I am very curious how come these kinds of junk messages have been dramatically increased nowadays.  "How does this cheating work? Any ideas?" Cheers,  Kaew !!

FROM: Charterd Finance & Securities 

SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

SIR/MADAM,

SCAMMED VICTIM/ $500,000 BENEFICIARIES.

REF/PAYMENTS CODE: CF&sc/02354 $500,000 USD. This is to bring to your notice

that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in Central Bank in conjuction with

the WORLD BANK GROUP OF THE UNITED STATE OF AMERICA to pay you victims of scam

$500,000 USD (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars). You are listed and approved for

this payment as one of the

scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as

possible for the immediate payments of your $500,000 USD compensations funds.

Send a copy of your response to official email:

NAME: ROLAND PAUL.

EMAIL: [email protected]

Phone: +234-703-422-398

SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE:

CF&sc/02354 $500,000 USD. You are advise to foward your contact details to me

immediately to enable us proceed and pay your compensation fund to you,such as

your name,address,phone numbers,and country of origin.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr. MAXWELL BROOKS

when you contact them back ..they will ask your bank account and your personal account details and hacking ?? Or they may ask you to pay for the work out process before they transferred you the money. I just heard from a Free Thai TV last few years that they will ask you to pay them for the work out paper.

Anyone has some Idea ?

I have got this kind of things everyday.

Thanks for sharing ka.

talked to my bf about this before.... he said they normally stole e-mail addresses from certain sites, and sent out say a million addresses a day. If only one or two percent of these accounts reply, they would be making fortunes for nothing. Try not clicking on it, or even open it, I think they can somehow know that u look at the e-mail and will keep on sending. Protect ur e-mail by blocking all addresses that u don't know in junk mail, that might help not seeing them anymore. But don't forget to check ur junk mailbox from time to time.

Is called a 419 fraud, or advance fee fraud. it orginated in Nigeria, and they are still the masters of the universe in this field.

I've receive this everyday

I have an online business which I have to use more than 100 emails a day and all of those mails always have this kind of thing in the mailbox, you better ignore and put it to spambox dont waste your time looking this junk

I m still curious how this cheating works.

The following FAQ explains it in depth:

http://www.419eater.com/html/419faq.htm

The website itself is about people who respond to these mails, for fun, to scam the scammers. Very fun to read.

There is also a mobile scam system. When you ring them, they tap on your system. Even after you cut off your phone, they make use of your system for international calls.

Perhaps, an idiot will reply this thread to ask me how I know. There are many idiots in this world, I guess this world has many idiots whom act rich.

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Actually its smart that they say 500$ instead of the ones i receiving, where a nigerian prince often needs my help as he has fled his country and need my bankaccount to transfer 250 billion dollars where i will get around 50 billion dollars.

The scam is quite old, back in the early internet days it happened that i received a handwritten letter by real mail (snail mail) - that at least was abit more sophisticated.

What amazes me though is that people fall for it at all, even though i think 500$ is not a bad number for them to choose and think more people would actually be prepared to fall in the trap with such an amount.

the @rogers is a give away as well.goto rogers.com and see why.it a cable/phone company in new brunswick