need to know if e-mail is fraud?

Question

it says thank you so much for your responce it is my prayer also that god keep me alive to be able to carry out those wishes of my husband it goes to show that you have been destined to be great and i implore you to be as honest as possible in this dealing spirit of my late husband will be with you always and the almighty will also bless you for your effort in seeing that persons are of their predicament. i have discuss this matter with my lawyer and i have told him about you and he is going to work with the bank and secure this from the bank where it is been kept for safe custody in a proper and legal manner and he will make the arrangement with you in your name,as the new beneficiary of the fund, to move the fundfrom england to meet you in yore contry, withyour data. please do contact the attorney right away with the bellow info chamber, lead way+ associate, contact person john montgomery. do email him at once and let him commence with transfer modalties [e-mail]

Answer 1

DO NOT give this person any personal information and particularly not any bank details.

This is a scam.

Answer 2

that sounds like one of the classic scams doing the rounds. it seems to be a slight variatiion but a scam none the less.
if you do not know the email address it cam from or the person referenced in the email then it is 100% fraud/fake/scam.
the classic version of this is something like my late husband was a government officail and i need your help to look after or transfer some money of which you recieve a fee. however they ask you for your bank account detail and when you give them (if you are that foolish) then they clean out your bank account and enjoy there life on your money while you are left to suffer the consequences. they could even clone your identity and run up debts in your name, if they get your full address or if they get a loan through your bank.
do not reply. or if you have then contact your bank and the police and inform them of the fraud or suspected fraud. and let the hightech crimes unit deal with it.
Remember that unless you are expecting this email or know the sender then it is almost certainly a scam.

Answer 3

Fake links Phishers are getting very sophisticated in their ability to create misleading links to the point where it is impossible for the average person to tell if the link is legitimate or not. It's always best to type in the Web address or URL (Uniform Resource Locator (URL): An address that specifies a protocol (such as HTTP or FTP) and a location of an object, document, World Wide Web page, or other destination on the Internet or an intranet, for example: http://www.microsoft.com/.) you know is correct into your browser. Also you can save the correct URL to your browser Favorites. Do not copy and paste URLs from messages into your browser. Some of the techniques that criminals have used in the past to fake links are as follows:
In HTML (HTML: The standard markup language used for documents on the World Wide Web. HTML uses tags to indicate how Web browsers should display page elements such as text and graphics and how to respond to user actions.)-formatted messages, the link you are urged to click might contain all or part of a real company's name and can be "masked," meaning that the link you see does not take you to that address but somewhere different, usually a faked Web site. Notice in this example using Outlook that resting the pointer on the link reveals another numeric Internet address in the box with the yellow background. This should make you suspicious.


Be aware of URLs that include the @ sign. In the following example, the URL would take you to the location that comes after the @ sign, not to Wood Grove Bank. This is because browers ignore anything in the URL that comes before the @ sign:

https://[e-mail]/secure_verification.aspx
The real location, nl.tv/secure_verification.aspx, could easily be an unsafe site.

Another common technique that has been used is a URL that at first glance is the name of a well-known company but on closer scrutiny is slightly altered. For example, www.microsoft.com could appear instead as:

www.micosoft.com
www.verify-microsoft.com
www.mircosoft.com
Microsoft has recently won several lawsuits against individuals who have used these types of URLs to spoof legitimate Microsoft properties. However, the practice remains pervasive and is often protected by national boundaries.
Message body is an image To avoid detection by spam filters, fake e-mail messages used in phishing schemes often use an image instead of text in the message body. If the sent spam message uses real text, the Outlook Junk E-mail Filter will very likely move the message to the Junk E-mail folder. The message body image is usually a hyperlink (hyperlink: Colored and underlined text or a graphic that you click to go to a file, a location in a file, a Web page on the World Wide Web, or a Web page on an intranet. Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.). You can tell because when you rest the pointer on the message body, the pointer becomes a hand.

Answer 4

I have rec'd several emails like this-from Africa and UK and other places- ( I am in US) and they are all scams I am sure- they wind up asking for personal bank info ect- and they can send you a cashiers check or money order- that they cancel = and you lose the funds and can take funds out of the acct you already have- I don't even respond- I even sent some emails back saying they could send money to such and such a charity elsewhere- I say =- be careful= take care=D

Answer 5

It is definitely a scam. It is worded to play on your sympathies in the hope you will reveal accounting details of yourself. Such details will allow the scammer to access your bank account(s) and clean you out! Never - ever - respond to strange or unexpected emails such as this - delete them unopened right away!. If it seems too good to be true, it usually is. Don't click on any links in such emails, even those that ask you to click on a link to remove your email address from a mailing list. All that will do is tell the scammer that your email address is live and can be used over and over again, even sold on to other scammers.

Answer 6

This is definately a scam. When I worked for Post Office Investigation Dept., we intercepted several hundred thousand letters which were sent to Companies all over the country offering money that had been over budgeted. All you had to do was pass your bank details and they would transfer the money. Those that did had their accounts emptied. This stinks of smoething similar. This man WILL ask for your bank details. Bin the e-mail.

Answer 7

This is 100 per cent fraud, what you don't know is that thousand's of the same email would have been seen out to other Internet user's like yourself, I bet it does not even mention you by name ? on the email. so please don't be so foolish in to thinking that you are the lucky one, for in the end all you will be is the conned one instead, be careful and stay safe.

Answer 8

email fraud is fraud. In Canada local forces pass it up the line, Provices forces, Mounties and Interpol deal with it

Answer 9

E-mail like this are normally a fraud. Most likely they will ask you to give them money first...say like $2,000 from your bank to verify that you have a bank. Then they say that they will deposit...say something like $50,000 into your bank....It's all BS. They will take your money and run. It is a fake and don't waste your time on it.

Answer 10

I got it also. guess you aren't the only one destines to be great ;-)
of course it is a fraud. never give out info (bank details, ss numbers etc) online.