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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.
Remarkable parallels to William McKay's description of Alchemists.
ping to the scam master!
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.
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.