what r nigerian scams?what other scams r there besides nigerian scams?

Answer 1

The classic "Nigerian" scam is one where you have someone with a same last name that supposedly died with no will, and this "trustee" wants you to claim to be the heir, and you split the millions this dead guy left.

Once you respond, they'll ask for lots of money to pay bribes and whatever else, and keep milking you til you're dry. Because you are knowingly part of a scam, they count on you to not report anything. And there is no money to be had, except from you to them.

There's a million variations on that, from lottery winnings that you never bought tickets for, etc...

Bottom line, unless you know you had a rich uncle who died, you likely do not have some magical relative that was superrich and died without a will, and if you didn't buy a lottery ticket, you couldn't have won.

Click the link here: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menu-internet.htm

This is a list of lots of typical scams from the FTC, including the Nigerian scam, lottery, etc...

Answer 2

Nigerian Scams are a catch all for a series of scams that originated out of Nigeria and other African countrys. It involves an email from someone that states they were a friend of a relative of yours that left something either money or land etc and that for you to claim it you need to send them some money.

There are alot of scams out there like this the most popular are the ones asking you to follow a link and fill out a form, most often they want you to give your bank information or credit card info.

I get alot of the "Nigerian Scams" and I think it's relatively rare and oddly from news reports they have stated that these scams originate out of Canada more often than Nigeria.

Either way, if it sounds to good it probably is.

Answer 3

there are a number of scams available:
1.romance scams: some fellow pretends to be in love with you and uses that to rip you off.
2.money order scams: this involevs asking you to cash some money orders at your bank on behalf of the scammers. the money orders are fake and the bank ends up charging you for the money sent.
3.overpayment scams:related to the money order scams, you are overpaid for an item and asked to remit the balance back to the buyer.
It always turns out later that the payment sent to you was fake and you have sent real money to the scammer. They could buy anything from you --a house, a dog, rent a flat,pay for schooling and so on.
4.the advance fee fraud--the most popular one. you are told that some large sum of money is secretly kept in a secret account.You need to stump up some cash in order to facilitate the clearing of the money,however.millions have been lost to this scams.
There could be more scams, but basically they all involve you sending money to someone in Nigeria.
Don't send money to anyone you don't know well.in fact, don't send moneyy at all.
check out the source box to read more about nigerian scams
regards

Answer 4

if it's the one I am thinking of - when you are trying to sell a vehicle yourself, say thru an ad in your classified section of the newspaper - you will be contacted from another country that is trying to purchase a vehicle for when they arrive in the states "in a few weeks" - they are very detailed oriented - a "friend" is going to pick it up, place, time etc..... they don't try to haggle on the price, and will overnight a "check" from a reputatable bank - that is perfect looking. Ours was drawn on a "bank of america" account, it fooled the teller at our branch and it almost went thru, but was caught at the main location as a fraud. Once you try to contact the people, they don't respond. Most of our correspondence was done thru emails - i don't know what happens if you actually get to the point of them getting their hands on your vehicle. hoped this help a little.

Answer 5

i needed a loan.. and asked ard.. guess what ? 419 scammers has been emailing me and stuffs. -____- and i learned alot abt them here: http://www.nigerianscams.org/

Answer 6

some from Ghana too