should I report this to someone, and if so who?

Question

FROM THE DESK OF:
DR.HERBERT MWELO
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
CONTRACT REVIEW PANEL
SOUTH AFRICA MINING CORP.
PRETORIA.



REQUEST FOR PARTNERSHIP: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT!

My name is Dr.Herbert Mwelo, I head a Seven-man Tenders Board Committee in
charge of contracts Award, Vetting, Evaluating and payments. I am presently an
accountant with the South Africa Mining Corporation. Your name came highly
remended hence I am contacting you for an Urgent business proposal (please my
apologies for reaching you through this manner). The purpose of this letter to
you is to simplyask your hand in partnership towards the transfer of funds to
the tune of US$41,500M equivalent(Forty-One Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars), into a foreign account that you will provide.

The funds are ready and with your unalloyed cooperation the source of the funds
will be made genuine and legitimate, then the transfer is a 100% hitch-free,
timely and totally legitimate too. Needless to say, you dont have to entertain
any fear as I am quite conversant with all laws governing money transfer or
money laundering of any sort.

We have designed this transaction in such a way that we shall be successful and
its proceed, we shall enjoy with absolute peace of mind even after the
successful completion of it all. If you follow my instruction accordingly and
promptly, this transaction will be completed in at the most 10-14 banking days
from the receipt of what I will require of you. At this time I can not devulge
further information regarding this proposal until there exists an understanding
and trust between us for security reasons. But after receivingthis mail and have
perused through it and you are interested, please do respond back via

email: [e-mail]


If this proposal meet your intrerest, we have decided to give you a negotiable
percentage from the entire sum, hoping that it will be satisfactory. Please send
along your response the following:

-Confidential/Private Tel and Fax number.
-Contact name and address.

Thank you for your much anticipated urgent response.

Respectfully,

Dr.Herbert Mwelo

Answer 1

I do believe on the FBI website they have a place to copy and paste e-mails that are fraudulent like this one.

Answer 2

I've gotten a few like that lately. Never seen them before. I just hit spam.



Be careful with PayPal or Bank emails that seem suspicious. If they ask for account information or anything like that, don't click ANY of the links. PayPal and Fifth Third do have "spoof" e-mail addresses to forward those kinds of messages to, but I don't know if this is totally made up or if it's a spoof of some guy's real business. Who knows? Maybe there really is a Herbert Mwelo with a spoof address for sending fake letters too. But, I doubt it. For these that I cannot relate to any web site I recognize, I just hit spam. If there is any doubt whether it really did come from Pay Pal or Amazon, etc., close the letter and manually open those pages the long way. If it's legitimate, then you'll get the same message when you log in.

Answer 3

I have received tons of these emails. They have been on CNN and other reports warning people against them. I just delete them. Trust me at times they will arrive in numbers. And to think some have actually fallen for this!

Answer 4

Don't send them money, Don't call them (because you may be charged an insane amount of money!!! Do not give them ANY of your personal information!!!

If you receive lottery material from a foreign country, give it to your local postmaster or contact your state attorney general's office or the FTC.

Answer 5

Nah... that's just an old standard african scam email, I've gotten dozens ... forget it!. Your spam filter should have dumped it into the spam folder though...

Answer 6

It's just a scam,lots like that out there delete it.

Answer 7

If you are really worried about it, check your state's Attorney General's office to see if they have a system for reporting online scams.



Otherwise, delete it.

Answer 8

unfortunately,you are your own security.this letter is coming from a small room somewhere.it could be you next door neighbor.just block that mail .and let your friends know it is fake.

Answer 9

This is such a scam. report it as Spam and move on

Answer 10

they a around by the millions, just bounce em back and delete.

Answer 11

It's junk mail, delete!!

Answer 12

that is a scam...i used to get them. just delete it

Answer 13

nothing, just delete it

Answer 14

im not sure