by ShortyGU12

Created on: March 26, 2009

We've all received them in our e-mail inbox; some sort of e-mail from a lawyer in Hong Kong, a European country, or an African country claiming that someone died and they had no relatives but listed you as a beneficiary and would like for you to contact them back.

The question you ask yourself is: Do I or don't I reply? Hopefully at the end of this article the decision will be simple.

In a quick and simple answer, it's No. Why? Because you can't stop someone from e-mailing others.

How does it start? It starts with someone randomly e-mailing random people the same exact e-mail to an extremely large number of people out there in the world. The body of the e-mail says the exact same thing and it tries to get as many people to reply as possible.

What happens if someone replies? Then the person who e-mailed them will start asking for personal details; bank account numbers, where they reside, and so on. In the usual black money scams, they will tell the person (known to the law as the victim) that there's a trunk of money that has been made black for some reason (they will give you a reason that sounds legitimate) and that only a certain cleaning solution they produce will clean it. They could have a website up which sells the cleaning product to look legitimate. They might even ask in excess of $100,000 from the victim to buy the chemical but the question the victim should ask is: If you produce it then why do I need to pay you so much?

The possible names of the cleaning solution may be listed below:

S.S.D Solution

Vectrol Paste,

Tebi-manetic

Humine Powder

The cleaning solution can be anything from a household cleaning product, crushed Vitamin C tabs mixed with water to raspberry juice but the con person doesn't tell the victims that.

A man from Ghana who brought his story public about how he conned a lot of people out of money by using the Black Money Scam. He told the news that what happens is that the con person will coat the real money in Elmer's glue and then dip it in a solution of tincture iodine and then allow the bills to dry. After they've dried, it looks black and feels like construction paper. Someone else used Vaseline as the protective coating instead of Elmer's glue.

If the victim becomes weary of the con person via e-mails about paying all these "fees" then the con person will invite the victim out to see the trunk. If the victim agrees, this is when they ask for the money for the cleaning solution because they will ask the victim to choose a random stack of

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