E-mails asking for personal and financial information.

Hello naty1941.... Never, never give your personal information to any one like this. There are many known scams from Nigeria. Tom

SCAM, SCAM, SCAM. You should forward the email on to the rightful place such as the police etc. They will investigate it. I received these emails every day nearly. Do not give out any information to them, you shouldnt even write back to them in the first place. Some people give their details and lose thousands.

Do absolutely nothing.I receive the same types of e-mail.Never, ever reply to these in any way. These scam artists are everyehre. Calling the police or the FBI to hunt them down is futile, since the addresses and contact information your receiving is most likely from a post office box and could never be traced.On the brighter side, law enforcement and the FBI included are very well informed, regarding these scams and are investigating them on a daily basis.So, anytime you recieve an e-mail, such as this, just delete it.

Hi naty, your daughter is right, He is one of the "Nigeria" scammers that send out these emails every day trying to hook someone into loosing their money. They need to be reported and stopped. I have reported so many of them myself. Unfortunately they are overseas so it is very hard to prosecute them and get the money back from those that they've robbed. I am glad you caught on fast to his trick.

This is definitely a scam. I have been got it these scams before they are dangerous. I would turn it t to the police or someone like that. Do not reply back to them, please.

hello, it was a scam... dont ever give your financial info to anyone who was still a complete stranger to you.

This is definately a scam! Dateline NBC just had a show about this same exact type of scam on this week. I think your daughter is right, notify the authorities, but since it is out of the USA, who knows what they could do. You did the right thing by telling him that, and now I would block his email addy or add it to your spam folder and never correspond with them again. :)

This is a well known scam. Be careful not to be duped by these people who pretended that they have lots of money stashed somewhere and require your help to get it. Normally, they would ask you for some money, something like a deposit or to pay for processing stuffs or something like that. Just be careful okay.

This sounds like a money laundering scam. DO NOT give your banking or personal information!! Report it to spam@uce.gov If you participate, you can be prosecuted and even jailed.

there are many reasons for which people ask for personal and financial information. first and foremost is the identity theft which has become a great problem these days specially in a capitalist USA. people use these information to make fake card and thereby retrieving money while the person is not knowing what is happening with his accounts. secondly they use it for money laundring, another problem of these days. it's also a crime. thirdly they will just ask you to first give them some money so that they can administer the transfer and once you have given the required transaction charges they disappear. there might be other purposes which i don't know. so it is more than adviseable, not to divulge your personal or financial information to any body.

This sounds like a Nigeria scam and most likely is. Your daughter is right. You should contact the FBI. You can email it to 419fcd@usss.treas.gov with the subject line no money loss.

Oh,there are too many swindker in the world,so we must be more careful to protect ourselves.Maybe you can notify the FBI in order to prevent him cheating others.Any way,you are a wise person.Good luck!my dear friend!

Naty1941, I am so glad to hear that you did not fall for that scam. Anything from Africa, Ghana, or Nigeria, and probably a few other of the African region is total SCAM.....Unfortunately the US FBI's hands are tied. They are not allowed to do anything as Africa will not cooperate with america in these types of investigations or sending someone from there to be brought to justice. I had gotten scammed once from Nigeria and was the one that got into trouble, but since I cooperated with the local authorities and explained to the judge and also showed the judge everything that had happened the DA decided to drop the charges down to 1 class A misdemeanor, from 7 counts of Class C Felonies. I got scammed, and hurt before and never will again fall for something like that, I am constantly receiving requests from there still and I keep telling them that I no longer do business with anyone from that region. I am so glad that you stand your ground with them keep up the good work. :)

Hello Naty. I get lots and lots of email that declare me a winner of Lottos and such everyday. I do not answer any of them. I put them in my spam bucket. Don't let anyone fool you into letting them "help you". You can be sure that any info you would put out about your bank account, they will turn around and wipe you out. Then where would you be? With nothing. If anyone that you know would tell you that someone has told them the same thing, be sure to let them know that it is a scam. You would be a true friend by really and truly helping them out.

This is a very dubious practice and you should not provide any such material. The person that you have been in contact with is totally unknown to you and everything that you know about him is what he has told you. This type of con trick is not uncommon and I would never believe a word that he has told you.

I would notify the police in your area and they will investigate this. I actually received a money order one time from someone in Nigera and it looked legitimate, but I called my bank and was told to take it to the police department immediately. They checked it out and if I had of deposited it, I would have been cashing a stolen money order and would have been arrested and charged the fees for it. I am thankful that I knew that I should check it out. I would also block his emails if I could. It is a huge scam!!!

This is a proven scam. I receive many emails like this. I just ignore them, although sometimes it gets irritating. There are other scams similar to this. There's this "you won the lottery and you are entitled to this so and so very big amount of pounds." There are real cases of people getting fooled. There's this one businessman (I watched this from the tv) who lost a lot of money because of these scams. Just a tip to all of us, if we feel that something's too good to be true, then try to get all the information we can get about the company or the subject. We can research through different search engines by typing the name/keyword then "scam". Let us all the be very careful.

Some years ago I spent some time working on Money Laundering Complince for a major UK bank, and this is a common scam. This is a type of scam known as a 419 scam - after the piece of the Nigerian Criminal Code that makes it illegal. They don't just originate from Nigeria now, though, but form anywhere in the world. Just ignore the mails - I get about 3 a day to various email accounts. There are various ways that this can cause you a lot of trouble. The first is the most obvious - you send them details and they either empty your bank account (harder to do these days but possible) or use the iformation to fake an ID. The second is more devious - you send them details, and a cheque is sent to you for 'expenses'for a few thousand dollars. They'll often say 'The cheque could only be drawn for, say, $10,000 - can you send us a cheque back for $3,000 and keep the remainder?' So, you quickly do this, and then a few weeks later teh cheque 'bounces' and you're $3,000 down on the deal. Third is pure money laundering - you might be asked to put money through your bank account and pay out to a third party in the US or abroad. This 'cleans' the money by making it look like it comes from a legitimate source - you. In the UK we have a national police organisation that will occasionally look in to this sort of thing; the FBI would be your equivalent. If you don't want to involve the authorities, just bin the mail and block him on chat. He's a bad 'un and needs a slap. Take care!

i don't think that a person who has a lot of money would even think of needing a help from someone.... maybe its a fake!!

This is definitely a scam! My father tried replying once and she sounded too needy so he stopped. Boy I was glad that I was there to stop him or he would have replied again. It's really scary the amount of these kinds of e-mails get in our mails easily. If I believe every single one of them then I would have been a millionaire. I've inherited so many much land from the e-mails I get. lolz. They're all scams