garycpp wrote:
Dear russellj84:
What do you of this?
They are not asking for any sort of prepayment at all! I just do not see how I can get scammed without giving up anything! And the Checking Account that I will use is a fresh one with no money in it!
Thanks,
Gary
They will ask for payment. Maybe it will be a customs charge or a fee to activate the account. After a few emails they will bring a barrister into the deal and there's likely going to be a fee for that. Then there's drug clearance fees that have to be paid to document that the money isn't related to illegal drugs. And so on.
Here's a short excerpt of a similar scam that was posted on the net to show how one of these advance fee scams work. The actual thing is much longer and very sad. Monica sold her baby's crib to get money to send to the scammers and eventually ended up homeless. I can't find the link to this anymore. Maybe one of the mods has the link.
Scamming Monica:Quote:
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From:
xxxxxx_hoving@none.nlSent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 08:12
To:
xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.ukSubject: Re:HOW ARE WE GOING TO PAY THI
dear mr koffi ali . i don 't now .what i have is only ?50 . and i
must live the hole mount whit this . wane come but how i can buy an tikket
?i dont now .
From: Koffi Ali [xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 09:30
To:
xxxxxx_hoving@none.nlSubject: WRITE TO THE BANK NOW MONICA.
Dear Monica,
I thank you for your information. How are you now? Hope all is well. Now I want you to inform the bank that you can not be able to come down here now, that you want to send the money to them to reactivite the account by them self.
Monica, now I want you to be arranging money so that we will do this before weekend please. This is denger time to us, You can see that the total amount of the money to reactivite the account is $3863US, so you have to be arranging money now, let me try on my own side ok.
But first, write to the bank now and inform them that you will not be able to come to avoide any problem because we don't inform them our mind now, they might stop our go ahead please write to them am so wick now about this project. Do that and get back to me. God bless you,while waiting for your urgent reply now.
Koffi Ali
From:
xxxxxx_hoving@none.nlSent: Friday, January 09, 2004 17:08
To:
xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.ukSubject: Re:WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO AND WHA
dear mr koffi ali the bank give my nothing .so i have only 200 euro
i have send the bank wat you tolt my to do .and i have send an email to
the attorney .can you give my the fax number of the bank .i dont have that
greatings monica
From: Koffi Ali [xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 17:44
To:
xxxxxx_hoving@none.nlSubject: WAIT FOR THE BANK RESPOND OK
Dear Monica,
I thank you for what you have been doing to see that this work out for us. Now you have to wait for the bank, any time you hear from them just forward it to me ok. And be trying to get more money so that we will pay the money by monday ok, because I have only $1500US now.
You know that the total amount is $3863US. So you have to get up to 1500EURO, so that we will send that one and tell the bank that the money will be complete before two days of the day we pay that one ok. Just be waiting for the bank response ok. God bless you, while waiting to hear from you sooner.
PLEASE TRY TO GET UPTO 1500EURO SO THAT WE WILL PAY THE MONEY ON MONDAY. IF YOU CAN GET THIS 1500EURO BEFORE MONDAY I WILL COMPLETE THE REMAINING ONE BY MYSELF PLEASE FOR OUR OWN GOOD OK
Koffi Ali
And when that was finally paid some papers needed to be signed and since Monica couldn't come to them they had to pay a barrister to sign the papers. Another unexpected expense.
Quote:
From:
xxxxxx_hoving@none.nlSent: Monday, February 09, 2004 09:30
To:
xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.ukSubject: now money
dear mr koffi ali I DON'T have the money to come in person .I can't
buy some food .I most go out of my house because I can't pay the rent .I
have an lot of problems now . My money that I have in the mounth is 800
euro and my rent is 500 euro .so what I wanne tell you is that I have send
all the money that I had to you . greatings monica
From: Koffi Ali [xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 11:09
To:
xxxxxx_hoving@none.nlSubject: WRITE TO THE BANK AND TELL THEM TO GET YOU THE LAWYER.
Dear Monica,
I thank you for your mail. How are you with the Baby? Hope all is well.
My sister Monica, I really know that you have try your best in this transaction, but we can not forget all our effort that we have made already.
Now the bank said that they know another lawyer who will agree to sign the cost of transfer paper. But the lawyer will need money to sign the cost of transfer.
Please my sister I want you to write to the bank and tell them to get you the contact address of the lawyer that you are ready to do anything to have this money transfered into your account.
Again what you are to do after you write to the bank is that you should not spend the money you have so that we will know what the lawyer will need ans solve it so that the bank will transfer this money and by then you will use money from the money that bank transfered into your account to pay all the dept that you have before I will come over to your country to avoide for you to have problem with any of your friend ok.
Try to write to the bank now so that we will see if they can easyly get us the lawyer today so that before weekend we will solve the lawyers problem and have our money please.
Monica, don't worry it is well already as you see that the bank is talking about to sign the cost of transfer which is the paper of transfer ok. God bless you, while waiting to hear from you.
Koffi Ali.