us $163m (one hundred and sixty-three million us dollar)
By preminside
@preminside (37)
United States
January 27, 2007 10:18am CST
Hi,
I just receive an e-mail from the assistant of Mikhail Khodorkovsky one of the richest men in Russia and owner of some oil company. He wrote " I seek your partnership to accommodate the sum $163M now lodged in a bank oversea". then said as a personal assist. he got the permission to transfer the money to my account. he said to give him my information and he will tell European bank to tranfer the money. So any1 out there help......
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95 responses
@Lindalinda (4111)
• Canada
28 Jan 07
OMG, this is a new version of the Nigerian Scam. What will happen if you buy into this is the following: You will either be asked for your complete information including bank account number and details and then your money will dissapear or you will be sent another letter by a fake law firm or bank stating that in order to transfer the money they need a substantial amount of money from you (the dollar amount varies) which you have to wire in advance to cover legal and transfer fees. If you send that money you will never see it again or any millions. Report this e-mail to a fraud watch organizaion and do not respond to it. Believe me it is a scam.
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@toonatoons (3737)
• Philippines
28 Jan 07
the latter is more like it. i've been receivng this kind of email, too, and all i can think of is how bad people can get, fooling other people and all that!
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@jsolochek (2)
• United States
28 Jan 07
This is a very familiar scam, stay far away. The ask you in good faith since they will be transferring all this money for you to put up good faith money then they will take that money and it will be bye bye forever. I have to sites that may assist you with this go to fraudaid.com of idtheftnightmare.com
@ajithlal (14716)
• India
28 Jan 07
I think it is most probably scam. There are lots of such things that are send through mails by others stating you have win a free lottery or stating some person have some property or valuable assets on some country ask us to help them get it for them, etc. I really think this should be considered as internet crimes because sometimes these kind of mails gives lots of hopes to people. Initially I also thought these kind of mails are true and felt victim to these like become a millionaire etc kind of stuff.
@theone3nu (598)
• India
28 Jan 07
ya iam also getting these type of mails. first i took as seriously. but by seeing more and more mails i thought it is a spam.so better dont believe that. its a kind of virus that will slow ur system. actually my system also slowed down. i formatted and reinstalled windows xp. so better u delete those mails. believe me i got more than 20 mails of such kind. if ur in net cafe then u can read those mails. i wish u all the best.
@Lindalinda (4111)
• Canada
28 Jan 07
No, no, no, this is a scam and nothing else. You are too young to understand the various lures that internet fraudsters use to get people to part with money.
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@Capsicum (1444)
• United States
28 Jan 07
This is a scam for sure many of us if not all have recieved offers of this type ,we just don't open them . It seems as if these spammers are getting better at getting it into your inbox instead of your spam folder that alone is scarry . Good luck to you but please keep in mind if it sounds to good to be true it is .
@shahabahmadkhan (1999)
• India
28 Jan 07
well its spam buddy and later on it will result in scam if you send them some money which they will ask for sure
@nantha (41)
• India
27 Jan 07
hi friend please dont't give any personal information and your bank details particulary your credit card number. This might be totally scam. Mostly these are come from nigiria. If want to know is it scam or not please go to fraudwatchers.org. You will get all the details.
@algie123 (289)
• Philippines
28 Jan 07
I also read a news about the online scam in the internet. I don't remember the name, he is a programmer and they sell their car to the internet then they found buyer from Nigeria and its said it would be buy and the check will be sent to them as a cashier check but they found out that the check is a forfeited the sellers was pity. the lonely thing is the car was delivered to Nigeria before they found out they were scammed.
so take care
@mikhail7 (176)
• Philippines
28 Jan 07
It's a scam. I also did received an email similar to that Just ignore it. Why would anybody share his fortune if he doesn't have any motives? Right?
@vicat506 (132)
• United States
27 Jan 07
Don't do it. Just delete the email. I had gotten that same exact email a few months back. I searched the origin and I found a lot of information under scams. There are so many bogus scams out there in postal service mail, and email. Just whatever you do, do not respond. Either they will charge you "taxes" for the money to be sent (which you'll never see agian) or it's someone overseas looking for places to stash their stolen cash and checks, and they enroll innocent people who are duped into thinking they're making money.
@googleindia2005 (2)
• India
29 Jan 07
So did u think its a truth or scam? how can we help u ?
In regarding transactions or to find the truth
@randyequal (439)
• China
28 Jan 07
OMG, do you have any relationship with Mkhail Khodorkowsky?? are you friends? or did you have any contact with him before? If not, please don't let him know your bank account No. Maybe it is a cheating email.
But if you want to test the authenticity of this email, you can open another account with little or no deposit in it and tell this bank accout not to him and see if you can receive the money...
@cockadoodledoo (337)
• Australia
28 Jan 07
SPAM!! I get them all the time. Its amazing what lengths some people will go to to get our details. Dont ever be tempted to respond cos its just all rubbish. If only it were that easy to make money.
