Lowbridge scams the Nigerian 419 Email Scammers

Lowbridge's new website ^ | 4/16/04 | lowbridge

[lowbridge]

Okay, to be more exact, this email scammer is NOT Nigerian, but from Abidjan. However, I do have a few Nigerians "on the hook" as we speak. I'll see how those pan out, and will post them on my site if they turn out any good.

http://www.megaone.com/lowbridge/baitinggloria.html

[Dimensio]

Are you aware of the potential threat of violence?

Fully. Somehow I doubt that will be an issue, given that he's supposed to meet me in Pretoria, South Africa and I've not left the city of Louisville, KY.

I "return" on Saturday. On Monday, I will send him an email berating him for never finding me. Naturally, I've been unable to call him with the number that he provided, though I've been calling my "secretary" and having "her" forward messages to him from "her" email account.

[Dimensio]

I can also receive free faxes through these sites. Sometimes the scammers choose to fax you their (phony) documents.

I've yet to receive a fax, and I don't know if it's the scammers or k7.net having trouble handling them (though I tr to give the mugus instructions on how to use the fax service properly). I've gotten a few phony documents via email, but I assume that any other fake papers were sent via mail to whatever FBI office I gave out as my address.

[lowbridge]

I've yet to receive a fax, and I don't know if it's the scammers or k7.net having trouble handling them

I've received a couple of faxes. Also have received complaints from the mugus that my fax number doesnt work. I have no idea if it's the fax services fault and/or the mugu does not know how to send a fax. Whenever that happens, I ask them to email me the documents instead.

[Rytwyng]

LOL!

[.38sw]

But are there people out there who actually fall for this kind of crap? I really feel bad for people so naive.

Yes, there are. My husband had a co-worker who was "negotiating" with one of these scammers. Everyone was telling him that it was a scam, and to drop it, but he kept insisting it wasn't. The scammers wanted him to fly to Amsterdam to meet them. Eventually, he saw the light and backed out. Also, one of the local TV news channels is doing an "expose" on the Nigerian scams tonight. Their promos state that "Bay Area families have lost millions".

[lowbridge]

I "return" on Saturday. On Monday, I will send him an email berating him for never finding me. Naturally, I've been unable to call him with the number that he provided, though I've been calling my "secretary" and having "her" forward messages to him from "her" email account.

I had one mugu insist on me traveling to his country (Togo) for a face to face meeting. Naturally I tried all sorts of angles to throw him off and continue the deal through email. But he refused to do it through email. He insisted on me going to his country for a face to face meeting. I tried appealing to his greed. I tried scaring him off by claiming that when I went to the embassy for a tourist visa, the embassy officials seemed to know who he was and submitted me to brutal ointerrogation about him. It didn't work. Nothing was persuading him. He still insisted on the face to face meeting. He was CREEPING ME OUT. All I wanted to do was get rid of the guy.

Of course I could have fed him a bunch of phony details of my plane trip and sent him to the airport for nothing, but I was too tired to forge up plane tickets, and what not. Also had my hands full with other mugus.

So, after not contacting him for five days, he impatiently emails me again asking if I got the visa yet. I answered back:

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Hi Collins,

I'm writing this to you from an internet kiosk in Charles De Gaulle airport in France, on my way back home. I'm waiting for my flight back to the USA right now. Aint technology great??? I should be back home tomorrow afternoon.

I do not know the meaning of this email you sent me. I already traveled to Togo and met with you. We (my banker Steve and I) stayed at Mercure Sarakawa at Boulevard du Mono BP 2232, LOME. Remember? Our room was on the third floor. I managed to get Steve to calm down and go with me. He was looking forward to getting away from his wife, Marcy. That was a great room you booked for us. (Oh, and thanks for the prostitutes too! Those were great looking women! And talented too! Wow! ) Steve also loved the olympic sized swimming pool in the hotel. And thank you for picking us up at the airport, taking us to our hotel, and then driving us back again for our departure. I MUST say that you have a really nice car. Even in my country it's not often you get to ride in a BMW

It was too bad that our meeting was brief, but it was good that the business deal took only one day instead of three as you said it would. Of course, I would have prefered for this whole transaction to take place in your office at the bank instead of at the lounge bar in my hotel, but as you said, your office was being redecorated.

I'm glad we managed to get things done and the papers signed so quickly so that you could back to your sick wife. I hope she is doing better by now. Please give her my best. And I hope you're both enjoying the laptop computers and cell phones I gave you.

I could tell that you showed concern about how much the fees cost for this transaction of ours. As if you were embarassed to tell me how much each and everything cost. Well, it may have totaled $75,000 dollars, but think of the riches we will both be able to enjoy in the months to come!

I want you to know that the 75 thousand dollars I gave you is no problem. You should not be concerned. I have faith in you keeping your promise to me that you will pay me back that money once the 30 million dollars is transfered into my account.

I must admit that my fears were unfounded of you and your country. Me and Steve had a great time! I can't thank you enough!

Thanks so much!
Al Bundy

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I haven't heard from him since. :-)

[Ditter]

This is TOO funny! I read every letter & I am looking forward to the next one. Ping me please.

[CaliGirlGodHelpMe]

That's great! But, I have to ask, that guy looks like someone I wouldn't want to mess with. Have you ever had any moments of doubt as to whether this is safe? As much as I enjoy your "money shots" I'd hate to have to hear one day that you had cause to regret it. [:0

[stlnative]

bump

[lowbridge]

Have you ever had any moments of doubt as to whether this is safe?

Never any doubts. These scammers I am dealing with are indeed DANGEROUS people, but they're a whole other continent away. I use phony identities and addresses, same as they do. They don't know who I am, or where I am. And even if they did, they're not going to go through the time, trouble and expense to come to this country to track me down (they're all a bunch of cheapskates). Even if they tried to come to this country, all I would have to do is notify the FBI as well as both our embassies.

[JoanOfArk]

ping

[lowbridge]

A little taste of what I'm up to. This one is still ongoing:

http://www.megaone.com/lowbridge/baitingritakone.html

[Slings and Arrows]

I am in awe.

[nopardons]

bttt

[The Scourge of Yazid]

See, the first one would be much more believable if it weren't so punctilious regarding grammar.

You need to add a couple more misspelled words, some un-conjugated verbs, and a few split infinitives.

I was an English tutor for one semester while attending B.C., and have seen every possible butchery of the English language. Though my personal favorite has to be the French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy; he mutilates the English language to such a degree that you would think he had been trained in this art form by the Mau-Maus.

[Michael121]

Keep it up.

And add me also to the Ping list.

[ovrtaxt]

Lowbridge, this is some of the best entertainment on the net! The news clips are a nice touch. 'big thick chocolate milkshake'--LOL!!

[hellinahandcart]

Keep up the good work, lowbridge. Bwahaha!

[jigsaw]

I had trouble reading your site due to tears of laughter!
I simultaneously bow in reverence and stand to applaud.

[RobFromGa]

Wonderful.