Posted by Lisa/WI on 3/8/05 9:53pm
Msg #24447

Strange Emails

Wondering if anyone has received any strange requests in their email. I have received two so far and they ask if you can act as a next of kin or if you can represent someone who is imprisoned and take their money and deposit it into an account in the US. These are supposedly from Nigeria. No doubt its some kind of scam, just curious to see if anybody else is getting these. They are most certainly strange.

Reply by jojo_MN on 3/8/05 9:54pm
Msg #24448

Do not reply to them. They are bad news!!

Reply by John_NorCal on 3/8/05 10:02pm
Msg #24450

This is a scam that has been around for awhile. They are trying to get your personal information, DO NOT REPLY TO THEM! JUST DELETE THEM..

Reply by Lisa/WI on 3/8/05 10:07pm
Msg #24452

Re: Reply?

I feel sorry for the people who actually fall for these. I wasnt going to, just thought them to be really weird.

Reply by lorraine/FL on 3/8/05 10:18pm
Msg #24454

Re: Reply?

I got my first one a couple of years ago...(I know, overkill) but, I called the FBI. Said they were very aware and that it was a scam.

Reply by sasnak on 3/8/05 11:09pm
Msg #24475

Re: Reply?

I get about 2 a month. Can they actually think people are that gullible to reply to them?

Reply by Mary Pierce on 3/9/05 6:07am
Msg #24487

Re: Reply?

I work for an attorney and we had someone call him once to help them with this sort of thing. They thought it was for real and was seeking his advice on how to handle it. The attorney had never heard of the scam. I filled him in on it.

Reply by Roger/OH on 3/9/05 12:05am
Msg #24481

Fun website for these scammers getting scammed.

The Nigerian scammers have been around for quite a while. There's a HILARIOUS website at www.ebolamonkeyman.com where the scammers themselves get scammed.

Reply by MelissaNV on 3/9/05 10:13am
Msg #24515

NIGERIA

This is a major scam. Not only do they approach people like us, but individuals. They love chat lines. My sister was just talking to one on the internet. All of a sudden she was receiving packages. They wanted her to send them to Nigeria. When she said she wouldn't, they threatened to kill her. She was really scared. They got our address just from being logged in on the computer. Someone else I know was talking to a "pen pal" and the same thing happend to him. Warn everyone you know.

Reply by Lisa/WI on 3/9/05 10:34am
Msg #24519

Re: NIGERIA-WOW!

Thanks for the info so I can pass it along to friends and family who might be more vulnerable to this kind of stuff. Scary. Did your sister report it? What a world we live in.

Reply by Melissa on 3/9/05 11:05am
Msg #24522

Re: NIGERIA-WOW!

The Postal Inspector was notified. She kept getting pkgs for a long time. Just remember, that if you haven't ordered something, reject it don't open it. UPS, FedX will let you reject a package, and of course you can return to sender with the post office. They would actually send her prepaid labels across the email to be put on the pkgs. These of course are purchased with stolen credit cards.
They continued to threaten her for several weeks.

Reply by PK on 3/9/05 12:49pm
Msg #24549

http:www.419eater.com

see the scammers get scammed into taking funny phots and actually scammed into sending money to the people they intend to scam!

Reply by Charm_AL on 3/9/05 1:20pm
Msg #24553

apparantly Russia's doing it too...

I got this delivered to my junk folder this a.m. Just the first paragraph

"I am Ms. KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA, personal secretary to Mikhail Khodorkovsky the richest man in Russia and owner of the following companies: Chairman CEO:
YUKOS OIL (Russian Largest Oil Company) Chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable financial institution with its branches all over the world).
I seek your partnership to accommodate the sum US$423M for us.
My Boss got arrested for his involvement on politics in financing the leading and opposing political parties (the Union of Right Forces, led by Boris Nemtsov, and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by Gregor
Yavlinsky) which posed treat to President Vladimir Putin second tenure as Russian president before he was reelected On March 14, 2004. "

Do you believe this stuff?