We've all heard about this at one point or another. The typical story is nearly always something along the lines of Person A receives an email from Person B, who claims they have in one way or another gained a large amount of cash and cannot access this money for some reason, and they need amount $X to be able to move this money elsewhere. Sometimes this is because your long-lost uncle has died and he has left you a huge sum of money, but to move that money outside of a country a certain amount of 'trust-money' must be sent by you to a bank somewhere, or even sometimes a certain government official must be bribed for this money to be moved.
The idea is simple, you send your money to these people, they free-up the funds, and they give you a large share of said funds. This used to be popular back in the 1990's and has made a reappearance. It's been around for years and years and yet people still fall for these kind of scams. I was recently told about a man in my home town who has been informed by his bank in person that this is scam and he would be an idiot to send any money and yet he's gone through with it, even after signing a contract from the bank stating that he was warned of this fact and that the bank did attempt to stop him.
My question is, how does anyone still fall for scams such as these? I mean, really. I would have thought anyone who was stupid enough to fall for something like this, especially after existing for such a long period, and the amount these appear on news programs, papers, blogs and even general conversation, wouldn't even have enough money to make their funds worthwhile.
I leave this is to you, fellow users.
For any further information on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud
The idea is simple, you send your money to these people, they free-up the funds, and they give you a large share of said funds. This used to be popular back in the 1990's and has made a reappearance. It's been around for years and years and yet people still fall for these kind of scams. I was recently told about a man in my home town who has been informed by his bank in person that this is scam and he would be an idiot to send any money and yet he's gone through with it, even after signing a contract from the bank stating that he was warned of this fact and that the bank did attempt to stop him.
My question is, how does anyone still fall for scams such as these? I mean, really. I would have thought anyone who was stupid enough to fall for something like this, especially after existing for such a long period, and the amount these appear on news programs, papers, blogs and even general conversation, wouldn't even have enough money to make their funds worthwhile.
I leave this is to you, fellow users.
For any further information on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud
