I recently recieved an email from a person who is says that he is a bank accountant and says that a person died and has left me some money because i share some sort of distance relationship as him (he said that we share the same last name). What struck me the most suspicious was that he never told me the persons name, and whats more suspicous, is that his mail was a yahoo account, but my reply was to a gmail account.
Im planning on seeing if he will give me the name, plus the persons race (because my display name is different from my real name, and my real name is of a different origin even though i am of a completely different race). And when he starts to dip out, I have to report it.
Some questions i was wondering is:
1. When you die, does your money go to the next of kin?
2. If i do report it, How do i know that i got a response?
2007-08-11 08:44:28 · 5 answers · asked by IAmYourDoG 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
I FORGOT ONE CRITCAL QUESTION
How do i report this to gmail?!?!
and i think this is from the UK not nigeria mainly because of a supicious email that i found on the details, which i used to find a girl from the UK on myspace.
2007-08-11 09:05:46 · update #1
Please do not get suckered into this, it is most definitely a scam. If this was true, then they would contant you through the mail, usually certified. To answer your questions...
1. Usually if you die, without a will to indicate your wishes, the court steps in and distributes your property according to the laws of your state. You might want to check out the laws that are in place in your state. Usually it will go to the spouse, and if they are deceased, to the children and so on. If no heirs are found,then the properties (money, homes, land and so forth) will be taken by the state.
2. You probably won't get a response. There are millions of scams out there that are being reported. Responding to each individual scam would be too time consuming. The best answer I can give you is to just take it as it is. You did your part and hopefully they will do theirs!
Sorry lol I just realized you needed a website : ) woopsies! here's one that you can look into. But you can google it too..
Look under Consumer Fraud Reporting...
2007-08-11 09:13:02 · answer #1 · answered by HotNurse71 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an obvious scam. I get these all the time. I just reply telling them go to hell or something. They usually come in broken english and refer to a bank in Africa. Almost 90% of all internet scams originate in Nigeria. I read that somewhere.
2007-08-11 15:55:07 · answer #2 · answered by Martyr Machine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For this kind of problem you could go to police but i tell you somthing they will not do anything , this is a nigerian scam all what you could do is to set the mail beeing a junk.
2007-08-11 16:11:09 · answer #3 · answered by jabiilord 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a scam. Ignore it.
And under NO circumstances send this guy any money!!!
2007-08-11 15:54:02 · answer #4 · answered by Jay 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a well known scam,do not give any information out at all
2007-08-11 15:53:48 · answer #5 · answered by dumplingmuffin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