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Posted on 06/27/2006 2:45:54 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
Vietnamese police have foiled three Nigerians in their scams duping thousands of dollars out of Vietnamese women who lent them money to ostensibly buy chemicals to restore ‘blackened US banknotes’.
A source said they had been deported from Vietnam
The police refused to reveal their names or say whether the three cases were related, but they happened with different women earlier this year by different Nigerians with the same trick.
In April, one Nigerian befriended a café owner in southern Vung Tau resort city and promised to give her a share in a restaurant he was about to open if she lent him US$20,000 to buy chemicals to restore blackened banknotes worth an astronomical US$1 billion.
He claimed he had purposefully blackened the notes to dodge customs screenings and taxation.
He then did an experiment. After rubbing and cleansing in a ‘special solution’, he managed to turn two blackened papers the size of US$100 banknotes into real cash.
He generously gifted her the two notes.
The gullible woman later lent him $7,000 before...
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When I was young and naive, I sent twenty dollars to someone in Eastern Europe. I got more requests for money and a gameboy for her son. I almost sent my gameboy too. When I said I could not send the money because I didn't have any, she stopped emailing me. Lesson learned.
I regularly get emails from Nigeria offering me varying numbers of millions of dollars. They always have hilarious spelling and grammar and some form of iron-clad assurance such as "never worry to do this".
The amazing thing to me is I got my first email of this kind back in the mid-90s and still get them today. Which means they work. Which means there are people in our country that are sending their money to Nigeria in the promise of getting back millions in return.
Buying a lottery ticket is a very poor bet, but you can limit your bet to a dollar a week and can console yourself with the fact that in lotteries, one of the players actually does win.
I wonder what the people who send money to Nigeria console themselves with.
Well at least that promise from a Nigerian to wire $15,000,000 into my bank account is not a scam.
"When I was young and naive, I sent twenty dollars to someone in Eastern Europe. I got more requests for money and a gameboy for her son. I almost sent my gameboy too. When I said I could not send the money because I didn't have any, she stopped emailing me. Lesson learned."
I got a Match.com email from a "lady" in Russia. At first I was a little sympathetic but "her" emails became suspicious almost immediately. I would email something like "tell me what you did last night" and "her" responses were poetry and declarations of love. Finally "she" said "I'm coming to you, I'm working on the papers". It sounded like a threat. Then woe betide "she" needed 400.00 to get the paperwork completed. I was tempted to send monopoly money and even looked in to contacting the FBI. But then I thought that they probably couldn't do anything and I might bring troubles on myself. I suspect the emails were computer generated and sent to thousands.
Finally I wrote back that this isn't normally how its done, usually we would find out more about each other then maybe I'd visit and we'd see how we got along, etc. I never got another email.
Remarkable parallels to William McKay's description of Alchemists.
Several years ago, a close friend of mine almost fell for the same "Russian internet lady in need" who had a sick mother in the hospital. My friend was on the verge of sending her money "for medicine" when he told me about the situation. Using Google and Snopes.com, in just a short time I was able to find countless examples of nearly identical emails and stories of about similar scams with just slight variations! Needless to say, he didn't send her any money.
Do you know Dr. Murumba MKenda, the Nigerian Oil Minister, who recently died, leaving no will? His stepdaughter needs my assistance in removing $15,000,000.00 (FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS) from the bank there for which I will receive 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS as a fee for providing my account number.
I have typewritten letters from the '80's!!!
ping to the scam master!
What I want to know is, how do these people in Nigeria know about my penis size?
"Well at least that promise from a Nigerian to wire $15,000,000 into my bank account is not a scam"
That must be how Howard Dean has been so successful in raising money over the internet.
Well I ask that question myself and I'm a girl :D
Believe it or not, some people have actually went so far with these types of scams as to travel to other countries to "seal the deal", only to be kidnapped and held for ransom.
"What I want to know is, how do these people in Nigeria know about my penis size?"
Probably heard it from that other guy who emailed you, you know, the one offering the free Viagra. Duh!
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Seems like a lot of scams originate in Nigeria. They must be gifted in the art of grifting.
Deported??! Those fellows should have been hung.
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