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I almost got scammed "from" Dakar refugee camp, am I stupid?
I was contacted by a Linda Amadu supposedly in a refugee camp in Dakar with the usual multi million dollar inheritance and offer of a percentage. I offered to help her refusing the share in her money which was help at the International Atlantic Bank Dakar branch which then sent me emails asking for silly information but the manager disclosed the amount in the account which seemed strange to me.
Then emails from two "lawyers" Johnson Anthony and Bello Belanger wanting me to send them money. It really began to smell. Both the lawyers insisted they were representing me to release the money at the International Atlantic Bank and forward it to me for 'safety reasons'.
Has anyone else had contact from any of there people?
I have had to accept that I was so close to making a complete ass of myself. How to they remain to have email addresses including Yahoo when the service providers must know what they do?
Hello Kittysue, I did not suggest yahoo to read emails but I see no reason why they continue to allow email addresses to be used where they are involved in scams which was my point. I would hope that nobody likes scams and ISP email providers(all, not just Yahoo) could delete email addresses from those known to be involved in that activity and that I believe would reduce the activity and send a loud message to offenders.
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- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
The Nigerian 419 scam has been around for a very long time.
Don't feel bad about it, be happy that you caught on before you lost a bundle.
- KittysueLv 79 years ago
Had you just googled Senegal Refugee Scam you would have known this was fake
https://www.google.com/search?q=senegal+refugee+sc...
NOBODY is going to offer you money over the internet
They can get your email address from anywhere - you posted it on your social networking site, you signed some online petition, you signed up for some website or entered a competition who sold their mailing list, etc. Or they just send out millions of emails to every single combination of letters and numbers and if you open the message they know your account is active and they keep targeting you
This is why you NEVER open emails from anyone you don't know and never respond to anyone you don't know
Yahoo is a FREE email service and they have strong privacy protection so they cannot read your emails. Do you really want someone at Yahoo reading every email you receive and then deciding if they think it's a scam or not? I don't.
