who should i contact in re guards to an email, which the sender is either trying to scandal or commit fraud?

Question

a guy emailed me saying that he was the lawyer to a guy who has passed away, and he has a Big amount of money in the bank. Since he was a foreigner & there are no next of kin that he has been able to contact here, he asked me, if i would particpate and agree to be a legitimate kin, he would split the money 40 % to me and 60% to him. Because the money will become property of the bank under unclaimed and so he's asking for my contact address so that he is able to do up all the paper work and he sid he would send me the information so that i could look over it myself. he also mentions that it may seem unethical but he says it's a opportunity of a life time. so if some one could please let me know who i could report this to I would greatly appreciate it.

Answer 1

You can contact you local police department, however, this type of fraud is on the rise and it is very hard to trace. The best thing to do is not give the person ANY of your information.

Answer 2

This is a fairly common fraud attempt on the internet, one of many in fact, and is best ignored and deleted. There is nothing authorities can do unless someone acts on the email and is a victim of a crime.

While it is annoying and disturbing, it is unfortunately extremely common, and the only way to fight such malicious attempts is eductation. Tell everyone you can about the attempted fraud and hopefully you will prevent someone else from falling victim.

Best of luck! :)

Answer 3

I receive these scams about once per day...
I used to send them to the FBI but no one ever
seemed to notice so I stopped and now I just ignore them.

Answer 4

[e-mail],I received an email similar to yours,was it from Barrister Chris?I turned him in,it was a great scam,just would have cost you whatever $ of yours that they got ahold of.

Answer 5

Forward the e-mail to [e-mail]

Read about it here at the Federal Trade Commission's website
http://www.ftc.gov/spam/