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All over the Internet, you may be encountering the so-called scam. And the victims keep on complaining, keep on getting things lost recovered. This scam takes in any form. By the way, what is a scam?
Well, in layman’s language, a scam is a mode of trick to fool anybody in order to get gain either in service, in consideration of a request, for a favor like a job, among others. It is sometimes termed as a “trick of confidence”. However, in the facility of Internet, scam may take various forms. It could be an inheritance scam, a dormant bank deposit or investment scam, tax scam, among others.
The scammer may use email facility. He sends you an email with a proposition, gives you the manner on what to do. One thing to note is the huge amount of money being the subject for the message. Once you take the “bait”, your personal data, your credit card, bank account and anything connected with you especially mother. And this is another form of scam. This is phishing.
Recently I received a private message from one of the members of LiteracyBase, As of this writing, he has been 17 hours on this site. He messaged me this:
“I am Mark Oumar, ….. e 17th of August 2009 in a car ……… to present you as his next of kin…… US dollars.
“I shall …….. respond back using your personal email address and contact me at this ……. In order to serve you with more explanations…”
Beware this modus operandi, especially the person I mentioned here.
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I also received the same message and reported it to the support yesterday. Today I received message from the support that this member has been barred from the site.
@swalia and @rapidblue, that is what I noticed it too lately when I checked his username. We're so very careful in treating this site to be effective and could be relied upon for we know it could help us, and we don't think of anything to make abuses of this site. But this one, who has just been a recent member could have the gut to scam everyone of us here.
I received the similar message in my inbox in here, plus I have that or similar emails in all of my accounts. The best practice is just to delete, ignore or send to the spam folder.
I also got email from Samara on LB as you have received I am thankful to LB who has banned the girl Samara she uses fraud to trap men showing fake money saying belonging to her deceased father.
The scammer will tell you an elaborate fake story about large amounts of money 'trapped' in central banks during civil wars or coups, often in countries currently in the news. Or they may tell you about a large inheritance that is 'difficult to access' because of government restrictions or taxes in their country.
The scammer may contact you by email, letter, text message or social networking message. They will offer you a large sum of money to help them transfer their personal fortune out of their country.
These scams are often known as 'Nigerian 419' scams because the first wave of them came from Nigeria. The '419' part of the name comes from the section of Nigeria’s Criminal Code which outlaws the practice. These scams now come from anywhere in the world.
Scammers may ask for your bank account details to 'help them transfer the money' and use this information to later steal your funds.
Never send money or give credit card details, online account details or copies of personal documents to anyone you don’t know or trust and never by email.
Avoid any arrangement with a stranger that asks for up-front payment via money order, wire transfer, international funds transfer, pre-loaded card or electronic currency. It is rare to recover money sent this way.
Do not agree to transfer money for someone else. Money laundering is a criminal offence.
@jhsayyar I, too, have received a note from Samara a couple of times and have gotten similar letters on other sites. Samara told me she thought I was interesting and wanted to talk to me about something personal and to email her, I knew from another site those people would empty bank accounts. Not that it happened to me but another person answered it, and I am pretty sure they got their bank account emptied and wrote a note about it on the site.
all this scammer are heartless and lazy bone who want to loot people from their hard earn money..... I also encounter samara but I manage to escape cause she was so convincing