Lux Investing - I have been scammed for a large amount of money on Yahoo.How can we stop this. contact me with a solution.?

I have been scammed for a large amount of money on Yahoo.How can we stop this. contact me with a solution.?

From: peter akanga <peter_akanga01@yahoo.fr> To: Derek Wall <yoaopessoa@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Friday, 20 July, 2007 6:47:47 PM Subject: RE : Re: Dear brother, Dear Brother, I am writing to thank you for you’re good response to my message to you and your kind mind to assist me in this hour of need. Thank you also for your acceptance to assist me to get the money my late father deposited with Bank of Africa bank Abidjan as fixed deposit. I have been praying since I saw your mail and asking God if you are the real person that I will trust to transfer this money into his account that my late father suffered for. Please I do not know you and I do not no if you are a good man, it is you that is going to prove yourself to me, for me, I read your profile it interest me, to have a man of you age I will call me Father and who will take care of me. And invest the money for our both interest that was why I contact you. If you have any intention of cheating me please tell me and leave me a lone ok. Please tell me this, about your self and are you married? I contacted you to be my Guardian so that you will look after me and help to look for a better investment, so that I can invest wisely when the money transferred to you. Everything I told you about this money is real and legal. I have suffered a lot since my father died. I don’t have any body to look after me, but I have some heartless and wicked relations who want to kill me too and have the money to enrich them. That is why I don't want to have the money invested here or to leave here any more. I contacted you to help and make sure that this money will be smoothly transferred into your bank account, you will also help to source for a nice investment where you will invest and manage the money for me. You will make arrangement for me to come over to your country to continue my studies. I am presently hiding in a guesthouse were people cannot trace me easily and my feeding is just by charity help and is not my pressing problem now. I need this money to be transferred so that I can be able to have a new life altogether. I’m assuring you that any help you render to me will be much appreciated by me. I have been in great difficulties and my only hope is in this money with the Bank in their fixed deposit and that is why I needed someone that the lord will touch his mind to help me transfer this money and get me out from Africa. You have to keep this confidential and no other body should know about this, till the money is transferred to you and you bring me up to your country. Please promise me that you are not going to change your mind if the money is transferred to you, because this is the highest risk I am taken in my life. I will be sending the bank documents which my late father used in depositing the money in the bank as soon as I hear from you in my next mail. He warned me that I can only hand over these documents to someone I trust fully and who will assist me get the money and myself out of Cote D’Ivoire. So with the documents you will contact the bank and inform them that you want them to transfer the money into your account. Then you can tell the bank how to transfer the money because I do not have any experience in banking. Thank God that I found you and you have idea. The most important thing is to secure the fund with your name as my Guardian and my father Former foreign Partner so that the bank can transfer the money to you and I will come to meet you in your country. I will be very glad if you can come down here in Cote d’Ivoire, to see things your self, because seeing believes and also afford us the opportunity to see each other physically. If you can not come let me know so that we will talk and you will give me assurance of your person and I will give you more information to contact the Bank here as My Guardian. Please if you can call me this night so that I will explain to you more my room Number is +22506084810 Yours brother Peter

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The solution is stop being so stupid.
How on earth did you fall for this.........greed no doubt!
Oldest trick in the book. Hope you didn't really fall for it...
I'll be with Laura, keep an eye out.
i always get emails like that i just spam them now so i dont have to get my inbox full of trash
What a load of crap and bollocks
Scams predate email by thousands of years. There will always be gullible people with more money than sense.
only a myg would beleive this
You actually fell for that????
there are loads of scam emails like this out there. Dont give your details to someone like that I mean do you even know them?!
Delete it and report as spam.
Thoses emails are always scams...why on earth did you reply to it in the first place???..These types of emails have been around for quite awhile.. they way to stop is..is not open the mail in the first place..stick it in junk file right away.
your check bounced .lol
So you were scammed,,it would not take a Rocket Scientist to work out that this was a scam
yes, it is an old west african trick from nigeria, i too was conned out of my beloved goats, now i never trust nigerians, only sudan people are good.
