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Hi, I don't know if I am in big trouble with US LAW or not. Last year in May, My chat friend said she chatted with this new person and he said he needs help wiring the millions of dollars his Egypt bank found after a famous CANADIAN couple died in AFRICA 3 years ago, or else the bank would take the money. But the problem was this bank needed a direct relative from the US to receive the money. So, stupid me I said I am from the US and I am the relative of this couple, which of course I wasn't. I sent them the papers to show I was related (oh please don't ask me how i did it, but i did :-[). One thing after another, this year today, they called me and said they can wire me the money. But the MAIN problem is the couple's real daughter who is also the only living relative is still alive in CANANDA ( I found that out later after I had said I had sent the papers to show my relationship with the dead couple when I researched on the couple thru their association in CANADA).
So, what should I do? Should I accept the money or not ? And why didn't they contact the couple's only remaining survivor--their only living daughter who is 22 yrs. old by now? Well, I knew it sounded too good to be true but, I stupidly went ahead and send the papers anyway. So now the Egyptian bank got me tailed and they say they want a cut of the money when i get it. They said they are willing to fly over to the US and get their share. Im thinking they could easily afterwards then run with the money and leave me high and dry doing time in jail. I don'twant to report to the FBI because I started this whole mess, and I can't contact the daughter in CANADA because I'm aleady in deep with faking my relationship with the dead couple.
Oh please, oh please will all you experts sho me how to get out of this crazy mess? Thank you very much!! :-X :'(
I imagine you'll get lots of replys on this. Let me be the first. THIS IS A SCAM!!! There is no money. The next step of the scam will be to ask you to give them your bank account number and PIN so they can transfer "The Millions Of Dollars" to you. You, of course, will be allowed to keep a percentage for letting them use your account for the transfer. The final stage of this scam will be when they drain your account of all its money. DROP IT NOW!! Cease any more communication except to tell them you're not available. THEN, NO MORE COMMUNICATION. You're not in deep water yet. They don't toss you in the slammer for being naive. I have got E-mails from Nigeria Africa from saying that they heard I was a honest man,( How I don't know) and would I be willing to accept 25 million they were attempting to get out of the country. For this I would get a percentage for using my account. One more time, BEWARE!! SCAM IN PROGRESS!! and you're it. Back off and count yourself lucky you asked someone about bit before it went any futher. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it most likely isn't. Good luck, Tom
ok thank you very much speedball. ;D You really help me ease my worry now that i hear you also had this same experience. I been really scared about this all day and night and I had to get up this early this morning to check on any response. I did as you suggested. Im ignoring all their e-mails and phone calls. Im gonna change my e-mail, telephone # and even gonna move to another place, just to make sure they don't track me down. By the way speedball, do you know if there is a way that I can track down their e-mail account? I mean is there a way to find out where their e-mail is really coming from. My sense tells me that they may actually be right here in the US. Do you supposed so? THank You very much speedball for taking the time out to explain to me about the truth. Now I feel much better now. ;D
Whoa!! Not so fast with the paranoia. Nobody's going to single you out and come after you. They shoot these scams like spam hoping someone will bite on it. You're just one of countless many that were contacted. You called attention on yourself when you responded, so they called you. Your concerns that this might be a U.S.A. operation are groundless. The only reason they can't be arrested for fraud is that they really are in Africa. Once they get their greedy little paws on your bank account and drain it they just shut down and fade away to open another site looking for another sucker. I would respond one more time to their E mails and tell them that you are no loonger interested in their offer. If they persist then I would copy their E-mails and send them mto MSN along with a complaint that you are being harassed.. One more time. RELAX!! YOU'RE NOT THE GUILTY PARTY. YOU'RE THE PONTENTIAL VICTEM IN ALL THIS. :'( So cheer up! ;D You're not in any trouble and you still have your bank account. You're ahead of the game. Just cease any more communication after you tell them you're not interested and they'll look for someone else. Remember what I told ya. If it seems too good to be true, it probably isnt!!! Cheers, Tom
Yes as everyone told you this is a scam it will work various ways,
someone died in a plane crash, someone died and left alot of money in Africa, Iraq, Iran ( Iraq is very popular right now because of all of the money that the news has talked about being wasted or found in safes)
They have a story wanting a good person to help them, a church ( ministers get about 4 of these every days form differnet people. using some person wanted YOUR church to have this money since they have repented from thier sins now.
At times they will need you to pay a deposit fee, but normally they get all of your bank numbers and before you know it, instead of sending you money they take all the money out of your account.
The other is where they send you cashier checks or travelers checks and you cash them and send them a percentage back to some account.
Of course in a week or two when they come back as fake you are out of your money.
They take advantage of the greed in people, since all of them have some level of being illegal. And all of them come from some place overseas.
The majority from Africa, so you will never get anyone arrested and never get your money back
It is sick that people get involved in these so blindly. When I was selling a car on an online forum, I got a response that someone was going to buy my car but they wanted to ship it over seas.. They said they were going to wire me th emoney for the car PLUS the money to ship my car over.. They were even going to pay me "more" for my inconvenience of shipping.. Well that was a scam too.. Once I were to cash the check it would have been a fake too.. Scams are all over the place..
Not so fast with the paranoia. Nobody's going to single you out and come after you. They shoot these scams like spam hoping someone will bite on it. You're just one of countless many that were contacted. You called attention on yourself when you responded, so they called you. Your concerns that this might be a U.S.A. operation are groundless. The only reason they can't be arrested for fraud is that they really are in Africa. Once they get their greedy little paws on your bank account and drain it they just shut down and fade away to open another site looking for another sucker. I would respond one more time to their E mails and tell them that you are no loonger interested in their offer. If they persist then I would copy their E-mails and send them mto MSN along with a complaint that you are being harassed.. One more time. RELAX!! YOU'RE NOT THE GUILTY PARTY. YOU'RE THE PONTENTIAL VICTEM IN ALL THIS. :'( So cheer up! ;D You're not in any trouble and you still have your bank account. You're ahead of the game. Just cease any more communication after you tell them you're not interested and they'll look for someone else. Remember what I told ya. If it seems too good to be true, it probably isnt!!! Cheers, Tom
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