African Scams: Can You Handle It?

This African scam asks the intended scam victim if they can handle a transaction of 150 million dollars. The email recipient is requested to respond with their telephone number. The email receiver should really ask themselves if they can handle being scammed, especially if they respond believing they would get any money.

This African scam uses information about the Democratic Professionals Council to legitimize itself. Many African scams will use information from other sources to fool scam victims into thinking that their scam letter can be trusted. Like many of the African scams, this one comes from Nigeria. The financial transaction is just one of the many themes used to scam people into thinking they can acquire a large sum of free money with litle effort.

$150 USD TRANSACTION
Monday, February 9, 2009 4:52 PM
From: "Dr.wilfred" Add sender to Contacts

I am the P.A to the Vice president of Nigeria Chief Goodluck Jonathan Mr. Vice President has a transaction to the Tune of $150 Million USD.Can you handle it? Please do respond with your direct phone number. So we can discuss.

Best regards
Dr.wilfred Tel +2348037824418

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This African scam letter is for showing how the African scam works. The purposes of which is stictly to provide information. Do not respond to this African scam letter or any other type of scam letter. Report a scam to authorities such as the email service provider and the FBI. Scam letters such as these should be avoided once recognized. Sometimes, the scam letter might lead to other types of scams like the check scam or identity theft if special forms are filled out or sensitive information is given out over the telephone. The African scam can also be recognized by its incoherent language, bad grammar and misspelled words. In many cases, however, the scammer will take information from other places can combine it with their own message.