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I would like to raise capital to activate account in London, I have about $59 million to work with once accounts activated. Once I deposit the fee the account will be active and I will be able to use the $59M to grown my business. How can I raise the $100K needed to activate the account?
Folks, this is a good time to issue a warning. I see emails like this all the time. Usually they are from the person who has $59M that he would like to invest in an American business, but occasionally they are from the eager unknowing American Entrepreneur.
This looks like a scam. Do NOT believe anyone who says that they want to give you $59M (or any other outrageous amount) because you are a trusted source. I don’t care if it’s the former prince of some country whose father was the former finance minister who was killed and the son is it jail and needs your $5000 to get $50 million out of the country. Believe me – it’s a scam.
These scams have been floating around the internet for years and people get suckered into them all the time. You put in $5000, then there is some issue you have do take care of and it requires another $3000. Then you have to bribe some official and its another $4000 – you gotta spend it, cause you will lose your first $8000 if you don’t! By the time they are done with you, you’re broke – and they are gone. There is no way to track them down.
The story always changes – pleas for help, trusted source for investment, some former official dead or in jail – but the end result is always the same. Don’t believe it and certainly don’t give out your bank account info to anyone!
Since we’re on the subject, here’s another unrelated annoying scam. Pass this email to all your friends and Bill Gates will give you a dollar for each email so he can test his new email tracking program. That’s been around for years! I couldn’t believe anyone even paid attention to this (until I got one from my sister the other day...) You will not get a dollar – all it does is create a giant spam list of all your friends!
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