Is there any way to stop getting those emails about overseas money transfers?
546154
Set your spam filter on High, spam any that get through, and don't open any e-mail if you don't know exactly who it is from..That did it for me.
276811
yes, there are, but you will have to keep your patience and more important is do not send money to them until and unless you are sure. try this link.
537239
Anything that comes out of Nigeria is a scam.Be careful about the UK also because they use that as an address for scams. Lotteries are also scams. Use your head when you get emails like that.
253335
It's a scam I get e-mails all the time stating I won the Nigerian lottery, The Canadian lottery etc.. Do not repeat do not give them you company's foreign account number they will wipe that account out. If you won a lottery you don't need to send any money to collect the winnings the tax money will be taken out of the winnings.
111570
Unwanted or unknown origin emails that clog your inbox
612129
It sounds like you have received an email saying that you are inheriting a huge amount of money. If so, it is almost certainly a scam designed to obtain your personal information and steal your identity.\n\nThere are loads of these scams floating around. I get loads of them myself. Ignore them. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true, and it may be dangerous.
47242
You're email account cannot be used in any way to cost you money or purchase things.\n\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/security.php
762787
Sounds like BS to me - don't send anyone money
462056
This is a scam.  It is a blanket e-mail that is sent out to a lot of people.  When you respond they will send you another e-mail saying that they received your information and just need to confirm your bank account numbers to transfer the funds.  If you were to send them the information, you would find your account dry by morning.  Unfortunately, there is no way of reporting these people as they work from a total stand point of annonimity.
1086566
I have a client in this situation right now.  He fell for the scam.  Once the money has left the U.S. (usually it goes to Lagos, Nigeria) the information I have obtained is that is it untraceable... even by Western Union.
1072025
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.
883157
Inform them that you have sent the payment.  Next, take that little stub (receipt thing) that you got with your money order and call up the financial agency.  Ask them if that money order was cashed or not.  If it was, you know the eBay seller received your money and is trying to cheat you!  Otherwise, simply tell the seller to be patient and to wait.  International mail takes time.\n\nIf eBay intervenes on this issue, make sure you have all your documentation handy.  Preferably a scanned copy of that money order receipt so you can prove to the eBay investigator that you DID pay for the item, and that the seller is not being patient enough.
733528
Heres some advice don't buy it! If they want to do a bank transfer they're after your details don't go there
964861
NO. Its a fraud/scam.Ignore such mails they are use uy card no.
246051
It's a fraud - big time.\n\nJust remember, if you send money overseas, it will be impossible to get back even if you report it to the police.  My naive son got screwed out of $9,000 on a scam out of England.  I later found out that people in Nigeria do their scamming through other countries also.\n\nI can't explain the scam to you now because there are many different stories that they give.  Usually it deals with someone (with a screwy mumbo jumbo name) who can't get their money on some tremendous trust fund of millions of dollars for some screwy reason and they need your assistance.  They will share the booty with you after you help them get it but you need to send them "good-faith" money first.  After you send them the money, you never hear from them again.\n\nMy son got screwed by someone who told him he would buy a car from him (the car was advertised through eBay).  The emails were coming out of England.  He/she sent my son a check in an amount higher than the amount of the car, saying that someone else had given him/her the check and asked him to cash the check and send him the difference.  My son did it, cashed the check, immediately sent the difference back. Then a week later the check came back bounced.  He was on the hook to replace the money to the bank.  He reported it to the police.  They were no help.
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These West African get these addresses copy & pasted from a whole variety of free email sites as yahoo, hotmail, msn, etc.\n\nBy experience, I should say, that they surprised me with a letter of a supposed inheritance or lotto won.  All with the trick of getting advance fees from you. I became victim from them and never got the supposed inheritance. Note that they try to seem as real as posssible.\n\nJust Go to yahoo Options, click on filters, and write the clue words that u would find in letters that come from them.\nAlso, I have been forwarding these letters to the FTC at spam@uce.gov & 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov
636368
yeah I get these people from Nigeria telling me they want to put 12 million dollars in my bank account,from some person they claim died with no kin to give it to..I forward these emails to spam@uce.gov