William Simon Dear Friend

I recieved this email which i now know to be one of these advanced fee fraud emails.

I sent the below details off to one of my sources and got this reply

Hi The-corrupter, (name been changed)


It's not identity theft, it's just a common 419 advance fee fraud email.


If you Google Esophageal cancer scams, you will egt all these results for scams:


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&clie ... tnG=Search


Basically, the scammer tells you they are dying of cancer, they have millions of dolalrs and can you help to distribute the millions to charities, and take 20% for yourself for your help, of course, there will be many advance fees that need paying in order to release the non existant money, fee after fee after fee, hence why it's called advance fee fraud.


Regards,


Scam Patroller



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Dear friend

I am william simon,i decided to contact you alone directly.
I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer .It has defied
all forms of medical treatment, and Right now, I have only
about a few months to live and I want you to Distribute my
funds eighteen million dollars $18,000,000(united states
dollars) to charities.

i have set aside 20% for you and your family reply me
via my private email address below:

Email:[email protected]

Regards

Mr: William Simon

the-corrupter: You're correct, that is a common example of advance fee fraud. Thank you for posting it here. If a potential victim searches that name and email address, he or she will be lead here and be able to identify it as a scam.

I'm not sure if you realize this or not, but the person who gave you advice, Scam Patroller, is an admin of this site.

ha ha no you are correct i didn't know that but a massive thankyou to scam patroller for that information.

I am glad that any information i post here will help prevent someone being scammed as that is my intention.

I have been looking through my emails and have a few that have been identified as scams by my first contact i got to kind of know and frquently pass on information to him of possible fraud and scams as to which i will not name him on the boards if thats ok but if any admin or moddy etc would like to know feel free to pm me.

I am going to copy some of the scams that have been identified to myself on the boards so as you mentioned if anyone searches for that name or email address they will see it on here and prevnt them from being scammed