E-MAIL SPAM

Have you ever received the e-mail like this one is? (of course you did, who didn´t)

Example 1:

My Dearest one

Greetings my dearest one,my name is Maria justin yak am 24 years old Girl from Southern sudan.I want to have a common relationship with you, I need to tell you more things, but first I need your help to Stand for me as a trustee.

My father Dr. Justin Yak Arop was the former Minister for SPLA Affairs and Special Adviser to President Salva Kiir of South Sudan for Decentralization. My father Dr. Justin Yak, my mother including other top Military officers and top government officials where on board when the plane crashed on Friday May 02, 2008. You can read more about the crash through the below site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7380412.stm

Some months after the burial of my father, my uncle conspired with my step mother and sold my father's properties to a Chinese Expatriate. On a faithful morning I opened my father's briefcase and found out document which my beloved late father used and deposit money in a Bank in Burkina Faso , with my name as the next of kin. I travelled to Burkina Faso to withdraw the money so that I can start a better life and take care of myself. The Branch manager of the Bank whom I met in person told me that my present status does not permit me by the local law to clear money or make a transfer of money into an account, he advice me to provide a trustee who will help me and invest the money or I should wait till when I will get married it demand by their Authority.

I have chosen to contact you after my prayers and I believe that you will not betray my trust. But rather take me as your own blood sister and help me. Though you may wonder why I am so soon revealing myself to you without knowing you, well, I will say that my mind convinced me that you are the true person to help me. More so, I will like to disclose much to you if you can help me to relocate to your country because my uncle has threatened to assassinate me. The amount is $5.6 Million and I have confirmed from the bank in Burkina Faso . You will also help me to place the money in a more profitable business venture in your Country.

However, you will help by recommending a nice University in your country so that I can complete my studies. It is my intention to compensate you with 10% of the total money for your services and the balance shall be my capital in your establishment As soon as I receive your interest in helping me, I will put things into action immediately. In the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness to handle this transaction sincerely. Please do keep this only to your self. I beg you not to disclose it till i come over because I am afraid of my wicked uncle who has threatened to kill me.

Sincerely yours
Maria Justin Yak

Or example 2:

- Good day,I am working with one of the prime bank here in Burkina Faso, can you help me repatriate the sun of (5.5 million dollar) to your oversea account based on percentage.(1)full name....(2) occupation.....(3) private email address/phone number......(4) name your commision.......(5) your age and sex.....,If you can sponsor this project, consider this and get back at us as soon as possible,with the following information,Finally, it is our humble prayer that the information as contained herein is accorded the necessary attention, urgency as well as the secrecy it deserves. I need not to emphasize the confidentiality of this issue and I therefore appeal to you not to discuss this request with anybody, even if you decline to take full advantage of this great and urgent opportunity in my bank. Respectfully Yours,JosephDouglas.Kindly reply through my private email if interest is shown:josephdouglas@voila.fr

Since I have online bussiness, and my e-mail is public, I receive such e-mails everyday, several of them, from Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Kenya, Sri Lanka, ...etc, only the names are different.
I remember 14 years ago, such offers were sent by ordinary postal service (as letters) on addresses of various companies.
The story is always similar - transfer of big amount of "easy money".

But, what really happens when you accept the offer?

One my client accepted some very alike bussiness offer, only she was promissed big credit not percentage of invesment, but story was the same...
For receiving such big amounts of money you need to pay INSURANCE for it and all various expenses and taxes which normally or "suddenly" occur in transaction. So, before "recieving"; your non-existing big money, you need to pay a lot of money. Which you need to send on various accounts which hoaxers give you. The end of story is, that after paying for "insurance" various fees "for transfer", various "taxes", promissed millions of dollars - never arrive.

My client sold her appartment and her Mother´s house before she realized that her several-millions-of-dollars-big-credit will never arrive. She was not stupid woman, on the contrary, but she thought that she needed such big credit for her bussiness ideas, and she believed even when there was no logic in that. Before she entered into that hell, she met her hoaxers on several bussiness meetings and one of them got personally involved with her - they started "romantic relationship", After that, it was very easy to manipulate with her, because all her natural suspiscions - were gone, she trusted him completely and believed in all his fake stories about sudden complications, delays, extra expenses and new fees which allegedly occured on the way to realisation of her big foreign credit. She was in that game for 2 years.

We all need money, sometimes need it so much, that such offers can produce mental and financial chaos in the lives of even very cautious ones, if accepted..

The same is with "lottery winnings". Since being on Internet, I received so many times anouncments about winning millions of dollars on lottery, that up till now I would be the richest person in the world, if this was true. The funniest thing is, that I do not even play lottery. I just do not have that type of "gambling gene" for money.

Some of these lottery e-mails ask from you your name, address and bank account number, and suddenly you get involved in paying various fees and taxes in order to recive your non-existing winning. Some other, lottery e-mails, maybe more harmless, just lead you to another website to play lottery.

I will not discuss the moral issues of this topic, because humans earn money on all possible ways, a lot of them are just not "moral":

• Even if our work is in the niche wich harms the others living beings, or is destructive for environment, this is not moral, and so many jobs involve that practise - directly or indirectly.
• If we ask for free services or goods somebody who on that way earns for living, is also not moral, etc.

In this world of ours, the way how people earn money is very relative and here I will not judge anything.

These all hoaxes are connected with the problem of "survival" and "earning the big money on the most easiest way possible", what majority of people subconsciously or consciously dream off. The fraudsters and victims basicaly want the same: easy money.

Fraudsters spend a lot of time and energy to hoax the people, so even their money is not so easy as it looks like. They also need to change the tactics, amounts, percentage, names in their "bussiness offers", in order to attract new people so all that offers must look more "real". They also take risk to be caught and prosecuted by law, which happens sooner or later. In games like that, at the end, winns nobody.

But YOU and ME winn every time when we DELETE such e-mails.

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