Is there really going to be large cash payouts from some ?

Question

are the E-mails promosing to pay 500.000 pounds from the 0ceanic Bank of Benin for real? Some kind of award in a contes between msn & AOL.

Answer 1

No.  The emails stating this are all SCAMS.  The below links confirm various email scams hitting the internet. There is also an online form for the reporting of such - (with links for your own country.)

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/id...

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...

Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Please remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace.

Check out these sites for further information :

http://www.scambusters.com

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

Answer 2

Remember the quote..."there`s a sucker born every minute"  don`t be one of them. No bank or anyone else is going to give away huge sums of money for no reason. Unless you`ve bought a lottery ticket or entered a legit sweepstakes, it`s all a SCAM. Never reply to such e-mails, their looking for info in order to rip you off.