If you fell for this you should not use the internet.
In all honesty you should have known better than to EVER give out your bank account number. I can tell in 2 sentences that this was a scam and you should never give out any information unless you are paying a bill or for something that shows a verified logo on it. NEVER give out ANY info to ANYONE!! unless you want everything you have stollen. Everyone who has email has received emails asking for money or to transfer money and there is nothing you can do except report them as spam Once that is done that email address will be taken care of but the spammers will create another one and try again so.... the simple thing to do is to check out things on www.snopes.com and see if it is ligit and if it is pray for them but... still do not give out information!
This cannot be stopped. Now let me get back to packing up laptops that my Nigerian friend orders here, I send them to him. He is very kind and has loads of money. He will pay me for the postage real soon.
Is anybody ever taken in by this? If so why? Greed? Alzheimer's?
i get these all the time. never give them any information regarding your checking accounts or any other such identifications. it's all a scam, and they pray on people who like helping others. if you want to donate your money to a good cause, go down to the red cross, or donate to breast cancer or orphanages. never offer to help someone who sends you stuff over the internet. look at it this way- if some scruffy guy came to your door and said i'm here to see if you would like to donate money to the "insert something here" foundation, would you like to donate? BUT they cant provide you with any imformation, and dont have anything to prove they are from such foundation would you give them money?
If something looks too good to be true, it probably is...... People all over the world are taken in by these people, generally because they are greedy and think they will get some money for free, it never happens.
My God!!!! This is one of the oldest and most used scam coming from Nigeria. You'd best tell Yahoo, and google scambaiting, where you'll get a few sites come up that talk of these scams. You'll learn you're not the only person to be taken in and probably won't feel as bad, even though you've lost money. I'm so sorry for you. You do need to tell the police too.
I recieve these all the time. If you didn't send them a check or give them your bank account number, then you haven't actually given them any money. The first thing to do is to report the message as spam and delete it right away. Never open the message or click on any of the links there-in.
There are versions of this story all over the www. There are people who spend the whole day in Cafe's just sending mails to thousands of email addresses. that's their chosen profession. If you see mail from anyone you don't know, just spam it
have you ever seen phonejacker you sucker.the way to stop scams is not to get scammed in the 1st place.it's not rocket science really is it
I hope you did not send your bank accout information to this scammer. If you did, you may not be able to get your money back. Save the emails and contact your local police and report it to yahoo. I wish you luck; in the future when mail comes from someone you do not know, mark it as spam so the sender does not continue to get to your inbox.
I get these messeges all the time and I hit the delete key. I wish that you had done the same. You are right, it is nothing more than a scam. I saw where a TV personality followed up on this same thing and he came up with nothing. The laws in these countries do absolutely nothing about it.
How can you possibly fall for the oldest scam in the book?? Do you know that you have a brother in Africa? this is where most of these scams originate, are you stupid or what? do you have an unknown father or brother? these people are professional scamers, can't even spell correctly. I would advise to never, never open your bulk or spam mail, just empty it all, never answer to it cause they are are scams, what more can I say? I'm new to the computer world and I would never be as stupid as you, I guess there is no way to get your money back, just don't open any bulk or spam mail,
Good one lily!!! I think this question is a scam, but that's ok I got more yahoo points. LOL
MONG - what a sob story. Of course you believed it. You started out by thinking of all the things you could buy with your share of the illegal money. You called him, no doubt. He who was hiding in a guest house.... He was delighted to hear form you I can assure you. You were scammed because you were greedy. Because you thought that some stranger in some foreign land would trust you with his fortune. After all, after he sent it you would never have to give it up and he had no way to prove he gave it to you. You thought that you could get rich quick and because of this you fell for it. Even if you split with him, BOY, were you RICH..... Ho HO HO It's christmas and there really is a Santa Clause. Some slight amount of common sense should have told you that anything this good was too good to be true. Why should you