Internet Scams - Nigeria E-mail Scams

Internet Scams: Internet Business and Money Scams

As the Internet penetration is increasing worldwide, Internet Scams are also increasing. 90% of the Internet Scams are coming from Nigeria, South Africa.

If you receive an e-mail from Nigeria or South Africa that offers you some mouth watering deal thatn Beware........ It can be SCAM......!!!!!!

Here are few most common types of Nigerian e-mail Scams -

01) Lottery Winning -

You win a Lottery ticket that you have never bought. You win Millions of Dollars, Euros or Pounds. This is how the Scam works. Once you contact their contact person, he will ask you for few thousand bugs to open a Bank account in South Africa to transfer the winning amount in that amount. This is a Scam. People have never recovered their money once send to these fraudsters.

02) Be a Nominee of Deceaced -

Another very common Nigerean deal is, Some multi millionaire Nominee of your native coutry dies in an accident. They will send you the link of some recent incident from the web. And they will tell that the deceased has millions of dollars in the Bank account & you can be his/her Nominee and claim the amount. Here you have to send few thousand dollars to that lawyer via western union money transfer as a legal fee. And once you send this amount, you will never get back this money.

03) South African Rich Kid -

One multi-millionaire rich kid is alone and want to transfer millions of dollars into your country for his higher education and Investments. He will ask you for few thousand bugs for legal procedure. I surprise that, why a multi-millionaire kid asks for few thousand bugs from you?............

So these are the only 3 examples of Internet Scams. There are literally thousands of Examples.

Who are the Victims?

Well, Ideally the pre-retirement group of people (Age 45 to 65 years) are the Victims. As they are in their pre-retirement age group, the chances are that they have accumulated the large sum of Corpus for their retirement. And because of their greed, they may spend all of their retiremeny money behind these deals.....

So Beware of these types of deals.........!!!!!!