Nigeria spam email scam

Did you delete all of your e-mail spam today? You’re not alone Yahoo says the average person spends up to three hours a week fighting spam e-mails. A lot of those spam e-mails are from online scammers. The most popular ones are the scam Nigerian spammers. Most often, the e-mail says you’re entitled to millions of dollars but first you have to send money out of the country.

I always thought it is too obvious for anyone to fall for this email scam. You can always check the email and know exactly who is sending you the email. I never thought anyone would fall victim for something as obvious as this but apparently some people in the US lost thousands of dollars sending their hard earning money to con artists.

Last summer a woman in the United States was contacted through the Internet by someone who said he was a lawyer looking for a relative of her husband’s cousin who had died. He did claim that her husband’s cousin had a large bank account of $21 million and they were entitled to that money but there was a catch.

The e-mailer said he needed the money to get some kind of document out of the bank before the money can remove from the bank account. To gain the victims confidence, the scammer send fake certificates and other identifications.

That is how scammers get people to send money. These scam artists are masters in human nature. They know what people wanted to hear. The Nigerian scam is simple, the e-mail originate from any foreign country telling the victim they have the right to the unclaimed funds but what they do is they will tell you to send them money because there’re are some taxes involved, or there are some expensive the scammers need to cover.

Then the scammers tell you to wire money out of the country but the millions of dollars they promised never materialize. Once the money is wire out of the country to our scam artist you’re not going to get it back and the scam artists will be writing or calling asking for more money.

They will call and call and call. Consumer advocates say one way to fight being scam Nigerian, is if something is too good to be true, it is probably is. If someone is going to give you $1 million dollars and you have to give him or her $100 dollars, then it is probably a scam.

Once the scammer gets someone, they don’t give up easily. A lot of people who got scam by these scam Nigerian con artists still get calls and e-mail 10 months later asking for more money and promising them money.

This is the Nigerian scam but the e-mail can originate from anywhere around the world asking you to send money to almost any country.

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