New email scam? I found in my spam folder.?

100% scam.

This is a variation of the "next of kin inheritance" scam or "millions in dormant bank account" scam.

There is only one scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money by using a fake story, stolen pictures, stolen information on a natural disaster and copied links from a legit website, all while pretending to be several different people all with free email addresses.

The next email was from one of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "minister/banker/barrister" and has demanded you pay for made-up money transfer, document, certificate, stamp and bank fees, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

If you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

If you google "fake next-of-kin scam", "fraud inheritance bank Western Union scam", "fake Ghana refugee scam", "fraud romance scammer" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

As everyone has rightly told you, yes, it's a scam. If you google the address or IP of the sender you will often find them listed on one/several of the many "spambusting" websites. That won't help you stop it, but at least other people's comments on the scamster may amuse you--and convince you, if you had any doubts, that a scam it reall is. And NEVER click where the scamster asks you to. If they aren't phishing for passwords and the like, they may be trying to infect your machine with something that will do the job anyway, or merely for the malign pleasure of spreading some virus.

NEVER open emails in your spam folder or from anyone you don't know. That's why you get spam and how your computer gets infected with viruses and malware

Any time a random person contacts you over email offering you money or a business opportunity it's a SCAM

Mark it as Spam and STOP opening things in your Spam mail. Just delete them without opening

tks but we know better than to even open that ............ the url gives it away