As the Internet is becoming more essential to our everyday lives, criminals are also using this medium to try and scam people. I often receive the ‘Nigerian Scam Letter’ in one form or another. My Gmail accept often sends these letters straight to my spam box, but every so often a couple will work their way through to my Hotmail inbox.

The most recent of the scam letters had the subject: “THIS MESSAGE IS NOT A SPAM OR VIRUS (STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL)?”

There was an urgent short message and attached was the JPEG below.

My reply to this was “as a good will gesture could you please send me a cheque for £5000 and then I will proceed”, to which they never replied. Big surprise!

I would love to hear of any similar scams and any good responses to send back to them if any!