Is this also scam beginning please?

Hello Dear

HI, I am Mrs.Catina Edgar and I am very happy to inform you about my successin getting that fund transferred. Now I want you to contact my secretary, on his email address below and receive your compensation of 850,000.00 from him: NAME: Mr Steve Eri EMAIL:[email protected], Kindly

reconfirm to him the following below
information: Your full name_________________________
Your address__________________________
Your country___________________________
Your age______________________________
Your occupation________________________
Your cell Phone number______________________

Note that if you did not send him the above information complete, he will not release the cheque to you because he has to be sure that it is you. Ask him to send you the total sum of (850,000.00)pounds CASHIER'S CHEQ Call number
tel +22998549766 +22998549766

Best Regards
Mrs.Catina Edgar

Yes, it is. Do not reply them.

Either a "tiny" advance fee would occurr (and another one, and another one,...) OR "she" would send you a fake check. The former is a standard 419 (advance fee) fraud, the latter a fake check scam.

What it really says is

Send me some money, and when you do I will send you a fortune.

There are a lot of flaws in that offer. The first is - if they have access to that amount of money why do they need to ask you for a few hundred first ? If there is such certainty that you'll get your money, then they'd either trust you to send them the fees afterwards, or they'd deduct them from the amount they send you. Sometimes they'll reduce the fee , or tell you that they've paid a part of it themselves , but there'll always be a bit you have to pay first.

The explanation is easy - there is no money other than the money you send them, and they'll only keep in touch for as long as they can keep getting more money out of you.

I have hundreds of examples and this one is quite a simple effort that will have been mailed out to hundreds, maybe thousands, of people. If they only get 10 replies it will make some nice money they can spend at the local bar.