I am Rich

I am rich beyond my wildest dreams. All I have to do is answer one of those e-mails from the Ivory coast, Nigeria, Liberia, or a similar African nation. Once I have given my personal information including my bank account, I will receive untold riches. Yesterday, I was told that some money was being held under the auspices of the United Nations as proposed by Kofiee Anan, (apoligize for the possibly incorrect spelling) former Secretary General of the United Natins.

How do these people find the e-mail addresses and why is there such a surge in postings? There must be people who are naive enough to respond otherwise these e-mails would not persist. How can people be so gullible?

One of my e-mail accounts receives on average 5 postings a day. I am tempted to go and set up a bank account with $5 in it and wait and see how long it takes for the money to be removed. I am not likely to do this because I really do not want to reveal more personal information about myself to absolute strangers and then discover that I have become victim to the other rising crime, identity theft.

The other scam which seems to be on the rise right now is false postings by supposed financial institutions. I need to respond to the e-mail and verify my account information. Wonder how long it would take the scam artist to remove the funds in the account and proceed to pretend to be me and absolutely destroy my financial credibility?

Amazing that these schemes work!