That’s right. I received an email this weekend from an attorney working for a secret bank in a secret country in which it was determined that I personally am entitled to $10,500,000 from a secret uncle that I didn’t even know I had. To access this secret account, and as a sign of good faith, I must secretly deposit a secret amount of money into a secret account right away! And I must not tell anyone about all this secret stuff!

WOW! 10 million plus change!

This is a typical 419 scam. But instead of being from our friends in Nigeria, this one comes via our friends in England. The alleged sender is an employee of Barclay Banking and was privileged to have setup this secret account for my alleged uncle. This thing is so secret that the bank doesn’t even know anything about it. So contacting the bank will do no good. Only the sender has this secret information.

And he only wants half the money. Which seems fair to me.

These scams hit the Net by the thousands every day. And what is surprising is that people still fall for this con. But for those reading my posting, you are now so well educated that you won’t fall for this scammer’s trap. Be careful out there in cyberspace.

[tags]scam, 419, millions, scammers, Nigeria, money [/tags]