Help. I received an unknown mail as follows, and I keep receiving these kind of mail from different email ids.

Question

Dearest Friend.
Am Mrs flowrence Monizo Benham of Angola. am a South African by
nationality
and married to Dr. Benham Monizo Benham of Kuwait who worked with
Kuwait
Embassy in Benin Republic for nine years before he Shot Dead by
Military
troops after approaching a checkpoint on the wrong side of the road
behind
Doura district of south western Baghdad .View the Website below for
detail
Story of how I lost my Husband.

http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=7750
We were married for
eleven years with only a child named Andrew Monizo
Benham .Before his death we were both christians though we are not
perfect
but only made perfect through his grace,Since his death I decided not
to
re-marry to another Man because of my son Andrew.When my late husband
was
alive he deposited the sum of $10.1Million (Ten Million One hundred
thousand
U.S.Dollars) with a Security Company in Benin Republic West
Africa.Presently,this money is still with the firm and the management
just
wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the trunk box of
money or rather issue a letter of authorisation to somebody to receive
it on
my
behalf because i was admitted in hospital for my oesophageal cancer due
to
my sickness i can not come over.
And Presently, I'm in a hospital with my child andrew where I have been
undergoing treatment for oesophageal cancer.I have since lost my
ability to
talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live
according to the investigation.though i dont much belive what the
doctor
said.
It is my last wish to see this money secured for My Son Andrew,because
i
have already instructed My so on how he will use this Money to help the
poor
and those in need after his investment with you in your country,of
which you
have only but 20% out of the total sun After this Money has been
release
with your help,I also want you to help charity organizations with this
money
after you help my son Andrew invest in your place and Because My
relatives
and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness,I
cannot
live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of
them.
Please,I beg you to help me collect the deposit and the interest
accured
from the company because i have already instructed my son Andrew on how
he
will work with this Money. I took this decision because I don't have
any
more time left in this world as my doctor said and as of my age of 56
years
Now, I don't want my husband's hard earned money to be misused Hence
the
reason for taking this bold decision.

I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my
soundless voice only that you have to give your home address and phone
contcat so that my son Andrew will be cominicating with you.Please
Assure me
that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. Hoping to hearing
from you
soon,
mrs flowrence Monizo Benham
I will be waiting on your Responce.
([e-mail])

Answer 1

Spam....scam....report it!

Answer 2

This is called Pshing. (<-not sure of the spelling at the present time. but it's pronounced "fishing")

It is nothing more than a SCAM!!!!!!!!
It is sent by lo-life scum hackers, to random e-mails by the millions untill they get a correct one.

1: to trick people out of money, and
2: to get people to click on the link. Now they know that your e-mail address is real and can sell it to advertisers or use it themselves to hack in to your computer. Most times the link itself is a Trojan virus, Your Internet security (computer) has been compromised.

NEVER click on one of these scams or any unknown link in an e-mail. Even my cousin would send "pretty" pictures she got in an e-mail and forward it to me. I got her to stop because I WOULD NOT OPEN THEM!!!! And her computer was finally over run with Malware to the point where reformatting was the only answer.

I recommend you install and run ALL of the following programs below and HOPE that gets rid of any Malware you may have picked up from that SCAM e-mail.

Now that you have clicked on the link your e-mail box may be flodded with them, and countless other adds. If it does get flouded, the best thing do do is change e-mail addresses with a NEW password and NEVER use the corrupted one again.

I use all of the following Free software with Windows XP SP2 and Internet Explorer with MSN toolbar and the pop-up blocker turned on and have never had a single problem with my computer sense Microsoft came out with SP2. (knock on wood.) (And be sure to keep Windows and the following software Updated)


The best Anti-virus is: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition. (www.grisoft.com)
The Best Spyware defense is: SpyBot Search and Destroy (www.spybot.info)
AND: AdAware SE (www.lavasoft.com)
AND Spyware Blaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.info/kb/)
The best Firewall besides the one that comes with Windows is: Zone Alarm (http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/co... or just (www.zonelabs.com) and select the FREE version.

These are all FREE and are all that are required. There is no reason to pay for this kind of software, except to give a donation to the writers if you can.
ALL the above programs are recommended and should be run on a regular basis. With some the free versions they must be run manually.

The best way to avoid getting any Malware (virus, Trojan's, spyware, etc) is to practice safe computing. Microsoft and many others have countless articles on the subject of safe computing. (something I think should be taught in schools)

Answer 3

Please be more careful with this mail. That is a spam. the link in it may bring you to a site that with virus or trojan or it may trick you more. I had this problem before that a person who claimed she received a huge money from her reletive and ask me how she should use it. "She" asked me to tell her my phone and Fax number and my address. Believe me, that is a lie. What shall happen if they get your number? Someone may use this numer and your name to registry some thing or even find out where are you living. So after that, thounds of spam letters both by E-mail, Fax and regular mail shall come to you... or something worst... Just image that...
Report it as spam and delete it immediately( how can a nearly dead person sends long mails like it to you daily?) and not reply. I promise you s/he is living well that they will earn some money from their boss if you reply or tell them your contact details...
Be more careful of it!

Good luck!

Answer 4

The next move is, the so called son Andrew will ask for your bank account number so that his so called dying mom can have that great sum of millions transferred into your bank acct. etc. this SCAM will end up cleaning out your bank acct. report this old tired scheme to your bank, and if these crooks keep harasing you go to your local police station. please don`t be taken in by the too good to be true scams.

Answer 5

Why do you even have to ask. This is one of the most ridicilous scams Ive ever seen, especially the shark attack. That made me laugh. WWF have offices around the world and thousands of employees, if he couldnt travel because of a shark bite there are thousands of other people who can travel in his place, he wouldn't ask some stranger on the internet

Answer 6

It's a Nigerian scam email, put it in the junk mail folder and report it as junk. We all have got that one and they still think we can get sucked in by it! Perhaps you should reply and ask them to send some money by money transfer to prove they have it, otherwise just forget it.

Answer 7

HA HA HA most of these letters are coming from Africa, Nigeria is biggest host of people who send such letter they try to know some important information about your bank account so they can clean it out. Make sure you treat their letters as spam

Answer 8

Delete immediately!!! It's a scam.. Don't give your phone number,address,name or any info to anyone who sends things like this to you or anyone else. Many people are getting these.

Answer 9

The question is who doesn't get those annoying letters? Just keep deleting them until they get tired of sending them don't even take the time to read them.

Answer 10

These are scams. Delete them immediately and DO NOT reply.

Answer 11

Sounds like a hoax to me.