what should i do?

Question

im not sure how i should deal with this... in the last week i have recieved two emails asking me to accept a transfer of a large amount of cash into my account and then they would give me half of it. obviously i just ignored them... they were supposedly from foriegn royals... obviously a scam. should i report them somehow???

Answer 1

Just delete... If you went to your police station and reported this they'd just roll their eyes at you. However, if you already gave them info, yes, go to the police.

Answer 2

Unsolicited email from people you don't recognise should always be treated with suspicion. Especially if it involves people trying to get financial information from or about you. The best advice has been given a good few times already, but I'll repeat it anyway: Do not accept the offer. Don't even acknowledge that you received the emails. Report them if you want, or else just ignore and delete them.

Answer 3

There is little point in reporting it. Most of it is from overseas so there is great difficulty in controlling it. Type in 'internet scams' into google and there will be web sites listing them.

Note that some of them appear very realistic. I came back from holiday to find that I had won and was being offered around $100 million in various online lotteries (that I had never entered). Along with money 'needing to be transferred' from Russia, China, South Africa, Paraguay and Kuwait, I presume I must be the richest poor man in the world.

They are after one of two things:
1. your bank account details.
2. For you to send an advance payment for the courier charge.

THEY ARE ALL SCAMS

I replied to one ten times with a 1Meg picture of my holiday - I hope it topped up their email!!

Answer 4

were these people nigerian? financial scams from there have grown to such an extent (fuelled by gullible & greedy people in europe and the US etc) that some email providers can now block ALL emails originating in nigeria.

as previously mentioned, you should report it, but not sure whether police or foreign office would deal with it.

good luck anyway and well done for not going with it

Answer 5

Go to your local police station and ask to speak to someone about fraud , then show them the emails and let them take it from there , you'd be surprised how many people get taken in by this sort of scam , greed is a terrible thing

Answer 6

OH, MOST DEFINITELY!! Under no circumstance give out your credit or account no. Tell your bank about the incident, and make sure they are aware of the sender's name. If you have a web-based mail, your mailbox there should have a Spam-filter of some sort, and that's where you can report them. Don't let them get away with this. Usually spammers have such corny names as the one I received a mail from: "Trinidad Harry", stating "Dearest Friend" (He's NO friend of mine!), - I reported it via my spam filter, and this filter even erases it from my in-box.

Answer 7

Ignore them, just erase them, they are all scams, everybody gets them, I get at least 5 a day, mostly from Nigeria. The police will not help. Have a look at website 419 eater, good laugh.

Answer 8

Yes, it is a Nigerian scam. Go to the FBI webpage, you will see a section there where you report internet scams online.

http://www.fbi.gov/

Scroll down the page. See "Be Crime Smart" in the middle at the bottom. See "Reporting Internet Fraud"

Answer 9

After you respond you will be asked to puy up some good faith money. This is the scam and it's been going on for ages. Report them to who? Go ahead!

Answer 10

Contact your local Trading Standards Office initially. They will have links to national and international organisations trying to tackle this problem. Keep any details (ideally the original request) that might be used to identify persons responsible or to highlight patterns for future prevention.