PRIVATE AND URGENT ''I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a huge sum of money from a deceased customer's account(German property magnate) who On the 7th of July 2005, the deceased his wife and his only son died in the Bomb Blast at Kings cross underground Station.They were on holiday for three weeks as a tourist and bank with us for over 10years now.It happened on his birthday. ''
The email then goes on to request my bank account details for funds transfer and I will be promised 30%...
No Pippa - thought I'd seen them all - including the one where they asked for my details in case I wanted to donate money toward the church organ fund in a small Nigerian village - but haven't seen this one before. Unbelievable!
Doll x
It's the scambaters 419......Do you remember admarlow getting them to hold up a plague saying 'goodbye to theanswerbank' google 419 scambaiter and have a read of the letters. Mike Berry aka SHIVER METIMBERS scammed the scammers. Hilarious :-)
I would never make any sort of response to a spam email. Apart from the fraud issue in this sort of case, it confirms that your email address is active and it will then stay on the list and be passed on to other spammers. This is equally true of "click here to unsubscribe" unless you know the origin.