If it's Too Good to be True, it Probably is...
by Jarrod Stark, Frugal Fixer
If you're like me, you probably receive dozens of emails every month from people trying to steal your money. You may look at these and wonder who falls for Internet scams, but every year over 300,000 people report being 'scammed' by web-based criminals. Let's look at a recent email that I received from someone looking to give me free money.... as if.
Attention:
My name is John Fasnzi, a partner of Fraser & Fraser firm. I am an heir hunter. Do you know that the Treasury swallows Ј10bn every year from unclaimed estates for this reason, we teams of heir hunter’s track down the owners of this money...?
After proper verification through records of births, deaths and marriages along with censuses, electoral registers and other documents, and with your email address as the only contact detail on file; it has been approved that you should receive an inheritance payment of $5,000,000.00 (Five Million United States Dollars).
If however, you have received a previous notice about any fund but you have been unable to get your it for what so ever reason, please reply immediately with your name, address and phone number, so that i can process your transaction and facilitate the release of your fund to you within 72 hours.
The bank (UBA) would credit and provide you with an online account through which the funds will be transferred to your nominated account abroad within the next 72hrs.
Please send me a reply at my email address below with a means of identification, so we can proceed with the claim.
johnfanzi@yahoo.cn
John Fasnzi
Email: johnfanzi@yahoo.cn
+2348066154068
Remember the golden rule of the free market economy; if it seems to good to be true, it probably is. Here's a great list of Internet scams to avoid; http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-internet-scams.php
If you're like me, you probably receive dozens of emails every month from people trying to steal your money. You may look at these and wonder who falls for Internet scams, but every year over 300,000 people report being 'scammed' by web-based criminals. Let's look at a recent email that I received from someone looking to give me free money.... as if.
Attention:
My name is John Fasnzi, a partner of Fraser & Fraser firm. I am an heir hunter. Do you know that the Treasury swallows Ј10bn every year from unclaimed estates for this reason, we teams of heir hunter’s track down the owners of this money...?
After proper verification through records of births, deaths and marriages along with censuses, electoral registers and other documents, and with your email address as the only contact detail on file; it has been approved that you should receive an inheritance payment of $5,000,000.00 (Five Million United States Dollars).
If however, you have received a previous notice about any fund but you have been unable to get your it for what so ever reason, please reply immediately with your name, address and phone number, so that i can process your transaction and facilitate the release of your fund to you within 72 hours.
The bank (UBA) would credit and provide you with an online account through which the funds will be transferred to your nominated account abroad within the next 72hrs.
Please send me a reply at my email address below with a means of identification, so we can proceed with the claim.
johnfanzi@yahoo.cn
John Fasnzi
Email: johnfanzi@yahoo.cn
+2348066154068
Remember the golden rule of the free market economy; if it seems to good to be true, it probably is. Here's a great list of Internet scams to avoid; http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-internet-scams.php
