e-mail fraud

[mic72765]

I recently recieved the following email from the yahoo adress indicated and was wondering if any one could warn others of this con. The sender wants you to set up an empty bank acount so that he can deposit funds from a foriegn account, but is in all probabilities withdrawing the minimum balance out of the account as soon as someone gives him


(URGENT FUND TRANSFER)

(RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 152,000.000.00 USD)ONE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO MILLION DOLLARS

Dear Sir,

We want to transfer to overseas ($ 152,000.000.00
USD)One hundred and Fifty two million United States
Dollars) from a Prime Bank in Africa,

[Moderator: I deleted the bulk of this message as we've all probably seen it in our spam mail before, and I don't see the point of reprinting it all here. I also moved it out of the Yahoo forum as it had nothing to do with yahoo.- Jill]


yours truly,

Martinez Goldman.

[Advisor]

Yes, those are old news. I receive about 10 of those every day.

[ihelpyou]

Welcome to the forums mic! :hi:

Oh yeah, but I receive about 20 of them daily. :)

[izaak]

About those fake offers that MIC gets can you trace those emails because I am so sick of them?

[kneelsit]

www.mailwasher.net (http://www.mailwasher.net)

Mic, welcome :hi: and commiserations.

If you click on the link above for the software you can install this great little program. (I'm not an affiliate BTW ) - I have found it extremely useful for gradually getting rid of spam from your email.
The developer - a Kiwi from downunder - makes it available FREE but says he would appreciate a donation.

You can set it up to blacklist letters like the ones you refer to and get them bouced back to their source.

Having used it now for about 5 weeks I find the amouint of spam I am getting is down by about 90%

:)

[Daminc]

Thanks for the Info Kneelsit :up:

I've passed the site onto the rest of my co-workers