Need Legal Advice or is this a scam
 

Need some advice, or is this a scam...Obviously sounds to good to be true. Read attached letter I received today.

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dude, total scam...he has a yahoo email add for cripssakes...

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Oh ya, that a scam!!

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Well, the yahoo address wouldn't concern me but the broken azz english screams scam!

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Gotta love the 50/50 split of dear uncle abu's money too:rolleyes:

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Looks like the last service repair order that was done on my boat. :drink:

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bawahhaaaa...that's funny. :D :D

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in my best Homer Simpson voice . . . . "scam . . . . or possibly scam-ola" :D

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Wow, I thought that scam made the last rounds 2 years ago :rolleyes:

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Looks legit. Please sent me 5K for my opinion. :D :D

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LOL - he is a 419....http://www.419eater.com/index.htm

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f@*Kin NIGERINS! I get emails like that all the time. they send you a check and you send him money back. the check is no good, but it will take you a month after you sent the check to find out!!! i usually send a letter back saying GET BENT!

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Definitely a scam. Typically, what happens is he will ask for your bank account number and/or other personal information. Instead of depositing money in your account he withdraws it from your account. Another angle is that he will ask for money inorder to process the paper work. You send the money and you'll never here from him. Anyway, it won't hurt to give him a call or e-mail him. Be very careful!

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Absolute scam.


Funny retaliations here: http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

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I get 3-5 of these a day! Total Scam and the newest is a family tree deal.

Turnip truck...I think not!

Julie

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Go to a bank open acount with $10.00 in tell the guy to sent you the all money by wire transfer to the new bank account u just opened up and you will send 1/2 back to him :D

For $10.0 I take the shot few a mill :evilb:


Rick OSG

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Me too! I just keep deleting them.

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Thanks for the help, never got anything like this before. Jeff

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Are the Kennedy's gun shy? :D

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It's a scam alright.
My ex got one last weekend. It was supposedly from some lawyer in England saying he had 7.5M Pounds Sterling waiting for her.
All he needed was proof of her identity. There were two links at the bottom of the letter for her to go to. Told her not to click on either of them. Her identy could be stolen in seconds.
I did forget that lawyers in the UK are called Barristers. Should have been my first clue.

Any real letter like that would not come by e-mail. It would be sent registered and certified mail with signiture required.

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Great you just started the next nigerian scam.

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Funny.
I doubt anyone would spend the bucks to mail a scam letter to a specific name address, let alone the costs in mailing it.
Besides, if they did, you would have their address and then the Feds could get involed for mail fraud. Too risky.
The internet is a wide open area. Like the wild west, little supervision or policing and easy to get away with scams.

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Soliciters and Barristers, generally the Soliciters work the lower courts and engage a Barrister if the case moves to a higher court (Crown Court etc.)

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Beware of anything from Lagos, Nigeria and overseas. The big ones are you won a lottery, Some uncle died in a plane crash, anything to do with oil and oil drilling, My relative died and I have millions of dollars that I can't get so I need your help. This must be kept confidential TOTAL SCAMS
They will ask you for a bank account were they can deposit the money, then the bleeding begins and once they get you on the hook they will suck you out of thousands of dollars. This happened to one of my freinds and all the papers looked legit even right down to the bank of nigeria, like I told my freind walkaway!!!

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I knew that, just couldn't remember it. :rolleyes:
Thanks.

The ex had one about a lottery, but she knew damn well she didn't buy a ticket in a foreign lottery. The letter she received a couple days ago told the story of long lost family members dieing in a plane crash and her being the only traceable relative.

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It would be fun to play it out a little, you know get them thinking they have a fish on and then watch them squirm when you send them nothing.......