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Scam 1 - Confidential illegal funds diversion
This type of internet scam and fraud inherited the concept of notorious
"grafted asset diversion" scam originated in Africa in the 1970's but
now operates in a much larger scale. This by far is the most damaging
fraud over internet.
In this scam, imposter would randomly send out emails, first introducing
herself as a widow or daughter of a deceased head or senior
official of an corrupted African country, and then stating that she
needs your urgent help as she must divert a huge amount of money,
typically 10-20 million dollars, that was illegally acquired by he
husband or father. There are several different but similar email
versions. One of the emails, which might have been distributed to
millions people, is displayed on this page in its entirety.
The consequence could be severe if someone starts to think what's said
in email might be real.
According to the advice from a real person who was trapped in such a
scam for years, trashing the email when seeing it is the only and best
thing to do. as long as you make one step forward, i.e., replying to the
mail, you will have hard time down the road to pull yourselves out a
deep yet attractive pitfall, as in every step of the process going
forward, you will have opportunities to see a set of beautifully
prepared legal and financial documents that appear to support every
single word in the original email. You will be working hard towards a
great dream of financial freedom until one day when you suddenly realize
that you have spent all your savings but are still one step away from
"dream coming true".
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