I rarely get scam emails but BOY is this a doozy...

[Robinrs]

I think this has been discussed before, just wondering if you've heard of it.

I got an email from a so called "lawyer" who claims a relative of mine has died and he has to disperse 7 million dollars.

From the letter:
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get
confiscated or declared un-serviceable by the bank here these huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the city trust finance company where the deceased had an account valued at about $7million dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days.



Has anyone heard of this scam???

 

[Melora]

never heard of this one..... did they ask for money? (Im sure they would at some point..)

Are you sure you don't have a rich dead relative??

 

[LindaR]

You can contact the district attorney's office for the city/area in which that attorney listed his address from. They can tell you if there is a scam currently running/or if this is legitimate.

 

[barrett7890]

we get about 4 of these a week at work......variations on the same theme

 

[LindaR]

Forgot to say............IF this is a scam..........there have been people scammed in the past by similar approaches..........they are attempting to launder money.........federal offense!

 

[Robmom]

I got the same exact e-mail. So, we know for sure that it is a scam. I didn't believe it when I got it anyway. It would be nice to get $7 million though!

 

[WDWHound]

The goal of most of these scams is to get you to send them your bank account number, under the pretense that they need it to transfer funds to you. Of course, anyone silly enough to actually give them the number will quickly find their account emptied.

 

[Octoberbride03]

YUP. This scam is a doozy all right. Friend of DH's showed us an email b4 Christmas with the same wording almost that was supposedly from Nigeria. He didn't explain if the email actualy came to him or if he was asked to check it out by somebody else. I hope No One on these boards is dumb enough to fall for this. Because there's not much anybody can do once your account is cleaned out. From what I've read typically its hard to find the original sender because the emails are bounced through several places minimum b4 reaching their final destination.

 

[Robinrs]

I'm never surprised by what people will do to get money from some poor fool,

unfortunately they won't get it from THIS poor fool!

I guess that statement about a fool and his money still lives in cyberspace. All they really need is one greedy gullible person and that'll be worth all of their effort.

It's disgusting and sad...

 

[Blondie]

I haven't gotten that one yet, but just about all the others!

 

[philaround]

If any one here thinks they might fall for a scheme like this just send the money to me instead. That way the money will at least get to Disney.

 

[TigerBear]

Originally posted by philaround
If any one here thinks they might fall for a scheme like this just send the money to me instead. That way the money will at least get to Disney.

LOL!!

 

[Mary Ellen]

My non-DIS time is spent doing genealogy. In one of my magazines there was an article written by a professional genealogist about a case where he was hired by an attorney to find the heirs of a rather large estate. I'd bet they would have found a 'snail-mail' address to send a registered letter if it was legit.