Has anybody heard of a scam from Ghana that an attorney says that someone with your last name has died...?

Question

He emailed me this info and said that the deceased next of kin could not be found so IM to inhereit 45% of his 20million???sounds like acrock!

Answer 1

I get about three a week. I have forwarded several to the justice department, deleted many, and answered a couple with a very polite email stating that since I have never heard of the person who supposedly I am an heir of, it goes against my moral principles to accept, but that I had given a copy of their original email to my attorney and would get back to them if there was a legal basis for the claim. The last three I tried to reply to came back as a bogus address.

Bottom line - 200% SCAM!

Answer 2

Beware! As others have advised here, they are scams that are deadly to your financial well being. Never provide personal information such as banking accounts, social security number. Just don't respond to them.

Instead, forward these messages to your Internet provider.

I get three or four every day, coming from Africa and Europe and they're always a hard-luck scenario written poorly by a top attorney or advisor.

Just as another poster has said, "if it sounds too good to be true" it is!

Never respond to them.

Answer 3

Yes many Africans especially Nigerians, Ghana and others are involved in such scams. recently two cases are disclosed in Udaipur (Rajasthan,India). police successfully caught their counterparts and agents in Mumbai (India). They are in jail. So do not believe these cheaters. This is fishing. One more thing many of the persons from Nigeria and neighbouring countries have been arrested in drugs and other illegal business.

Answer 4

I bet they are asking for access to your bank acct. or are asking you to wire money for the lawyer's fees. Don't do it. It's one of the revolving scams on the internet. If you want to amuse yourself, give them a completely bogus number and even more bogus information, and see if they write you back saying they could not process your information. Have them call you at a bogus number. Feel free to frakk with their heads. Just never give them any real info.

Answer 5

Traditionally yes the fathers family name was given to his children. Exactly the same as the women took it when she married him. I believe its an ownership thing, another way of the man exercising his ownership over his wife and children. All that said, there is absolute nothing stopping a mother using say her own mothers family name or any other name, they law does not dictate what name we should use.

Answer 6

I received similar e mails. It is a scam. The next they'll do is to ask money from you for processing.. etc.. report as spam and ignore.

Answer 7

Big time scam!!! They will ask for your bank account numbers and private information. Do not give this information out!!! If it were the truth they would be able to contact you through legitamate means.

Answer 8

I have received several from different people and places about basically the same thing. Different amounts and Different accidents!
Don't fall for it! "SCAM" written all over it!
There are some others out there, too, asking you to help with money!

Answer 9

Thousands of us have heard of it. Basically if you get an offer for free money, it is a scam.

Some of the current ones are:

Mystery Shopper jobs

Take surveys for money (You can actually do this, but it works out to about $2 per hour.)

Collect funds from customers and send them on to a company in a foreign country, keeping 10% for yourself.

Corrupt government officials who have a million or twelve left over from a highway job and want to get it out of the country.

Rich farmer / merchant / banker killed by some sort of opressive regime, his widow / children need your help to smuggle millions out of the country or get it from a security company in Amsterdam.

Car crash, train crash, airplane crash, no next of kin (This is the one you got)

Someone dying of esophageal cancer (always esophageal, oddly enough) who wants to share his/her money with you

You won a lottery you didn't enter

Unless you have friends in Africa from college or the Peace Corps or something, any e-mail from Africa you get is likely to be a scam.

Anything from "Virglio.it" is likely to be a scam.

Any e-mail with "Mr." or "Esq" in the sender's name is likely to be a scam.

As always, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably IS too good to be true.

Answer 10

This kind of scam has been around a long time. Most people today do ignore this.