well i'm a millionaire !!!!

[bayman]

just received an email telling me i've won a lottery in holland & to collect my money i have to send my banking details & after a small fee is taking out for taxes etc, they'll forward me on the money within 28 days.............sounds great BUT i NEVER bought a ticket in any raffle, let alone one the other side of the planet


now i'm not gullible (the same when i got whatever it was from nicauragia (or however you spell it), & THIS IS A SCAM so just warning those that are gullible that these things are just a SCAM with the idea of taking some if not all of your money, SO PLEASE do not get sucked in

i'm sure if you want to part with money so easily you can send it to me & it'll help pay little baymans school fees seriously PLEASE DO NOT GET SUCKED IN

[The Yetti]

just received an email telling me i've won a lottery in holland & to collect my money i have to send my banking details & after a small fee is taking out for taxes etc, they'll forward me on the money within 28 days.............sounds great BUT i NEVER bought a ticket in any raffle, let alone one the other side of the planet


now i'm not gullible (the same when i got whatever it was from nicauragia (or however you spell it), & THIS IS A SCAM so just warning those that are gullible that these things are just a SCAM with the idea of taking some if not all of your money, SO PLEASE do not get sucked in

i'm sure if you want to part with money so easily you can send it to me & it'll help pay little baymans school fees seriously PLEASE DO NOT GET SUCKED IN

Bugger!!!
I just sent my details to them

[Punk Rooster]

just received an email telling me i've won a lottery in holland & to collect my money i have to send my banking details & after a small fee is taking out for taxes etc, they'll forward me on the money within 28 days.............sounds great BUT i NEVER bought a ticket in any raffle, let alone one the other side of the planet


now i'm not gullible (the same when i got whatever it was from nicauragia (or however you spell it), & THIS IS A SCAM so just warning those that are gullible that these things are just a SCAM with the idea of taking some if not all of your money, SO PLEASE do not get sucked in

i'm sure if you want to part with money so easily you can send it to me & it'll help pay little baymans school fees seriously PLEASE DO NOT GET SUCKED IN

forward the email on to me Bayman, i need the million to retire...

[GWW]

These emails have been going on for years and years, and there's always heaps of warnings in the media.

You'd have to be pretty stupid/gullible to get sucked in.

[Dirko]

You'd have to be pretty stupid/gullible to get sucked in.

I've seen it first hand. Where I do a bit of casual work is a Western Union agent. Had a old lady ( in her late 70's ) come in wanting to send
money to Nigeria. Way too suss for my liking so after a few questions asked, I persuaded her to NOT send the money BUT contact the police.

She did and the they looked into it and advised it was indeed a scam on a huge scale...haven't heard the results of the info the got off her emails but would be interesting......

[therisingblues]

I got one of these a while back. It was pretty long winded but well written.
Basically it went that almost an entire English family had gotten wiped out in a traffic accident in France. They'd left their details with the last remaining relative or something, and this was the person who sent me the E-mail.
These people were stinking rich, but stood to lose almost all their dosh because there were evil lawyers circling around their will, searching for holes that didn't specify sudden loss of entire family. These people were at the mercy of fate and in a last ditch hope the writer had sought me out because she "sensed" that I was a compassionate type, and this is what they are in desperate need of after suffering such a tragedy. They wanted me to hold all their cash for them, just until the lawyers disappear, and then please return it to them, they'd reward me, but I need to understand that the whole time they'd be completely at my mercy.
I can't remember the details too well but that was the jist.
I think all they wanted from me was an address and phone number or something. My guess was that this was a long scam, where the victim gets sucked in over time after they'd earned the trust so I didn't pursue it.

[mighty_tiger_79]

there are also e-mails going around that tell you to download an attachment which has something to do with transactions - i believe this to be a virus.

[gadj1976]

On average I'd get one of these sent to my hotmail address a week.

Holland
Nicuragua
Nigeria
Zimbabwe

People must still be getting sucked in by them because they still are in existance.

[godoubleblues]

have a look at ebolamonkeyman.com
quite an amusing site

oh, and slightly off topic, I was a millionaire in Vietnam a few weeks ago, exchanged $200US and got 3.2 mil back in Vietnamese Dong woohoo

[silent11]

have a look at ebolamonkeyman.com
quite an amusing site

oh, and slightly off topic, I was a millionaire in Vietnam a few weeks ago, exchanged $200US and got 3.2 mil back in Vietnamese Dong woohoo

