Letters with Offers Too Good to Be True

In the past month, I have received a cashiers check for almost $30,000 and all I need to do were some short surveys. I took the check to the bank, which had seen this ruse before. You deposit the check and are charged back about the half the amount as a “fee.”   Another letter from a bogus law firm offers me a share of an $18,800,000.00 fund deposited in a Canadian bank by the son of a former President of the Republic of Angola. Simply Googling the name of the law firm told me it was bogus.

Had I contacted the signer of the letter, I would have been told that if I deposited “X” amount of money, I could proceed to a share of this wealth.  I suspect the people of Angola would welcome the return of their money, assuming such a deposit even exists.

One cannot take for granted the phone calls or even the offers by mail. The old adage that if “It’s too good to be true” has never been truer – the charlatans are just getting cleverer.