In criminal law, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation. Defrauding people or entities of money or valuables is a common purpose of fraud, but there have also been fraudulent "discoveries", e.g. in science, to gain prestige rather than immediate monetary gain.
You appear to have been the victim of a very common email scam. I suggest that you read the page at this link:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/bizscam_Udoma.php
If I understand you correctly, you're trying to find blame in the wrong places. If you believed the original email saying that you'd won a prize, you made a very common mistake... these scam emails do NO originate from the banks or from the lottery companies. They originate from criminals who seek to engage you in a long and intricate scheme designed to extract as much money from you as possible, using the lure of false lottery winnings, or inheritance, or illegal fund transfers out of the country in question, etc.
It typically involves you being asked to pay a series of fees to facilitate the payment to you of the promised funds — but those funds, prizes or inheritances are fictitious, and at the end of the process — often a series of payments — you are left with serious financial losses, and all because these criminals were able to appeal to your gullibility, ignorance, fear of loss and greed to suck you into their scheme.
Victims have been known to have been murdered when they tried to get their money back by flying to Nigeria and other countries where these scams originate.
The next step in the scam after you realize that you've been defrauded is for the SAME criminals to send you a fraudulent email from a quasi-government agency or legal practice offering to help you claim for compensation from a non-existent victims compensation scheme — for a fee, of course.
Some people simply never learn.
Thanks for your comments
ReplyDeleteBut what about the Legal Document issued by the
Federal High Court are you say it is also not issued by the Federal High Court.
Is it not issued by the Federal High Court,,,,,,,
That is not question of cheating But serious matter of ''National Samefull'' for the such country.