[Bold Strategy]

just received an email telling me i've won a lottery in holland & to collect my money i have to send my banking details & after a small fee is taking out for taxes etc, they'll forward me on the money within 28 days.............sounds great BUT i NEVER bought a ticket in any raffle, let alone one the other side of the planet


now i'm not gullible (the same when i got whatever it was from nicauragia (or however you spell it), & THIS IS A SCAM so just warning those that are gullible that these things are just a SCAM with the idea of taking some if not all of your money, SO PLEASE do not get sucked in

i'm sure if you want to part with money so easily you can send it to me & it'll help pay little baymans school fees seriously PLEASE DO NOT GET SUCKED IN

i got that email aswell, sent them my bank details and bang go $1.5 million in my bank account it not rocket science

[best on hill]

just received an email telling me i've won a lottery in holland & to collect my money i have to send my banking details & after a small fee is taking out for taxes etc, they'll forward me on the money within 28 days.............sounds great BUT i NEVER bought a ticket in any raffle, let alone one the other side of the planet


now i'm not gullible (the same when i got whatever it was from nicauragia (or however you spell it), & THIS IS A SCAM so just warning those that are gullible that these things are just a SCAM with the idea of taking some if not all of your money, SO PLEASE do not get sucked in

i'm sure if you want to part with money so easily you can send it to me & it'll help pay little baymans school fees seriously PLEASE DO NOT GET SUCKED IN

i got that email aswell, sent them my bank details and bang go $1.5 million in my bank account it not rocket science

i think BS could stand for something else

[Dirko]

have a look at ebolamonkeyman.com
quite an amusing site

oh, and slightly off topic, I was a millionaire in Vietnam a few weeks ago, exchanged $200US and got 3.2 mil back in Vietnamese Dong woohoo

Should have gone to Laos, would've been a Billionaire......

[Gozu]

As downright annoying as these scammers are there's so many of them because they make so much money still. I think I read somewhere that these email scams now bring in Billions around the world and in countries like Nigeria for example it's like the nation's #2 money earner or something and critical to it's economy.

[Pseudo]

have a look at ebolamonkeyman.com
quite an amusing site

oh, and slightly off topic, I was a millionaire in Vietnam a few weeks ago, exchanged $200US and got 3.2 mil back in Vietnamese Dong woohoo

Should have gone to Laos, would've been a Billionaire......

or better still: Zimbabwe. Not sure what the term is to describe someone with that many zeroes on the end of their bank balance...

[GWW]

A Mugabe-aire

[johntheclaret]

Do any of you chaps get emails from "your bank" telling you they are doing some essential systems work and in order for you to be covered you must login by following the link below.

that sort of thing.

Now these are very clever in that they lift bank logos and the hyperlink usually looks like "login to Nat West" or something like it, obviously with a lin k to a bogus site.

Even if you did login, the details page looks just like a bank page with boxes for your id, password or whatever.

I could see how these would catch a lot of folk out, especially older ones who aren't that www savvy. On line banking may have a lot of plus points, but there are some drawbacks.

[heater31]

Well I got an email yesterday saying that I had won 850,000 UK pounds. Please send us the following details to claim your prize........DELETE

[A Mum]

Do any of you chaps get emails from "your bank" telling you they are doing some essential systems work and in order for you to be covered you must login by following the link below.

that sort of thing.

Now these are very clever in that they lift bank logos and the hyperlink usually looks like "login to Nat West" or something like it, obviously with a lin k to a bogus site.

Even if you did login, the details page looks just like a bank page with boxes for your id, password or whatever.

I could see how these would catch a lot of folk out, especially older ones who aren't that www savvy. On line banking may have a lot of plus points, but there are some drawbacks.

All the time and from banks that I don't even bank with, and lately names that aren't even mine !!!
I never ever open any of these emails... even if it did come from my bank I would never know because just like heater31... I hit the delete button pretty quick

[JAS]

Do any of you chaps get emails from "your bank" telling you they are doing some essential systems work and in order for you to be covered you must login by following the link below.

that sort of thing.

Now these are very clever in that they lift bank logos and the hyperlink usually looks like "login to Nat West" or something like it, obviously with a lin k to a bogus site.

Even if you did login, the details page looks just like a bank page with boxes for your id, password or whatever.

I could see how these would catch a lot of folk out, especially older ones who aren't that www savvy. On line banking may have a lot of plus points, but there are some drawbacks.

You must have watched 'The One Show' on the BBC last night then

That's exactly what they were talking about and not just banks but apparently the scammers are sending email that appear to be from Government departments too...ie Inland Revenue...NHS...Social Services...(or whatever they're called today) etc.

Apparently the emails often say 'Dear valued customer' or similar rather than your name. Their advice was to ask yourself why wouldn't they use your name and why would your own bank etc not know your details. Basically don't respond...very little is so urgent that it can't wait til you can either phone them or visit in person.

Regards
JAS