: Paying someone to give me money I have someone that wants to bless me with a large amount of money. I am working on a project. But I see some red flags they want to send me cash in a package. They have been trying to send

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Let's ignore the fact that there is nobody in Africa who wants to bless you with a large amount of money.

Let's say I have £800,000 in my UK bank account, and I want you to have a million dollars.

I can tell my bank "Please put a million dollars into Mascheria's bank account". They will do that and charge me one million converted to pound, plus all fees.

Or I can tell my bank "Here's £800,000, please put as much money as you can into Mascheria's bank account". They will do that, it will cost me exactly £800,000, and you will have a million dollar plus or minus a bit in your account.

Or the first scenario, but the bank tells me "there are 0 in fees to pay", so I tell the bank to put 9,900 into your bank account.

In neither case do you have to pay any fees first. So yes, this is a scam. This happens more often with lotteries. Most lotteries pay out the money, and pay all the fees. Some lotteries pay out the money minus fees. No genuine lottery ever asks you to pay to get your winnings. If they ask you to pay, it's a scam.

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If someone you don't know wants to give you money for nothing of value in return but expects you to pay for it first, they are trying to pull an advance fee scam on you.

When you realize that someone is trying to scam you, then the wisest course of action is to simply stop responding to them. They will just give up after a while. Scam baiting sounds like a fun hobby, but it can become a lot less fun when the scammers start to make credible threats of physical violence.