If you received an email from a stranger and asking you for a deal that cost USD22million and you'll get 40% if you will pretend a kin of a family who died in a plane crash and 60% for him as the mastermind, will you get it? deal or no deal? why?

DO NOT reply to the email. It's a scam. It's just another in the long line of Internet and mail scams, usually out of Nigeria, but sometimes the UK and Canada as well.

What will happen is this: You agree and the scammer says he'll route the money through your account (or the account of someone you know). In order to do that, of course, he'll need certain financial information, such as a routing and account number, maybe even your social security number. Before you know it, the scammer hasn't put any money in to your account but rather wiped it out.

There are variances on the scam. You might be sent a cashier's check, which clears the bank initially and then comes back counterfeit...after you've sent the cash equivalent in a money order from your own account.

If you never played a foreign lottery, you can't win one. If you've never had an account with a certain bank and are asked to provide further information, a scammer is looking to steal from you. If a complete stranger blindly e-mails you promising you millions, it's a scam. If it looks to good to be true, it quite certainly is, now more than ever.

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he said that he is a manager (audit dept) of this certain bank and was assigned to check all those abandoned accounts and he saw this account that noones claims and want me to pretend a kin of those foreign dead family and yeah it was from africa.. waht should i do? just ignore? or report?
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by sacredheart on January 22nd, 2007
k :)
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by sacredheart on January 22nd, 2007
yeah i always received numerous email from that,,what i did? i replied dont fool me jerk lolz
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by bida4ver on February 7th, 2007
heh! survival of the fittest now adays.. O.o
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by sacredheart on February 8th, 2007
Several years ago a prominent businessman was offered a similar 'deal'. He responded to emails and
international phone calls. He exchanged money. Then he involved others in this scam, on the
promise of making thousands of dollars. Eventually, he went to prison. This was for a scam he did not originate, but was caught up participating in. The people contacting you are criminals and may
never be caught if they are working out of another country. But, they will criminalize you. Please, please do not respond to them in any way. A word to the wise.
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by Ellie Mae on November 11th, 2009