Colorado Attorney General
Ken Salazar
Better Business BureausÒ
Serving Colorado
Foreign Money Offer Scams Beware!
The offer comes by email, letter or fax. The author is a high-ranking person in a foreign country. You're offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The author, stressing privacy, wants your help to move a large sum of money out of his country. All you have to do is to allow him to transfer millions of dollars into your bank account. You are left open to numerous fraudulent bank account withdrawals.
- You receive many official-looking documents. (They're forgeries.)
- You are urged to travel to a foreign country.
- You must pay a number of fees to "process" the transaction. Each time you're told that is the last fee required.
- To accept, you must send your bank account number.
- You're given the impression you are the only one getting this special offer. (Actually millions of these emails are sent every day.)
- You are promised huge returns for what looks like an easy thing to do.
If you have already lost money in one of these schemes, contact the Secret Service and ask where to send your documentation or call AARP ElderWatch.