It is important to stress that like anything in life it is not everyone from a certain country that is doing this and I have nothing personal against anyone, I cheered Ghana on in their major soccer event known as the African Nations Cup. However:

Having had sadly a vulnerable member hit with this on my chat site and now having addressed the problem I'm going to also give a helping hand to the rest of you.
Yes we are talking spam and scam and conning people out of their money.

If these people were really genuine and even Christian they would be grateful for anything, but instead saying they are an orphan and playing on old ladies kindness only means unless they repent and find Jesus, they shall be in for a rude awakening when they die and find out God is real as I've proven.

Anyway faith and religion aside, these people are the worst of the worst, heck a satanist will come on and use bad language and abuse, but these people are in affect doing an internet robbery on you, only difference is you've not been physically assulted as such.

The main problem comes from Nigeria and Ghana, not saying all, but seems the famous one that hits me is always from ACCRA.
another can be Lagos. I've since been told Ivory Coast is another one. There may be a few places in Africa, but the worsr seem to be from Nigeria and Ghana.
They also go through Israel as well, a place traced to Petah Tiqwa, those i.p numbers have also been included below. 

The numbers vary with me having to block over 70 odd in the end, and that is ranges as well, not just one number as such.

We've all heard by now of the obvious my father died left me so many millions of dollars and the government this and that, so I want your account number so I can deposit it into there and I'll give you 10% for allowing me to do this.

If one did not belong to the world and could not care less about money, like me, because when I die I can't take anything with me, then one would not, even if proved legit, had people on, and I'm just not interested.
What even if you could win a car, no I said again at a motorway service area, think I was doing a job as well, at work, stop off to go to the toilet or get a drink. I don't want to be hounded by someone who might mean well, all got to do these horrible jobs, though I would not for 50 pounds an hour. The classic being the door to door selling of windows, or the phone call one, that's annoying as well, the one from Birmingham on an 121 number, best of it is the new tactics nower days seem to be no I'm not selling anything, but can I leave something with you.
One actually admitted at the door, it's not for now, can I do one, you put it in the draw and think about it, 'It's just so I get my commisson.' WOW, you get what. But as I was thinking, sort of agreeing as he kept going on and on, and on, he said we'll be back to measure up then. In the end looked at me like I was mad, when I started to shut the door, can't recall what I said, but I'd had enough, not that nasty or swearing, but I'd gotten fed up with 'What don't you like about that, oh is it because' line of questioning.

So these scams from Nigeria and Ghana now seem to be coming on, caught them undercover myself, thinking they were dirty men coming to chat up women, then feeling bit guilty as they did not do this, but I would tell them after that became clear that this site is not for singles and dating. They would make out they wanted a Godly woman, that they into God, but the quickness of the PM-ing you, in private message box and asking your asl, age, sex, location and being pushy soon starts to give it away.
Once they realize they are wasting their time, there love for you soon wanes and they will close their window on you.

If however sadly you have gone along with it, it seems from what I can gleam they will soon be telling you something like I'm an orphan, and 17 years old.
Once it became clear, I looked into it finding the guy was actually 18, clearly he has something more powerful than the living almighty God to be getting younger.

Some make the mistake of course of using the same username or spreading themselves too much around on the net, perhaps niave to the fact you can now easily if you've left a foot print be traced:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&p=%28adade2005%29&y=Search&fr=sfp&dups=1

(adade2005)
 
Don't you just love God, satan hates you and everything, not a gentleman and uses people, all those follow him don't get it, once they go to hell he'll still torture them as much. God not me wants me to do this, that's why I say don't you just love God, left to me I'd just be selfish if I still belong to the world.
One chat site had not told me, I told them, and they knew, but I'm not bitter, I just went and informed other Christian chat sites and a dating, well singles one as well.
Now I'm doing this because of God, amen. So do not thank me, thank God and remember if I'm wrong, nothing to lose, if I'm right, rather the Bible is right, where will you go when you die and do you believe satan's biggest lie, apart from evolution, that being a good person get's you into heaven, does the proven 100% accurate so far Bible actually say this, see here now for more on that one:
If I am good enough will I enter heaven 

I'm aware sadly some innocent ones will suffer also, but you can no longer take any chance on allowing these countries through, this is like us rather than our government, who must be failing to act like these African government, implimenting our own sanctions.
Remember they only continue because it works, make it harder and they might finally wise up and give up.

