i hope that all hoteges will free soon and come back to there home .

I have been sent an email.Stating that there is an inheritance of 9.5 mdls.
from London there is a lady posting that she is sick and she wants to give me the 9million dlls to open up a foundation under her name and late husband Dr.Martin Bosar.They have asked me for my information and account numbers so they can release the funds from London.I don't know if this legitimte.But i have not given them any money.They asked for attorneys fees of $7500 and i told them i did not have it so they went for $1500 but i still did not sent them.Now Ms Bosar is writing that the money should be available soon.What do i DO!
Thank you1

I knew congressmen were dumb, but that is ridiculous.

I get these emails daily. You have to be a real idiot to actually fall for this. The people that actually work this scam deserve to be put to death.

I've been there more than once.

Here is a good rule of thumb: Anything written in comic-sans should never be taken seriously! haha

The *death sentence* for financial scams that turn on the greed and foolishness of the victim??? Would that be the 'Capital Punishment for Victimizing Willing Idiots Act'? Or perhaps the 'Capital Punishment for Promising Something For Nothing Act'?

It's pathetic that law enforcement has to take time to protect people from such simple scams. It's good that they do, but please let's not ask them to kill the scammers, that's...well, overkill.

Arnold, I seriously hope you're kidding! Take Peter's advice and pack up your computer until you buy some common sense.

I get these e-mails at my office all the time. Nigeria, Kenya, London, Glasgow. I do not care about the Congressman. And idiot is an idiot, but I do care a lot about the elderly and I wish the FBI and Interpol would set-up some sort of international sting to get these guys and throw them in jail for a good long time. That might reduce the amount of these, but greed being creed and victims being victims, I doubt it would make much of a difference. Bofore closing, if you have elderly parents, please have a long talk with them about the net and scams like this.

Arnold, don't communicate with them at all, ever again. They will continue to pester you with emails because you appeared to be interested and ready to buy into their scam. They'll swear on the bible/allah/their mother's grave that they are telling you the truth, but they aren't. Sad as it is to realize, their is no free money that will be given to you for any reason. Delete those emails right away!

What does it say about a society so ignorant that they can be held up through the mail?

Fool you once, shame on you. Fool you twice, its what you deserve for being so gullible and stupid.

Arnold Torres................Ignor them. They'll continue to correspond, until they get what they need from you.

For a good laugh, check out 419eaters...it is a team who respond to 419 emails and pretend to play along, but then will trick the scammers into sending THEM money, or will have them send pictures of themselves in funny situations for "identity verification", or just see how long they can string them along before they give up.

If I collected the money from all the offers I get from Nigeria, sick people giving their money away, posing as a beneficiary, etc., etc., I would no doubt be the richest person in the world. NOTHING IS FREE - just remember that and press the "Spam" button every time you get one of these emails.

I get these emails every day. I finally started replying to them and telling "STOP EMAILING ME OR I WILL FORWARD YOUR EMAILS INCLUDING THE HEADERS TO THE FBI" and I've been getting them less and less.

Once I received a cashier's check for $5000. I was to cash it and keep $ 2000 and send the rest into an account.. I turned it over to my bank..Also one man pretended to be interested in me romanticly ..sent me several dozens of expensive flowers. I didn't know if it was a funeral or a wedding. He said he was in Africa helping with an orphanage. Then after a few days he asked me for some traveling money. I told him I was broke...aka.. financially indigent and on welfare . He asked me to borrow the money from a friend. I told him he was barking up the wrong tree. And he probably scammed someones credit card to send me those flowers. Live and learn...The spam button has become my best friend..

don't ignor them... if you report them to the abuse dept. of whatever domain they're sending from, that domain will go in and shut down all of their email accounts. that can give one a moment of pleasure to think of the scammer in nigeria being notified that such and such email account is down and they're right in the middle of a scam with tat account. for example, if you get a scam email yahoo from someone with a yahoo email address, send a copy with the internet header to abuse at yahoo.com. if you'll do that insteasd of ignoribng them, they will shut them down.

People don't realize there is not- something for nothing. When you think there is, it is called GREED and you lose. It is a shame that people fall for this. Just use common sence.

As I do my banking online I often check my account. I noticed someone used one of my former address to write a check to a travel agency in my name. I notified my bank and went into my bank Commerce to dispute it and told them of the old address. They investigated the matter and reimbursed the money. I did call the telephone number on the bogas check and it was a personal telephone number whose voicemail was of someone with a foreign accent.

the banks hasnt change the way to identify
people, and the way they process credit card and checks, they world has been change
but not the way banks and credit card doing business.

I've just been scammed by someone who wanted to rent an apartment from an ad that I posted on the internet. He told me he was a chemist in Africa and had a contract to do research in his field. Then, I received 2 cashier's check of $2,500 each for a total of $5000 which was part for the montly rent deposit (3 months rent) and I was to send the rest of the money to an agent who was taking care of his car and belongings from overseas to be shipped. I opened a new account in the bank of where the checks where drawn from. Last Wednesday I got a call from the bank's manager in company of a police office notifying me of the fraud checks. I am now under investigation as a suspect.

who is the biggest fool??? the scammer or the fool who gets scammed by the scammer.???

The scammers don't want you to know what they are up to. Nigerian code violators have NOTHING to fear. Their government cannot take them down fast enough, and there is always a fool big enough to send them the cash. Our Congressman is lucky, several people who have gone to Nigeria have come back in bags and boxes. The key is if you ever get one of these messages, delete it. Never reply to them nor even acknowledge its existence. You will be flooded with them.

ITS CURIOUSLY AMAZING THAT AMERICANS AND OTHER CITIZENS OF SUPPOSEDLY MORE DEVELOPED NATIONS FALL FOR THE SCAMS. A KID WHO HAS BEEN IN SCHOOL FOR JUST THE FIRST SIX YEARS OF HIS LIFE WILL HAVE NO DIFFICULTY DISCARDING THE SCAM MAILS GIVEN THEIR POOR PHRASEOLOGY. THOUGH IT DOES NOT EXCUSE SCAMMING IT SHOULD BE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE GREED ELEMENT IN THE SCAMMED MAKES HIM AS CULPABLE AS THE FELLOW WHO SET OUT TO SCAM. A HONEST INVESTOR SHOULD KNOW THAT THE USE OF AN ATTORNEY IS PARAMOUNT IN BUSINESS DEALINGS ESPECIALLY IN AN UNFAMILIAR TERRAIN. THE FELLOW WHO SET OUT TO SCAM PREYS ON THE GREED ELEMENT INHERENT IN HIS VICTIM. ITS ALL ABOUT THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND....ONCE GREED IS IN VERY LOW SUPPLY THERE WILL BE NO DEMAND FOR THE DAMNING ITEMS THE SCAM HAS ON OFFER. NIGERIA IS AN INVESTORS DELIGHT WHERE WARMTH AND ACCEPTANCE ARE FREELY EXTENDED TO FOREIGNERS. FOREIGNERS WHO END UP IN BODY BAGS GOT MIXED UP WITH THE BAD GUYS AND IT IS A TRUISM THAT EVERY SOCIETY HAS ITS SHARE OF SUCH UNDESIRABLE ELEMENTS. YOU ARE WELCOME TO NIGERIA!!!! I AM AN ATTORNEY AND SHOULD KNOW WHAT I TALK ABOUT HERE.