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The current Internet scam has a theme that is common to many other scam emails that circulate online. It involves the scammer posing as a helpless orphan who is looking for someone to help them receive their inheritance. According to the story, $10 Million dollars is tied up by a security company. The scammer needs the potential scam victim who is reading the fraud email to act as a guardian to go to the security company to get the money out. The scammer wants the scam victim to get the money since the relatives can't be trusted. From Joy Moses
Monday, February 9, 2009 6:35 PM From Joy Moses How are you today? i was convince within my heart that i can trust you with all my heart but my only fear now is that i hope and pray you beleive what i have to tell you. I am Joy as you rightly know, i am 19year, My mother was an frican American while my father was from the french speaking colony of Cote D' Ivoire, i was living with my mother not too far from Charleston building, 601 57th Street,Charleston West Virginia USA. And i attended Charleston senior High School,1201 Washington Street E, Charleston, WV. I lost my mother sometimes ago and after her death i came to meet my father for the very first time in Cote d'Ivoire, though he was also living in the state before he relocated back to Cote d' Ivoire to set up a business. Exactely two months and one week after i came to meet my father with the help of US consulates he died, he was very sick when i came to meet him but before his death there some document he gave to me and he told me that everything he worked for in his life time is in the document when i crosscheck the document i discovered that my late father deposited TEN Million dollars in a security company. my late father deposited the money as family valuables in a trunk box. The reason i am telling you this is that i am just a girl and there is little or nothing i could do on my own and again if my late father relative find out that my late father left that kind of money in my care i don't know what they might do to me, so i need! you to help me contact the security company and claim the deposited Item for me as my Guandian,and take me along with you. If you do this for me apart from the love i will also offer you 20% of the total money for helping me.Please i requested for your trust and understanding because it might sound unbeleivable but it is the truth, Yours Truly Miss Joy Moses The current Internet scam is another version of the inheritance scam from Africa. The orphan theme occurs regularly in many scam letters from Africa. Some of the other ways an African scam such as this one can be identified is by the constant misspelling, bad grammar and poor writing. Additional features that can be found in many Internet scams such as this one include a large amount of money that can be shared with the scam victim if they act as a guardian, next of kin or relative for the scammer. The current Internet scam states that the amount of money is $10 Million which is a common figure in many of the money scams found on the Internet. The 20% proportion for the scam victim is also encountered on a regular basis in common Internet scams. To report a scam, contact authorities such as the FBI and other government law enforcement agencies. Return to Phishing Internet Scams Home Page » Return to Internet Scams Home Page |