Wish these people would use thier time honestly. They would have lots of Legal money!!!!

Thank you Kathy..Everyone should know about these scams...;-)

YOU are appreciated.

Peace.

Trouble is, they have lots more money than most of us. Nigerian scams run an average conversion rate of 0.1% (one tenth of a percent). That means if they send out 10 million emails a day, they get responses from 10,000 of those. Even if they were only able to scam a dollar from each person, they'd still run a rate of $10,000 per day.

It's getting harder for them though. As people start to notice that the 15 emails they get each day have basically the same sob story, with just the minor details changed (names, places, the amount of money, who's causing the problem, etc.), fewer and fewer people are falling for them.

There are a few easy clues. Former heads of state in African countries rarely use Yahoo emails. Neither to claims departments for lottery corporations or accounts managers for national banks.

My favourites are the ones that say "I'm an assistant to the British Ambassador to the Congo" and they use a yahoo.cz (Czech Republic) sending address, and a yahoo.es (Spain) reply address HAHAHA! You would almost think that anyone who falls for it at this point deserves to be scammed...if it weren't so tragically common already!

Kathy,

Send them an email telling them you would like to help them out.

Tell them you will need all of their personal banking information so you have access to their bank account and you can transfer their money into your personal account!

 

Yes these scams surface every so often all over the web. I have had them in my emails periodically for months. I do see them once in a while in communities such as ALP. It is good to draw people's attention to the fact that these are scams. It is too often that you see someone broadcasting to their "friends" with the good intention of doing a good deed. One can never be too careful - there are a lot of evil people out there in cyberspace. I like the fact that you warn others in posts such as this. Kudos to you, Kathy.

Thanks Kathy

These people are too much ...

Most of us don't bother with scams like that but some new people to the internet do fall for scams like that !

I feel for those people to be taken by Scammers.

What do you do ?

Daniel