are you a victim!?

@clarizz (354)
Philippines
August 6, 2008 4:51am CST
are you a victim of a scam?! i must admit that i am once almost a victim. one day an email sent to me. I read his (let me named him Mr. A ) letter. the letter was about the frozen money. he wants me to participate on this. Mr. A told me that i will get a huge amount of money if i do his instruction verry carefully. The sharing of the money will be 60% for Mr. A and 40% is for me. (imagine if hes talking hundred million) Mr. A is from a known bank and he's in a good position. Mr. A told me that there will be a annual auditing scheduled in a few months. he chose me to be his "partner in crime". Mr. A told me that the owner of this frozen account died in an accident and the family is nowehere to be found. Mr. A wants me to claim as the nearest kin of the diseased owner of the account. then he suggest me to write a letter to the bank for me to claim the frozen account. the bank responded and they ( bank ) want me to come to their country to be the witness for transferring the money and to ask me some personal questions referring to the diseased owner. Mr. A did'nt allow me to go to the bank because if they ask me some questions i might say some mistakes or i might ruin our plan. Mr. A suggested that i should write a letter corresponds to the letter of the bank. I will inform the bank that i can't be in their place because i have a work that i can't leave. the bank replyed and they allow me not to attend instead they referred me to the bank's attorney and i have to pay his fee. the attorney wants me to pay him before he go to the bank and be my representative. Mr. A said that i have to pay for the attorney's fee for me to claim the money and to act as my representative in the bank. Mr. A whant's me to produce this amount of money to reactivate the frozen account. I asked my self, why he want's me to produce this big amount of money? what if i dont have such amount of money? I asked Mr. A to share with me. at first he dont want to. a day after he mailed me and asked how much money i can produce? i said that half of the amount the bank requires. Mr. A told me that would be ok and he will give the other half but, i have to send my money first befor his. he gave me an account and he told me that i should deposit my money in that account. i dont know what to do. and then i did not reply to him. i searched for the bank that hes referring to and guess what, there's a forum or blog stating that scam. i was so shock and think. he almost got ME! i am so verry thankful for that. thanks for that site. how about you? are you a victim or almost?
3 responses
@MadaManu (113)
• Romania
6 Aug 08
Hi darizz, I had an experience like you, so I was a victim of scam. You know so well, I read an e-mail from a big business person, his name was Mr. Derech. He had allready an account with 1 milion €. He told me that if I create an pay-pal account and I will have in that pay-pal about 10€ earnings, he will get that 10€ from pay-pal and he will send me to my address an letter with some detalis. As I read as I do. I fill the pay-pal account with 10€ and reply him to e-mail. He sad that he will chek the pay-pal account and in a few days i will recevie the letter with the detail from banking account to get how much money I want from that 1 milion €. I sad Ok. I cheched the letter-box for that letter that should be arrive. In about 4 days that arrived. I read it and the result of what i have read was that Those 10€ has gone and the bank account was an e-mail adrres used in moneybookers and the password and that moneybookers account was empty. In plus they let me know that I could leave in US they maybe take some protection tax, for not killing me, because they had the adress known. I was so scarryed and I ereased my e-mail adress and pay-pal account, everything. I tell this experience to all my friends because they could learn something from it. Thanxs` for reading....
@clarizz (354)
• Philippines
6 Aug 08
hello. OMG! thats realy scary! why they are doing this to us. i hope that this experience will be a lesson to us. god bless
@fwangaa (3057)
• China
6 Aug 08
yes,i was ever a victim oneday when i used uc that is tool of communication.i had received a message that i have had a prize for a computer that value ten thousand yuan.i was so happy that give they a telephone.but they need several hundreds yuans.but i didn't sent money to them .i thought i maybe meet a cheat.
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@clarizz (354)
• Philippines
6 Aug 08
hi. that is a good move. happy posting
@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
8 Aug 08
I was the victim of an internet scam. Someone posed as my friend. My friend, who also in reality, runs a foundation for disabled people, but as he's housebound most times they somehow stole his identity and were pretending to be him. They took $400.00 and never gave me the grant they promised. I called my friend and he was very surprised to find out that this had been going on. I don't know if I'll ever get my money back and now I'm in debt to friends who helped me do what I had been planning to do with the grant. I will never lend or accept money from anybody on the internet unless I know them in person first. And even then, it's not safe because they could be impersonated by some random impostor. What a world we live in.
@clarizz (354)
• Philippines
8 Aug 08
how sad that they have to your friend...