Hey just wondering if any of your guys received that strange email about the guy from africa that is trying to transfer 50 million dollars into someones account here in the US and in return you get like 25% of it. Aparantely a different form of it goes around every once and a while but this is the first time that i got it. I am curreltly playing with fire and I emailed him back telling him that it sounded interesting. He emailed me back asking for a bunch of personal information. I replied basically saying that he was full of it and that he should look for another form of intertainment. I believe that he gave me a phone # and it was not from the US. Kinda a wierd deal - Lloyd
02-13-2004 Over year old.
Sar Elite Veteran Location: Kingston, NY
Just don't play with it too much, these people can be dangerous. Some people have gone overseas to get their money back (lots of it) and have ended up dead.. so go the stories.
They just want your bank account and extensive personal information so they can transfer anything you have in your accounts into their own accounts and they use greed to get that information.
Somebody said it all ready but the best way to deal with these people is to bury them in bull****.
If most people who get the mail string them along with false info, it will become very time consuming for the crooks, and the scam just won't be practical anymore.
This works for all the info scams.
Why do we fear change, one of the two certainty's in life
I got a similar one a while ago but it was from an executive with Barclay's Bank (large British retail bank) and the guy really is a senior banker. Only thing was that if you reply the email did not go to the barclay chap - it went to some hotmail type account.
The scammer made the email look like it came from a reputable bank.
Lost out on $50 million
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02-13-2004 Over year old.
rscamp Veteran Location: Ontario, Canada
We obviously need people to pass a "streetproofing" course before they are allowed to go on the 'net.
He emailed me back asking for a bunch of personal information.
I replied basically saying that he was full of it and that he should look for another form of intertainment. I believe that he gave me a phone # and it was not from the US. Kinda a wierd deal - Lloyd