So get banning, ban, block, blocking, banned, you name it, fight back now, see the numbers below, add a link on your site to here, spread the word, save people's lives, money, self-worth, the lot, amen.
Get yourself a free tracing tool and check just in case I make a mistake in typing the following in, okay.

ip address ranges	Single numbers: note might already be covered in the ranges.
80.88.146.176 - 80.88.146.191	41.204.246.195
195.166.224.0 - 195.166.224.255	41.207.21.78
41.219.192.0 - 41.219.192.255	41.222.40.57
77.70.128.0 - 77.70.129.63	41.210.7.27
80.255.41.168 - 80.255.41.175	41.207.30.215
196.3.60.0 - 196.3.63.255	41.219.200.30
196.207.0.212 - 196.207.0.215	41.219.248.9
196.29.212.0 - 196.29.215.255	41.204.253.138
212.165.170.0 - 212.165.171.0	41.210.21.51
213.185.106.0 - 213.185.106.255	41.211.227.61
217.10.166.48 - 217.10.166.63	41.211.238.223
217.20.242.24 - 217.20.242.31	41.211.3.241
213.185.118.192 - 213.185.118.255	41.210.5.216
216.250.221.0 - 216.250.221.255	196.201.75.109
82.128.0.0 - 82.128.31.255	196.207.1.214
80.250.36.0 - 80.250.39.255	196.201.67.50
80.87.72.0 - 80.87.73.255	195.166.237.254
80.87.65.0 - 80.87.95.255	41.210.1.134
41.204.32.0 - 41.204.47.255	213.185.118.195
212.96.0.0 - 212.96.0.255	41.210.31.253
196.29.120.0 - 196.29.120.255	41.210.9.111
41.204.245.0 - 41.204.245.255	41.210.13.134
83.229.90.0 - 83.229.90.255	81.199.58.183
196.28.244.0 - 196.28.244.255	41.222.70.189
217.194.157.45 - 217.194.157.255	41.210.0.66
81.91.228.0 - 81.91.228.255	41.204.224.10
81.91.239.0 - 81.91.239.255	213.185.118.195
83. 229.87.0 - 83.229.87.200	213.136.100.134
193.220.212.0 - 193.220.212.255	41.210.19.227
41.202.65.0 - 41.202.125.255	41.210.29.130
41.211.0.0 - 41.211.0.255	41.210.0.66
196.45.192.0 - 196.45.192.255	41.210.27.77
41.219.135.0 - 41.219.255.255	41.210.14.78
41.220.48.0 - 41.220.48.255	41.210.27.77
41.203.64.0 - 41.203.64.255	80.87.91.157
41.205.160.0 - 41.205.160.255	41.210.2.194
81.199.58.0 - 81.199.58.255	41.210.1.59
81.199.35.0 - 81.199.255.255	41.210.24.155
80.179.251.0 - 80.179.251.255	196.216.14.55 Also suspect
80.88.135.0 - 80.88.150.255	more added as and when needed
80.78.16.150 - 80.78.16.255	more added as and when needed
80.78.18.0 - 80.78.18.200	more added as and when needed
192.116.79.0 - 192.116.79.255	more added as and when needed
64.201.33.0 - 64.201.33.255	more added as and when needed
80.231.4.1 - 80.231.4.255	more added as and when needed
81.199.244.0 - 81.199.244.255	more added as and when needed
195.166.234.0 - 195.166.234.255	more added as and when needed
213.181.83.0 - 213.181.83.245	more added as and when needed
196.200.0.0 - 196.200.0.255	more added as and when needed
196.3.62.0 - 196.3.62.255	more added as and when needed
213.181.64.0 - 213.181.95.255	more added as and when needed
Some more Ranges for Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) are as follows also: 41.202.64.0 - 41.202.64.255 41.207.0.0 - 41.207.0.255 41.207.192.0 - 41.207.192.255 41.223.208.0 - 41.223.208.255 196.47.128.0 - 196.47.128.255 196.201.64.0 - 196.201.64.255	I've no doubt there are many more, but this will least give you a fighting chance anyway, so to speak. Spread the word and place a link if you have a website to this page so google can pick up on it and people searching can then least find the information they need all on one easy to access web page. Thanks. Cover all the single 41.210's opposite by doing a range of: 41.210.0.0 to 41.210.255.255

