Con or no con

[denis567]

Just had an email from a bloke in Nigeria saying that I am due to receive $2,500,000 which I should have claimed 6 months ago. Now they have another man who is claiming this money because I have been killed in a road accident, and he is my only relative. Can I confirm whether I am still alive, and will I send them my bank details so that they can pay me the money. They must think I am daft to fall for this.
My question is, do many others get this type of email?. I get them on a regular basis

[Andyvon]

It's a numbers game Denis. Enough people do send their details for it to be worth their time cooking these things up.

[sherrardk]

We get them via Gumtree to our business - someone, somewhere must be falling for it or (presumably) they would stop.

[SIRandyraven]

For fun a few years ago , I used to go onto Skype and leave account open for people to skypeme via chat.
Then wait for the first scam artist.
I have had them send me copies of bank details ...passport details ...he whole bundle of fake documents ...I'm still waiting for my $20,000,000 to arrive :-(
Had one girl in Gambia asking me to send her £100 to buy a web cam so she could send me nude pictures of her ...she took 4 minutes of chat to offer that one ...lol
At least 6 who say they are orphans and want me to send money to pay for their studies. Just picture all these Gambians and Nigerians sat at pc's in internet cafe working away ...

[AlBags]

Nope ..
None of us get anything like that at all.
It is genuine for sure ... Book a flight out there ASAP.

[jno]

I don't understand the delay, SIRandy, I got my money ( admittedly it was only $6 million looted from Saddam) within a week.

[Count-A-Strong]

My penis enlargement was a huge success. Pardon the pun.

[DTCwordfan]

No wonder you have no body on your avatar, jno. Saddam's henchmen got to you???

[Andyvon]

My 43 year old cousin sent £6000 off to a Ghanian woman for medical treatment and an airline ticket before she came to the UK to marry him (I think that's what he intended). He waited for her at Heathrow and - surprise, surprise - she never got off the flight!

My father's mother-in-law is 92 and she keeps getting very excited when she recieves the junk mail saying she's won £16,000 and has to send off a 'release fee' before recieving the money. My father deals with her finances but she was sending the money off. When he took her cheque book she started sending cash! He now has to control her bank account and still explain to her she hasn't won anything. His MIL finds it very hard to understand it's all a con.

These people are out there!

[DTCwordfan]

I got an e-mail that asked me if I wanted $5 billion of gold from someone in London called G.Brown.

No idea who the Snag was.

[pastafreak]

I've never gotten one of these emails.
I'm feeling quite left out........ ;-((

[starone]

I get loads of them. I'm sure if a few of them were true I would be extremely rich by now. I have got to the stage where I don't even bother to look at them, just delete them twice, just to make sure. Sometimes I feel like sending them some details like name: Minnie Mouse. address: 10 Downing Street. But I don't think that would put them off and would just be a waste of time.

[sara3]

I actually got my $2,500,000.

live a little, take a chance, lol ;o)

[SIRandyraven]

Dear Pastafreak,
Please send me £50,000 for an urgent operation I need.
Once I have cashed the cheque , I will marry you. Meet you at Heathrow Terminal 6 on the 30th of Feb 2011 at 25:00 hours. I will be the person with the third leg.

Regards
SirRandy (Cell 6 East Wing , Parkhurst)

[SIRandyraven]

Dear reader.
You have won £100,000,000 million or a smaller prize in my raffle you did not enter.
Please send £5000 to cover the Post costs and I will forward your cheque or plastic pepper pot.
You have also won a holiday. Free flights and meals. However you must pay room costs a £1000 per night for a min of a 10 night stay.

You have also won £20 ...to collect call this number to give details. Calls cost £5 a minute and last for a min of 20 mins ...

See your all winners in my casino

[dotty.]

YOU MADE A TIME MACHINE, ......OUT OF A DELOREAN?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0epzwaS4LQ&feature=related