ive received an email from a woman claiming she is dying and wants to give me her inheritance 2 give 2 charity

Question

hi, i have received an email from a Rita Charles, saying she has cancer and hasnt got long at all left, she is in hospital and wants to give me her inheritance to give to a childrens charity. she said her accountant or bank will be in tocuh with me; which they did, they wanted me to fax a copy of my drivers licence and passport. what a load of crap! is this a scam? her email address is a yahoo.com one though.

thanks for your advice guys,gonna delete them and if she emails me again im gonna tell her to f**k herself!

i was never gonna fax them my documents. the fax number given to me is a u.k one, they say its in london, they thought i lived in the u.s.a.

Answer 1

And why the hell would she pick you out of millions of other people - her solicitor can arrange for her money to go direct to a charity - they dont need a middle man. Report them to Yahoo and then delete the email and forget about it - she is a heartless scammer xx

Answer 2

It's a scam do not send anything off. They are either doing identity theft, or after your money. If the latter they say they will transfer x amount of money into your bank account and then you have to transfer it to the "charity's" bank account. Which does not exist, this is the cons account and the money that should have gone into your account from the dying lady will never be transferred into your account, or will be transferred out again, leaving you at a massive loss

Answer 3

I got a very similar one about a week ago.Below is an IP address checker.It accesses the suspect IP and tells you where it originated from.Usually somewhere in south America or Africa for instance.At the bottom of the Email that you were sent there should be a 'Full Headers' option and this gives you all of the information you will need.Copy down the 'originating IP' and take it to this website.Scroll down until you get to the IP region options.Put the suspect IP into the search engine named WHOIS and it will give you everything from their name to their address.I hope this helps?
http://www.iana.org/faqs/abuse-faq.htm

Answer 4

I'm assuming you don't know this "Rita".

The old saying comes to mind:

"If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, its a duck!" regardless as to their internet service provider.

You can either add her email address to your junk folder, delete the email and/or report her as scam/abuse.

These identity thieves are getting cornier/more original by the minute!!

Answer 5

Don`t send them your driver license or your passport or any other part of your id. All they want to do is steal your id and use and it themself`s. Don`t send them any money or they will steal it. If you do give them what they want you will have big trouble later in life when they do use it. Delete it it is just a big scam.

Answer 6

If you dont know her then dont do it. It must be a scam to steal your id. Get in touch with the police and find out whether its a scam and ask the Bank if they accept responsibility.

Answer 7

A black money scam is a scam where con artists attempt to steal money from a victim by persuading him that piles of banknote-sized paper in a trunk or a safe is really money which has been dyed black (e.g. to avoid detection by customs). The victim is persuaded to pay for chemicals to wash the "money" with a promise that he will share in the proceeds.

Answer 8

Neat! You have contact details. Now take them to BT and the police along with print outs of all the e-mails.
You can also post them on one of the many anti 419 scam sites that have sprung up to bait the scammers.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=419+baiting&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
Here's a few fun sites to get you started.

Answer 9

i have to say well done on never having received this sort of thing before you dont know how lucky you have been.
on any given day my spam folder contains at least five or more e-mails purporting to be from bank (and many other banks) telling me that they are having problems with their system and can i send them my details to allow them to update their records.
these people are total and utter scum but if they get even one hit from every thousand they send then it is a result in their eyes

Answer 10

its a phishing scam, ive been getting loads of them recently, although mine seem to be more from people asking me to help them get 15 mil out of a deceased accound for with ill get 50% or something... general rule of thumb is, if any email asks you to divulge personal information (in particular credit/debit card details) do not do it, not even if the email claims to be from a bank or ebay or something... those scammers are jammy bastards and u cant afford to slip up.