sending money due to scam

I've received an email from a source from Nigeria saying that I have to send them $98 in order for them to send me my money in the amount of $100,000. Well, I haven't send any money yet...until I'm sure enough that this is not a scam...help????

Sounds like your typical Scam.....im sure they want you to send this western union! Why you need to send them money to get money???

Exactly!  Never use Western Union unless it's to send money to a family member or someone you trust and know well.

Please see:
http://www.onguardonline.gov/articles/0002l-nigerian-email-scam
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/moneymatters/jobs-wealth-building.shtml
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/advancefee/nigeria.asp
http://www.419eater.com/html/419faq.htm

It is a scam, and has it's roots going back as far as the 1920's.
There is a warning in every Western Union office that tells you it is a scam.
Do not send them any money or funds.

Red flags:

• An email from a source from Nigeria 

• A request to send them $98 in order for them to send money for some so called amount (usually in the hundreds of thousands)

This is a typical form of the Nigerian email advance fee fraud scam:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam

http://www.419eater.com/

"Does somebody want to transfer millions of dollars into your account?
Does someone want to pay you to cash cheques and send them the money?
Met a new friend/penpal on a friendship/dating site who's asking you for money?
Has a dying person contacted you wanting your help to give his money to charity?
Have you sold an item and are asked to accept a payment larger than the item amount?

IT'S A SCAM!"

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/advancefee/nigeria.asp

"Here's how it works: Letters (or, nowadays, e-mail messages) postmarked from Nigeria (or Sierra Leone, or the Ivory Coast, or almost any other foreign nation) are sent to addresses taken from large mailing lists. The letters promise rich rewards for helping officials of that government (or bank, or quasi-government agency or sometimes just members of a particular family) out of an embarrassment or a legal problem. Typically, the pitch includes mention of multi-million dollar sums, with the open promise that you will be permitted to keep a startling percentage of the funds you're going to aid in squirreling away for these disadvantaged foreigners."

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/nigerian-scams.html

And like crookbusta has said unless it's a family member, relative or someone else you know and TRUST ... NEVER ever send anyone money through Western Union, MoneyGram or any other unsecure and untraceable method! These 419/Nigerian email scammers are notorious for using such means!

Just delete the damned email, it's trash anyway!!!

Western Union is CASH. NEVER use Western Union for anything other than a friend (a REAL one), or relative. Anyone you just meet by phone, internet, or email, who wants you to use it, is a crook! Get more intormation here-

http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/view.php?pg=fw_western_union

Add to that the "Green Dot Moneypak" cards.  If you are asked to buy one and send the number... it is definitely a scam.

Yes, definitely add the green dot money card scam to that too! It's most definitely one people should be well aware of and avoid as well.

Here's some info regarding that particular scam:

http://www.radioiowa.com/2012/11/15/better-bu ... ypak-card-scam/

http://www.scambusters.org/greendot.html

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-07-09/b ... rds-con-artists

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/06/23/beware ... cid=dsk_df_news

It's yet one variation! These scammers will usually ask you to get a green dot card at CVS or other well known pharmacy before you can get the so called 'winning' (which you'll never see because it doesn't exist!) Sometimes it's connected with those fake PCH Sweepstakes emails too!

No stranger will ever send you some supposed winnings especially out of the blue! Life just doesn't work that way!!!

It is a scam...I already done that misstake. I got card and they took the money and then had the nerve to call me back and say I used the card...they had Indin accents with american names...like charles jones...when I asked about there real names they hung up and blocked all 3 of my phone numbers....but I look at it  this way It was my first and last time..and if they could get me that easy, I must have been very hard up and stressed for the money to pay bills, so now I listen and read everything..hope you will to and don't try to barrow money under stress.