Ripping You Off From Abroad
Ripping You Off From Abroad
One of the biggest scams going around this year is not coming from your own neighborhood; people are actually ripping you off from abroad. Scams from distant foreign countries have become the norm today, and you are often spiced up before the scammer actually drops the bomb on you. This type of scam is totally random, and there seldom is a set target as this is happening from the comforts of another country. This is nothing personal, and it is all business opportunity on the part of the scammers. When the scammer is set to make this attack from their home country, it is almost like the preparation of a large-scale play or performance.
First Step Is The Initial Email
The first stage of the scam while ripping you off abroad is an email to a random person usually found off of Yahoo. The sender claims that they are either a close family member or a custodian of a deceased dignitary. The email will detail the remaining period of the deceased life, and how they have amassed a decent fortune that now must be removed from this distant and tyrant country. The government will want this money, and it is up to you to help extradite this money out of the country under your assistance, and it must be placed in your bank account for safekeeping. What’s in it for you? Well for your time and troubles you will be offered an exorbitant amount of money, most likely in the millions. While this seems very James Bond like, the fact still remains that there are people that fall for this on a daily basis.
The Stage Is Set
When you have gone through this email and you are shaking your head in confusion, the process of ripping you off from abroad has already begun. The sender of the mail will ask for you telephone number and home address. They will tell you to call them to discuss specifics of the situation, yet they will never seem to answer. They will chalk it up to poor telephone lines in their remote part of the world and instruct you to deal specifically through the computer from this point forward. They will ask you to get some paperwork received by way of fax that will for all intensive purpose look totally legitimate. You are to take this paperwork to your bank for notarization and to get the routing number of your bank, and a certain transit number that they will need to transfer this large sum of foreign currency.
The Final Act
When you get the last contact from the sender, they will ask for your account number and the transit number for the bank that you are dealing with in your country. You assume that this is nothing to fret about as they are in another country and your bank would never allow the extraction of funds from your account this way correct? You would be wrong, and so much so that you would be wrong and very broke. It is always a good idea to be on the alert for ridiculous scams such as this, and always share what you know with others around you as a dorm of education against this type of scam.
