help my daddy die

[mark1411]

he is one thay had me going for a bit because that never asked for me to send any money This e-mail is to inform you that the total sum of US$4,500,000.00
(Four
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) has been
transferred to
your bank account in U.S.A. Our telex department transferred the fund
today
and it has been confirmed that you shall receive it in few days time.

For your information, the transfer shall pass through our coresponding
bank
before its final confirmation to your bank account.

We have attached the transfer slip and confirmation letter with this
e-mail.
See the attached file for more information.

Regards,

Mr. Charles Koffi
Tel : +225 0727 8448
E-Mail : remittance@royaltrustbankci.com
Dear Sir/Madam,

This is to inform you, that we have received a payment instruction from
the Royal Trust bank Abidjan. Your payment is in process. For
varification purpose, you are required to email to our office the photocopy of
your picture identification, namely your drivers License or your
international passport.

As soon as we receive the above information, your payment process will
be completed within 72hrs. For further inquiry, please contact our
office and speak to Mr. Patrick Holliday at 647-436-1336 ext.1.

Yours Truly,
Linda James.
Swiss Trust Toronto Canada.

when i replyed to the email asking why thay wanted may id. to make the wire to my bank i was call on the phone with a blocked # when i ask him to fax me some thing to show me that he worked at a real bank he got rude and tried to make like i was the scammer all i could do to stop from laughing at him :lol:

[FW Admin]

Indeed, mark1411, this is most certainly a scam, and the "identification" purpose is twofold; firstly, to see how gullible the target would be by supplying these items, and secondly, to be able to digitally forge them and the re-use them on another victim.

I would also note that the domain that the scammer uses as his "email address" (royaltrustbankci.com) is hosted by Fasthosts in the UK. They have been contacted regarding removal of this account from their servers and the website is no longer available.

[mark1411]

I no this my be a dumm thing to ask but why is it that we can not get the phone comp. and email like yahoo and msn to help in closeing the scammers down , like i have phones# and so many email address . and ip # why not have them help us to block them ,? mark:dunno:

[FW Admin]

It's not a dumb question at all, and it's a question that is very often asked. The thing is that the free-email providers *do* close the accounts down once they're reported, and usually very quickly; however, it takes around 5 seconds or so to create a new one, totally anonymous and completed with fake details.

As for telephone numbers, the scammers use mobiles for which they obtain SIM cards, usually a few dollars. These are totally anonymous as they can be sold for cash over a shop counter. When they use redirected numbers, they pay for them using stolen credit card details and again, the providers are very quick to act on information received to close the service down (which would happen anyway when the bogus payment is discovered).

So as you can see, it is very difficult to firstly identify these criminals, and even more so to try and put a stop to their activities. All we can hope is that information is passed to relevant law enforcement agencies who may then be able to investigate it further, providing they have sufficient evidence to do so. I'm sorry if this sounds negative, but the more people that know about these scams, then that in itself will slow these frauds down.

[Nyla]

And identifying scammer IP addresses would be even more difficult. Many of these scammers work from public internet cafes. There is no guarantee that they, or even the machine they are working on, will have the same IP address two times in a row. Even if a web cafe has the same block or same IP address all the time (some are dynamic), blocking a computer based on its IP address (which is the closest thing to a "physical address" there is on the internet) might prevent good, honest users who frequent the same cafe from using the computer to access the internet.

Like FW Admin said, fighting them in that fashion would only slow them down slightly at best. Educating people to avoid these scams would help stop them completely. A scammer who can find no one to scam isn't going to be very successful.