Fraud or not: a stranger wants to transfer a lot of money to me
I have recently received an email from a stranger that says she wants to send me a big deal of money for some specific reason and she said that she has talked to the bank (Banque Atlantique Groupe Lome Togo) and she gave me a phone number and an email address so that I contact the bank and follow the procedure that is required for the money to be transferred to me. Now after I emailed the bank, they replied with this:
To enable us process and transfer the fund to the bank account you
will be sending to us, the pdf attachment file contain copy of
Identification/Transfer Processing Form E-27. Which you have to
carefully fill and return to this bank with the required processing
fee US,750.00 (One Thousand, Seven Hundred & Fifty United States
Dollars).
Upon the receipt of the required fee, we shall appoint one of our bank
accredited attorney to stand as your legal representative here since
you are not here in person, so that he can help you to secure the
transfer approval from the authorized ministry here before we shall
process and transfer the fund to the bank account you will be
submitting to this bank.
How can I make sure this is not a fraud and how can I be secure?
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Anyone who contacts you out of the blue and says they want to give you money is a scammer.
Anytime someone says they have a lot of money for you but you have to pay some money to get it (a fee, or tax, or a bribe, or a courier charge) it is a scam.
There is no free lunch. Anybody giving you money without expecting anything in return (except your parents or trusted friends) is doing fraud. The messages can be duplicated. If they are so eager to give you money why processing charges, delivery charges, transfer charges etc. My advise is please don't rush by seeing a lot of money otherwise you'll be out of 1750/-
It is a fraud/scam.
No stranger wants to give you money. If they are rich they should be paying the transfer fee. But they expect you to pay in advance.
You used the contact info the stranger gave you to verify what the stranger said. Of course the people at the other end verified it, they are in on it.
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