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Online "Inheritance" Scams?
Does anyone know an email address for the FBI or another investigating agency to whom I can forward these scam e-mails?
You know the ones. The claim to be the executor of some multi-million dollar estate, and want to name the recipient as the next-of-kin and wire the money... blah blah blah.
Its really an identity theft scam, and I'm tired of seeing it. I the Postmaster General or the FBI to go after these people. Any ideas where to send the evidence?
2 Answers
- patrickLv 61 decade ago
99% of these scams originate in Africa, primarily in Nigeria. There are no current laws in Nigeria that will stop this practice, and it is quite lucrative. Not all are Identity theft, many in fact fleece people out of thousands of dollars. The best approach is to merely delete them, however you can tease them as well. I once wrote back that I too had an uncle that had stolen 478 million dollars from the Chuck E Cheese Corporation, and needed help gettingthe funds transferred to Nigeria. I told them all I wanted was $420 to pay an overdue cable bill, and perhaps we could work out a deal where we each took the others ill gotten gains.
