does anyone else get these retarded emails?

Question

I am Chief Mudiaga Ojay a solicitor at law. I am the
Personal Attorney to Mr.Mark.A.Larson, a National of your Country, who
had lived in Nigeria for the past fifty years,until his death in
october 2005. Whom here in after shall be referred to as my client. In
october 2nd 2005, my client, was involved in the Bellview B210 aircraft
crashed in Lisa, Ogun State of Nigeria . All 111 passengers and six
crew members on board unfortunately lost their lives, my client was
one of them.
I have contacted you to assist in repatriating most
especially,the money left behind by my client before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge
deposits were lodged.Particularly, the Standard Investment Trust Bank
where the deceased had an account valued at about 20.7 million dollars
has issued me a notice to provide the Next of kin, or have the account
confiscated.

I seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin
of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds
of this account valued at 20.7 million dollars can be paid to you, as
my clients Next of Kin, and then we can share the amount on a mutual
agreed percentage.All legal documents to back up your claim as the
deceased Next of Kin, will be provided.

All I require is your honest
co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this
will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of the law.

Please send me your direct telephone
number for easy communication.

NOTE:PLEASE SEND ALL CORRESPONDENCE
TO
[e-mail]

Best Regards,
Chief Mudiaga
Ojay.

and i cant mark them as spam cause they are a different e-mail address everytime. is there a way to report these scams?

Answer 1

Yes, all the time. It's SPAM, and an attempt to steal from you.

This is also a terrible way for someone from Nigeria to act on behalf of his country. Indeed, shameful. So now, when I hear anything about the country of Nigeria, I think of FAX and E-mail scams.

Answer 2

That is a 419 scam, named after the 419 section of the Nigerian penal code which addresses fraud schemes. There probably isn't any easy way to stop it. You could try a better spam filter like the one in Thunderbird. If they really tick you off, check out this website for "revenge".

Answer 3

Wow I only stumbled on a million grammar blunders in there. poor use of challenge verb contract and a collection of run on sentences to boot as spelling blunders. Whoever wrote that has too a lot time on their fingers and enjoys stalking people. How poor i think the trolls have become resourceful

Answer 4

Yes, here is a link to the snopes page for it. This is a huge problem that costs a lot of people a lot of money.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp

Answer 5

You probably can. Unfortunately bored people that work there write crap like that and take bets on who will complain and when. I guess ur in the pool hey?

Answer 6

Yes, I get these annoying emails, too.

I usually just delete them though.

Answer 7

not the same one but i do get similar kind of messages from africans asking for money

Answer 8

try going to http://www.snopes.com they do a lot of myth busting on email chains and stuff like that

Answer 9

Yes very often, it is scam.. or they have nothing better to do!

Answer 10

it's a scam delete it