posted on April 5, 2004 11:45:21 PM new
I must be - how else would you explain that this evening I was contacted by both the son and the widow of the late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha who have now lost all faith and trust in their countrymen and wish to transfer millions of stolen dollars into my account. The amazing part is that apparently I am also judged (I guess by proxy) to be trustyworthy by the bankers and government of Luxemburg who seemingly will have no problem unfreezing these funds to deposit them into my account.
I bet Amex will give me that platinum card now
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
[ edited by fenix03 on Apr 6, 2004 12:19 AM ]
posted on April 6, 2004 06:31:53 AM new
I had a local mason do some work for me some years ago. He told me he got one of those Nigerian emails, was thinking of doing it. I quickly got on the computer and pulled up some news stories about the frauds. It seemed to make an impression, but I'm not sure what happened. He's not in the phone book anymore; maybe he retired with his new millions.
posted on April 6, 2004 08:20:05 AM new
McJane - I have just been forced to explain to my monsters that they are not going to be getting that 7 story kittie condo they have been eyeing and they are not pleased, I'm not sure I was going to buy it anyway but now I am able to blame it on you because you have robbed me of my Nigerian millions.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on April 7, 2004 11:26:36 AM new
My favorite site for those scams is http://www.geocities.com/scamjokepage/ -- these guys actually respond to all the scammers as David Lee Roth, even dropping Van Halen references into their emails. In -all- cases the scammers have made arrangements to meet Mr. Lee Roth at the airport somewhere in Nigeria to take his cash. It's hilarious reading:
>>This page is dedicated to the
'419 (Advance Fee Fraud)'
scam artists around the world.
My friend and I have received
quite a few "business proposals"
from the 419 scam artists.
We have decided to write them
back and lead them on a bit.
Of course, we don't use our
real names. Instead, we like
to go by the name
"David Lee Roth". <<
posted on April 7, 2004 11:48:12 AM new
Gee, I thought I had the lock on every cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle, sister, brother, ex-wife, and in-law for Mabuto Sese Seko.
I feel so sad now.
J
Monkey time...
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All the monkeys aren't in the zoo,
Every day you meet quite a few,
So you see it's all up to you.
You can be better than you are,
You could be swingin' on a star
posted on April 7, 2004 01:06:29 PM new
We bought a Camaro on ebay a few weeks ago from a guy with 0 feedback ... of course before bidding, we spoke with the seller on the phone to ask a lot of questions to feel out his earnest intentions as well as letting him know ours ... i was amazed to hear his story of trying to sell the car twice on ebay before ... once last fall, when a young lady bid on it and won, but her parents came home from out of town and said, "NoSiree!" .... then in December he 'sold' on ebay to a guy overseas who said, "i will send you a cashier's check for it, but I need your help with my u.s.a. account; you will see the cashier check is made out for $14,000, although you only need 5,000 of it. plus shipping ... deposit the cashier check and ship the car at our expense and send us a money order for the difference of $8000" .... of course he took this very legitimate looking Cashier's Check to his bank, and was told it was a fake ... Arghhh! I had "read about" that happening to 'other' people in Antique Week etc, but I had never spoken to someone in person that this happened to! ...
All in all, our dealing went smoothly enough, except for Ohio BMV PITA redtape, but we brought my husbands midlife crisis car home from Missouri yesterday ...
posted on April 7, 2004 02:03:12 PM new
Try Scamorama.com also Sweetchilisause.com They have some of the funniest exchanges with these nigerican scammers. I've played with one or two in my day. I told one that I've developed a new Metalic profalactic that can be washed and reused. I had $5,000,000 in seed money to start a company, but their $19,000,000 would really help. I demanded they call me His Royal Highness, Squidword because newsweek called me the king of reusable birth control. Lots of fun playing with these guys.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. B. Franklin
posted on April 7, 2004 09:25:25 PM new
Strange, I have the AmEx cards, all kinds of colors, but didn't contact me. Should I call? Feeling kind of unimportant, despite my multiple credit lines and statements. Guess, I'm just not with the "big boys".
OK fenix, you got to me, I am ashamed.
I feel obligated to make it up to you by passing this one up letting you have it.
Here it is, 25% of fifteen million, not too shabby, now it's yours.
Hurry up this time, Ms Don Okoye needs to hear from you IMMEDIATELY.
Hello,
How are you ,firstly I must solicit your strict confidence in this transaction.I am making this contact with you base i\on reliable information available to me courtesy of the Internet Business Index concerning your reputable organisation.Thus, I am convinced that you would be able to provide me with a solution to a funds transaction of US$15MILLION
SOURCE--I am a daughter to the former PRESIDENT ENGR.B.C.OKOYE, OIL COMPANY NIGERIA GAS AND OIL PLC .(NGO) the former President of (NGO) who is prensently in Exile in NIGERIA and I am presently with him. The amount of the above mentioned money is on my name.I need your assistance to secure this funds into a foreign account.I am reposing the trust in you if we can agreed btween ourselves by providing me with the bank account i can transfer the money into
I am ready to give you 25% of the tranferd sum while 5% shall be set aside for incident expenses incured by both parties.Later I will travel down to your place to make an investment on the remainig 70% share of the funds. The money will be transfer to the account you provide through a PRIVATE SECURITY BANK in NIGERIA withing 7 -10 working days .All what i need from you now is your acceptance,After that ,i will give you the details of the informations that you will provide for the transaction..I will be looking forward to do this business with you and solicit your utmost confidenlidity in this transaction .Hope to receive your reply very soon
Best Regards
MS.DON OKOYE
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