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...
(Excerpt) Read more at thanhniennews.com ...
This one has obviously graduated from the all caps email scams:
http://j-walk.com/other/conf/
I hope the FBI knows about this and can convince Vietnam to let us have at em. They have been very hard to get.
No, I'm getting my $10Mil deposited in my account on Thursday.
Yes, 'course, thank you. Too lazy to google this morning. Basically, many alchemist were scam artists who would "produce" a few ounces of gold using conjurers tricks and promise untold fortunes, if the victim (often a nobleman) would advance them some dough for supplies. Often the supplies were only available abroad; the alchemist was depart for Milano or Cyprus on a "buying trip" with the Doge's dough and never be seen or heard from again.
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