I got an email from a guy is S.Africa who needs to send me 10 MILLION$$$! However, he requires 10k$ up front..

Question

...for administration purposes.

Now, he is from the oil sector, and that industry does have that kind of money.

Question is...would I be 'covering all my bases' if I sent only half the money to begin with?

Answer 1

From a Psychology point of view if you send money to this scam, you need medical help.

If someone was going to send you money, why on earth would they be requesting you to send them money in the first place.

Money for a fee if it was legal everyone, with access to email would be doing it. Plus where is the money coming from, only from other foolish people's pockets, that fall for this SCAM. Or is that Silly Con Against Mankind.

Answer 2

You sure it was not Nigeria? How was the spelling? Did you know that South Africa had coal fired steam locomotives running into the late 1970s because they had no oil and nobody would sell them any because or their racial policies? Did you know that S.A. had built big industrial plants for turning coal into oil?

Did you know that this fraud is older than the Internet? Are you pulling our legs? Why not send him a bill for reading his e-mail, your valuable time can be charged out for at least $25 per minute. Why not just delete the e-mail? Yes, that is a better idea. Or maybe reply, 40 million times.

Answer 3

Don't send ANY money at all. Whatever you will send, you will be kissing it goodbye forever. Why does he need to send you ten million dollars? He just woke up one morning and thought "I know, I'll send this person a load of money". Nah, didn't think so. It is a con, no amound of administration for sending money costs $10k. If you didn't enter into any lotto or competion, you aint won anything. Do you really think someone randomly selected you to be sent this money? thousands of people have been caught out this way, they lose their money, and there is no way to get it back. He is appealing to your sense of greed.

Answer 4

Well you will lose any money you send.
Did you do anything to warrant $10million, Did you enter a lottery?
If not, why would some stranger in a relatively poor country want to give you all that money?
You are being scammed and unfortuneately people like you get sucked in.
Ignore it. It doesnt cost anything to transfer money to your account,
Its probable that he wants you to send the money by wire transfer through western union or another company notorious for fleecing people.
I can promise you, you WILL lose you money. Just delete and ignore it.
DO NOT GIVE OUT ANY PERSONAL DETAILS, including your name, bank details, address, age, sex, even the country you are in.
Its so important you ignore this, YOU WILL NOT GET ANY MONEY AT ALL!!!

Answer 5

I get about 3 e-mails a month, saying I won
the UK lottery worth millions and all I need to do
is this and that. SCAM, SCAM, SCAM. Best thing
to do is not respond because NOTHING that
sounds easy is free, so don't even waste your
time responding.

Answer 6

Tell you what forward the email and only quarter of the fee to me I'll top it up the requested amount and send it on to them. That way your risking only 25% and I'll only take 10% of any money received as my cut.

Regards

Answer 7

I can never believe that there are some people who will take this sort of thing seriously. If you are greedy enough to think that you can get something like that for nothing (eventually), you deserve to lose 10,000. They see people like you coming a mile off.

When they get your bank details they will empty your account as well.

Answer 8

You've got to be kidding me. That scam has been around for years. Just delete the stupid email and get on with real life.

Answer 9

Its a con I get them all the time saying I've won the lottery or they are looking to find someone to inherit some money and they found

Answer 10

It's a scam. Why do you think he picked you out of billions of e-mails? Come on, wake up! I get those emails! And I am smart enough to know they are a crock of SH@!