Received Email informing me that I am a benificiary of the money of a certain dead person, is this true?

Question

here's the letter:

FROM THE DESK OF MR GODWIN AGHASE
EXECUTIVE MANAGER,BILL & EXCHANGE
SOCIETE GENERALE DE BANQUE (SGB)
LOME TOGO.
WEST AFRICA.

Dear Friend

I am the Executive Manager,Bill and Exchange
Department at SOCIETE GENERALE DE BANQUE. There is a
business I would want you to champion for me.
In my departmentn we discovered an abandoned sum of
SEVEN MILLION,FIVE HUNDERED THOUSAND(US)Dollars
(US$7.5MILLION)in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in November 2000 in a plane crash in Cote
D'voire.Since we got information about his death, we
have been expecting his next of kin to come over and
claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to
the deceased depositor as indicated in our BANK CODE
OF RULES but unfortunately we learnt that all his
supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with
him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the
claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now
decided to make this businness proposal to you to
release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased depositor for our own use and
benefit since nobody is coming for it and i don't want
this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed
money.

The Banking law and guidelines here stipulates that
if such money remained unclamed after four years, the
money will be transfered into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed fund. The request for a foreigner as next of
kin and beneficiary in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
citizen of Togo cannot stand as next of kin to the
deceased depositor and Beneficairy of the unclaimed
money.

I agree that 35% of this money will be for you as my
foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a
foreign account and the important role you are going
to play to make this transaction a huge success 10%
will be set aside for expenses that may be incured in
the course of transfering the money into your account
while 55% would be for me .
Thereafter I will visit your country for the sharing
of the money between me and you according to the
percentage indicated here.

Therefore to enhance the immediate transfer of the
money to your account as arranged, you must apply
first to our bank as relation or next of kin of the
deceased depositor indicating your bank name, your
bank account number,your private telephone and fax
number for easy andeffective communication and
location wherein the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by
fax or email the Text of the application which you
shall recopy,type and sign and send to our bank as the
supposed next of kin and beneficairy of the fund.I
will not fail to bring to your knowledge that this
transaction is 100% Risk-free both now and in future
besides i have already done all the underground works
that will lead to the success of this transaction
before contacting you.You should not entertain any
atom of fear as all required arrangements have been
made for the smooth transfer of thefund

Meanwhile,i will use my executive position and rank
in office to ensure that the fund is approved and
transfered to your account without difficulties or
problems.You should contact me immediately as soon as
you receive this mail.

Trusting to hear from you as soon as possible.
Yours Sincerely
MR Godwin Aghase

Answer 1

It's a scam. Do not send any money or personal information to this person. You would be wise to report it to the FBI.

Answer 2

It's a scam, commonly referred to as 'advance fee scams".
First of all, you know there is no reletive. I mean really, you have to understand from the outset TWO things. A) there is, was and never will be any real death. It's fake. and B) there is, was and never will be any money. It's all a scam.

Here's how it works. The guy you write to will ask you for some fees. "Bank Fees", "File Fees", "Get me a new Car Fees" anything he can think of. First the fees go to one official, and then fees are needed to go to another official. They will keep asking you for fees until you finally either give up or run out of money. When this happens they will suddenly disappear. No money, no recourse.

Remember, there IS NO MONEY....there IS NO DEAD RELETIVE. It's all a scam to get YOUR money. Back away and hit delete.

Answer 3

OMG. This is a SCAM. There are literally hundreds of these letters going around.

Haven't you learned yet that there is no such thing as a free lunch? Or something for nothing? All they want is your bank account numbers so they can clean you out. Just press DELETE!

Answer 4

Oh come on, and you believe this is the truth? He chose you to give you more than 7 million dollars from a man who died in the crash 6 years ago?
Don't believe this, it's spam mail.

I got similar mail a while ago, and I deleted it right away. You do the same thing, delete it.

Answer 5

Listen, and listen good. I have received literally hundreds and hundreds of such emails. They are a scam designed to fleece gullible people out of their life savings. Delete it. Do not reply. The people who send them out are dangerous criminals. Folks who have fallen for it have lost everything. Sometimes even their lives. See the following link, an excellent site:
www.419eater.com

Answer 6

a certain dead person who is *not* a relative, as stated in the letter. You might just as well have a letter saying "I want to defraud someone of a bunch of money and you look like the perfect victim. Join with me in this fraud and I will give you what you deserve"

Answer 7

IT IS A SCAM. If you have watched television lately, it is a scam. Do you have family in Africa?

Answer 8

i have heard about this before about over seas checks, i ve seen this on court tv this is a scame u will be told that u can deposit it in ur checking and then u will insufficient funds be aware trash that

Answer 9

bogus! IF YOU ARE REALLY ENTITLED...YOU WOULD HAVE RECEIVED A REGISTERED LETTER IN THE SNAIL MAIL......AS SOON AS YOU GIVE YOUR BANK NUMBER FOR THE TRANSFER.....DONT!.....YOU WILL BE CLEANED OUT OF FUNDS.....SO JUST IGNORE IT OR REPORT IT AS A N INTERNET SCAM.

Answer 10

why you are wasting time for the mails like this. if you want money dont look for free. try to earn.