deceased kings --- Some years ago it was very common for almost everybody to receive emails from so called descendants of deceased princes or kings in some exotic countries, who were for some marvelous reason willing to share their inherited fortunes on condition of establishing internet contact with them. I never fell in these funny traps, but, as diplomat, I experienced some cases of individuals which were requesting government help to find the perpetrators in a foreign a country, who not very surprisingly were in fact operating from third unknown countries. I think this kind of scam is not very common now and attackers are now also more sophisticated.

Source author: Eduardo Ruiz Mazon eruizm@sre.gob.mx