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Hi Gavin,
Good advice for all.
I regularly receive these and
others.
As my Case Health website is a community service
website, it has become a target for these types of scams.
I get lots of genuine requests for help through my
Case Health website but I also get lots of suspects.
Before I learned to spot most of the suspects
and delete them, I read quite a few 'stories'.
Some of them were blatantly illegal, others pulled
at the heart strings first before suggested something suspect or illegal
...
- Rich, recently departed who have no living
relatives and some kind bank employee who can help claim what's in their
bank account for a percentage share, etc.
- Govt employee who has access to millions of
dollars that held in trust for some company that no longer exists, and of
course he will access and share it with you.
- Man in hospital, wealthy, dying of cancer, no
relatives, admits to life-long questionable ethics and a desire to
atone before ..... . He wants to donate/transfer his cash to some worthy
cause. Thankfully he had his laptop and internet connection
handy.
I assume websites like mine are in the
target audience.
Regards,
Cris
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Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:37
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Subject: [sharechat] random topic; Scams
and Frauds
Hi there,
The other day I saw a program on the History channel about Interpol. They
were going after the people behind the "nigerian letter scam".
For those who are unaware, the nigerian letter scam is a scam that
originated in nigeria and unfortunately spread and modified itself around the
world. It starts by someone sending you a letter (hence the name) which says
something like 'we would like you to help us launder government money' yada
yada, but they normally write it so that you may have suspicions that it is
legitimate, if you move on the suspicions, bad luck. After taking the bait
they ask you to send some "processing fees" of oh say$50k but dont worry
because you're gunna make a million. And so once you send your hard earned
$50k away you never hear of them again. And if you keep pestering them for the
money they might give you plane tickets to meet them or meet with you
somewhere, and then kill you. Yes people have lost a lot of money and a few
their lives to this odious scheme.
Interpol had some success at capturing and bringing to justice the people
behind it, However it is hard, if not impossible to prevent unscroupulous
people from commiting such vile deeds.
So the moral of the story is, be vary wary of where you invest your money,
if someone you don't know puts to you a proposal with a return that is simply
too good to be true, get away from it. Or even better report it to the
securities commisson, or the commerce commission if it is in breach of the
fair trading act, or even the police. But if it sounds too good to be true,
but you think it might be legitimate, before you part with your hard earned
money get your accountant or lawyer to look it over.
From one investor
to another I say be careful with your money, not everyone out there has
ethics, or morals, or even a conscience.
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