Honestly they were hilarious ...ranging from dudes with gold reserves in their basement to 'ex-presidents' with state coffers for transfer! Any prudent person would know it is a big farce ....however again remember the Nigerians are getting 2 billion dollars a year ....hence the scam must be working, and working well!
I heard of one guy who sold his business in the US (a successful biz by the way ....guy had a family), and transferred the cash to Lagos (it was the 'deal of the millenium' and he was to make a 'huge profit').
Anyways when he heard nothing from the Nigerian dude he got worried and flew to Lagos ....where to his chagrin he discovered it was indeed a scam and he had been taken to the cleaners.
He killed himself in his hotel room rather than come back to the US.
Anyways i find it quite weird that anyone would fall for such a scam! I guess its greed ....but also i would include lack of common sense!
After all if the nigerian guy had access to the state coffers, and he has all those multi-millions, then WHY would he ask for assistance from an office manager in Missouri or a teacher in Dallas?????? Sometimes people need to ask themselves serious questions before they do stuff!
Actually as an aside i remember some other scam artists who would say they can pray and double/triple/quadruple your money! And people fell for it .....yet if they had looked at the 'miracle workers' they would have noticed those fellas were poorer than church mice! Hence the question begs to be asked: If they had the power to multiply cash through will, then how come they are poor??????
Again i say it is greed ...but greed mixed with a soft mind and feeble logic!
However i personally think this is a good thing! It just shows natural selection at work! Thus just as we do not feel bad when a wolf eats the lame deer that could not run away fast enough then we should also not pity those foolish enough to believe some Nigerian prince is going to give them 'a tenth of the total revenue from Nigeria's oil reserves!' Instead of pity such people deserve serious prayer ....they need it (together with a considerable increase in IQ).
Actually i managed to once dupe my fellow college mates into believing i was some type of esoteric African prince for ages ....and just to seal the deal i showed them pictures of me in school wearing the school uniform. They automatically assumed the school uniform was some type of royal garb, and that the school was my palatial retreat (they seemed so eager to meet royalty i never bothered to correct them! I still chuckle when i remember how they would bring their friends just to meet me ....saying i am a veritable prince here in the US incognito. What was weird is even after i told some i was not a prince they still clung to the notion ....almost as if they needed to 'believe').
LOL
I have this mental image of a certain ex-president looking for a sucker to help him launder the loot stolen from the White House and Air Force One.