Do people realy fall for this crap

 

 

 

Attention Customer,

 

 

There is an issue involving $800,000.00 USD which was called to Our Bank(CAPITAL CITY BANK) from THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF BENIN REPUBLIC concerning your compensation of $800,000.00 USD has been forwarded to Western Union Money Transfer and An instruction has come directly from Mr.Jona Akim of Ministry Of Finance.

 

He asked us to start sending your fund installment $5000 per a day through western union money transfer.This type of transfer means you will be receiving $5000 every day through western union until the total of $800,000.00 USD is completely transferred to you.

 

Today,our bank has effected your first payment of $5000 through western union.

Now you have to Contact Dr. David Williams on his contact below as he is the person in charge of your payment.

The Western union Agent is:

Name: Dr. David Williams

 

Email: [email protected]

Phone number: +229 98 33 02 57

Address: 12 Apkapka St Cotonou, Benin Republic

Money sent Through Cornelis Zwaagstra, amount sent $5,000.00 to you today. So contact Dr. David Williams on above email address and tell him to give you needed information and also for him to help you pick the $5,000.00.

Reconfirm your address

 

 

(1)Your Full name: ................

(2)Your Phone number: ...................

(3)Your Contact address: ..................

(4)Your Age: ....................................

 

 

You will also have to send them the tax clearance charges of $137usd [as per the instruction from the International Monetary Fund(I.M.F office)]Pls contact Dr. David Williams ASAP and send them the fee for them to send you the pick up information for your first $5000 payment.

Mrs Linda Onu

Yours in Service.

Cotonou,Benin Republic.

I used to get those a lot, not so much anymore. Sometimes if I was bored I would respond back telling them I am very interested and would like to proceed. They would write back with more detailed BS. Then I would tell them my bank account number was Go F%&^ Yourself you piece of S#@^ scumbag C#$%sucker, and my routing number is Suck my B#$%^ you Motherf&*(#r.

 

They must have put me on some kind of 3rd world scumbag do not call list because I havn't gotten one of those e-mails in several years.

I too used to get those frequently. I have a decent internet prescence and because of that I get junk like that all the time. I also get the Nigerian women who claim to live near me and want to meet me but they are stuck in a foreign country and their passport expired and they need me to wire them thousands of dollars so that they can renew their passport. That's why I've changed the email address I use for business and I have one that I use for personal use now exclusively.

 

I too send them back a nastygram and I also sent the information to the FBI website too so that they could track it. It never ceases to amaze me what people will do for a quick buck. Sad thing is that they usually prey on vulnerable people.

Ya I responded one time with

 

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They where sending me emails asking If I was getting there mail

you must be doing something wrong, because my compensation was $1,000,000 USD

 

it's amazing how much money that country has.

I get e-mails from the middle east trying to sell me boner pills sometimes. How do they know?

I get e-mails from the middle east trying to sell me boner pills sometimes. How do they know?

 

I thought I bought all of them

Here I was thinking that I was special getting emails like this...now I really feel unloved

You have to tell them that you are very interested but that your money is in a credit union and they have to send you a $500.00 processing fee to be able to get the money transferred out of country.

I had one like this before for a boat i had for sale in the boat shopper, and i went along with it. they sent me a check that was 500.00 more than i was asking for and asked to have the over amount returned back via western union. the 500.00 was to be sent to western union in north carolina, so i went to the police to try and have a sting set up for the recipient in north carolina and they were not intrested in the least bit.. F me i should go into this buisness i told the officer maybe you could be my 1st customer he did not like that at all and asked me to leave..HAHAHA

 

well i wasted a bunch of their time and mine and made them spend the money to overnight the check to me.. I did call the bank and confirmed that the checking account did not exist..Also spoke to a hauler who wanted to pick the boat up and i told him i would need cash payment if he came..HAHA i was like are you for real said you better check who you are hauling for that these people were scammers..

I work for Bank of America.....you would not BELIEVE how legit some scams look now. Don't get me wrong, anyone with half a brain should know not to give out ANY of their information.....but this is just a warning for you guys. Never give out your PIN to ANYONE, even if you are IN your bank and it's a banking rep. Your bank will NEVER email you asking you for information.

