by Idowu Daniel
)If the mail is sent through a free e-mail account and other contacts of the senders are not given appropriately.
2)If the e-mail is addressed to the Nigerian 'President' or "CEO" rather than a specific name.
3)The e-mail may contain spelling mistakes and grammatical errors which give you a sense of intellectual superiority, sympathy, or assurance of origin.
4)The amount of dollars on offer will invariably be in tens of millions and it will be written in text form, that is, $58,000,000 USD (Fifty-eight million United States Dollars). This is done to captivate the reader.
5)They talk about your integrity and confirming your verification. They also talk about your honesty or business acumen.
6)There is always urgency in the mail or deadline dates. All this is just to give you little time to decide and also for them to look so serious about the business offer, as if they have other alternatives.
7)The scam e-mail content may include the following,
a)Conversion of money or money laundering
b)Sales of crude oil or other commodities at below- market prices
c)Transfer of accounts of now defunct companies
d)Purchase of real estate.
Watch out for all this tips in the e-mail sent to you. It will help you against e-mail scams.
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