There’s A New Scam In Idaho That’s So Obvious It’s Hilarious

The world is moving at a fast pace and if you're careful, you can get caught up in a situation that could have easily been avoided. Of course, we're talking about scams, it's why we're here, right?

Once in a while though, a scam comes along that is so bad... it's actually kind of funny.

What else do you want? My social?!

We recently received screenshots from a source who wishes to remain anonymous, which we understand - we are talking about scams.

This source though, shared with us an email she received notifying her that she was entitled to a "scam victims compensation fund." The irony is that this email itself is a scam and has several red flags indicating such.

The first sign is right off the bat when the email says that the recipient is eligible to receive up to $300 million in compensation. That's right... over a quarter of a billion dollars... and it gets better.

Whoever sent the email is posing as the CEO of Bank of America.

If your BS detector isn't going off yet, the next part will make it explode.

The scammer then requests basically every piece of personal information that you can think of outside of the names of your kids, where you went to school, and your social security number.

We have to say, our favorite part about this is how they added "SIGNED" before the name "Mr Brian Moynihan" who is the CEO of Bank of America. That information could easily be found with a quick Google search and it's obvious the scammers did just that.

Also - check out that email at the bottom.

Apparently, Bank of America's CEO made a Gmail account with the username "bankofamerica3828" to let people know they're going to each get $300 million dollars.

We hope it's obvious by now... but don't fall for this. This scam is hilariously bad.