William Simon Scam

Dear friendI am william simon,i decided to contact you alone directly. I have been diagnosed withEsophageal cancer .It has defied all forms of medical treatment, andRight now, I have only about a few months to live and I want you toDistribute my funds fifty-eight million dollars$58,000,000(united states dollars) to charities.i have set aside 40% for you and your family reply me via my private email address below [email protected] call me on +44 7924020173 Regards william simon

I receive emails of this kind every day. This makes me wonder if people are getting hurt by this type of scamming, and if so, what can we do to stop this?

Hi Brianne
Welcome to Scamwarners.

Firstly, thanks for posting the scammers email, by posting their details publicly a potential victim may be able to find it if they happen to do some searching which many people do.

Unfortunately, many people do fall for these scams as evidenced by some of the other posts around the site, our best weapons in this fight remain public awareness and education.

Tell your family and friends about these scams, learn how to spot them and how to prove they are scams, when you recieve their emails, post them publicly for others to find and include as much detail as possible.

If you would like to do more than that you could consider scambaiting, it is a great way to waste the time and resources of scammers which will help to keep them from potential victims while educating yourself on the various scams and how they work.

If you would like to try your hand at scambaiting you could visit www.419eater.com where the members of the site will be only too happy to help you to get started.

After you have baited for a while you can come by Scamwarners and have the knowledge to begin helping people who contact us or perhaps begin dealing directly with victims of scams as most of our regular support team members do.

It is nice to see people motivated enough to want to help as you have done, that's is the way most of us have ended up here