Another scam email from a Zimbabwean please read I want to know what kind of scam this is?

This is what it says and I HATE getting email like this...did anyone get a email like this? Pls copy and paste to your answer.


EMAIL CONTENT:


Dear Sir\Mam.





You will be surprised to read from me, but please consider this letter


as a genuine request from a family in dire need of your humble


assistance. Firstly, I must introduce myself. I am Abbas Gomez. A Citizen of


Zimbabwe, but I am contacting you from Bangkok Thailand where I am now


seeking political asylum. I got your contact through the Thailand


Information Exchange Online.





I am the only son of Clifford Tango Gomez, a wealthy black farmer and


senior politician with the opposition political party in my country,


Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Our wicked President Robert Mugabe


murdered my father, before I ran way from my country because I have


become his next target to eliminate. My father was a fighter for Justice


and a moving force in The MDC, a party wanting to end the several years


of brutal Dictatorship government of President Robert Mugabe. You will


read more stories about President Mugabe's brutal acts by visiting this


web site.





http://www.rte.ie/news/2000/0418/zimbabw...





My father was accused of assisting the White farmers in fighting the


government. Few weeks after his arrest, he was reported dead. The


government claimed he died of heart attack and his body was never seen for


proper autopsy, they buried him in the government cemetery. My father's


associate Mr. Martin Olds a White farmer from Britain assisted me in


fighting my father's death through the Court and media.





The Government saw us as a big threat to them and decided to eliminate


us. Mr. Olds was attacked and murdered in his House, but fortunately,


before they came looking for me, I received the news and I left the


country through the border to South Africa to save my life, before my


arrival here in Bangkok Thailand.





Here is my reason for contacting you. Before the death of my father, he


deposited the sum of Ten Million US Dollars (US$10,000,000.00) with a


security company when he went to Thailand to purchase his farm machinery


equipment, as if he foresee the looming danger in Zimbabwe. The money


was deposited as a gem/precious stone in a metal trunk box to avoid


seizure and much demurrage from the security company organization. This


money was earmarked for the purchase of new machinery and chemicals for


the farms and the establishment of new farms in Lesotho and Swaziland.





The government seized my father’s farms and bank account before his


arrest and murder. He told me everything concerning the funds while he


was still in detention. This is why I need your assistance in securing


the funds there in your Country, so that I can arrange on how to come


over to your country for the investment of the fund, I am willing to


offer you 25% of the US$10,000,000.00M for your assistance and you are to


provide an account where the funds will be transferred into because I am


faced with the dilemma of investing this amount of money in Thailand as


the financial law and regulations of the government of Thailand does


not give we asylum seekers financial rights to such huge sum of money. In


view of this, I cannot invest the fund in Bangkok, Thailand. Moreover,


the Thailand monetary policy/law does not allow such investment by an


asylum seeker or refugee. Please, let me know if you can assist me, so


that I can give you more details on how we shall proceed.





As I wait for your urgent Response, please treat this information as


top secret.





Yours truly,


Abbas Gomez.

Another scam email from a Zimbabwean please read I want to know what kind of scam this is?
Hi,


Friend, these days many Yahoo or MSN users are facing these problem. This will be a long answer but reading it will leave you happy. Many time you get mail or sms about these scams, they can be in these subjects and can try to take you in this fraud circle.


# A lottery from Yahoo or msn that you have won a lottery.


# Some dead account money will be transfered to you, and it is by it's manager or lawyer.


# You will allso be suprised when you got a mail that is future dated and comes from suspicious dates thaty are dated many years far. These e-mail can offer you some coupans or something more.


# That you will offered a free prize or laptop related scams or that is is form a courier company wining prizes.


# It comes saying it is from Yahoo staff pannel about services using and charges like payments or account deactivation, they can allso ask you to ingage in the spam circle, how? they will ask you to forward this message to another users.


# It can be a medical medicines scam too like medicines for sexual things.


# Or it can be a Adult e-mail as sexual material or abuse.





See, these all things are spam and meant for troubling users and filling the inboxes and to send fraud sms. The e-mail id's and the url from which the message sare send is fraud and inlegal. This is all fake and spam. Spam is any message that's sent to multiple recipients who haven't specifically requested the message. In other words, spam is crap.Spammers typically purchase or harvest a list of email addresses. They send messages from numerous different addresses to all areas of the Web. These messages tend to be "forged," to hide who actually sent them.





Yahoo is committed to eliminating spam—eyuck! And you've got great tools to help keep spam out of your Inbox.





Yahoo! SpamGuard





Keep Yahoo! SpamGuard turned on. To check if it’s on:





Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.


Click Spam Protection from the list on the left.


In the “Spam Filter” section, do you see “SpamGuard is ON”? If not, turn it on by clicking the link: Turn SpamGuard ON.


In the area above your spam options, click Save Changes.


In this same section, you can also specify how often you’d like us to empty your Bulk folder (we do it automatically once a month, but you have options to empty it faster), as well as indicating your preference for showing—or blocking—images. Image blocking is another way to fend off spam!


Image Blocking


The Spam button





If you get a spam message in your Inbox, check the box beside it, then click Spam. This alerts us to the latest tricks and techniques that spammers are using, and helps us clamp down tighter and fight spam more effectively.





If you change your mind or think you made a mistake, just look for the next message from that sender in your Bulk folder and click Not Spam to reverse your vote.





