i have recieved emal regarding a share of an inheritace the name is lucy ....... and martin c...... is ths a?

Answer 1

Basically if you get an offer for free money from someone you don't know, it is a scam.

The inheritance one is new to me. 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.

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 2

Most of these emails are scams. Yours probably is too. If it is they will ask for some money, your bank account number, your drivers license, credit card number, or social security number. Don't give them anything. 9 times out of 10 this is another Liberian scam. Don't get taken.

Contact your better business bureau and they will tell you the same things I am telling you. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true then it is not true. Also, another platitude that has merit is that "there's no fool like an old fool" or P.T.Barnum's famous line that "...there's a sucker born every minute." Don't be a sucker.

Answer 3

Absolutely a scam. If it were true, you would be notified by a special delivery letter. I received an e-mail like this, only they said someone related to me died in a plane crash and since I was the next of kin, over 9 million dollars would be transferred to my bank account. Ha Ha Ha. Don't ever fall for it, and never give any of your bank account numbers to anyone.

Answer 4

Beware! Such e-mails are scams and will bankrupt you. Don't ever respond and give banking account information or social security number. Report it as spam and a scam to your Internet server.

I get several e-mails as this every day and they're usually from Africa and Europe.

Answer 5

IF YOU WERE TO RECEIVE AN INHERITANCE NOTICE IT WOULD COME AS A REGISTERED LETTER.

Answer 6

SCAM!