Does anybody actually fall for those emails saying I need your bank details to deposit £50 million?

Question

Why do they keep sending them?

Answer 1

some people do unfortuntely

Answer 2

Only if you are looking to be RIPPED off , I have many of these E Mails , some even asking me to pose (Illegally) as a "Close Relative" of someone who is deceased but bearing the same Sir Name as me to enable the sender , usually posing as a "Lawer" to deposit large sums of money in my account, with the usual reguests to forward details of my Bank account Etc Etc . Another one is the need to "Dispose" of an excess of " Government Funds" the ones which kept coming to me were usually from Nigeria , Africa Etc, . I did at one time put the sender address in "Blocked Emails" but after sending them a few "Friendly" replies such as "Bollocks" or "Get Stuffed" they still kept coming , so now I just delete them without opening them.At the moment it appears that they have become tired of the Game , = none for a couple of weeks There was a progamme on Television a few months ago Highlighting this problem ,one lady was encouraged to follow it through just to see what happend , the whole thing was just a Bloody great scam , apparently she lost several thousand pounds , I don,t know if she was reimbursed or not .

Answer 3

There are suckers born every minute. All it takes is one fool to fall for it, and the scam becomes profitable. If costs nothing to send out e mail. If you send out 100,000 e mails with a scam, and have 1 person respond, you have a 0.001% rate of reply on your message. If you were paying per message, you would need to have a much better reply rate to justify the cost.

With no cost to send the message, any money you are able to get is profit. (not legal, but it is money they get)

Answer 4

Because there are true idiots out there who will fall for this scam!!! Who in their right mind would just deposit that kind of money in someone elses account?? Not me, that's for sure!!!!!!
Flag the next e-mail as spam to stop them coming through again.

Answer 5

What? You mean they are NOT real !!!!! OHCRAP OHCRAP!!!!

Can I stop the cheque?????

hang on, I have made over £750,000 pounds from one of these, I set up an acount, borrowed £5,000 pounds to put in it and got 750,000 pounds deposited the very next week.

However, people have been following me ever since. so I'm going to use some of the money to get some plastic surgery.

Answer 6

well, 50 million pounds is a lot of money. something that big is more than enough to entice somebody and might actually believe the scam. i just hope that nobody will fall for it. i, myself, have received something like that, about some lottery or other. i responded that i have reported them to the interpol and they are being watched. i hope they fell for it :)

Answer 7

best thing to do is give them your address plus an A
example

54 george street

would be 54a george street

give them your name with just your initial and surname

and watch the checks come in

i used this as proof that people wanted to invest in my online magazine,

i received $400 million dollars worth of cheques, i took pictures of each one and displayed it on my website,

i then explained what i did to aurthorites and they i handed over the stolen checks
cause thats what they are

you can get dunged for handling stolen goods
truth is nothing will come of it,

Answer 8

Will let you know when the £50 million arrives into my bank account... anytime now.

Answer 9

Some people actually do fall for them. They ask you to send them a few grand to help transfer the money to them.
Its mostly old people who fall for it I guess

Answer 10

Well deffinately not me i'm sceptical and I analyze everything but there are many people who are very naive and send their details and thats why the e-mails keep getting sent

Answer 11

I expect there are some people out there that would.I have heard quite a few people getting excited by stupid junk mail that you get through the post telling you that you have won a major prize.All I can say is that they are majorly stupid.