unsolicited Nigerian emails. Real or scam??
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They are definately a scam.I have gotten several.Don't respond.If you receive an offer via email from someone claiming to need your help getting money out of Nigeria — or any other country, for that matter — forward it to the FTC at spam@uce.gov.
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If you got this information in an email, it's a scam!  Please be careful.  They usually claim that there is a large amount of money that they need to transfer to your bank account.  If you did get it in an email, go to this site:  www.419.bittenus.com\nAlso, report the person both to wherever the email address is from (hotmail, yahoo, et cetera), and to wherever you hold your email account.\nIt's not likely that a person could be registered as an attorney in both Nigeria and UK.
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Check out Snopes.com. They have a whole listing of scam e-mails. \n\nGenerally, if it sounds too good to be true, it is, especially if it is unsolicited mail.
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doesn't look good, if this is any indication:\n\nfrom: http://www.uncdf.org/english/news_and_events/newsfiles/20050308_advisory.php\n\nEmail Fraud Advisory \nUNCDF recently fell victim to an internet scam whereby a fraudulent email was circulated announcing fictitious vacancy announcements. The purpose of this fraud was to get people to register for a training, and send in a fee ... As a matter of practice, UNCDF does not charge any application, processing or training fee at any stage of the recruitment process. \n\nPlease be advised that this scam is currently being investigated by our legal affairs department. Anyone who has received this fraudulent notice is asked to forward it on to scamalert@undp.org to assist with the investigation.
449734
Nope. It's just another one of a billion email scams.
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You've got a scam email from a 419 fraudster.\n\nNo he's not a real barrister.  Real barristers don't use hotmail and yahoo.\nReal barristers can spell\n\nThere is no $20M in a bank account to be split 70%-30%.\nYour contact isn't the estranged daughter of Robert Mugabe, nor the heir to a cocoa manufacturing plant.\nThere isn't £20M in some trunk boxes etc etc\n\nIf you carry on you'll find that your African barrister needs some money from you "to transfer the consignment into your name" or for "storage fees" at the "security company".\n\nYou'll be asked to transfer the money by "Western union" or "moneygram"\n\nIf you're daft enough to do it, they'll ask for more money for some other strange tax or shipping fee.\n\nI always reply to these emails and string them along.  I've had the silly scammers chasing all over to various western union offices to collect the money which I haven't sent....ooops
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Your best bet is to leave this journey untaken.  There are way to many scams on credit cards and email accounts coming from Nigeria.  Leave well enough alone and find an american email pal.
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Those are bogus emails, don't you think I would already have that in my bank account if it were real???\nJust delete them...\nIt does no good to write back, it's not a good email address and no one answers...\nBelieve me...
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yeah these are just scamming emails trying to get as much money out of u as possible. \nif you google for 419 emails. this will show you what really is going on with these scammers normally from lagos nigera. etc
719113
Probably just a spammer.  Emails can be easily "spoofed" - this is, fake senders/subjects/dates can be sent out via SMTP very easily.  I'd just chuck it in the SPAM pile and not worry about it.  Don't even both opening them if you notice stuff like that.
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It is a variation of the Nigerian Scam.  There are so many of these out there that I am surprised that anyone still falls for it.\nIt is so well know that they used it in one of those crime shows like Criminal Minds or one of the other shows on CBS. \nJust report it is spam. I reported it once to the DOJ but they said that they can't do anything about it.
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it does not look like a legitimate email...do not send sensitive information thru it... visit the http://www.cic.gc.ca/ website for accurate information....
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Report them to Yahoo asap.  \n\nAlso, I have been scammed too.  I am doing my best to stop these crooks from ever scamming again.\nI know they have scammed before, because they said so.\nI am helping other people along the way. I wish to know if these are the same people.  If you do not mind sharing the email address, please send it to me at sqldba_needinglegalhelpasap @yahoo .com\n\nI have also listed the yahoo mail abuse help link below.\nMail abuse is listed at the bottom of the page.
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Don't even respond to it is scam, and certainly don't give aout any bank information or private informarion to somebody you don't know of. I' had those mails also and i run no bussiness, at first when i used the net, i didn't know better then to open because it was adressed to me in person. I never reacted to it, but in the future if you recieve such notices again, just spam them. Good luck.
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There's been quite a history of creative internet scams which originated in Nigeria. They've since evolved and globalized. Be wary of any solicitations sounding too good to be true, especially those involving money and sporting a web-base email address. Their English grammar usually leaves a lot to be desired, too.
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This scam has been going around for a while now. It eventually reaches the inboxes of thousands of email users.  When the money doesnt arrive, a lot of them will send an email to Charles S Bailey (genuine email address), probably causing his company's server to shutdown.  Another form of online vandalism!!!
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This sounds like a form of email chain letter to me.  It does seem a tad odd that these people think that by sending you a ton of emails that they are going to promote "popularity, Brand Loyalty, Better image", when really what it does is generate spam, anger, and more garbage to delete.  It's like signing up for junk mail.  I bet this is a fake thing and has nothing to do with the real google because of the inconsistencies in capitalization, as in "popularity" and "image", also it should be "large numbers of people" or "a large number of people".  Even the very first line would read better  as "WHY WILL THESE COMPANIES PAY ME?"  Also, look at the spelling of "favour", decidedly not American. So in looking at this, I bet this is a renegade thing originating from somewhere in China (bad translation) and has nothing to do with google at all.  It's Chinese hackers at it again.  A a matter of fact, I would not be surprised in the least if you were to ask google about this if they would deny any association.\n\nOne of the dead giveaways for Chinese garbage is errors in spelling, capitalization, and grammar.  It's also a dead giveaway for Nigerian scams.  Remember, most of everything that comes to you on the internet is either a scam or a fraud.