I got an email from some guy in Johannasburg stating he has access to $36,000,000 in an account that belonged to someone who is now deceased and if I will open an account and give him the info he will give 25% of the money. NO!!! I'm not considering doing this as I am sure it's a scam. What I'm wondering is if it's also illegal and if so, who do I report/forward this email to?
2006-06-22 00:48:09 · 11 answers · asked by Peaches 3 in Business & Finance ➔ Personal Finance
marke it as SPAM and delete it!
2006-06-22 00:54:32 · answer #1 · answered by Pobept 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
A legitimate employer would do the credit check themselves if they were truly looking to hire someone. There is no job and it is part of a scam to steal your personal information. This person pretends to work for a hiring agency and sends you a link to pull your own credit report trying to obtain your info. Craigslist, monster, and careerbuilder are all full of fake job postings with scammers looking to steal your personal information. Here are three steps to figuring out whether you're dealing with a legitimate job offer. Before giving any personal information, contact the organization directly and ask for the human resource department. That department should know if a job position is open, and even may be able to help arrange a real phone or face-to-face interview. Be wary about interviews conducted entirely by e-mail or instant messenger. Since online scam artists often operate from countries outside of the U.S. they will be trying to keep their international phone bill down. Call your state's Department of Justice Consumer Protection hotline. Agents there can perform their own investigation into whether or not a job offer is legitimate, and get back to you with their results.
2016-03-27 00:48:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contact the Better Business Bureau
2006-06-22 03:54:03 · answer #3 · answered by Tax Man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In order to protect people from these said scammer the necessary actions have to be instant take, like how? These set of fraud have to be reported to service provider of any yahoo mail to avoid any misappropriate or illegality utilization of this serve is strictly a product of wastage and abuse of such belonging country they should publicized nationwide any misuses of internet suspect of meticulous country and gives cautions to those virus at least three to seven times then let their name be reading nationwide. That is my half brain little suggestion.
2006-06-22 02:16:35 · answer #4 · answered by oyetimtop 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES its a scam...
you can forward some of the info on to others so they know its a scam...you might want to call your local police department and ask them who you should contact..
2006-06-22 00:52:53 · answer #5 · answered by Jessi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know this is totally not related but heres a recipe for that Jelly recipe that you were looking for. Also thanks for picking me as best answer for that particular question! Cheers.
Kudzu Blossom Jelly
Spoon over cream cheese, or melt
and serve over waffles and ice cream.
4 cups Kudzu blossoms
4 cups boiling water
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 (1 3/4-ounce) package powered pectin
5 cups sugar
WASH kudzu blossoms with cold water, and place them in a large bowl. Pour 4 cups boiling water over blossoms, and refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
POUR blossoms and liquid through a colander into a Dutch oven, discarding blossoms.
ADD lemon juice and pectin; bring to a full rolling boil over high heat, stirring constantly.
Stir in sugar; return to a full rolling boil, and boil, stirring constantly, 1 minute. Remove from heat; skim off foam with a spoon.
QUICKLY pour jelly into hot, sterilized jars, filling to 1/4 inch from top. Wipe jar rims. Cover at once with metal lids, and screw on bands.
PROCESS in boiling water bath 5 minutes. Cool on wire racks. YIELD: 6 half pints
NOTE : Blossom liquid is gray until lemon juice is added.
ENJOY!
2006-06-22 13:13:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is definitely a well known scam. You really cannot report it to anyone. Best just to delete it
2006-06-22 04:17:16 · answer #7 · answered by ps2754 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If its a yahoo spam mail, you can also forward the message with full headers to abuse@yahoo.com
2006-06-22 01:33:54 · answer #8 · answered by Sunflower 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one word of advice......NEVER reply to these email scams.....
once you reply, you are also validating your email address to these scam operators. To them it means that your email that they had in their list is a VALID one and therefore worth maintaining in their lists.........these lists eventually are sold, and resold, etc to people who keep sending more and more of these scams.
simply , ignore the text, mark as SPAM and delete
2006-06-22 01:27:08 · answer #9 · answered by D C A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I get junk like that, I simply delete it.
2006-06-22 00:52:51 · answer #10 · answered by mrearly2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can also contact your local police or the FBI.
2006-06-22 05:45:38 · answer #11 · answered by Topher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