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by HereToLeave Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:57 pm
My mum received a suspicious email again from match.com from a man named "Matin Wood".
I don't know whether to upload the pictures he attached but here is the gibberish first..

It nice reading from you and you sound an awesome woman,which i find you attractive with all that glitters in the sight of every man,likewise me and interested in
getting to know you,but if asked what brought you there on a dating since,since we both joined in search of a reason am looking for a woman who will understand and love me and my son Life can be lonely without someone...I am a person who is very real when it comes to life and its' issues. Am honest,kind,caring,affectionate,good sense of humor,easy going,free thinker,trustworthy and respect the lives of other people.....I'm a man that is living life as it comes to me. I don't worry about tomorrow, for it will be here no matter what I do All is about who can make you happy and also trust you and treat you like a queen i will like you to accpet my friend request so that we will o on and know more about each other....


and a second email of

It was lovely to see your reply,How are you? I hope you are well and fine. I want to tell you a bit about my self and i think this will define who i am and what i do for living.I hope you'll tell me some more about yourself in your next mail. I really like everything I read in your profile and my instincts tells me you are a good woman.. But here we are with you in me and you???, far away in Syria with the UN Security on a peacekeeping mission... Too bad isn't it? well as long as we have life,we can still have time for our selves in the near future,what matters is life,right?I do understand the distance thing; I just truly believe that there are no boundaries as you seek your life companion... How do I set the ball rolling?

My name is Matin Wood . Am diplomat or agent . Am an agent Matin Wood and i have been with the UN Security for almost 16 years now serving as an agent,delivering itmes,gifts,messages to thier families,love ones and also as well as receiving items,gifts,messages to them.. I have been in so many war countries together with some army and as well as the UN Security. I have been to Afghanistan,Iraq,Libya and now in Syria with the NATO as my last serving agency... I will be on retire in months time come,so i have plan to resign from work,i decided to help my self in search of a special woman to spend the rest of my life with till enternity. I don't care about the distance or the age because distance is a way and age is also a number. All is about who can make you happy and also trust you and treat you like a queen. Well talking about my family back ground,i use to be the second child of my late parents,but now am the only son of my parents as i lost my elder brother due to diabetes for some years now..




i hope you will tell me something bit about your self


Half of it makes no sense again. And it's typical that he should be away from home, it seems that everyone on match.com is either away on holiday or away with work, How Bizarre? (or not).

Here is the header of the email..
Delivered-To: ***@gmail.com
Received: by 10.223.102.70 with SMTP id f6csp35429fao;
Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:05:20 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.58.171.4 with SMTP id aq4mr3043926vec.26.1377115489588;
Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:04:49 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from mail-vb0-x241.google.com (mail-vb0-x241.google.com [2607:f8b0:400c:c02::241])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id se5si2633041vdc.127.1969.12.31.16.00.00
(version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128);
Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:04:49 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 2607:f8b0:400c:c02::241 as permitted sender) client-ip=2607:f8b0:400c:c02::241;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 2607:f8b0:400c:c02::241 as permitted sender) [email protected];
dkim=pass [email protected];
dmarc=pass (p=NONE dis=NONE) d=gmail.com
Received: by mail-vb0-x241.google.com with SMTP id f12so91021vbg.4
for <***@gmail.com>; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:04:49 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 10.58.127.202 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.58.127.202
X-Received: from mr.google.com ([10.58.127.202])
by 10.58.127.202 with SMTP id ni10mr2378594veb.27.1377115488384 (num_hops = 1);
Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:04:48 -0700 (PDT)
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Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:04:48 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:04:48 +0100
Message-ID: <CABXHxZiVi6R26DJzcLX_OR0YY0dsL78HdWJ0TRGWzKREOu6efA@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: hello
From: matin wood <[email protected]>
To: ***@gmail.com
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b5d870f7fedd204e47aafcd


Anyway I'd appreciate it if you guys could check the location of this guy to see if he is indeed in Syria, and your opinion on whether this is another scammer or not..

If it indeed turns out to be another scammer I will post the pictures and help in whatever means necessary, many thanks.
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by HereToLeave Thu Aug 22, 2013 6:41 pm
Are you able to track the location from this header though? I wasn't...
by Dotti Thu Aug 22, 2013 11:55 pm
Gmail headers will always track to gmail headquarters in California. You will not get a location from the headers if the sender is using gmail.

As I said, though, there is absolutely no doubt about it--this is an African scammer, so where is he located (odds are it will be Nigeria, Ghana, or Malaysia) really doesn't matter too much.

it's also amazing how many different men (and women) there are who are "very real when it comes to life and its' issues" and have remarkably similar descriptions.

[url]http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iB45j-LH_F0J:www.match.com/profile/showprofile.aspx/%3Fhandle%3DHeart666_felt666%26tp%3Dprtbk+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
[/url]

http://www.datehookup.com/User-272837886.htm

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xHKvsrww-5UJ:www.chemistry.com/public/online-dating/geo/District%2520of%2520Columbia/Washington/F39H43A7+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

http://www.youreittoday.com/scammer.php?scammerid=569234

There are many more but I think the point is clear enough.

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