what the scammers are looking for
nigerian letter scammers hope the commissions they offer will be enticing enough to compel recipients to risk sending thousands of dollars to a stranger the scammer may say the transfer is needed because the government is trying to freeze or confiscate their accounts or that the money is otherwise hostage to war corruption or political unrest the person might say they desperately need your bank account number to transfer the money for safekeeping of course when it comes to this type of request remember that if anything sounds too good to be true it usually is nigerian letter scams continue to exist because it only takes a handful of people out of hundreds of thousands of attempts to be fooled to make it worth the scammers time and effort 