Seems that the Grand Daddy of online scams is still very much alive and kicking gullible, gold-bedazzled gobblers hard in the waddle. Scambusters reports that the Financial Crimes Division of the US Secret Service receives approximately 100 telephone calls from victims/ potential victims and 300-500 pieces of related correspondence per day about this scam! The scam artists aim to delude the victim into thinking that this is a unique offer to participate in a very lucrative -- although morally questionable -- arrangement.

The NG Advance Fee Scheme mostly targets SMEs, as well as charities. This fraud (recently encountered in Russia, Australia, New Zealand and the US), involves the receipt of an unsolicited letter, wherein an NG citizen claims to be a senior civil servant or hail from a similarly exalted position and informs the recipient that he is seeking a reputable foreign company into whose account he can deposit funds usually over $10 million, which the NG govt. overpaid on some procurement contract. Terrible business, delete any such emails and whatever you do, NEVER, EVER get involved!