The Scam Alert Blog

Internet scams are everywhere these days and it is easy to get so skeptical that you think every online contact you make is with someone who has it as their goal to separate you from your money.

Here is an interesting case “ripped from the headlines” (so to speak).

Richard White posted a notice on Classmates.com concerning his 30 year high school reunion. He soon received an email from someone he didn’t know, in the email were all sorts of probing questions about his parents names and his family history. Richard chalked it up to an Internet scam and sent back what was best described as a “salty” reply.

It turns out, that email came from a long lost sister that he didn’t know existed, a baby given up for adoption by his mother over forty years earlier.

Sometimes, it’s not a scam. We at the Scam Alert Blog love happy endings… but don’t let down your guard.