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Watch Out!!! for this scam....

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Posted by: JeriRose12

I fouind reference to this in prayer request, and I thought all would benefit from this info.

A warning to all reading this: the Niegerian scam, in a nutshell, is where they email you saying that funds are "trapped" in Nigeria, and that if you send funds to help get this money over to America, they will give you some of the "trapped" funds.

Another similar scam, is where they say a Muslim who converted to Christianaity has diverted all this money from the governemnt, and now wants to get it to America:

Christians are receiving a letter or e-mail supposedly from a retired Nigerian military officer who has converted from Islam to Christianity. The letter writer claims to have diverted $45 million from the Nigerian government. But the officer writes that after converting to Christianity, he has "received instruction from God through divine revelation" and wants to donate the $45 million to God's work, specifically to "your ministry."

Then, there is one where the guy doesn't ask for money upfront. But he asks for your personal info like email and fax and phone number. What he claims is that this Christian couple, whom he was a legal advisor to, asked him to sell all their propeties and give all the procedds to Christian ministires after they died. Instead, he put the money in trunks and put it into a security company (planning to use for his own wants). Later, he claims, he got saved, and then he was convicted, so now he wats YOU (your ministry) to have some of the money, and he came across your name on line and.... so on. He doesn't ask outright that you send money, but he does URGENTly want you to reply.

I received an email regarding the last scam I listed here, so I know this to be for real.

The FBI now has an online scam watch , so if you receive such an email, they want to know. Go to the National Fraud Information Center to file a complaint.

I borrowed this info off another site, so I hope that's okay, but I feel people need to be warned.

Bottom line: Anyone asking you for money in an email, disregard it! Also, anyone asking for personal info in an email, disregard it.

~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2004


Posted by: StarChilde

We have been emailed several times by this kind of fraudulent scam... by someone wanting to buy a car we put online several yrs ago! Anytime someone is willing to buy some thing as expensive as a sports car sight unseen... and pay you above and I mean wayyyyyyy above what you are asking for it... it is time to turn it in the authorities. It is called the Nigerian 419 scam... do a google search on "nigerian 419" and one will find the authorities to turn them in to.


Posted by: Frederik

lol, are you telling me you even read these mails?
I dont even open it.