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Old 07-04-2007, 10:26 AM
manaia60 manaia60 is offline
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Question I think this letter might have gone too far...

Over the past two months I thought Id won something big namely lotto. How dumb could I have been? Wishing and hoping...Like jen says no such thing as a free lunch. Well, this scam has gone a bit beyond. A cheque was sent to me. A substantial amount of course. My bank sent if to the foreign bank which came back with FRAUD stamped on it then a second cheque was sent for the same amount but this time could only be cashed in Great Britain so my bank has sent it back. These people are demanding I send them the money which I dont have. What can I do? Here is the letter I recieved ten minutes ago....This person kept hounding us so I though Id try and play his silly game and get his details instead I got a whole lot of alias addresses and names which I have saved. Every mail this person has sent I saved in my scam folder. Is this a death threat!!!!


Listen,is now I know what you have been planing with your husband to seat on that first money bur it won't work,that should be the end of your life if you think you can play with those people who send that check to you.

last week you are the one who called me to send you an account that the money is in your account now,then after sending you account the next day you send me a rubish mail that your bank said they will release the money to you this week and I have been sending you messages which you did not response only yesterday when I ask you about the second check which I wouldn't have been know about it if those people did not tell me about it.

Listen whether you like it or not that first money is with you and your husband but I am sorry because those people will trace you since they have your contact information/your address because a copy of this mail you send to me this morning has forwarded to them and they will write you as well because they told me that the money is out from they account.

Now I know you are a complete a LIAR.you have been ingnoring my messages and my calls because you and your husband has seat on the money that not belong to you.

Charles

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Old 07-06-2007, 11:45 AM
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I would class this as a threat, but very unlikely if anything was to happen. I would advise you contact your local police with ALL the e-mails that you have, if they have any personal information on you.

The scammer would have set up something like this:

1. The cheque they sent you would have been more than they were supposed to send you. They would ask you to refund the difference via Western Union, then the cheque would be returned as fake.

The money they want you to pay would probably be a release fee or something like that. Obviously the scammer knows the cheques are fake and so he asks for the release fee thinking you will oblige by sending it before his cheques arrive. As they have arrived, he is claiming you have x amount in your account, knowing full well that you don't.

DO NOT PAY!

Cease all communications with this scammer and delete all mails from him without reading them. When he realises he isn't getting anything from you, he will drop you.


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