Do People Really Fall For This This

yup I get them havent for awhile but have. and I delete them as fast as I can lol

OMG, that is really low! You would be surprised though how many people would respond even just to see what would happen or to think they are going to scam the scammer. It just goes to show though, who in their right mind would even believe such a story? Says a lot about the greed and gullability of some people.

I get that crap all the time too, I delete it or mark it as spam. I suppose some people do fall for that, I can't imagine the kind of people who do though. The next time we get one of these emails, maybe them people will send us the money, they keep promising it to us. Then we will have enough to plan a big mylot reunion, we can all come then. We will have the millions and be able to afford it. Hope to see you soon.

I'm guessing that some people do actually fall for this stuff or the scammers would give up and stop sending that around.

i havent fallen for it so far! Another thing that makes me wonder is...those money for gold things. I see them on TV but to me it seems so fishy - you are supposed to trust them and send you gold and HOPE they send you money back - what if its not the value u want or they dont actually send you anything what can you do they already have your gold!

I get a few of these per week and just delete it. I don't know how they get away with sending these and are there really people out there that would fall for this nonsense. I hope not but I bet there are.

Yep, I get one or two of those a day those or the I won a lottery thing. A waste of people's time and space if you ask me. I don't see why they would send them out so much. I doubt many people would be so gullible to follow it.

I used to get tons of them, but have applied some filters to my e mail, so I am only getting a fraction of what I used to get. It can come from any country, and can be from any man or woman. Honest people usually realize that even if these things were true, they would be dishonest if not downright illegal to do. I have known of some people who have gotten scammed, not with that particular one but from another type of scam.

I get those too, and lately my mother has been getting them in snail-mail form, which is really scary, because it means these people know where she lives. I don't know how they would have gotten her address. I keep getting them, and I delete them. A friend of mine is being scammed in a different way, not necessarily by one of these scams, but by someone over in Africa who claims to be in love with her though an on-line relationship...what the hell? My husband and I met on line, but as friends first, and through a writing group, where we started off with similar interests to begin with, not us out looking for osmeone, and trying to woo someone into having a relationship with us.

actually I've read the news where a lot of canadians fall for scams like that or something that sounds like their friend needs help where as their friend doesn't even need it and yet they send money I don't have that much luck in lottery so I don't think millions of money will ever be in my hands anything that sounds millions, well that's not mine

Only once a month? I get several a day! I wish I could cash in on just one of them and be comfortable with the millions of someone's estate who could afford it!! I can't understand the waste of time, but the information they want is usually enough to tell me that it is not legitimate. I don't know of anyone who has fallen for it, though, and hope that I never do know anyone who does.

The sad fact is that there are people whose desperation and greed...and ignorance...do actually allow them to fall for such blatant nonsense. If that weren't true, the perpetrators would not take the risks they take in continuing to set up these scams. It only takes one foolish person to make the criminals happy, and so they don't care about the hundreds of thousands of other people they are inconveniencing with their "spam." Worse yet is when con artists sit and wait and watch for an elderly person to become vulnerable so they can move near in a moment of weakness and "befriend" them in order to seize their sometimes meager (and sometimes not so meager) belongings. Sometimes would-be "caregivers" do this, sometimes it is a fortune teller or someone pretending to be affiliated with a church, sometimes a man or woman professing to have a romantic interest in the victim, but the courtship is always the same...they offer help and lavish the person with attention and promises and then over time, they start wanting little things and then bigger things. Did you read about the 100-year old man in Philadelphia who was recently knocked to the pavement and beaten and for what--for $30 and his bag of groceries?

I have received many of these scams over the years and I really wonder how they get our email addresses. I always add them to junk mail without responding. However there are some gullible people out there who do fall for these tricks and get burnt. so many people give out personal information - even their bank account numbers and credit card numbers to people who ask. Too many trusting souls and they are usually older people. I did have a GF who was tempted and I could not believe it that she was willing to take the risk! Excellent post

yes, some will fall for this kind of emails, but thats just a handful of people only sometimes, what i can say is that this kind of emails can show how greedy a person can be. i remember last time got what Nigerian scam or whatever. they send emails to you saying you won money/you are the heir to the inheritance but you need to send a big amount to them before you can collect your money... only greedy ones will really send money to them...blinded by money already

Yes, I get those emails too and they are always half or a full million pounds, not dollars! Even if they send millions of those emails, they only need one person to fall for it and then they have made their money! It is bad, but it seems that one can't trust people anymore!

I've been getting that same email for years but always with a different name. The phishers aren't even original anymore. They just copy & paste the story with their own email in it.

Hi dear! I would also receive this kind of mails once in a while. However, if I get such a mail, I immediately delete the same, after reading first few lines. I know it very well that this mails are fake one. However, once I found that one of my colleagues's father got trapped in such a mail and was willing to act as was directed in the mail, it took considerable time for me to convince him that he is not going to get any money/funds, it is fake and he should ignore it.

Oh yes, this is a scam that has been around for quite some time on the Internet. I once read in the newspaper that a guy had been duped by it and even went out to Africa expecting to find his fortune there only to have all his money taken from him. I have also heard of people who have gone out there and have been killed. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of greed in the world, and it is this greed that is the root of all evil and gets people into all sorts of trouble. - Derek

Hello Grandmaof2, I did a discussion yesterday about junk emails and this one was mentioned there too. I receive these and out of all the junk I get I do tend to glance at them just to see how much I'm going to inherit. One of my respondees had read the mail through to the bottom though and apparently they want %50 to cover admin costs. I never got that far myself, I'm too amused by the fact they want to leave me all this money but address me as 'Dear Sir'. It goes in the junk email bin along with the rest of them.

Hi Grandmaof2! Yes, I get emails like this all the time! I just put them in my spam. This is called the "Nigeria Scam". I also get letters like this from banks in England. I heard about a girl who fell for this scam one time and it got her in a lot of trouble with her husband. I started a discussion about this several months ago. Kathy.