BEagle your naivity surpasses you
It is amazing how greed or desparateness can over come common sense. But that is what scams rely on.
The list looks like this
Property Investment:
Would-be investors are persuaded to invest thousands of pounds in non-existent building or buy-to-let schemes, often in other countries.
Non-Existent Credit:
Those searching for credit are promised loans regardless of their credit history in return for a one-off 'insurance' fee. Adverts typically appear in local newpapers. Invariably, the loan doesn't appear in these advance-fee scams.
Investment Schemes:
Shares or commodity-related investments such as gold or fine wine are promoted, in most cases through unsolicited phone calls. The investments may exist but are worth less than you pay for them and are virtually unsellable.
Telephone Lotteries:
Consumers are told they have won a lottery prize, usually via unsolicited mail or a telephone call, but they must first send money to cover 'taxes' and 'processing' fees.
Premium Rate Telephone Numbers:
Callers give victims instructions to dial a number (premium rate and usually prefixed 090) to claim a non-existent prize.
Advance Fee Fraud:
A letter, email or fax is received, ostensibly from a foreign country such as Nigeria, offering a share of a large sum of money if the recipient's bank details are provided. The idea is that the fraudster will use your account to transfer the money out of his/her country.
Pyramid Schemes:
One of the oldest scams, which promises rewards dependent on the number of new people the victim can recruit to the scheme.
Matrix Schemes:
High-tech gadgets are offered as 'free' gifts if the consumer spends a smaller sum, say £20, on a low-value item. The purchaser is told that they will receive a higher-value gadget after a certain number of others join the scheme, too. Most receive nothing.
Business Opportunity Scams:
Communicated by newspaper adverts and requiring upfront investment in a business that has little, or no chance of success. The chance to work from home in return for the purchase of required materials is a common factor.
As one can see not all scams orginate in West Africa
Remember if it is
if it is too good to be true it is dishonest
