The Hitman - Pay Up or I Will Kill You!

This is a classic - one that continues to surface year in and year out, I guess it's a perennial. We call it 'The Hitman Scam'.

This is a straight forward advanced fee fraud as many are. In this case, the scammer purports to have been hired by a 'friend' of yours to rub you out and will be paid $50,000 to do the deed.

However, having a good social conscious, our friend the scammer has decided to let you live - but you must pay him $80,000 for the privilege if you will give him a $20,000 'down-payment'.

THIS IS WITHOUT A DOUBT A SCAM

The way it will work is after contact is made back with the alleged hitman, he will give you concrete instructions on how to pay him. It will either be through the scammers preferred method - Western Union or perhaps Moneygram. If you do not respond he may make one or more feeble attempts to scare you which often escalates to blood curdling proportions sometimes also saying he will kill your family as well if he is not paid.

As we said before, this is a scam, just delete it after having a chuckle or two and don't worry about the dark shadows or what may be lurking behind those big bushes near your front door.

By the way - the use of language in his email is quite amusing as well. LOL

Good Day,

I want you to read this message very crefully, and keep the secret with you till further notice, You have no need of knowing who i am, where am from,till i make out a space for us to see, i have being paid $50,000.00 in adbance to terminate you with some reasons listed to me by my employer,its one i believe you call a friend,i have followed you closely for one week and three days now and have seen that you are innocent of the accusation,

Do not contact the police or F.B.I or try to send a copy of this to them, because if you do i will know, and might be pushed to do what i have being paid to do,beside this is the first time i turned out to be a betrayer in my job.

Now listen,i will arrange for us to see face to face but before that i need the amount of $80,000.00 and you will have nothing to be afraid of.I will be coming to see you in your office or home dtermine where you wish we meet,do not set any camera to cover us or set up any tape to record our conversation,my employer is in my control now,

You will need to pay $20,000.00 to the account i will provide for you, before we will set our first meeting,after you have make the first advance payment to the account,i will give you the tape that contains his request for me to terminate you, which will be enough evidence for you to take him to court(if you wish to), then the balance will be paid later.

You don't need my phone contact for now till am assured you are ready to comply good.

Lucky You.