Has this ever happened to you?

Question

at least once a year ill get about 80 to over a hundrede pieces of mail in my inbox. not my bulk mail box mind you my normal inbox. about 90 percent of them will beclaiming that some distant 3 times removed relative working in Uganda or some other african country has died and that if i help them keep a bunch of money of his in private hands and prevent it from going to the government so it cant fiance there civil war they will give me a sizable percent of that money.

has this ever happened to you?

Answer 1

Yeah, I get it all the time. .It's just a scam to get a hold of your bank account numbers and eventually rip you off somehow.. Or they might try and get you to call this number that has a similar area code that may seem local, but in actuality is in some far off country that is expensive as hell to call, and then you get an outrageous phone bill sent to your house that you have to pay

They also use my last name and say someone with my last name has died and I am the last living person with that last name.. yeah right! And the money is mine if I follow these instructions.. and so on and so forth. Just different types of scams.

Answer 2

You'd be at the set of coronation road! In idea I bet if not anything ever happend,there might had been no Big Bang which might imply that stipulations for lifestyles might now not had been created!! In physics isn't there a regulation that states EVERY ACTION HAS AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITTE REACTION?? Therefore if there used to be no preliminary motion,evoloution might now not exist.... Cool! Existential questions:)

Answer 3

Yes, I got the same one. Plus: "I'm a lawyer and you have unclaimed money from a dead relative, you get a percent, I get 90%" and everything is usually misspelled. The Lord's Resistance Army probably does it.

Answer 4

Happens to me all the time.. I like to toy with them, ask them off the wall questions. Its funny when they do respond asking you for your private information, and I tell them that they were the one to contact me they should know my information. By this time they get tired of me, and I ask them to give me a web address so i can see, then of course I google it, and find out how much more of a hoax it is, it just gets funny. Then I keep asking them for crazy information, like a phone number to call them, or whatever need be. Eventually they get tired of you and leave you alone, at least for now.

Answer 5

Yes, I get those all the time. Usually its from Nigeria or the U.K. lottery. Both are common scams. I use to report them but I gave up cause I don't think anyone ever did anything about it anyway.

Answer 6

yes
i was a bloody millionaire
if it was true
i got in jail even
because of it
cant give details because they are personal and yahoo removes what i have to say about it:be warned
its bogus
IM M me about it or e-mail
never respond to it:";block the senders and return the mail as unopened.That's all i can say here
.greetings:Rob.

Answer 7

Yes this has happend to me but when it happend to me it was a scam so be carful. The best way to find out whats going on is to contact your local government about this

Answer 8

Lots of them. All the time.Rubbish,isnt it??
You should bounce the spams back to the senders.
Check if your email server has ''bounce'' facility.

Or,I usually reply saying something totally irrelevant,
just for fun...

Answer 9

YES!! Its so annoying! So and so's dad died in somewhere in Africa and they just need my bank account info to transfer the funds to the US and i will get 30%.... yea right! delete them!! ASAP!!! But I do wonder where they come from...

Answer 10

Did you say Cival War