So how nasty and pushy are they once you have fallen victim to them, [my comments in brackets]:

2008-03-11     07:46:01 PM     my_redeemer_lives login this room: The Big TUESDAY Gathering
2008-03-11     07:49:53 PM     my_redeemer_lives         my_redeemer_lives says: hello
2008-03-11     07:51:12 PM     my_redeemer_lives         my_redeemer_lives says: hello (such and such)
2008-03-11     07:53:47 PM     my_redeemer_lives         my_redeemer_lives says: HELLO (SUCH AND SUCH) [we can now see this person shouting as if angry, upset.]
2008-03-11     07:53:50 PM     my_redeemer_lives         my_redeemer_lives says: TALK TO ME
2008-03-11     07:54:26 PM     (our monitor)                  monitor  says: redeemer u ok
2008-03-11     07:54:37 PM     my_redeemer_lives         my_redeemer_lives says: yes
2008-03-11     07:54:58 PM     my_redeemer_lives         my_redeemer_lives says: I am an orphan from africa [likely story of course.]
2008-03-11     07:56:36 PM     my_redeemer_lives         my_redeemer_lives says: hello (such and such)?
2008-03-11     07:58:13 PM     my_redeemer_lives         my_redeemer_lives says: hello (such and such)? [sadly we can see how these people carry on, don't let you go.]
2008-03-11     07:58:21 PM     such and such                such and such says: redeemer how long have u been a christian
008-03-11     08:04:45 PM       my_redeemer_lives quit this room: The Big TUESDAY Gathering
  
All I can say is sorry, I know it is too late, if you have been conned out of money, it's awful, learn your lesson and count it as a blessing. People blame God saying why does a loving God allow this to happen to us, pain, suffering, illness.
We find our answer as usual in the Bible in the Old Testament. When the going went good, the children of Israel soon forgot their God and courted other nations. When the going went bad, arghhhhh we must have sinned and they returned to God.
It is not His prefered way, trust me, but by our sufferings we do what, who do you think it better placed to help someone that has been abused, exactly, another victim, now over it and into God, forgiven and moved on. They can still remember, and so can relate better.
Who has more success with prisoner coming to Christ, normally those  that were once in prison, coming to Christ and once out and on the straight and narrow, return to tell them there is a better way, amen.

Please don't let me here anyone say it's your own fault, some kind old Christian lady is not after money, shares in anything, just hears about some poor suffering orphan, we've all seen them adverts on satellite TV channels even, that are for real, wrench on our hearts, or we pretend not to, and change channel as quick as possible. But sadly the net can't be trusted. Because of an minority they ruin it for any genuine ones.
So it is with deep regret I say, NEVER EVER under any circumstaces part with money, reveal your email address, reply to any emails you've received or chat to anyone in private that you do not fully know, gotten to know over time in a public arena and even then, say sorry, I'd love to help, but I can not, and give them links to find help in their country. I suspect Pretoria in South Africa maybe another one to look out for.

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Here is another suspect I've traced from using my site, upon which I doubt is female and looks like the photo:
http://www.asiafuns.com/free_dating_asian_personals_singles_6752.html
http://www.meelovia.com/ShowUser_uid_rashma.aspx

However forgive, there is always a slim chance for once that she is for real and he stolen her identity to use on my site, putting in her username and  then email address taken from thsoe sites above. Either way it ruins everything, because I simply trust no one now.

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http://www.scamvictimsunited.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1592

Much to my embarassment, I was apparently scammed out of ~$2,300 over the course of a year or so by a Nigerian romance scammer operating out of the Achimota District in northern Accra, Ghana. This person, possibly a male, was posing as a woman named "Mary Malik", age 30, a Ghanian who resided in the district with her mother, brother and several orphan friends.

I thought I was helping out a poor Ghanian, when all I was doing was getting scammed. In order to get them to quit living off me every month, I tried to set them up in a taxi business, but soon there was a "terrible accident". Through a heartbreaking story of police after her, etc., I was scammed out of $700. Then, angry and wanting to be paid back, I invested in a "rental car for the tourist agency" business. I thought I was going into business in Ghana!
For the rest of the article see: http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=95411

The three countries in Africa from where the majority of scams originate are Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).