You wudnt believe how many ppl got into that when it all just started. I used to get al of of those letters in late 1990s . Those scamers made some cash....

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud?wasRedirected=true

 

http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/fraud

The below scam seems to be getting popular recently - I have 2 friends with family members who have been scammed this way in the past year. A variant involves the kid being overseas/studying in Europe and arrested on drug charges:

 

Scam Alert: Grandmother falls prey to fake bail bondsman

 

By Edgar Sanchez -- Sac Bee Staff Writer

05/11/04 CA - Bessie Lofton accepted a collect phone call recently from a man claiming to be Sean, her 22-year-old grandson.

 

"Grandma, I need your help," the caller told the Woodland woman, asking her to remain on the line.

 

"It really sounded like my grandson," said Lofton, 75, explaining why she kept her ear to the phone.

 

Next, she heard the voices of two other men telling her that Sean, of Davis, had been arrested in Modesto in connection with a hit-and-run accident.

 

One of the men, who identified himself as Juan Garcia Jr., claimed to be a bail bondsman.

 

He requested $840 so he could bail Sean out of jail.

 

At that point, "Sean" got back on the line and said jailers had refused to accept his personal check to cover the bail.

 

"Please send the money, Grandma ... I'll pay you back," the man pleaded.

 

Within minutes, Lofton wired $840 to Garcia via Western Union.

 

When Lofton contacted her grandson the next day, he knew nothing about his having been "arrested."

 

"That's when I realized I had walked into a scam, and I started to cry," Lofton said. "It was a terrible scam."

 

Lofton was one of five Woodland grandmothers recently targeted for the bail scam, Woodland police said last week.

 

While two of the intended victims wired money to the con men, Lofton was the only one to lose her cash, police Sgt. Susan Lundquist said.

 

"Another lady did send the money, but her family found out and said, 'This doesn't sound right,' " Lundquist said. "They put a stop-payment on it, and the money was never picked up."

 

The other grandmothers had become suspicious and hung up on the con men, she said.

 

The incidents served as a reminder to beware of phone scams, police said.

 

Citizens should never "blindly follow the directions of people who call them on the phone," Lundquist said.

 

"If someone calls you from jail, you can get the jail's main number from the phone book or directory assistance," she said. "Then, you can call the jail yourself.

 

"Or call a reputable bail-bond company, and it can confirm" whether someone has been arrested, she added.

 

The bail scam is usually pulled by traveling con artists, Sacramento bounty hunter Leonard Padilla said.

 

"These are con artists who run around the state, hitting different cities at different times," he said.

 

Each successful scam hurts the image of legitimate bail-bond agents, all of whom seek to stop the crooks, Padilla said.

 

"Local bail-bond companies don't want anyone to think that their companies are involved in this," he said.

 

Lofton, meanwhile, said she's out more than $900 - including a $78 fee that Western Union charged to wire the $840.

 

Before wiring the cash to a Western Union office in Modesto, Lofton provided a secret code to "Garcia" so he could claim the money.

 

For Lofton, the greatest mystery is how the phony "Sean" managed to emulate the voice of her real grandson and obtain his name.

 

"I really did think I was talking to my grandson," she said.

 

Her grandson, Lofton said, is an outstanding young man who's never been in trouble with the law.

 

"They were brilliant," Lofton said of the con men. "I just hope they get caught.

 

"If I ever faced them in court, the bailiffs would have to handcuff me, because I would want to choke these people to death."

When I get e-mails for hair restoration, weight loss, penile enlargement, I just figured someone was spying on me.

I once called. It was a number based in London UK. The guy was Nigerian, I could hear the accent. I told him I wanted to give him my bank account info and I wanted to send to him my wife and cat as a sign of appreciation...he hung up...

One scam I ran into was when I was trying to sell a copier on Craig'slist. I had a guy say he was in CA but moving to NJ and wanted to buy it. He stated in his emails that he was deaf and wanted me to call a special phone number that would transpose my spoken words to text for him. He wanted to send me a check in the mail and call him with instructions on how to pick up the copier when I got it. Knowing better than to just call a phone number, I checked the area code and it was from the Dominican Republic. If I had called the number I most likely would have gotten a $900 or so phone bill that I understand can't be easily disputed since it is outside the US and FCC regulation.