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They are not from Nigeria. There is no money. I had a person ask me for advise once I tried to explain to them, but they insisted that they were going to be sent money. I actually played along with a couple of these email scammers, just to see how far they would go.

 

There are many forms: One of them will send you a check for $7,500 as part of there lure to get at the fake $20 million. You are to keep $2,500 but to send $5,000 to some agent they are working with. This has to be done immediately so you need to deposit the check but send your own money.You just made $2,500. Wrong. There check is bogus and will not clear and you just lost $5,000. The amount will change based on how much they think you can be milked for.

 

Thee are no get rich plans. It requires hard work and time. You did not all of a sudden become smart. If you did bad in school, you will not get rich,unless you change the time and energy you are willing to invest.

 

Nobody, in these schemes are dying from cancer, or have relatives that left $20 million in a box. If they were sincere, they would give a name, address and phone number. If they do give this information, then you can do a search. My advise is to simply delete and don't read them. Don't waste your time.

The "gimmick" to these is that they're all bogus!  They'll send you a check, tell you to deposit or cash it, send them a specific amount, and the rest is yours to keep.  Problem is that the original check is no good, but by the time you find that out, you've already sent them their portion, and you're liable to your bank for the balance.  IF you're lucky, the bank will be suspicious of the check and refuse to cash it.  You can check a lot of these out at www.snopes.com which is a great website to refer to on questionable internet info.

The problem is it looks so easy. Nothing more is asked of you than to give out a little information. The problem Peggy is that with just that small amount of information alone, you could have your identity stolen. For instance, you give your name and address out:
1) I can know go to your home and
a) go thru your trash and get personal information
b) potentially stalk you
c) rob you
etc. and that is just what can be done with the info. Other scams ask you for your name, address, bank account number where they can send you the check and your social security number of the. This too leads to identity theft. Others ask you to send them a check for say $3,000 in order for the funds to be released. This too is their way of gaining something from you for nothing. Your Hard Earned CASH. Please Peggy, do not fall prey to these scams. In the end the only thing you will have gained nothing and potentially lost everything. Also please note that they are now calling homes with this same type of scam, stating that the government has had money that is yours. If that is the case than you can verify the information through government or legal channels. I hope this helped.
Sincerely
AJ

It's best to simply delete those scam e-mails.

 

However, I have forwarded some e-mail SCHEMES to the man in my govt responsible for dealing with FRAUD. Go to your state's website, get his/her e-mail address and start forwarding. I also let the person who sent the e-mail know what I have done.

 

ANYTHING that sounds too good to be true (fast money, fast weight loss, etc) IS ALWAYS too good to be true! It's fraud. We all need to be smarter consumers.

I believe the gimmick is to collect as much information as possible from the person that receives the email.

 

I never fully got into them enough to know for sure what is the deal...yet I imagine, for you to supposedly receive the money from the emailer, you have to provide the bank account number, so it can be deposited in it...or, once they have your address, name. passport # and such...perhaps try an identity thief on you...

Or, they might ask for some money in which to handle their legal fees of handling the paper work...of course from what I have heard...you never hear from them again or get your money in return for the check.

 

There are so many scams a floating out there today...it is rather sad you know.  So many people looking to steal from another...

 

"what goes around, comes around."  Too bad not enough people understand this premise of reality...

 

Those are my thoughts

We Are All Blessed

Tonie

That "gimmick" is known as phishing. They are hoping you are dumb enough to fall for this. If you really inherited or won anything, you wouldn't have to send all of this information to anyone since they would have this information, if you entered a contest. If the case is that you inherited anything, you would be contacted in a more professional way than e-mail. This is just like the scam that goes around saying that your bank account information has been compromised and they ask for your routing number, account number, name, address and phone number, etc. First off, if that really was your bank- they'd have this information. Second, no respectable bank would even contact you if your account was compromised. A few years ago, a hacker bypassed the servers at my bank and downloaded thousands of debit card numbers. While trying to pay for items I had bought at a store using my debit card, it came up as inactive/invalid. The bank had deactivated all of the numbers compromised and waited for the customers to make the first move by contacting the bank and letting them know that their debit cards weren't working. Only then did the bank re-issue new cards without needing any information. A hint to determine whether or not such an e-mail is fake is to ask yourself some common sense questions: Did the e-mail contain proper grammar? Wouldn't a bank that know its OWN routing number? I personally believe that any one that falls for this should be punished just as much as the person trying to commit fraud, only their charge would be STUPIDITY.

... our computers are equipted with a delete button.  Don't open anything that you have no idea who its from.

 

I don't know a Peggy Warren, LOL. 

 

Pearl