Have you evere received an e-mail like this?

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APPEAL FOR URGENT  ASSISTANCE.
 
Dearest Sir,
 
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business. I am MISS SARA COULIBALY. The only daugther of late Mr.and Mrs JOHNSON COULIBALY. My father was a very wealth cocoa merchant in Abidjan,the economic capital of Ivory coast, my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip.
 
My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on November 2005 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Three Point Five two million United State Dollars. USD($3,520,000.00) left in fixed / suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan ,that he used my name as his only daugther  for the next of Kin in depositing of th e fund.

Cathy · Accepted Answer

Yes, it's known as a "Nigerian" scam."  They're fairly common at this point.

Anonymous · Answer

I get those all the time. They come from Kenya and are scams. The idea is to steal your identity and your money. I tag them as spam and don't even open them. Nearly everyone who has email gets those and only foolish people bite. There is one about the UK lottery you should beware of too. I have found it a good rule that if I don't know the sender it is spam and doesn't get opened. Like with snail mail, if no return address or I know it is advertising it goes straight into the recycle bin unopened.

Anonymous · Answer

Whenever I get stuff like that, 95% of which is MostLikely FALSE, ...

(but everyonce in a while I find out that something is True - ie.. the MADELINE story- little girl abducted while Family was on Vacation). 

   ... I check out   the authenticity  of the story at SNOPES. It's an "Urban Legend Site".
 ...a place to  look up stories to see if they are true or not. 

Peace
~Laurie

sarah · Answer

I received an email telling me that i had won the UK national lottery. I typed Uk national lottery into the search engine to find out that it was a scam. I also think that this email is a scam too.

Robert S · Answer

Almost daily. Just ignore and delete. Of course it's not real in the least. Just the volume should tip you off.

osborne_pkg · Answer

It's one of the oldest scams out there and every day people still fall for it.

Anonymous · Answer

sipi. Ignora este tipo de correos y no los vuelvas a abrir. estamos?? porque pueden traer virus!!! bueno ya te regaÃ±e, ya te puedes ir a jugar.

Anonymous · Answer

Oh, those things slay me every time I read them. You ever look through your spam box? It's a riot!

Anonymous · Answer

yes everyday

Tom C · Answer

it's a scam. there's a few variations of this going around. delete it.

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Have you evere received an e-mail like this?

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