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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 10 Oct 2015 Posts: 3

I have received a letter from a Fatima Aziz but the header shows the following email.

[email protected]

She is telling me she is a barrister in Dubai and she is holding $15,500,000 on behalf of a deceased client who shares my name. She's asking for my details so we can split it 50/50.

What's my next move, someone has my personal email, or a bot has, so I'm a little nervous of replying directly.

Advice please...

Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:39 am

Hello KT,

The Scammer has your personal information. Delete it.

If you would like to bait a Scammer, open a new email account just for baiting. gmail is widely considered as a good choice. Then, head over to our Surplus emails Forum and pick any of those. Just copy and paste the email body into your own 'Compose' field and respond as if it was sent to you. The Scammer probably won't know or care. They just want your money

If at some stage, you decide that ScamBaiting is for you and you have the time and inclination to commit to learning how to bait effectively, you might then consider applying for a Mentor.

Good Luck! Cool

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 10 Oct 2015 Posts: 3

Suddenly the penny drops.
Thanks TM.

Baiting Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2010 Posts: 3876

in virtually any of those scams, the next few steps are:

please send your passport and fill out that form (just a few questions, name, birthdate, sex, address... because the scammer doesn't know any of those things).

then the scammer tells you, that they can proceed and you will receive your money shortly. ooops, there is a fee to pay (attorney, documents, bribe...)

if the victim pays that initial fee, some other problem occurs (attorney, document, bribe...).

in the past, the lads went directly to western union or money gram and it was difficult to get them to a bank transfer (enabling us to report the bank account), nowadays they often deliver bank accounts.

the strategy is simple: report it and tell the lad, that the bank manager told you that something didn't work with that bank account and you need another one. more experienced baiters have anti terrorist or anti money laundry forms for the lads (and having lads to fill out forms is always good).

at some point, the lad may drop you: new address, rinse and repeat (you already know his script, and if the lad provides you with entirely new bank accounts, you get a feedback about the successrate of your bank-account-reports (sometimes, lads will tell you on their own, that the bank account was closed due to some bogus reason, like maintenance or something else... the lad is in panic, in this case, it's a good idea to tell the lad that the transfer went through without any problems).

there are plenty of ideas on this board, dollar chops and so... Smile