'Nigerian' money scam: What happens when you reply?

Silicon.com ^ | Tue 18 February 2003 05:20PM GMT | Will Sturgeon

[Forgiven_Sinner]

I thought this guy did a great job leading the scammer on. I would have opened an empty account for him and given it to him.

[Indy Pendance]

You get shot.

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[cynwoody]

http://www.scamorama.com/

[LadyAustin]

Here's another site of someone who's having a lot of fun leading these scammers on. My particular favorite is the "Lady Vader" story.

http://sweetchillisauce.com/nigeria.html

[arjay]

I just received an email from Azuka Bala offering me the same deal. I am so shocked that it was not on the level (sarcasm on).

Someone would have to be awfully stupid or awfully greedy to get caught up in this.

[ChemistCat]

Stupid is as stupid does.

[Aliska]

I wouldn't be upset if these scumbags were traced and they were paid a visit by an unmanned predator.

[mvpel]

I think it was Mark Twain who noted, "You can't cheat an honest man."

[mikeb704]

'Nigerian' money scam: What happens when you reply?

Most likely, you're placed on the Democrat National Committee's mailing list for eternity.

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[George W. Bush]

scamorama.com bump

Some of those accounts are sidesplitters to read through. The scam with the British royal family, the one where the guy scammed the Nigerian con man out of $3, and the ultimate where the guy scammed a con man out of several grams of gold.

It's like a new Internet sport.

[paul51]

No wonder they haven't deposited $10,000,000 to my account yet. They have been too busy screwing around with you. Stop wasting their time. I could have had the money by now.

[MCFujiTanker]

These Nigerian scams are pre-Internet. Back in the 80's a Japanese Businessman received a letter or fax, answered it and complied with all instructions. He lost about 50K $US$. He flew to Lagos and tried to find the scammers. He ended up dead in a roadside ditch. Not connected - a Japanese woman a few years ago froze to death in the Dakotas trying to find the buried ransom money from the movie Fargo. I guess there's always a sucker out there. The latest Nigerian email I have received is from Dr. Bello Bature, from the "Ministry Of Mines & Power" in Nigeria...offering a share of 24 million $US$. I loved the way you played this knucklehead!! Semper Fidelis!!

[TechJunkYard]

[Quilla]

LOL!

[Betteboop]

I've had emails going back and forth between myself and someone allegedly with millions to share. I've been trying to get him to give me a contact name in the US. Now that I have read your account I will really begin to play games with him.

[steve-b]

FOR YOUR ATTENTION

I am BILL CLINTON, a former PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. After a corrupt opposition STOLEN THE ELECTION from my party, I was forced to flee from the EXECUTIVE PALACE so that they could not jail me on false charges.

I have managed to save some of the property in the EXECUTIVE PALACE from falling into the hands of the COUP. However, I am in needing of your ASSISTANCE to get the money and property out of NORTH AMERICA to a safe haven in CHINA.

[mhking]

What happens when you reply?

You lose your money, you idiot!

[PJ-Comix]

You also have some good laughs: Look at my replies to the Nigerian scammers on this THREAD in Reply #1 and Reply #49.

[Doctor Stochastic]

I've got these offers by snail mail since the early 1980s.

Another amusing story.

[Capt_Hank]

I replied back to one the emails.... Told them to eat elephant dung and to swim in the rivers where the wildebeest cross. I did receive a reply.... Was told the voodoo man would visit me. My reply to the "voodoo man". Be prepared to digest some 185gr, HydraShoks from my 45. End of emails.....!