Bogus Emails

[flip_flop]

Have just received the following email;

"Mutual From Mrs Juliet Williams,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my Son,intend to establish in your country.I got your contact on the net in my search for a partner abroad. Though I have not met with you before but I believe,one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

There is this amount of Twelve million U.S dollars($12,000,000.00) which my late Husband deposited this money with a commercial bank here in Abidjan-Cote d'Ivoire safe keeping before he was assassinated by unknown persons.

Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside West Africa for security and political reasons.I want you to help me transfer this money from the commercial bank into your personal account in your country for investment of your best knowledge.

For your assistance i will be pleased to offer you 20 percents of the total fund
I await your soonest response

Mrs Juliet Williams"

Do people really fall for this old rubbish?

[jackthehat]

Apparently, so.............

[Thunderchild]

yea they do, people have destroyed their lives over it. there is a group of volunteers that have a private forum (worth joining just for a read of the stories) who make it their mission to bait these people and waste their time in order to hold them off true victims and have a laugh while doing it. I get loads of those daily

[boxtops]

Sadly, yes they do, it only takes one to make it worth while.

[Invictas]

Some must,or they wouldn't keep churning them out!

[thebarron]

They fall for it because they are greedy.

[sandyRoe]

That's a bit of luck, flip_flop, 20% of 12 million.

[beso]

There are people who have fallen for it more than once. I saw a guy on TV who had already lost hundreds of thousands of dollars but was still convinced that he would get the millions if he just persisted. This was even after being shown that the people he was dealing with were frauds.

Another popular variant is from "government fraud agencies" offering to help people recover the money lost in scams. Perfect targets since they have already fallen for it once.

They rely on mentally frail, often lonely, mostly old people.

One particularly despicable scam offers to help people claim on faulty artificial hip and knee replacements.

[squarebear]

More anoying is that people keep posting this cr@p on here. It's spam, delete it.

[Lindylou]

And not just people from Africa. Yet again, this very morning, I've received a letter (and a phone call) telling me I've won £22K from Vital Beauty. I can't tell you how much I've won. At least four £22K and several £19K. Unfortunately I've never received a penny piece. (Or a cheque, for that matter). Why do they bother? What do they hope to achieve?

[beso]

When you respond they inform you that there are certain costs that need to be met before the money can be made available.

I did hear of a case years ago where someone turned the scam around and got the scammers to pay some cost first. Don't know if it was true.

[MarkRae]

> Do people really fall for this old rubbish?

As has been correctly stated, all you have achieved by this thread is give the spam email a larger audience on the Internet - well done!

[Dee Sa]

yea yea just send us your bank details !!!! seems incredible that people fall far all this baloney but unfortunately they do ! what annoys me is how they got my email address !

[ladyalex]

Have a look at Bob Servant...at least it will give you a laugh.

http://www.bobservant...fusion+SAMPLERpdf.pdf