Last week a letter came in the mail at work and has been making it’s way around the store. It’s a typical scam letter where someone has died and you can now inherit 77.7M dollars. I’ve scanned it for your enjoyment. It’s quite a good read.
The funny thing is that some people are gullible enough to actually fall for something like this. I found it quite surprising that it actually came through the mail. Usually you just see something like this come through into the junk folder in your email, and you don’t even give a look at it.
You would think by now that there would be legislation against this type of activity, but the police don’t seem to want anything to do with it. It’s one thing if it comes through as an email, but coming as a letter, you are sure to scam more people than usual.
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Did the actual letter have a return address on it? If the sender’s in Canada, there’s definitely legislation against these advance-fee scams.
The letter had a return address and fax number for somewhere in Spain. I just whited them out so I could post it.
However, if anyone wants 40% of 77.7M, let me know.
I knew there was an RCMP page on the matter:
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams/west_african_e.htm
Check out the site; they may want you to forward them the letter.
There’s a whole RCMP division for this type of thing. Unfortunately, it’s so common that they won’t really do anything until someone’s actually victimized.
My old roommate was an online fraud analyst for them. You wouldn’t believe some of the stories that he told me. And there was a lot he couldn’t talk about either.
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