Nigerian Spam

Steve rosen recently received an e-mail from 14-year old child named Edward Hunt, who was looking for someone "honest and old enough" to help him collect on an inheritance.

Here the story starts of young Edward's story. He then went on to write about how his father owned a "big real estate company" in the UK and had deposited $18 million in his bank account before being killed a year ago in a car accident. "I should have told my mother to assist me in collecting," Edward wrote,"...but my mother and father where (sic) divorced before my father died, and my father told me not to keep in touch with my mother."

That's why he needed help, or more to the point, my bank account number so the $18 million could be transferred to it. In return, I would receive 30 percent of the money, with the rest going to support young Edward of Manchester, England.

And so he wanted help and Steve's account number so that $18 million could be transferred to it. For this, Edward would pay 30 percent of the money to Steve. Steve could figure out that it was a scam. Among the red flags: misspelled words, someone needing help from a complete stranger, an urgent reply required, and so on.