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Banks in HongKong is asking me to come there and pays more than 7,000 us dollars as taxes for the money I inherited to Mr rafik Hariri from Barclays Bank in London the amount is 36 million pounds from a person who contacted me thru email only saying that Mr Hariri has no Beneficiary.Pls advise me what to do ? Is this a scam from Internet what puzzled me is people from the bank who doesn't confirm nor deny it This is a "dead customer" scam, one of the main varieties of the 419 scam / advance fee fraud. Most of the scam emails of this type are sent from Nigeria, no matter where they claim to be based. The real Rafik Hariri was a Lebanese politician murdered by Syrian agents. His name is used in Nigerian 419 scams as are names of many other politicians in mostly third world countries, from Sani Abacha of Nigeria to Yassir Arafat of Palestine. The object of the scam is to get you to send cash to the criminals. They will claim there are legal fees to be paid, notaries, affidavits, inheritance taxes, bank fees, etc. The total amount demanded (piece by piece) could amount to tens of thousands of dollars. The inheritance doesn't exist, therefore you'll never see the promised millions. Any money sent by Western Union is totally untraceable once it has been picked up. All emails are sent from Internet cafes using free webmail accounts, all phone numbers are prepaid mobile phones. Even if this inheritance offer was not an advance fee scam it would be illegal. To claim an inheritance even though you're no next of kin or beneficiary of a will is fraud. If this inheritance wasn't totally made up (to steal from you) then you could go to prison for this. If you receive any such emails, check them out using the "Scam-O-Matic" online form a http://www.scamomatic.com which will give you instant feedback. Source(s): http://www.fraudwatchers.org http://www.scamomatic.com This is one of the biggest if not the biggest internet scams going around. Never send money to anyone you don't know who just contacts you out of the blue. The 'Inheritance Scam' is just one of many. Generally, anything that sounds too good to be true...*IS*! In all seriousness this is almost certainly a fraud. I know it can be hard to accept but do not build your hopes up. There has been a history of such e-mails based on Mr Rafik Hariri and you can find one such e-mail by following this link: http://www.scamorama.com/hariri.html... Think logically and please don't endorse this in any way. All the best. www.scamorama.com Every body gets such spam mails, but when you put some questions to remove your own doubts for your satisfaction, they won't give reply to the specific questions. The man knows what happened only when he is cheated for a big money spent from his own pocket and gets nothing or even gets jail for having supported such frauds. They are not sending such mails to a single person, but to thousands at a time. Ans some people of course become their prey. |
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