What this person really want to do ?

Question

I have received this kind of email many times, so I know that this kind of email is obviously a crime. What I want to know is what is this person want to do by sending this stupid email, what I am supposed to do. Thank you.

From Abiam Emodu.
Abidjan (Ivory Coast),
Cote D'ivoire.

Dear,

I am Abiam Emodu, from Ivory Coast. I am of 20 years old boy, being
that I lost my father a couple of years. My father was a serving director
of the Cocoa exporting board until his untimelly death.

He was assassinated last january 2002 by the rebels following the
political uprising. Before his death he had a foreign account here in Côte
d'Ivoire up to the tune of $10.5M which he told the bank was for the
importation of cocoa processing machine.

I want you to do me a favour to receive this funds to a safe account in
your country or any safer place as the beneficiary .

I offer you 15% of the total sum, and 5% for any expences you may
incure during the process of transfer, and you will invest the rest for me
in your country.

I have plans to do investment in your country, like real estate and
industrial production. This is my reason for writing to you. Please if you
are willing to assist me, kindly indicate your interest in replying
soonest to my email.

Thanks and best regards.

Abiam Emodu.

Answer 1

oh dont worry about that, its just someone that got a hold of your email address, and your not the only one. These people send millions of emails to random email address, and if they are lucky someone will take the bait and give up their credit card number.


just ignore the spammer or there might be a small link on bottom of page saying if you want to unsubscribe from the emails.

Go ahead and click that and you should stop receiving mails from him/her.

Answer 2

The details of the con vary a little in each case, but the usual aim is to get you to give them your bank account details, ostensibly to allow them to send you staggeringly large sums of money, which they will then split with you.... or to trick you into revealing information which will allow them to impersonate you... or, sometimes, there will be a sudden last-minute hitch in transferring the cash, maybe there's a banking fee to pay, or a bribe for some corrupt local official, and all you have to do is sent just a few hundred, to resolve the problem, and then you'll be flooded with riches...

In general, if it seems too good to be true... it is.

I'm amazed to read that there are still people out there who fall for this... but it seems there's enough to make it quite a profitable scam.

The simplest thing to do is just ignore it. If you want to do more, authorities in many countries have ongoing investigations into this kind of scam, and will add your email to the huge pile they already have.
The one thing NOT to do, is answer it. Even sending a rude reply tells them that your email address is valid, and that makes it useful for other scams and worth more when they resell it to spammers.

Answer 3

These types of all emails are scam/phishing because when you accept them then you will be ask for procedure and for that you need to send either money or bank account details so if the gets once these all information then there is no doubt you are in trap so never believe in such emails because we get bunch of such emails in a day.
Good luck!

Answer 4

Dude thats spam put in in yer junk mail. it will block them.

Answer 5

The fact that you opened that e-mail tells me you should not be on the internet. Can you knit?