has any one had offers of money from abroad?

Question

I get e-mails asking me to bring money into this country. Has any e-mailed these people back to see if there is a genuine one or do you find they are all con's. Have you ever telephoned them and has anyone been caught.

Answer 1

take a look at this and answer your own question. I get these emails also. These links have lists that go on and on of internet scams and some of them also have resources so you can report these scum bags.....and please do.
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/Business/nigerian.htm
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp
http://www.nigerianscams.org/
http://www.scambusters.com/
http://www.ccmostwanted.com/topics/sc/scams.htm
http://www.bearsystems.com/Scams/Scams.htm
http://blog.supersurge.com/
http://www.whatprice.co.uk/articles/email-scams.html

Answer 2

It is a con hunny. If you are smuggling money into the country then you are guilty of money laundering and looking at some serious jail time if your caught! You may actually also be charged with aiding and abetting a criminal. There wil lbe a catch somewhere along the lines if it is genuine.

Be wary seriously.

It may be a scam from the police to check out who is willing and by setting up cash and undercover cops they can flush out any potential criminals and keep their data/DNA on record...the cops may be using you as bait to lure out hard criminals who skipped the border to foreign countries... You never know!!!

There are many scenarios and they all lead to the same place: Jail

It probably is genuine but it will be a con artist asking.

Answer 3

These are normally con-artist looking to run a scam on you. I got an e-mail from someone claiming to be a president at a bank and he found my name on the Internet and had a client with the same last name and wanted me to work with him to get the money out of the bank and split it with him. Apparently the family died in a wreck and there was six or seven million in the bank that has not been claimed. All he needed from me was some up front money to get the paperwork started. I did not even respond. I reported him to my server. unfortunately the person could not be traced. All it takes is for 1 person in 100 to fall for that trick and someone is getting cheated out of their money. Take my advise. Do not respond to these people. Just report them and delete the stuff off your computer.

Answer 4

Yes I did get a lot of those by e-mail lately... Of course, it's all spam... The work of some cons... Should you answer them, they will ask for money transfer fees, or money to open a special account... or whatever... If you pay up, you'll never hear from them again and that is how they make a living. So, don't waste time and money just block the senders....

Answer 5

If it's coming out of Africa (Kenya especially) it's a scam.
Usually they suggest that some fellow died and he has 10-20 million dollars. They offer to split it with you if you will set up an account to hold the money. (Am I getting warm?)
If you bite.......you will start to get calls telling you that they need $5,000. for your portion of the inheritance tax. Then another problem will come up where they just need $10,000. and the money will be there in a week. Then a little snag will pop up......yadda, yadda, yadda.
If you want a little advice from an old banker.......delete the message and go on. Nothing but headaches and huge losses in that plan.

Answer 6

It is a real scam. People have visited the country and there have been rented offices to give them the impression they really can earn money. When they give their bank account-number or when they loan money, they are robbed.
The most e-mails come from Nigeria I think. It is difficult to catch them, because it is another country and they change names easily. I think no one has been caught

Answer 7

Yes - they are trying to get your bank details. Report them as spam. One giveaway will be hotmail or yahoo accounts - the Irish lotto and other institutions have their own domains!

One thing that might help would be to get the online community to bombard them with bogus emails back - and then wind them up mercilessly. It is usually called a Denial of Service attack where they get more emails than they can cope with and therefore cannot weed out the poor individuals that will fall for this.

(A DofS attack usually overloads their servers but the principle is the same)

Answer 8

Hello :)

Yes I have had offers and have always ignored them as you should!

A sting operation was launched in England some time ago to catch these con artists and it was successful. Delete any e-mail you get from these people and if you have any serious concerns, report the sender to the Police. Good luck !!

Answer 9

You haven't mentioned where you are from but irrespective of your jurisdiction there will be two main problems. One is a con and the other is illegal under whatever anti-money laundering legislation your country has adopted.
In the UK there is a raft of people willing to go on TV to tell their hard luck stories to warn others off. The rule of thumb seems to be "If it sounds too good to be true...it probably is"

Answer 10

Would you believe that there are even people in the UK and Ireland who email Americans with these fraud schemes?
At least that is where they say they are from.
Your best bet is just to ignore them; don't even open them.

There are many others, some which purport to come from eBay or any of several banks, or Paypal, demanding that you give them your account numbers and passwords.

Answer 11

a total scam. You shouldnt contact these people in any way whether by email or telephone, and certainly not give any personal details. They will wipe out your bank account if given a chance !