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

Why do so many people think you're being serious? :(

someone else said play with him, get him to email you back and forth.

I did that for a while with a scammer, it went on for weeks and weeks. I even registered one of those free PAYG simcards and the guy phoned me up, really irate that my fax with my bank details hadn't reached him yet (But I've sent it 4 times now - are you sure you're not scamming me??)

In fact, respond and keep the replies logged here!

Answer 2

well if u only sent half the money u will just be out the 5k since its a scam and all. but hey if u got that kinda money sitting around go ahead knock ur self out. but dont be back on here crying that u got scammed out ya money.

Answer 3

Don't send him a dime. You are being scammed.
I get the same emails many times a week. They make for a funny read with all of the spelling and grammar errors.

Answer 4

its a scam but a good chance for a bit of scambaiting. What you need to do is reply asking for more info, and then basically just send them round in circles, make them do silly things to try and convince you they are for real. But never actually give them any money or your name, address, phone number etc just keep them busy so hopefully you can waste as much time of theirs as possible. Its all good fun

Answer 5

As everyone has advised, this is a scam! Don't fall for it. If you do, the $10,000 is just a drop in the bucket to what you will lose.

Do you think you'd like living on the street and asking for handouts?

Answer 6

Do not send them anything! It is definitely a scam. There are groups of people from Nigera mostly creating these scams in order to get your personal infomation so they can sell you to other people. If you do not believe me google the "Nigerian Scams" or go onto to Oprah's website. She had a whole program on this, and and investigation. I repeat...DO NOT SEND THEM ANYTHING!

Answer 7

DO NOT EVEN REPLY:


This is a huge scam and you will never see the money. There are several websites devoted to informing consumers to scams like these. My favorite is www.clarkhoward.com

Answer 8

you somewhat have faith it somewhat is actual? have you ever not study something on 'Nigerian e mail scams' ? in case you % to conceal your bases, save all your funds... administration expenses? tell this nut to take his 'admin expenses' out of the $10 million.... wager you will under no circumstances hear from him lower back. ~jennifer assisting others create earnings from abode with the aid of training of the gadget and how it works.

Answer 9

its a scam. i was receiving alot of email from people supposedly in Africa saying that i won the African lottery which is kind of weird because i never bought a lottery ticket in Africa and why in the world would they want to give me money when Africa needs it more than me and i live in one of the wealthiest country in the world

Answer 10

Scam!!!! You must be mad to even think about it, they'll steal your money and you'll never see it again.

Think about it, why would they give a perfect stranger $10m for effectively nothing, they'll rip you off.

Please don't be naive enough to think anyone will give you something for nothing! and worse don't trust anyone you don't know qith you money or bank account details.

Delete the email and don't ever open a similar one again!