Someone is Emailing me saying I am a Beneficiary of 11 million. Dan Musa from the Bank of Nigeria. A Scam?

This guy has been sending me emails, none of which have my name, and he is saying I am the winner of 11 Million dollars. I thought is was a scam so i did not respond. Now he's emailing me saying someone else is claiming to be my representative and is claiming the money, and this is my "Final notification of payment" and to email him asap.


Who is Dan Musa and the Bank of Nigeria is this a total scam or what?
Someone is Emailing me saying I am a Beneficiary of 11 million. Dan Musa from the Bank of Nigeria. A Scam?
This is the classic Nigerian scam! Claiming to be Nigerian officials, businesspeople or the surviving spouses of former government honchos, con artists offer to transfer millions of dollars into your bank account in exchange for a small fee. If you respond to the initial offer, you may receive "official looking" documents. Typically, you're then asked to provide blank letterhead and your bank account numbers, as well as some money to cover transaction and transfer costs and attorney's fees.





You may even be encouraged to travel to Nigeria or a border country to complete the transaction. Sometimes, the fraudsters will produce trunks of dyed or stamped money to verify their claims. Inevitably, though, emergencies come up, requiring more of your money and delaying the "transfer" of funds to your account; in the end, there aren't any profits for you to share, and the scam artist has vanished with your money.


Why would a perfect stranger pick you 鈥?also a perfect stranger 鈥?to share a fortune with, and why would you share your personal or business information, including your bank account numbers or your company letterhead, with someone you don't know?





Usually, the sender does not yet know your personal e-mail address and is depending on you to respond. Once you reply, whether you intend to string them along or tell them you are not interested, they will often continue to e-mail you in an attempt to harass or intimidate you.





If you receive an offer via email from someone claiming to need your help getting money out of Nigeria 鈥?or any other country, for that matter 鈥?forward it to the FTC at spam@uce.gov .
Reply: Yes, this is most likely a scam. At some point they will ask you to send them your routing number and bank account # so they can send you your money. Then they clean out your account. Or they ask you to send them some amount of money to cover processing and transfer fees, blah, blah, blah.


Nigeria is notorious for internet scams.
Reply:You don't get anything for nothing, , it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information


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.Also If you go to the following link you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful
Reply:John,


...anyone from Africa I wouldn't trust. Whoah that was fracked up to say. I'm half african though, bite my head off. Especially Lome Togo, they have NO means of income in those countries and are especially suspect to many e-mail frauds. There isn't much you can do either. Protec yourself from e-mail scams!





Maxwell
Reply:Yes, this is a scam. They are lying to get you to respond and it is working. Wise up or get rid of your computer. Anytime you have "won" a lottery or "inherited" money from an unknown relative, it is a scam.
Reply:Its always a scam when it comes to that. an average of 74.982% of americans with emails get a spam of winning a british lottery each day.
Reply:The whole thing is a scam, all right. Never give out your personal information to total strangers. Just turn around and get this message spammed straight into oblivion-without delay. Don't believe this hype at all.
Reply:YES. they want $400 to mail you the check. If you get the check, it bounces and the bank charges you $30 bouncing fee. [20/20 ABC news]






Reply:it is spam. just put all those in the spam box.
Reply:you betcha!
Reply:yes, this is one of the oldest scams out there for the internet but people still send out the email. Just delete it