Has anybody had a begging letter from a Mrs Cecilia Ncube?

Question

I have recently recived a letter from a woman in Zimbabwe claiming to be able to give me a financial windfall if I contact her son. Before I get any smart comments in reply to this I KNOW IT IS A CON. The reason I am asking is I have received a few of these letters and I hope somebody more naive than has not received one and planning to part with cash.

Answer 1

I get that a lot and like to have fun with them, giving them false bank account details etc. you can string them along for months if you get it right.

Answer 2

The names change, the country's change (almost always somewhere in Africa though - mine are usually Burkina Faso!), but the aim of these emails is always the same. Yahoo blocks most of them. The few that get through to my main inbox are always deleted without even opening them. If I don't know you, then it goes straight in the recycle bin!

Some people must part with money otherwise they wouldn't keep sending them. Even if only 1 in 10000 people parts with any cash, these characters are happy. You wouldn't think there are that many gullible people in the world, but as the great P.T. Barnum once said, "there's a sucker born every minute". At least I think he said it - it's certainly widely attributed to him!

Answer 3

Fortunately no but in any case I simply ignore such letters. Hopefully after all the publicity by now any sensible person does just that. But there are others!

Answer 4

I get this on Yahoo a lot. The names change, but the scams don't.
On my mail.com account, I get phishing, mainly from PayPal.
On Hotmail, I get everything else.
On Comcast, I don't get any SPAM at all. But then again, I rarely use their mail.

Answer 5

I get phishing cr*p all the time...everyone on Yahoo does.

Answer 6

yes I have recieve they Letters all the time I try to ingore them its a scam to to get your money don,t answer them my advice to you

Answer 7

I get loads of these....