what is with emails promising to pay you for helping with transfering money cause someone died?I get so many.?
I get these emails weekly and I know they are after something. But this doesn't sound ethical or leagal..I just don't get it. They are always labeled as "very urgent" and go something like this...Before this unpleasant incident, my mother and Terry had already visited South Africa to deposit the sum of Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$7.5M) in the safe vault of a Security and financial company here in Johannesburg South Africa.Then follow with.....If my proposition is considered, for assisting us to transfer this money to your country, we will offer you 25% of the total fund,75% will be for my family. We wish to invest a large portion of our share in your country under your supervision...... Where do these come from and why?????? How do I make them stop??
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these are sucker emails and illegal- the idea is to find somebody dumb and greedy enough to give their bank account number- then they clean out any account they can find with the info given
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You can't make them stop. The other biggie right now is an email supposedly from Chase Bank asking you to log in because of account problems. I logged in with a fake name and password, and it still let me into a screen asking for credit card information. The fake name and password were insulting to them, by the way. "There's a sucker born every minute."--P.T. Barnum
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These e-mails come from people who have overseas accounts who are trying to bilk you out of your money. The only way to make them stop is through a SPAM or BULK filter on your e-mail accounts or by blocking the addresses on each message you receive. I began getting these and ended up changing my e-mail account. Good Luck!
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Not that this will make it stop, but there's a website called sweetchillisauce dot com, and the guy had gone back and forth with a bunch of these scam artists. It's hilarious, and may make receiving these more bearable!
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there are mostly from Nigeria. just ignore them. big scams
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It's a scam, i get them all the time too. Do you ever play the lottery online? Or something like the Lottery? They probably got your informaton from there. It's the latest in oversea's internet scam crime! They ask for your account information to transfer funds to your account....that's when they take everything you have!!!
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These are false, called "419 letters" after the Nigeria legal code for fraud. Do not give any real information to them. They are normally Nigerian, even if they say they are from another country. They are sometimes from other African and severely corrupt countries in other parts of the world. The idea is that 1) there is a lot of money, but they need your help. 2) At some point, they will either attempt to drain you bank account, or do some identity theft, or they will ask you for money (We need $5000 to pay the transfer fee....). I have responded (as a joke, of course) with a dozen or so of these fakes. Often, if you read carefully, they are asking you to steal (it's not their money, they just can't find who it should go to, or it should go to the government). www.scamorama.com is a funny site, if you're over 18.
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Yes, It is a scam with MONEY hungry people in mind. People do fall for this and always loose their hard earned cash, looking for the EASY dollar. If it sounds too good to be true, IT IS. They ask for a few hundred and promise millions...Come on now.
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this is from my internet provider, I hope it helps -
