OT - My First Nigerian Scam Email

[Wardad]

OMG! This is more significant than: "The new phone books are here!" (Steve Martin in THE JERK)

My first and only Nigerian scam letter:

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From: Wale Williams [mailto:waliam@sify.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:56 AM
Subject: Investment




Dear Friend,

I am a member of the contract award committee,of the Department of Petroleum
Resources,Nigeria I am in search of an agent to assist us in the transfer of
(USD 14M) and subsequent investment in properties in your country.

You will be required to
(1) Assist in the transfer of the said sum
(2) Advise on lucrative areas for investment
(3) Assist us in purchase of properties.

If you decide to render your service to us in this regard, 20% of the total
sum of USD14M will be for you.Please contact me via my confidential email
address waliam@sify.com for further details.

yours faithfully,

Dr Wale Williams.

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Why don't we give him a butt load of mail?

[douglas]

That's a lot shorter than any of the Nigerian scam's I've had turn up in my inbox. Now if you have some spare time, I've heard that baiting the scammers can be fun. Pretend to be suckered by it at first but point out any inconsistencies you notice, ask why they need x piece of information to deposit money in your bank account, ask for proof of identity, etc. See how much nonsense you can get out of them to laugh at, and make them waste time following up on someone who isn't actually going to fall for it in the end.

[Atrocities]

Welcome to the club.

[Alienboy]

douglas said:
That's a lot shorter than any of the Nigerian scam's I've had turn up in my inbox. Now if you have some spare time, I've heard that baiting the scammers can be fun. Pretend to be suckered by it at first but point out any inconsistencies you notice, ask why they need x piece of information to deposit money in your bank account, ask for proof of identity, etc. See how much nonsense you can get out of them to laugh at, and make them waste time following up on someone who isn't actually going to fall for it in the end.

Yep,... lots of fun doing all the above,... for about five minutes! My,... how my day has become so boring! lol.

[Randallw]

Courtesy of RvB

"Excuse me sir, I am Nygeerian royyalti and I need you to send me money. Please ignore the fact that I can't spell Nygeerian....or Royyalti".

[Atrocities]

Greetings Friend, my name is Hock A Loogie, and I am a senior bank administrator for one of the largest banks here in Setaskam.

I am coming to you today to tell you of a great offer that only you know of. (Although I have emailed it to over ten million others.)

I want you to send me money, and lots of it so that I can access this account that has millions of dollars in it left over from the terrorists of 9'11.

Although I am a Senior Vice President of our bank, I need for you to email me not at our banks email address, but at a YAHOO account I have set up for just this illegal purpose.

Please do not notify others that you and I are working together. Your significant other will call this a scam, but you and I both know that it is not.

I humbally await your response.
RunningAScamOnYou@yahoo.com

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What is sad is the fact that I actually know two people who fell for this offer. My brother, and his firend John. I warned them both that it was a scam but John went ahead and sent the guy money. A lot of money. Chris sent some money but later realized he had been scammed and opted out. John sent even more money. He had to file bankruptcy last year because of it. Just goes to show you, people are stupid.

The clever ones are the ones that look like ISP or Banks that need you to update your records. I nearly fell for one but something told me to think. How did my bank get my email account. That question saved me a lot of hell.

[NullAshton]

I just look at them, and wonder when did I ever sign up for that bank? Also, gmail is really good at finding these scams. I just look at the part of the message it shows to me, and volia! Gibberish is a perfect sign that it's a scam. Just select everything, and if you see a bunch of text hilighted at the bottom, it's a scam.

[Atrocities]

I like to send them to the bank.... I once called the bank number that was provided.. KNOWNING that it was fake, and got a recorded message telling me to follow the instruction or my account would be ceased by the IRS. I reported it to the bank and they said that they would look into it. Nothing happened. Later, about two weeks later, US Bank was critizied for not warning its customers about the scam and over 200 thousand people had fallen prey to it. Or so the news reported. Gotta love those inside jobs.

[NullAshton]

First bank scam I reported. All the others? Ah, people stupid enough to fall for those probally can't be helped much. So I was lazy and didn't report any of it.

[dogscoff]

I like the ones that direct you to a web page where you are supposed to fill in your account details, pin number, passwords and so on.

I have loads of fun filling in the boxes with the most obscene, hateful, poisonous messages I can think of. I'd like to think some of those parasites will actually read it- or if not them, the law enforcement agencies might get a giggle out of it when they seize the scumbags' computers... I don't know. Makes me feel better. If only I had Ennesby's way with words: http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030520.html