Is this a true one or scam?

FROM THE DESK OF MR.IAHARTAR MOMODU,



DIRECTOR IN CHARGE OF AUDITING



AND ACCOUNTING SECTION



BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)



OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO,



WEST AFRICA,















Dear Friend,







STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL



I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never met before. I am the Director in charge of Auditing section of Bank of African (B.O.A), I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of Ten million united state dollars ($10.000mUSD) immediately to your account.







The fund has been dormant (in-active) for 5 years in our Bank here without any body coming for it. I want to apply for release of the fund to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer Mr. George Brumley Jr from Atlanta America (the owner of the account) who died a long with his supposed next of kin in air crash since on July 21 2003. I don't want the fund to go into our Bank treasury as an abandoned fund, so this is the reason why I contacted you, so that my Bank will release the fund to you as the nearest person to the deceased customer. view the website for more information about the deceased.(http://www.sptimes.com/2003/07/21/Worldandnation/12_Americans_die_in_K.shtml)







Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you the application form you will fill and send to the bank for transfer of the fund into your bank account and also note that you will have 40% of the above mentioned amount if you agree to help me execute this business. And also 10% had been mapped out for you for the expense you will make in this transaction and 50% is for me. I need your information so that I will send you the application form.











YOUR FULL INFORMATIONS







Your Name.



Your Home Addresses.



City.



Country.



Home Telephone.



Private Telephone.



Fax No.



Marital Status.



Age.



Occupation.



Religion.



Your picture.







Waiting for your urgent reply so that we will starts immediately,







Best Regards,



MR.IAHARTAR MOMODU (B.O.A) BANK OF AFRICAIs this a true one or scam?
100% scam.



There is no banker at some overseas bank who suddenly found a domant account with millions yet can't find a single relative of the account owner who managed to die suddenly in a plane/train/car accident or whatever natural disaster was just on the world news and didn't leave a will. Now this highly educated executive who writes like an 8 year old, must have a foreign partner to help him move this newly discovered wealth to any bank in any other country before his government seizes the cash.



There is only one scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money by using a fake story, stolen pictures, stolen information on a natural disaster and copied links from a legit website, all while pretending to be several different people all with free email addresses.



The next email was from one of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "minister/banker/barrister" and has demanded you pay for made-up money transfer, document, certificate, stamp and bank fees, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.



Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.



Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.



You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.



Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.



Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.



If you google "fake next-of-kin scam", "fraud inheritance bank Western Union scam", "fake Ghana refugee scam", "fraud romance scammer" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
You don't get anything for nothing, , it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information

http://www.snopes.com/

http://www.scambusters.org/

please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be carefulIs this a true one or scam?
That's a Nigerian scam. I've seen at least 50 other letters referencing the same plane crash and same type of situation. Stuff like that is always a scam.
SCAM, SCAM Delete it.Is this a true one or scam?
S-C-A-M
yeah its a scam. mark as spam
100% SCAM



Delete it - it's a scam to STEAL your money and identity



Why are you opening emails from people you don't know. NEVER open emails like this - they are all scams and often infected with viruses



NOBODY is going to contact you about anything important by email



And WHY would they ask you for all that information??? If this were real wouldn't they already know your name, address, etc? I mean how did they find you if they didn't even have the most basic information about you