be the lucky one. Where did he get your e-mail? Why did he pick you? P.T. Barnum suggested that there is a sucker born every minute. that is exactly true isn't it. What can you do - There are sites where you can report it. OF course you will never see your money. All you did was make come guy sitting at his coffe house public access computer, wealthy and prove that his scam does work - because there is a sucker born every minute. There is no way to stop this because people like you will keep on responding to these obviously fraudulant scams. You should have been smart and not answered at all. When you failed in the first use of common sense, you should have realized something was wrong when they asked you to send money by Western Union to some one or place other than the bank. What was the amount - $5000.00 or so I suppose they provided very official looking documents. Did you make any phone calls? No Did you check with the FBI or Police to verify the story? No. Did you contact the "Bank" that had the money to ascertain the truth? No? Well, I am sorry. You asked for it and you got it good. This is a common scam. Thousands of people in US, Canada and Europe are scammed by this same thing time after time every day. The next one will be that you won a lottery and all you have to do is send the money so they can release your winnings.... I suppose you will fall for that one as well. You will forget that lottery tickets have to be purchased, they are not issued at random. How can anyone believe such a fantastic story. How is it possible to believe that you should be trusted with millions by a TOTAL stranger. AS long as there are people like you, greedy for easy get rich schemes, those guys will flourish. You ask how it can be stopped. That is easy. Do not reply to the first message. THINK! Nothing could be that easy. CHECK with banks and law agencies. USE COMMON SENSE. Don't tell anyone - isn't that funny. If you did, what could they do about it except tell you it is a scam These guys use the web - there is NO WAY to stop them except not be greedy, not belive that something so unbelievable is really true. Yes, I am being harsh. Yes, I know you are outraged and feeling pretty stupid. These scams have been around for years. there are warnings about them. This is an international problem and you are not the only one who has fallen for the sting. You will not be the only one. Report it to the FBI. Check for scams on the 495 website . Go public - hit the media. I know you will feel foolish but you will also make others aware that these things from Liberia and that area are all fraudulant. Tell your story. Make people understand that though this all looks good - ASK QUESTIONS- not from them but from online agencies that are trying to deal with this. Check with google for scams - there are 3 sites that are law enforvement based. It is too good to be true it is NOT credible - yet you fell for it. I used to bait these buys - it was fun to challenge methods of payment and sending it to the wrong bank and such. They would panic of course. Then, one day, some guy came back to me with my real name, address, URL number and everything. At that point I decided to follow advice - DO NOT CONTACT THEM AT ALL. These guys have been known to kill or beat people up. This is an unfortunate and costly lesson. Spread the word. You will not get your money back no matter what you do. It is a good thing you did not go to th4e Ivory Coast. they get you there and then sneak you past immegration. You are now an illegal aiein and they have you. Then you really pay or you are in police custody. They will turn you in for the reward. How about jail in Africa... You will pay and event hen can be in serious trouble I feel sorry for you. The first time I got a similar message I was counting the money. I told my friend - considering the state of things in parts of the world, this might be true. But if they ask me for moeny - it is a fraud. Then THEY asked me for money. From that moment, it was a game to play with them and it went on for 6 months - way past their time limits. They kept changing banks when I told them there was no Western Union in Korea. I had 4 or 5 of these things running at any time. They were targeting me because I answered the first one. Because you paid you will be inundated with them. Everyone on the African continent will be E-mailing you with sob stories, Banks with old accounts, People killed in plane crashes, Generals shot by rebels, Oil contract overpayments and the Wining Lottery ticket (That you did not buy). You have lost your money. The lesson now, GO to FBI and let them know. Provide all details. There are international agencies working to stop this. They need your information. Second rule USE YOUR HEAD and Do not be greedy. That is why this happened to you. Third rule - Telly ou friendss. Go public, That is the only way to stop it. Make people aware that they should NOT reply. that is the first mistake. Make it the last. Sorry, Buddy, I really feel sorry for you but Greed got the better of common sense. I nearly fell for the same scam but when they asked for money I knew it ws all just a fraud.