$4,800,000!! What the...
By bonanza9
@bonanza9 (257)
Indonesia
May 19, 2010 9:27am CST
I've just got an email from a person named Larissa Diabi. The email said that she needs to seek business partnership. Due to the politic tension in her country (Ivory Coast), she would like to transfer the money to your bank account. Actually, it's her father's money who has been inherited to her. The sum is nearly 5 million bucks! Now that i called a real bait, even though it's scam.
What do you think about it? Should I give my personal details to her?
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26 responses
@betabharat (62)
• India
20 May 10
yes tap0991 is right this mail is surely a scam and if u provide them with your credentials then there is a very good chance that your account gets hacked and you lose all of your money so whenever these kind of mails arrives do have a bit of common sense drive not just the greed.
@RachelleNH (1396)
• United States
20 May 10
Don't be silly! You said yourself it's a scam...Honestly why do they think people will fall for an outrageous claim like this? It's "too good to be true"
The ones to watchout for are the internet date scammers from Nigeria..one conned my mom out of money-claiming he was hungry. She's 62-been single quite some time-and obviously desperate. He used love as bait. I was outraged at him..he had the perfect lie-but my mother caught him-he felt guilty and gave my mother 15 other women's names and email addresses that had fallen for it before.
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@HADDOWZ (1469)
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19 May 10
There is absolutely no way I would give out my details to anyone who sends me an email like this. It's a scam, I get emails like this all the time and I just delete them straight away. Scammers buy email address lists with thousands of names on them and use them to send rubbish like the one you have received, it only takes a few people to respond before the scammers have made money. Unless you know who they are then I would advise against ever giving out personal details, dont even waste your time responding to the email, report it and bin it.
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@OConnell87 (1042)
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19 May 10
if its too good to be true then it will be a scam. If you dont know the person dont give your details out...follow my blog on how to avoid scams plus make real money from legit sites...the blog is called spreading advice if can be found on my profile page or i can send you a link
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@cadguy08 (1224)
• Canada
19 May 10
I received a lot of them in my email everyday and I just deleted them , you should not read them or open their attachment because that attachment have some virus which will do some harm on your computer and get your valuable password and username. Don't ever give information to this people . Usually from Africa and other parts of the European send these terrible scam letter.
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@betlynfrnds (4069)
• United States
20 May 10
NO NO NO NO NO NO No way, no how. You will lose your money, identity and everything else you own. Stay FAR away from these scam emails. Delete them and don't even open any links they may have. Don't give scammers a chance to steal from you!!!
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@aabuda (1722)
• Philippines
19 May 10
I actually encountered such incident also a year ago. You know what I did? I have given to him my mobile phone number, that was my way in order to tracked him on his actual location. He really spend a lot in order to call me because I told him that I own a company so he really did his best in order to fool me. To his dismay, he just spend a couple of Nigerian money in order to call me. He told me to call him in order to process our transactions but I told him that I am so very busy with my business. He just stop fooling me when he found out that he can't take money from me. He also ask for my bank accounts but I didn't bothered myself sharing my information on him.
@dreamnishu (1247)
• China
19 May 10
This is the first time you got this mail? But i got such a mail many time. They are cheater. After give your address they will ask some money. They just want to cheat you. So just be careful. And ignore sucha person and mail too.
@bonanza9 (257)
• Indonesia
19 May 10
Let alone money, even if they asked me personal details, I will find info first. Today there's a lot of scammers out there. Pretty ironic that the internet now makes scammers get a leeway to do their action. Just number game. I'm sure she got at least hundreds of victims already .
@mercedlegurpa (955)
• Philippines
20 May 10
I've got a lot of emails too like yours. Definitely it's a scam. Please don't ever give your personal details. It's a bait of course. A sane person would never ever give her money to the one she didn't know. Please be aware that you'll be the one to suffer.
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@zralte (4178)
• India
19 May 10
I get email like that almost every week. I open them sometimes just to see how they word it or if I need a good laugh. Somtimes it's someone working in a bank who stumbled on unclaimed money which the bank will claim ownership in a few days, sometimes it is money inherited from deceased father but could not touch it because of step mother, half brothers, etc.
Sometimes it is 105 million, may be even more.
Why would anyone fall for that is beyond me. If they really have the money, what is stopping them in investing and why do they need your help. Money does have power and people who has that kind of money can certainly help themselves.
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@bonanza9 (257)
• Indonesia
20 May 10
Couldn't agree more with you. That's right, why bother to find unknown someone in the unknown place of the world to put their money. Even if that person is gullible, that would be extremely stupid to give the hefty sum to unknown.
With that amount, they should hire bodyguard instead lol.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
20 May 10
You admit it is a scam, yet ask if you should do it?
I just can't understand how people fall for this kind of thing all the time. And people must be as this junk rolls around all the time. If they weren't getting bites, they'd probably stop and find another scam to do.
Forget everything else...why would you want to give your personal financial information to ANYONE!?!?!?!?
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@Labinjan77 (33)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
20 May 10
you shouldn't give your e-mail address on net you shouldn't use your e-mail as loggin on strange web pages, and you shouldn't accept to be part of mailing lists so then you wouldn't receive this kind of e-mails.. If you don't understand what I talking about, well then go to WOT - Safe Browsing Tool - Add-ons for Firefox or Chrome, download it and install it. then JUST don't visit sites which are marked as unsafe web sites.. and stop using IE will help you too
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@nijolechu (1842)
• Canada
20 May 10
No, I have given up trusting these people. You would have to be stupid to fall for these scams. I don't think anyone in their right mind would give up their personal and financial information to a complete stranger on the internet. They would totally screw up your life if you did.
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@chipesterkhan (2925)
• Philippines
20 May 10
no! that's the oldest scam in the book!
that's from nigeria
you'll have to send her money and then she'll leave you hanging
those guys are scammers
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@mae_dyrish (237)
• Philippines
20 May 10
It is a scam, do not give your details or else it will ruin your entire life.
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