[njslim]

You mean there aint a zillion dollars sitting in a bank
just waiting for me........

I’m shocked.......!

[Raycpa]

I don’t like where this writer is going with this. These letters are not all frauds are they?

[a fool in paradise]

I particularly enjoyed reading the account of the Harvard professor who lost over $50,000 in this scam. So smart. So educated. So much one of the minds who train our presidential contenders each election season.

[Standing Wolf]

The most successful advance payment con in history is Social Security, closely followed by Medicare.

[knarf]

This is all pure buulshit.

I've rented the hall and the catering, the church is prepped and my Nigerian bride will be here Saturday .... You'e All Invited To The Wedding !!!

[Blood of Tyrants]

I must be on all of the scammers email list because I get at least 2 a day.

[Nifster]

Any scam succeeds merely because someone hopes to get something that they do not deserve....call it greed. The embarrassment and sometimes shame that goes with being conned prevents people from filing criminal complaints. All too frequently the scammers prey on those in their older years who may not have their full faculties about them.

[LachlanMinnesota]

The current proposed immigration law is a variation of the Spanish prisoner game. If you let just a few million more come in, that’s all, I promise...you know, just like when I almost beat my cocaine addition...just one more hit and it will be my last, I swear.

[katana]

The Nigerians were pulling scam by snail mail 30 years ago. "My uncle, a respected executive in the Nigerian Oil Corp., under indictment by the corrupt government, needs a place to transfer (a gazillion) Dollars. Can you help us?" It migrated to Fax and then E-Mail over the years but there have always been fools who fall for it and give out their bank account info. Amazing.

A company I worked with back in the 1980's received from Nigeria a beautiful gold foil sealed Letter of Credit for some huge supposed order drawn by all appearances on a famous British bank. Reading the small print revealed it was unconfirmed and Revocable. I think we framed it.

[BobL]

This reminds me of the White Van Speaker Scam. Where an intense 20 year old guy would open the back doors of a white van (always a white van), and tell you that he has extra speakers that he MUST get rid of before going back to the warehouse. They are $500 speakers, really big, but he’ll give them to you for $200. If you don’t bite, he’ll eventually go down to something like $75. He’ll even drive you to your ATM (cash only, of course). You figure they’re hot, but you’re helping to rip off THE MAN, so it’s ok.

Then you get home with them and THEY SUCK. They might be worth $25, at best, and that’s mostly the particle board and its covering.

They play on your own greed. I almost fell for it (in California, where else?), but didn’t have the money. I told a friend about it...he had already fallen for it. LOL.

One bit of advice - these are serious con men and they will get angry if you play them, very angry - so DO NOT. Just get away.

[The Great RJ]

My favorite was a variation of the Nigerian scam e-mail I received from Côte d’Ivoire. The e-mail was in French. I have no idea how the sender knew I read and speak French.