Scam email

[lynbrown]

Just had a hilarious email supposedly from someone in Africa to say I am the beneficiary of a will of $15million. Surely noone falls for these anymore?

[boxtops]

They keep trying, lyn, so I guess one or two people falling for it must make it worth their while!

[sandyRoe]

Lyn, could you lend me £50,000? You wouldn't miss it now you have so much.

[DTCwordfan]

yesssss they do.....and you hear of folk even flying out to Lagos to try and track their money down.

Now, that is a real definition of being "gullible"

[factor-fiction]

Too late, I've already sent off my fee to release my share of the money.
Yes people do fall for it. If the scammers send out 100,000 emails they probably find at least a handful of people who pay up.

[boxtops]

who was that woman who struck up an on-line relationship with someone from Ghana, who suddenly needed shedloads of money for an urgent operation for his sister and she sent it to him?

[starone]

At the moment I am getting emails from Banks that I don't belong to telling me to log on to their number as my account is in danger of being stopped. I just delete them, twice.but I suppose some people fall for it.

[sandyRoe]

Curiously, I haven't won a fortune on the lottery for some time. Used to get e-mails telling me how to get my new found wealth regularly.

[DTCwordfan]

just takes one plonker I guess to get a payout.

Now what is my scam to be......? Cornish laird selling fishing rights to netting pollocks off the Scilly Islands - please send a deposit of £1000 down, with a monthly rental of £150 pounds for 25 year fishing rights to my bank account with RBS.....and my rights are extraneous to the EEC fishing quotas.

Interviews for Portugese, Faeroese, Irish and Icelandic fishermen considered, after an upfront- payment of £2000 in their case. Japanese rights under evaluation for an upfront £10,000

[DTCwordfan]

thanks eddie - you are reinforcing my scam to sell fishing rights!

[boxtops]

Agree Eddie, each bank has a phishing report email address. I always do that - although someone on here suggested that the banks don't do anything with them, and it's just moving the emails out of my inbox into theirs. Do you think they are always still worth reporting?

[starone]

I have reported a few, but got fed up with it so now don't bother. If you think it is worthwhile then I can start again, after all it's no hardship.