South African Email Fraud

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I hope all of you have got emails from strange people saying that someone left a huge fortune and they want to transfer it out of the country and need your help etc etc. Me also used to get many of these emails and my common sense told me that its some kind of a fraud. So I never really cared to know the real motive behind these emails until recently.

There are many different groups running such fraud schemes. If you reply to such an email, they will contact you back asking for bank account details and more contact information so that they can wire you the money. They will even call you to get your trust.

Once they have your trust they will ask you to transfer some money to their account. You might ask why, and you will get one of the following reasons.

  • Account verification
  • Transaction fee
  • Banking procedure
  • Trust building

Sounds really stupid.. right. But think again, they sends out millions of emails a day and there are stupid enough people who are willing to spend some bucks to try their luck with millions of dollars in waiting.

What a great way to make money !!!!!!!

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5 comments ↓

#1 Niyaz PK on 02.06.08 at 2:09 pm

There is another catch.
If you reply a single time, the spammers mark the email id as a valid and active one. From that day, you will get lots and lots of spam.

#2 Maneesh J on 02.06.08 at 3:18 pm

No one will give you anything for free.That too by putting your email id in some lottery.These are frauds.They may ask your personnel information and ask you some money just to get your cheque shipped to your address by express courier.If you send the money you may get a fraud printed cheque of some millions of dollars which you can never clear from your bank.Never ever reply to these lottery scams.

Another scam is paypal phishing scams.They ask you to check your account by mail.The link would be some site such as paypal.net or thepaypal.org and design will be similiar to paypal.If you login,they will rob your cash….

#3 Shoban on 02.06.08 at 7:55 pm

they are called as 420s (i am not sure..i forgot the actual name)

they are skilled thieves and heard that Nigeria is the head! :)

Just give them the account number and see and ur account will be clean!! :)

#4 kansieo on 02.06.08 at 8:01 pm

Actually, they’re called 419 scams, Shoban…see 419eater.com for some fun. ;)

#5 shoban on 02.08.08 at 5:53 pm

oh!! thanks kansieo .. now I remember. I read about them once in “Digit” Magazine..

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