An email supposedly from Mark Watson but his email address is revjones5050@… So, he has a split personality. Then he tells you to contact Reverend Jones and gives a new email address.

“My Good Friend, I’m happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay. Presently I am in Paraguay for investment projects with my own Share of the total sum. Mean while, I didn’t forget your past efforts and Attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed Us some how. Now contact my confidential secretary as i stated below and he send you your check for $2,500,000.00 which I kept for your compensation.”

The email goes on but you can see the story.

Now, is this just a phishing message and contacting Rev Jones will simply lead to a request for lots of personal information which the scammer then sells to other criminals?

Or maybe it’s the start of a 419 scam where they keep you on the line expecting the big cheque and in the meantime there are small sums for you to pay to get that cheque released, but it never happens.

Who knows.

Either way it’s just a basic scam and the poor grammar and whole setup of the message suggests the scammer is trying to find greedy idiots.

No one in their right mind would think an email from someone you’ve never heard of but promises to pay you $2.5 million for your previous help could possibly be true.

A common scam.

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