I received an email from the central bank of nigeria stateing i am to receive some cash is this a setup?if so?

Question

the email said i am to receive a fund from the central bank of nigeria,for 7,000,000 dollars.they also stated that the fbi had contacted them about this matter and the FBI stated this claim was good.the fbi has not contacted me.they also want me to pay for a transfer fee.if this is not legit, how do i go about reporting it to the propper officials ? the email said i should keep quiet until the transfer was finished.

Answer 1

I win millions each day in sweepstakes, lottos, dying African ladies with no relatives, dead African men with no families but millions.

Either I'm a lot richer than I thought or these things are scams.

I'm going with scam.

Don't be a fool, the transfer fee becomes the payoff fee for the other officials, or the travel fee for the transportation of a bank official, etc, etc, you send the money and they send the reason they want more.

Don't bother doing anything, these scams are all over and the FBI has found them hard to find and harder to persecute.

Just delete it.

Answer 2

Oh yeah it's REAL!!!

And by the way I have some really nice Ocean front property in Kansas that I am trying to sell cheap.....You intrested?

Tool!

Answer 3

i get these emails EVERY day. that and i won the british lottery. it's a scam and i wouldn't even mess with it.  just mark your emails as spam and if you do go through with it, contact your local fbi and go from there. if they are telling you to keep quiet until transfer is complete, more than likely it's not legit.

Answer 4

Computers have a "delete" key for a reason.

Now is the perfect time to use it.

This is one of the biggest scams on the planet.

Answer 5

Geeeez, are there still people who beleive this c**p.

The Wall Street Journal has run a number of articles on this Nigeria garbage statinmg unequivocally that it's a scam.

Hang up and get a job.

You're one oof a thousand who get that scam every week.

Just forget it. Don't respond

Don't bother to report it

You'll just waste people's time.

Answer 6

Delete!

Answer 7

THIS HAPPENED WHERE I LIVE AND INTERPOLL SHOULD BE THAT OF INVOLVED. THERE IS A TOLL FREE NUMBER FOR THIS IN YOUR PHONEBOOK, OR ON THE INTERNET. IT IS A SCAM ALRIGHT.

Answer 8

These are all total scams.  You can report them to the Attorney General in your state.

Answer 9

It is spam...you may get a check, which you will deposit,  then find out there is nothing backing it up. & you will be in trouble ith the bank, & out your transfer fee.

It is spam...they can say anything they want, they are going on the gulibility & greed of people. Keep quiet, yeah, they don't want you contacting the FBI or anyone...the phone books all have numbers for the FBI, give them a call...

Answer 10

Yes, search "scams on the net and "Nigerian scams"

Answer 11

It's clearly a scam. If you can't see that then you're not too bright.

Answer 12

Well so far I have won the British, English, Nigerian, and European lottery... However, I am still here in Michigan rotting away in the cold... It is a scam!

Answer 13

If you send me $100, I can get these people off your back immediately.

Answer 14

I get plenty of them and do not send money to this people this is a big SCAM

Answer 15

Fake !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Answer 16

SCAM, SCAM, SCAM... I get 10 notices a week on those letters from all around the world.  Report them as SPAM!   Answer them   and you will then become a willing victim of identity theft.

Answer 17

They're all scam. I had them pretending to be from UK, Burkina Ffaso, Sierra Leone etc. I was told that there is mostly a group of schemers originates from Moldova, but acting as someone else, from somewhere else.

I know that is dangerous and they could use my personal dates to get me in troubles. But I count on letting them try, so they run into troubles, when they were to get caught faking as me.

Plus their scamming stories are so convincing, that sometime I just go along with their game, for a while. To the point where i drop them, telling them about the other ***** which had tried the some thing with me.

Laughing when they start telling you that they are genuine and not like others.

Answer 18

do not respond at all cos then they know you email is a genuine one - this is absolutely a fake - nigeria is famous for them.

If this was genuine you would not have to pay transfer fee and would not have to keep quiet

Type some of the names and details of email into google and seach - i bet you a lot of money then come up on a scam site!

Even if i lose the bet and no one has identified them yet, delete the email now

Answer 19

most likely.... I received one from England last year that was going around...

Answer 20

Get the Police to visit your web site and they will take a copy. as they are looking for these people all over the World. I had two last year, one from Rumania, and the other from the Congo.    

My Daughter in the USA told the FBI  and they follow them up. Then you can spam it....never answer them.

Answer 21

THIS IS A SCAM!!!! Do not provide ANY information such as your name, bank account, address, etc.  

Here's what happens:  

They will send you a bogus check that your bank will cash.  You spend the money, but the bank holds YOU liable for the money spent.  Just leave it along.

Answer 22

I am the official account handler for the Nigerian Lottery.  Send me all of your bank info and I will see that the money is quickly transferred (out of your account).

Dude, trust NOTHING from Nigeria.

"the email said i should keep quiet until the transfer was finished."

Yes, that way they can make a clean get-away.

Answer 23

I am a multi Billionaire  with all Lotteries Inheritances that I have won, and by just giving the information about myself.I would be receiving these funds from the UK Nigeria, even Yahoo's Name has been used. I have learned to recognize these mails and ther sad stories of someone dying of a terminal disease and they have all this money and now one to give it to but me!!! I have become immune and simply delete them as spam, however they keep coming and coming. Whatever you decide to do, do not give them information abut yourself or your accounts the will clean it out . The Nigerian Scam has been on 20/20 and they have shown the young people that were involved working out of an Internet Caffe

However there is really not much that can be done to stop this kind of spam

Answer 24

Don't take any notice of Handyman.

Send me $90 and I will get him off your back.

Answer 25

ITS SPAM............

Answer 26

yes it's a scam - check it out on snopes.com

Answer 27

yes.......i use to get the same ad in my yahoo mail.........so i googled it and it warn me of a scam!!!!!!!!

Answer 28

God, how dumb r u?

Nigerians r scamers. I get e-mails like dat all d time. And I being racist nd all dat. I'm Nigerian.

Answer 29

What do you think?

If they have $7,000,000 why would they need YOU to pay a transfer fee?

Answer 30

Don't you watch Judge Mathis Show, this same thing happened to a young girl SCAM!!! If Africa has that kind of money to give then why so many poor countries.

Answer 31

OK it may be a scam , But,  as a member of the Black race,  I was concerned about why this Nigerian area of the Black race operate as they do.  The Answer I was given was very enlightning.   I was told that they were "acting as WESTERN BUSINESS MEN' .  They say that the West does the SAME thing to them but disguise it surreptitiously.   " We just act like Western Businessmen and not doing no more than what has been done to us ".    Basically, they just call it for what it is.

I thought about it and concluded that America doesnt like when someone beats them at their own game.