Online Conmen And Their Cons

James had just lost 12, 000 dollars over online fraud. Earlier on, he had received an email inviting him to participate on a money transfer, with the partners to the transfer promising to pay him a 5% of the total money transferred from their countries to his bank account. Never realizing the trick, James was asked to give his bank account details so that the partners could channel the money to his bank. He was also required to pay to the partners' bank a sum of 12, 000 dollars that could cater for the transaction expense, which was said to be on the 5% percent ratio of the sharing; the partners were said to have paid the other 95%. After the payment, the partners got lost and the transaction never took place!

A beautiful girl calling herself Sandra emailed my cousin inviting him to attend a conference organized in the United States. The conference was said to be for young people who are either looking for developing skills in disaster management and thereafter the conference that could talk more on how best to incorporate Africans in the fight against the HIV menace could proceed in South America. The traveling expenses to the conference were catered for but my cousin and his colleges were asked to have traveling requirements such as the visa and passport. After they had been helped to acquire the visa, they were supposed to pay a booking fee to the hotel they were going to stay in, which fee was 500 dollars per person and they were ten of them. Having parted with the 5000 dollars, they were informed that they such a conference was never organized by anybody.

Similar conmen exist in the offer for jobs. Personally I received a job offer to work in a Canadian hotel which work could include having sex with tourists at a fee of over 1000 dollars per month. The job was being offered to not more than fifteen of us, and we are required to have our passports and traveling visas ready. Before I could get fully involved, I was told by a colleague that such jobs did not exist, and maybe the hotel itself was a nonexistent one.
Online conmen exist in variety of ways as just mentioned. Some come as business partners who would want you to get involved in being a caretaker of their businesses located in your country, others are out to look to the ignorant, promising that your lottery number has won you a lot of dollars (in millions of dollars) and that you have to, through the lottery certified bank, pay for expenses for transferring you the money and the affidavit. Some conmen will come to you as beautiful girls looking for a long term relationship who will want you help her manage her huge some of money left to her by a departed friend or relative.

Whether these conmen are genuine or people who are out to ensure that you are robbed of all your money, the advise I have is simple; if you ever receive a phone call, an email, or any website promising millions or thousands of dollars or pounds, the best thing to do is to ignore such a message and never waste your time trying to find out if maybe your luck of overnight wealth has just knocked on the door!