Has anyone had any experience dealing with possible fraudulent foreign oil companies?

[chris_pacino]

I just got this e-mail from a Petroch Oil Company stating that they are willing to pay me 550,000 U.S. dollars for helping them out in something. I looked up their company but cant find any info about them. They gave me a phone number for the CEO's secretary and his secretaries yahoo address which says its in France. Is this a scam or what?

[Later Me]

Yes. Ignore or report any emails you get that say they have money for you, its just a lie. I tend to get them from oil companies out of Nigeria and other African countries. I will also get stories about how a persons rich husband or father died in a airline crash and they need help distributing his estate and that you have a large share waiting if you reply and help. They will even paste a story of a real plane crash to make it look legitimate. These are all cons and criminals, when in life does money fall in your lap like that unless it is a lottery where you actually bought a ticket and can see the numbers on tv or in the paper. And any company that uses a yahoo address for their business is most likely not real, the scams and lies are endless, watch out.

[FREAKZILLA]

thats a new one , i get the nigeria plane crash all the time