who ican call to repport a scam,specially if the scamer have all my information as power of attorney and more?
i received an email saying i won 0,000 us dollars from yahoo lottery in china ,they give me number to call wish i did then the agent has email me the funds are at payee industrial and commercial bank of china and provide with another phone number to call the man in division of the money transfer ,after i called him he provided me with a lawyer that suppose to do the paper work to pay tax on the funds before he will be able to transfer me my winning price ,so i got in touch with the firm and they ask me to pay them 7,500 us dollars via western union ,and emailed me a power of attorney plus the man at the bank ask me to email him copy of my drivers license,i called him saying i can not afford to pay the lawyer all that money ,so he said he is gonna meds online without prescription help me to apply for a loan to pay and when the lawyer present to the bank the tax paper work the loan will be deducted from the price,so did sign all the papers via email , i receive nothing and they have all my information , & i ‘m worry
There are many Nigerian scams that are showing up nowadays. Please read the following carefully:
Another new popular scam is the lottery scam:
You can contact the U.S. Secret Service via email at http://www.secretservice.gov.
There is no Overseas Lottery International, YAHOO & MSN Lotteries, Yahoo online dept., UK (United Kingdom) Lottery, Netherlands Lottery, British Lottery, Thunderball Online Lottery in the UK, Australian Lottery, Spanish Lottery, Yahoo Lottery Microsoft Lottery (emmulating from the UK or anywhere else) or any other form of lottery you can win without buying a ticket. While some people might only copy and paste such email to their answer with a brief take on it, I will go into detail because I’m tired of this trash, as several of my friends have lost their a$$es to this scam. This is about as far away from legitimate as anything can get, whether it be a contest, promotion, or whatever.
There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades.
The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. If you even reply, you risk having your email inbox flooded. If you call these people, expect to be harrassed over the phone at all hours of the night! In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings in Nigeria are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy.
By the way, I have kind of become an anti-scam activists due to the fact that I have many friends who have had their identities and life savings stolen from them via these methods.
This is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question.
If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud. You can also read more about this at http://www.secretservice.gov and http://www.419eater.com!
If you have lost money you should report it to the U.S. Secret Service at http://www.secretservice.gov
Now you know the basics of Advance Fee Fraud, a multi-million dollar industry that costs honest people their life savings everyday. Be happy you weren’t duped by this scam!
I hope this is helpful, because I could sure use a best answer! I would appreciate it!
By now you should know not to fall for scams like that. If this story is FOR REAL, then GO TO THE POLICE!
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I don’t think you are serious. I think you are having us on. I didn’t think there was anybody else left in the world who would fall for scams like that. Almost every time I go to a website I see where I am the 99999th person to have signed on and what I will win. I simply click it off. Scams like these come from Nigeria as well.
You know what they say? You can’t scam an honest person. Did you buy a lottery in China? If so, why China? As I said though, I think you are just having us on.
Contact your bank and the police right now.
go to your bank, and talk to someone to make sure no one accesses your accounts. Then contact the three credit reporting agencies, to make sure no one is using your credit. Then contact your district attorney, and if they can not help, they can tell you who can.
The police now, and your bank. Freeze all your accounts, or change your accounts to different ones.
Explain to everyone exactly what you told us.
People get scammed every day. The important thing is to make sure that you keep the bad repercussions to a minimum, and that you don’t let this happen again.
And remember, IF SOMETHING SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT IS!
You were scammed!!!! I would notify ALL credit bureaus and put a fraud alert on your social security number. That way if anything strange shows up, they can flag it and you will not be responsible for it. Any information you gave them, I would change. If you gave bank info, close that account and open another one and notify the bank of the situation. Also, contact the social security office and report that you number maybe used without your permission. You may have to get another number. Also file a report with the police, you wil lneed that for the credit buearu (fraud depart). Good thing is that they just got your information, which you can take care of easily…but with a little hassle, but just think if you would have western unioned them 7500.00….you definitely would not be getting that back. Good Luck….feel free to contact me if you have any more questions.
Next time……hit spam on those emails…….you know none of that stuff is legit…come one!
Oh wow. I’m sorry you got scammed, but couldn’t you see this from 3000 miles away? If you didn’t purchase a lottery ticket, you couldn’t have won the lottery. Now, not only do they have your power of attorney where you authorized a stranger to act on your behalf in all legal and financial matters, they also can easily steal your identity and drain all of your accounts and ruin your credit for years to come. First, contact your bank and all of your financial institutions and alert them that you bit on a phishing line. Close all open accounta that they would have access to, and send letters to all of the credit reporting agencies. Contact the FBI and explain what happened. They have a special dept. now that deals with this type of crime, but don’t expect any arrests or restitution. You’ll be more alert next time, won’t you?
Are F$%^ing retarded? Why would you even think for one minute you would get anything out of this? They call that Phishing and its designed to clean you out, not provide you with something for nothing. Nothing is free and if it sounds too good to be true, it is. I honestly didn’t think there was anyone stupid enough to actually do that. You should be worried. Check into the nearest state hospital for the mentally challenged.