For those of you who may be new to the Internet or just haven't seen "Nigerian" scam letters, the letter posted earlier was one of them. They vary greatly in content, creativity, and country, though the bulk of them come from Nigeria. Some have websites, with articles posted making them look very real. Others have a much lower payment, like 100,000 giving them the look of legitimacy. They are all scams, don't respond to the email. In addition, they're not worth losing sleep over. I've tried to report them in the past and the email addresses are gone so quickly even the government has little interest in pursuing them. By the way, when they get a sucker to bite, they get your banking information from you. Instead of finding some nice deposit in your account however, you will find it emptied out. While I'm off-topic and on the scam subject, you should also be very wary of emails that want to verify your information for AOL, yahoo, ebay, etc. It is generally good policy to ignore the link in the email and go directly to their website. Minimally, check to make certain that the address bar in your browser reads aol.com, ebay.com, etc. These emails are designed to dupe you into giving information to them for identity theft.
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