That's a very definite lottery scam. The same e-mail was sent to lots of people. See [url=http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2005-12/msg00220.html]here for another example of a scam featuring Michael Pin ...
Thanks for letting us know about this Maria. I've posted the details at www.aa419.org where they will double check that the site is bogus, and then set the bank killing machine in motion!
It is very important that your friends stop accepting goods from the scammer and sending him money. He is using them as a go-between to fence his stolen goods. He is almost certainly ordering them by ...
These transfers can be fraudulent. Some scammers have people working inside banks in the USA or Europe who can 'flash' an account. Alternatively the money may get transferred from a stolen account o ...
I don't think that trying to catch the criminals who contacted your friend is likely to work. Very few of the baits that people at 419eater run result in sufficient information to come anyw ...
I'm really sorry to hear about your friend who lost money. It must be particularly difficult when the money has been borrowed from other friends or invested on their behalf.
Its quite likely that if you reply to the e-mail in portuguese the next e-mail will come back to you in English. The scammers may be using foreign language formats to appeal to a different set of vic ...
This sounds like a very common 'dating' scam. The male scammer pretends to be a woman and tricks men into sending money for a plane ticket to visit them. They'll then ask for more and ...