SCAM ALERT SCAM ALERT Beep! Beep! Beep! Scam Alert.

This is a emergency broadcast from the National Emergency Scam Alert Department. Do not open emails from scammers as they can contain viruses and other nasty stuff. If they request you email and you do email them when they return your email you have been had. The email they send may be full of all kinds of nasty undetectable by normal security software fry your hard drive yuck.

Even is it does not contain harm your computer attachments you have just given your email to a scammer to be sold, passed on to other scammers, etc etc. Be preprepared to get many such emails and scams. You painted a target on your email address by giving them your email address when you answered.

Please contact the proper authorities named Kyle, Carson or Site support immediately if you receive a Private Message that you are suspicious of.

This is the end of the security alert.

I have a whole database full of letters like that. One thing I have found is if you go to the FBI they have an extensive database they search. Most letters like those and spamming people for money for terrorist organizations. If you hear nothing back you can also submit those letters to the FBI just make sure to delete your personal info. FTC is another good resource for scammer letters and reporting(both links below)
https://www.fbi.gov/
https://www.ftc.gov/

Also, if you don't mind if you can remove your personal info from those letters I'd like to add them to my database( my site is about scams and I post these letters so people can identify them). Thanks in advance and yes I believe they are scam letters.

What happened to a world where we trust people and do our best to try to help? It's sad that we've come to this. There are people that truly need help and don't get it because we're now at the point of not trusting ANYONE. It not only costs us all our money but sometimes legal ramifications as well.

It's a little disturbing that this has happened within WA but rest assured Kyle and/or Carson will nip it quickly if they haven't already.

~Debbi

You can see these people are breaking multiple rules here at WA, you don't owe anyone who does this an apology, you can mark it as spam. Thanks for the heads up on this activity, Spam is a NO NO!

I agree with you. yes, I sent her my email address, but when I got the email I just deleted it and put it in as spam so I wouldn't receive any more.

They often look for platforms like this to join until they get kicked off and move on to another platform

Yes they are scammers but these people can hack into WA members account to scam people. They are not definitely what they profess to be. The game of scammers are the same, to get you to transfer your hard earned cash to them for free. Let us all be careful. No project or business so profitable will make a stranger contact you. Let us be realistic. Scammers only scam greedy people. That is the finding of British Police. Be aware.Thanks Arief for bringing it out.

There have been a few posts about both of these "people" over the last couple of days.

I personally have received the second one twice, from two different accounts.

If you are concerned about a message you receive, you always have the option to mark it as spam. That will flag the message to be investigated by WA.

Thank you Arief, for posting the warning.

Hi Arief,

Thanks for posting this up and clarification on this matter, as i only joined few weeks ago i received the same msg from 1stclassSgt which in the msg i found really fishy, so i just ignored it totally as i was more busy dealing with my training here on WA.
So upon looking at this post i thank you again for the thorough information given and hope it can be resolved soon.

Thanks, Arief for this post. I too was contacted by a person saying her name was Hanifa, however, her WA member name is Myhanny4 not wanyha1. This person is clearly using multiple member names. The email I got was identical to the Facebook post, so I am quite confident that these people are scammers.

I hope WA does something to identify these people and if my assumption is correct to remove them. Thanks,

Wayne

I can tell by the wording, of the first one, that it is a scam and the second one, because of their phrasing, they are trying to be VERY PARTICULAR, so it comes out as too goofy, even for someone who does not have English as a first language.

Of course, I agree they are both trying to scam you.

I get probably 2 - 5 of these a day, through my regular email address and I delete them as soon as I see the subject line.