i lost 10k and how i retern them i am poor now
Yes, it is a 419 type "advance fee" scam.
According to the website called scamdex, which is the email scam resource website, this is a scam. They say it's classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 type scam email. There are many many entries for this type of scam. I found pages and pages of complaints about Auction Listing Employment Agency, so it is best avoided.
Yes, it's a scam. An "advance fee" scam. Or 419 or Spanish Prisoner.
419 is a type of fraud named after the article of the Nigerian criminal code under which it is prosecuted.
No, it's a scam. A "419" scam, where you will be asked to provide some money in advance, for a part of a larger amount of money later. You send your money, and then get nothing.
The 419 scam, also known as the Nigerian 419 scam, is a type of fraud. It is done through the internet and hits emails claiming you have won money but you need to wire a certain amount in "good faith" before they will release your wind fall.
You mean a 419 scam?"A 419 scam is an advance-fee fraud, a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain. Among the variations on this type of scamare the Nigerian Letter (also called the 419 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam, or Nigerian money offer), the Spanish Prisoner, the black money scam as well as Russian/Ukrainian scam (also widespread, though far less popular than the former). The so-called Russian and Nigerian scams stand for wholly dissimilar organized-crime traditions; they therefore tend to use altogether different breeds of approaches."- Wikipedia---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Below is a recent complaint filed regarding a 419 Scam:"Online Scam - Other for $2000.00 on 06/22/2009""Some one pretended to hire me and sent me some false money orders to cash. I was to get paid 10 percent. So i did and sent it to a person over seas. Then i paid the bank back"- Scam Book---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The best thing to do when you receive emails regarding these types of scams is to contact the authorities and report the email, email address and alias of the scam artist. I listed URLs relative to this answer below.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
419 The Nigerian Scam - 2008 is rated/received certificates of: Canada:R
That is the start of a number in the United Kingdom, or as most Americans think of it, England. There is a 419 "advance fee" scam that uses a number that starts out with those digits. However, not every phone number that starts out that way is a scam.
If you received such information in an unsolicited email asking for a donation it is probably a scam of some sort.
That's not a virus, some spam/scam guy simply got hold of your email address and is trying to scam you. You should all change email addresses (lavabit is a good email server), preferably having your email address contain numbers, and be careful not to list your email online. It is called the 419 scan . Googling 419 will give you more information
Yes, it's an "advance fee" scam or a 419 scam. Do not send them money or personal information. If you share your personal details or transfer money, you will become one among the thousands of people who have lost their money believing in such spam emails.