship with me.

At that point I understood that it was a scam and proposed to the girl to send me her details because I was willing to buy the tickets and arrange the Visa.

Have a guess? She disappeared.

Do not send money to this kind of e-mail . . . it is just a SCAM!!!