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    When you get these types of emails ... It's a scam

    "Hello

    I have gone through your profile Linkedln and I found out that you are sharing the same last name with my late client. He has funds here which are yet to be claimed but nobody has come up for the claim because he has no relatives that are known to me, please let me know if you can assist and stand in to make this claim since you have the same last name. Waiting to hear from you.

    Pls do respond with your phone number so we can get to talk in details

    Regards,
    Fergus Mcdonald"

    [fergus03mcdonald@gmail.com]


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    Hi Raymond,

    As one TFSA member previously pointed out(can't recall who), I must be a millionare by now by virtue of the fact of all the lotteries that I have won!
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    Hahaha... I'm a billionare already. I won the lottery, I made money from foreign investment from Angola because they needed to bring the money in SA, a church gave me a couple of million, a single wealthy lady dated me and left me with so much money, I won't ever be able to spend them bwahahaha... Scam??? What scam???
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    Yeah, I even got money back from SARS five times in one month!

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    I could have even got a large trunk filled with US dollars ............. ALL I had to do was just go and collect it in Cape Town off a boat that was arriving there ...... stupid of me .................. I couldnt get to CT that week ........



    Ps . Oh Yes I also was going to get a very large sum of money from Iraq - apparantly a soldier had found it there and somehow had got hold of me ......... so I could just HAVE it ......... so many generous people out there ..... giving away these millions ....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevinb View Post
    I could have even got a large trunk filled with US dollars ............. ALL I had to do was just go and collect it in Cape Town off a boat that was arriving there ...... stupid of me .................. I couldnt get to CT that week ........
    Ps . Oh Yes I also was going to get a very large sum of money from Iraq - apparantly a soldier had found it there and somehow had got hold of me ......... so I could just HAVE it ......... so many generous people out there ..... giving away these millions ....

    This particular scam artist failed to realise one simple thing, soldiers are not that well paid, why would this soldier not simply just keep that loot for himself instead of kindly voluntering it to you..
    What is scary though acording to Carte Blanche's recent expose, is that there is now a new scam artists, the offer a woman true love scam artist, you never meet him but he facinates you with his underwater adventures as a diver working on submarines and he gets you to transfer him 100's of thousands of rands. Now here's the really bizarre thing, these woman know about all these lottery scams we now talking about but guess what they transfer the money!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by chrismine View Post
    Yeah, I even got money back from SARS five times in one month!
    OK. Now that one is definately too far fetched to be true.
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    Go to http://www.419eater.com you can read stories on how they were scammed back and even lost money, they are not that clever lol...
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    I have got this kind of mail too many time, YAHOO mail box seldom intercept this kind of mail.

    Just check here :The recipient: unpublished recipients. i knew it's a scam.
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