Zimbabweans and Ivorians often pose as Ghanaians and in recent times Nigerians have started to do likewise. Unfortunatley this has given Ghana a bad image. In reality Ghana is an extremely honest country where traditions, integrity and family values are held in the highest regard. Almost all scams operating, or appearing to operate from Ghana, are the work of non Ghanaians. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070118130040AAyGJ1F

http://internet-love-scams.org/forum/showthread.php?t=4514
http://www.oft.gov.uk/oft_at_work/consumer_initiatives/scams/scam-quiz
http://www.oft.gov.uk/oft_at_work/consumer_initiatives/scams/email-spam
FESTAC, Nigeria — As patient as fishermen, the young men toil day and night, trawling for replies to the e-mails they shoot to strangers half a world away.

Most recipients hit delete, delete, delete, delete without ever opening the messages that urge them to claim the untold riches of a long-lost deceased second cousin, and the messages that offer millions of dollars to help smuggle loot stolen by a corrupt Nigerian official into a U.S. account.

But the few who actually reply make this a tempting and lucrative business for the boys of Festac, a neighborhood of Lagos at the center of the cyber-scam universe. The targets are called maghas — scammer slang from a Yoruba word meaning fool, and refers to gullible white people.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fg-scammers20oct20,0,4094532,full.story?coll=la-tot-promo

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/11/27/1196036839741.html?page=2

See also the great shares con as well
Britain's 10 million small shareholders are being systematically targeted by an international criminal network of fake investment firms who have conned them out of millions of pounds.

And the wedding scam one as well
http://www.joewein.de/sw/fraud-wedding-photographer.htm

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http://www.proxyserverprivacy.com/ipaddress_range.php
http://software77.net/cgi-bin/ip-country/geo-ip.pl
http://www.yutrade.net/blacklist.php
http://www.nigerianscambuster.com/
http://dogdetective.com/lost-dog-scams.cfm
http://www.joewein.de/sw/419scam.htm

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Lastly scammers please do not bother, everything is logged, I'm on just about every day, I'll check numbers now, trace, and I'll block again, wasting your own time, as I love researching, how I know the Bible is accurate and truth. Study, research, check, study, so on. Oh and as soon as you hit, you'll be added to the above list anyway.  Finally, though it's always the innocent that suffer, it may be best to simply block the whole of Africa itself. Until these governments are willing to tackle and deal with the problem we need to impliment our own personal sanctions against them.
I'd even be that weary now of anti-scam sites, not put it past the scammers, probably already done it to set up an anti-scam site in order to get more info off you.
Remember don't say it can;t happen to me, you run a business, have your email address online, telephone number, so on. From Credit card fraud to romance scams and lotto scams to my father dropped dead and left me millions, give some to you if you house it for me cons to all sorts now, be very weary online, I had no idea how big a problem this truly was. But I do now. And so you, Amen.

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April 2008 update:
They don't stop trying you know:
From: sec2@mchsi.com

Dear Fund Recipient,

You have just been approved for payment of a donation sum of £541,022.00 in the
annual UK NATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES. Please contact the Fiduciary Agent, Mrs. Sharon
Cole on Email: award_claimunits@yahoo.com.hk

ENTER PERSONAL DETAILS (Compulsory)
Name(s):
Annual Income:
Age:
Address:
State:
Country:
Valid Phone Number:
How Do You Wish To Receive Your Funds? 1. Cheque Delivery by Courier 2. Direct
Bank Transfer

Dr.Carl A.Moore
(Information Officer)

Fortunately for me this is an old one and I'm that strong headed, Christian or not, God forgive me, incase it is a con, if  they said I'm about to die and my children be shot dead right now unless I have 10.000 pounds by tonight I'd still ignore it.
Even if genuine, I avoid sending on those forwarded Christian like chain mail things, with some powerful message, story, something in, saying pass on to 10 people and so on. I take no part in any such things. This way if you blanket the darn lot across the board, and if everyone did this the scammers would give up saying waste of time, spend hours a day every day and not one has bought the bait, I'm off and they'd give up. Well some hope, on to the next con, which catches the first few out before we pick up on it and report it again.
If we truly all belonged to God and not into material wealth we would care not about falling for these things.
Speaking of which even so called Christian men of God are up to, well, see for yourself by clicking here about Don Stewart.
The moral of the story is, if you stop giving money to try and gain more money then you'll be fine, anything, yes even gambling, lottery, that requires a cheap way to make money, requires you giving small amounts to get more back is a con in my eyes now and surely frowned upon by the Lord.