What should you not do with spam%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;





Never open a spam message (or any message from a sender you don’t recognize) unless you have the "Block HTML graphics" setting on. If you view HTML images in an email, spammers are alerted that you opened their message. So how do you turn on the Block HTML function?


Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.


Under “Management”, click General Preferences.


Scroll down to the “Messages” section, and next to “Security:”, check the box beside “Block HTML graphics in email...”


At the bottom of the page, on the left, click Save.


Never respond to spam. To the individuals who send spam, one response or "hit" among thousands of mailings is enough to justify the practice.


Never respond to the spam email's instructions to reply with the word "remove" unless you trust or know the sender. Many spammers use the "remove" or "unsubscribe" links as a ploy to get you to react to the email. This may alert the sender that your email address is open and available to receive mail, which greatly increases its value. If you reply, your address may be placed on more lists, resulting in more spam.


Never click on a URL or web site address listed within a spam email. This could alert the site to the validity of your email address, potentially resulting in more spam.


Never sign up with sites that promise to remove your name from spam lists. Although some of these sites may be legitimate, more often than not, they are address collectors. The legitimate sites are ignored (or exploited) by the spammers, and the address collection sites are owned by spammers. In both cases, your address is recorded and valued more highly because you have just identified that your address is active.





Ok it's bye from me, hope it help's!
Reply:This is called a 419 scam after the section of the Nigerian legal code making it illegal.





The internet is nothing new to Nigerian scammers. They have been handwriting, later typing, then faxing and now emailing similar scam mail since AT LEAST the 1890's.





The only twist here is that it is someone pretending to be Zimbabwean rather than Nigerian.





The basic scam idea is that he can cause the "security company" to transfer the huge pile of money into an account in a stable banking system. But... sadly, he has no such account and no access to open one. But... if only YOU, who do, would agree to receive his money for him, he could have it transferred and would ecstatically pay you a VERY handsome fee for doing so.





However, you get strung along, maybe for months if really gullible. First, the "security company" requires a fee. It must come from the transfer account: your account. He has nothing, but if you would just pay the fee, he will give you an even larger fee than he would have before. Please good sir or ma'am! Then he must worry that you will just keep it all. Well, he must risk it. But he would like to transfer it out quickly once it is in your account. (LOL, to where? After all, if he had an account to transfer it quickly out to, why does he need you? Well, yes good sir or ma'am, but he is not as stringent as the "security company" and does not mind transferring it into a risky bank in (where was it? oh yeah...) Thailand. Yes, you could do the transfer, but he knows how to do it and would really feel best not bothering you toooo much. If you could just give him your on-line user name and password, he'll handle that part of it.





You are now out the fee (sometimes a really gullible person pays a WHOPPING fee). A minute or two after giving the user name/password out, you are out all your account's money as well.





Sometimes more fees and, well, yes good sir or ma'am, one must sadly acknowledge they are really bribes, maybe a few more are needed before the transfer. If you never give out the user name/password, they write checks for varying amounts drawn on the account whose information you provide. By the time you realize something like that has happened, the accounts they were deposited to have been emptied and you find the genial bank you are used to is a VERY different and beastly animal when they can't just claw the money back out of the system, one that is different enough they tell you to pursue the money from the criminal, in court, and not to bother them further.





Of course, it could be your school janitor who sent the email. It need not be a real Zimbabwean.





In a general sense, to be ready to recognize other scams in life, note the "button pushing" the author does in the "story" part of the email. The best example is "My father was accused of assisting the White farmers" which shows just what a wonderful man his poppy was. He was helping whites and was murdered for it! What higher calling could a man, especially a black man, have had? Button, button, who's pushing the button? Always be careful to begin with and then more so as a story you are being told begins to hit closer and closer to home.





But just as some criminals must be let go to uphold legal principles that protect law-abiding citizens from abuse by a government, the world's email system must be open enough that scum like this can try to rip us off in order for us all to have easy and free (in the sense of open, not in the sense of it somehow not costing anything!) access to the world via email.
Reply:report it to your email provider or your net provider.





if yahoo, i think its abuse@yahoo.com
Reply:Ok. First let me tell you this I am Zimbabwean but I have lived I am now live in Michigan and have lived here for 15 years. I know definitely that this is a scam! Do not fill pity for this person because they are lying to people to try to take your money. I guarantee you are not the only one who has got the same E-mail. First of all their name is not even Zimbabwean, It sounds Nigerian. I know this because our names don’t sound like that. I also asked my parents to read this letter and they also said that its someone pretending to be in Zimbabwean because they know right now Zimbabwe is on the news because of some chaotic political riots going on. This is a scam, everything in this letter about our president and all the things happening in our country are true, but this person is definitely lying to get peoples money and pity. Don’t be vulnerable. I also received an email like this today except for this time it was from someone supposedly in Hong Kong. A lot of people I know said they are getting the same emails. If you have been watching Dateline, they have had show about scams like this going on, from people in Africa trying to scam Americans and end up taking money out of their bank accounts. Oprah even had a show 3 weeks ago and a lady on there was scammed for 50,000!!!. It’s ridiculous and really sad that they are doing this to people. Just be aware and be careful!!!
Reply:It's a scam. just forward it to the fbi. at


fbi@fbi.gov
Reply:60 Minutes did a show on this scam. They contact thousands of Americans and people in the UK. All they want is money. So many older people get caught in the mess and end up getting their bank account cleared out. One lady said she was in love and when the show finally found the man, he was from Nigeria (like the other answerer said) and he had all kinds of people giving him money. Report the email and don't worry, it is a scam.

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