Have You Seen This Email Scam?

Question

I got the following letter in my email, anyone else get one??

I am Hugh Peter the only Son of Mr. Hugh Williams, my farther died when I was Ten years old and my only sister Elisa also died last year in Iraq during the American war in that country.
Two years before the death of my father, he sold his company and deposited the sum of $3Million in a vaulting company with my name as the beneficiary and the mandate on the deposit is 13 years; his lawyer Mr. Edward Brett witnessed it all.

Since the demise of my father the vaulting company has not been working with the terms on the agreement and this reason and many more made me to consider pulling the fund out of the vaulting company with the assistance of my late father’s lawyer and transfer it to would be investment partner who will receive the fund and have it invested into any profitable venture.
If you are interested in this partnership venture, please write back so as to introduce you to my late father’s lawyer for more details. [e-mail]

Answer 1

It is called the Nigerian 4-1-9 scam. It has been going on for many years now. I get about a dozen of them per month in my Yahoo! mail. According to FBI/IC3 website, just ignore and delete the e-mail. Don't even both responding to these people. I actually knew a guy that lost his life savings on one of these scams. Here is the link for more information.

Answer 2

This is a different flavor of the same old scam. Someone wants to send a complete stranger a zillion dollars. Of course there will be so many processing fees that the so called recipient of the money will go bankrupt. These people are crooks, usually operating from an Internet cafe in Nigeria.

Notice how (1) these spammers always use a free email account from yahoo, hotmail etc and (2) always indicate how much money they want to give you, a complete stranger.

The US, British, Canadian and other governments should put pressure on Nigeria to crack down hard on these crooks, before we send Nigeria foreign aid.

Answer 3

It's just another variation on the Nigerian Scam. Don't fall for it!

Dump it in your trash e-mail.

That scam has been around for years. It started in Nigeria and now has variations coming from the UK, Russia, Ireland, Canada, all over the world. When cons realize there are so many suckers, the cons in other parts of the world try and cash in.

Answer 4

This is a variation of the Nigerian Scam http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp which originated even before the Internet opened up.

If you'd rather watch, Keith Obermann did a broadcast on this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU9WqhCiQ8g

Answer 5

This is a typical Advance fee fraud scam. i.e. there's a lure of a large sum of money on the condition that you advance some money to release it.

Most of it comes out of Nigeria, and unfortunately many people fall for it

Answer 6

No, but its cute. What I do if I have the time is respond with total nonsence. But then you put your email address out there and get spammed.

Answer 7

DO NOT reply to these types of emails. Delete them. They are coming from foreign countries.

Answer 8

I have received several dozen similar scam letters. It is a variation of the Nigerian scam. Best way to handle it is just delete it. If you answer they will clean out your bank account.
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