SCAM

This may or may not belong here, but I think it is a 'recovery' scam, but mods feel free to move it to an appropriate place if needed:

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I have a new email address!
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- My name is Dan Morgan i am a young boy of 25 years and my sisters name is katrine Morgan and she is at the age of 17yrs old,Our Father died during the crisis in searria Leon and we later find our self's in the refugee camp in Ghana.Please sir the amine of contacting you is for you to help us to rescue us in the refugee camp and we are suffering here as i am writing to you now our late father is one of the politicians in searria Leonanie due to his position in the political party he was assassinated in our home dunning the event my mother come out and was shouting which lead the assassinates shot her too after all this while i came across in searching in home and find out that he had an deposit slip of document that stated agreement he made with security company.In Ghana open this we flit out in our country through the help red cross we are presently now in Ghana. Please we needed you in our side to help us to claim our father's inheritance fund what of 21,5million U.S dollars and some golds in the box please let this be a secret between u and us so that as soon as u help us to claim the money from the security company here in Ghana u are in title of 30 percent after your expensive that u will make to make sure that we rescue this money from the security company.May our late father Morgan rest in peace.thanks and hope to hear from you again and please in return of your reply we needed your number and fax is needed thanks and God bless u as soon as u receive this message get back to us.peace contact late father lawyer.Mr Edward Fofo thisis his e mail address ([email protected]) Best Regards katrine.Morgan

Hi breakwind

Welcome to Scamwarners.

There is no doubt that is a scam but at my local time its a bit late to do too much digging

I did however find another slightly altered example of the same email here Click Here

Please take a look around and ask if you have any questions

Yea I already knew it was a scam, just didn't know WHERE to post it,

Hi Breakwind and welcome. Thanks for posting the scam email. It's not a recovery scam; recovery scams target people who were already victims promising to help them get their money back or get the scammer arrested. This is the "wealthy orphan" version of an advance fee fraud scam. I'll move the thread to the Advance Fee Fraud forum for you. Please do continue posting scams here and let me know if you have any further questions about where to post.

I thought so. Thanks Jillian

This scammer has written quite a sad tale about how, after his father was assassinated, his mother came out of the house, shouting - and got shot too.

He wants to paint a heart-rending picture, so that we will feel compassion for him.

It comes under the heading of 'Advance Fee Fraud', because he is also offering 30% of his inherited millions to the recipient ..... but it will later be revealed that, in order to obtain it, an 'advance fee' will need to be paid. This might be for essential documents, or for bank transfer costs, delivery charges, lawyer's fees, or anything else the scammer thinks will sound believable.

You, Breakwind, recognised that as a scam, and knew that the writer of this email was lying - he is not the son of a politician, and there is no inheritance of millions, and no money will ever be transferred to anybody else's bank account. But I'll add my thanks to you for posting it, so others, hopefully, can find out, also, that it is a scam, and won't be fooled by the sad (invented) story that the scammer begins his email with.

@Chris: I also wanted to post this and a few others I got in my 'catcher' account to 419eater's surplus forum, but I was having/still having trouble getting to 419eater, but thats another thread: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4186

.... And it looks like it's getting sorted for you.