Beware of e-mail scams promising money
December 8, 2008
This is simply a warning about an e-mail scam that is going around. It has popped up in my inbox several times in the past week, so it’s got to be making its way into other inboxes as well.
The e-mails I have been receiving come from someone claiming to be the “Senior Foreign Remittance Director” of a bank. Of course he’s promising if I help him to claim the money of dead industrialist who just happened to be a multimillionaire, he will give me 45 percent of the take. The e-mail even includes a link to what he claims is a CNN article about the death of this very rich man.
If you happen to get an e-mail like this, please do not respond. Do not click on any of the links. Delete it immediately.
Every day trusting people end up caught in these scams. The scams can wreak financial, and possibly legal, havoc on your life.
If you or anyone you know has already gotten involved with one of these scams, please contact your local police department and your state attorney general’s office immediately. If you have given any personal information out to one of these scammers, monitor all of your accounts closely, put fraud alerts on your accounts and review your credit reports by going to www.annualcreditreport.com.
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