Types of Email Money Scams
Don't get caught by the Email Money Scams
There are two main types of email money scams. The first is the very common Nigerian email money scam and the second is a far more believable unclaimed funds email money scam. The Nigerian email money scam consists of an email claiming that a rich Nigerian person needs your help to smuggle money out of their country into the states. This email money scam promises to pay the email recipient millions upon millions of dollars in exchange for using their bank account. Of course, the Nigerian scammers who sent the email money scams will require the participants to fork over their bank account number, contact information and other sensitive information in addition to a few several thousand dollars for “transaction fees.”
The lesser known email money scam that has recently surfaced is the unclaimed funds email money scams. This email money scam claims that 9 out of 10 Americans have unclaimed money just sitting in the laps of the government. The operators of the email money scam will help you locate your lost funds (which you can do for free) for a fee and you may even need to send sensitive information to the operators of this email money scam as well.
Spotting an Email Money Scam
Spotting an email money scam can be done with some attention to detail. An email money scam will relay an extreme tone, such as an urgent tone in a Nigerian email money scam and an overly ecstatic tone in the unclaimed funds email money scam. Email money scams will typically be very lengthy and tend to regurgitate the same information throughout the email. Your best defense against an email money scam is to think logically! Will a rich Nigerian really contact a complete stranger and trust him with millions of dollars? No, it’s an email money scam. Will a respected agency really send you a promotional-sounding email telling you they want to give you money? No, these are all email money scams.
Mike Smith
on Jan 17th, 2010
@ 2:38 pm:
I get tons of emails like that each day that always say that there is a loved one that dies and need bank account to deposit money. I never never give my credit card to anyone.