From kimba and Sister.
Atten.
Dear Sir,
With due respect,We are the children of late Minister of Solid Minerals
of Sierra Leone, Usman kizito. We have a project that requires the aid of
a foreign partner, one box containing ($28,000,000) Tweenty Eight Million
Dollars, is in a safe custody in Security Company in ghana.
For your information this fund was made through Gold and Diamond when our
father was in position as Minister of solid minerals of Sierra-Leone. The
box was kept as family valuables. Our father Hon. Usman kizito used his
name in depositing the box as belonging to his Foriegn partner and he told
the Security Company that the key is with his Foreign Partner.
Acording to him, this was to avoid them from inspecting the box, and we
now interested to invest the money but our condition since the death of
our Father does not warrant us to expose this fund to any body couple
withthe agreement he (THIS IS A SAMPLE OF MAILS I NORMALY RECEVE)
2007-01-19 17:28:26 · 11 answers · asked by abbasi 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Its a scam.. delete it immediately.
2007-01-19 17:35:57 · answer #1 · answered by David L 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The best thing to do is put a spam boocker on it, filter anything with the word "Nigeria" or in this case, "Africa" into the Trash folder. This way your email won't be contaminated with all of this scam-spam. Just create filters for common words in the spam mail (words that generally aren't in any other email you get), and send them all to the Trash and if possible, configure it to immediately delete.
2007-01-20 01:45:37 · answer #2 · answered by yankeesita 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have heard of a similar scam out of Africa, the attempt is the party is trying to get your account info and they will poke and prey until they have the tidbits they need to take very large transactions from your account at a long distance, avoiding the checks and balances of our bank systems with the distance providing far long enough to get out of the bank or store they are at with cash or purchases. They will get your info and will dip into your account. Beware!!! Best advice, delete and block sender!!! Do a internet search for phishing scams and educate yourself early.
2007-01-20 01:42:32 · answer #3 · answered by phantom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Nigerian money scam. There is actually a large number of Nigerian that make this daily and send it to Americans. And there are always a small number of people are just greedy enough to fall for it, hook line and sinker.
2007-01-20 01:41:15 · answer #4 · answered by Eh? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a scam, many of these people live in nigeria where they are able to obtain money from foolish westerners in their stupid money gimmicks. You might choose to abondon your e-mail account if it is that exposed. Quite an interesting read, too bad his english needs a touch up.
2007-01-20 01:54:48 · answer #5 · answered by trigunmarksman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is more than likely a very large scam! Please join my Yahoo group called VisitGhana and post your situation there cause we have had many discussions on this issue in the past and someone could help you farther along ok? best wishes:-)
Heres the group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/visitghana/
2007-01-20 04:55:34 · answer #6 · answered by rhinelander_hodags 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is commonly known as the Nigerian Laundry scam and interpol is arrestting about 500 people a week for it. I will be forwarding it to RCMP and INETRPOL. Glad I saw it so soon
2007-01-20 01:35:26 · answer #7 · answered by Sid B 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a scam. I got many of those. Don't do it! Ignore them. I was so freaked out that I reported one to the FBI to find later it is a hoax. I was so embarrased.
2007-01-20 01:31:54 · answer #8 · answered by nile queen 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They had a story on this on ABC. You should look it up on their website...I would do it but I am extremely lazy at the moment...sorry dear...lol
2007-01-20 01:37:50 · answer #9 · answered by Jujuchi 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Fraud - do not reply or give any information to these people.
2007-01-20 01:40:46 · answer #10 · answered by Jack C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