this girl in africa has written to me saying she needs help with a relative's (supposed) hidden millions...she says shes in a refugee camp...and has no-one to help her get this money...who do I talk to to check this out or expose her?
2007-03-22 05:15:41 · 9 answers · asked by Dennis S the biker dude 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Don't fall for this old scam that goes back at least 10 years. The first thing you need to ask yourself is how did an African girl in a refugee camp get your address to write to you? If you want, you can take this information to your local police and they will attempt to track it back to it's origin. It would be nice to catch some of these rip off artists.
2007-03-22 05:41:32 · answer #1 · answered by dadof7n2001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please pay no attention to her. And don't give your address, phone number to her ever. There are millions of such cases reported from various countries of Africa and are better known as the Nigeria Scams. They first tell you that they have millions of US dollars somewhere and need your address, phone number and bank account to transfer this money to you. Then they will ask for some percentage as the transfer fee which you feel you can pay as you will get a huge money later. But this will never happen. Once you pay the money, there will be no one available for your questions. So my dear, just don't go for such lucarative offers, nothing is there. Just think if there is such a huge money in Africa, why they are so poor. Just forget those emails.
2007-03-22 12:31:04 · answer #2 · answered by shail 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a scam, i received one like it as well but it was a wife who had lost her husband who had millions of dollars. I laughed and thought "i hope others dont believe this stuff". I then called the police and gave them all the information that came on the fax. Usually if its too good to be true, its just that.. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.. good luck!
2007-03-22 12:27:12 · answer #3 · answered by snowbunny67ss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a scam. They just did a Dateline report on these scams. Save the e-mail or letter and contact the attorney general of your state.
2007-03-22 12:25:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just ignore it. There are thousands of such schemes out there. If it came to you in an e-mail, mark it as spam and move on with your life. It's a scam.
2007-03-22 12:19:04 · answer #5 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah its a Scam, don't believe that garbage, but hey if ur passing out money ill take a couple hundred
2007-03-22 12:28:36 · answer #6 · answered by Corey T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just ignore it. I get about 100 of those a day.
I've won the lottery, get offered a job at the UN, got offered a job in Saudi, etc. etc most times it is some relative was killed in a plane/car/ship crash, and I am the sole heir.
It's all bullshit.
2007-03-22 12:33:37 · answer #7 · answered by A Military Veteran 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Talk to us....we've ALL had one at some time or another SCAM.
2007-03-22 12:27:15 · answer #8 · answered by lou b 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the nigerian government
2007-03-22 12:25:10 · answer #9 · answered by apu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