I would promptly give them my a/c details they wire me the funds and i turn the tables on them and disappear. Lol.

But definately that was an atempted con job .

how do they do this????

Giving your account details cannot enable them to withdraw money from your account. The account details that you should give to enable them deposit the money is your account name, account number, bank name, branch and the banks swift code.

However, you should never give your credit or debit card details to anybody because these can be used to conduct online transactions therefore draining your account.

i dnt buy your story Sir.So if giving your account name, account number, bank name, branch and the banks swift code is what is needed to make international transfers then we shld be having very many people frauded !!!!!!!!!!!!

@ mjuaji wa stocks,

I got the same call last year when selling a business i had. In my case just like you have pointed out the guy said he is an athlete with a sponsor in the UK and that he had always wanted to invest in the biz i had. He actually told me his brother who is in nairobi would come to view the biz shortly and after which the would ask the sponsor to call me directly from the UK to get my details. Also the "athlete" had said that he had told the sponsor that the biz was worth 300k and since i was selling my biz at 150k we would share the profit.

Now since there was nothing to loose at this point i agreed and said we would get to that when we finally transacted. After 3 or so hours i receive a call from the so called sponsor... i couldn't contain myself i just burst out laughing hard!

1. The phone number appearing on my cell was a TZ number
2. He talked like he had closed his nose and thus breathing with his mouth to enhance his "British accent"

I was at that time in no mood for jokers but this one cracked me up to the core!!

The end game was this, he "the athlete" wanted me to pay him his cut from the deal before the transfer from the UK sponsor cleared so that he could sort out some urgent issues he had.

This is just one among the many cons that you will come across.

Note that i had advertised my biz on the papers that's how they got my number and started the con.