Quote From: will6012They 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.
You were correct about almost everything except that the E-MAIL SENDERS ARE FROM NIGERIA if that's where they claim to be & often they're in Nigeria when they claim to be elsewhere.
They are not ashamed of their actions and the Nigerian gov't is doing little, if anything, to stop it. They even have a word that loosely translates to "Stupid Americans" and shout it gleefully to all within hearing whenever they receive money. There are special rooms set up where the scammers go to use the computers provided for them with full knowledge of the provider of how they'll be used.
Since most of us have caught on to these, lookout for the variations. i was offered a job accepting foreign checks as payment for my employer's product and would then deposit these "checks", keep 20% as my salary and send the balance overseas to the employer via U.s. funds.
I replied that I was most interested & even included a short resume. I also said that due to the scams that "others" were pulling it would be best if I sent his share at least 14 days after I deposited the foreign check and that since he was operating an honest business I knew it would not be a problem & I couldn't wait to start my new job.
Whoever thinks I heard from him again, send me $100 & I'll let you know what happened. (that's satire in case anyone thinks I'm serious)
