never seen one like this before... they tell you they have found out that you are being scammed by scammers and that you have been dealing with them, and so you should stop all dealing with the scammers. they also provide a full list of those scammers/lawyers. they really try hard to win your trust by saying they are trying to help you, and you can help them arrest the scammers, etc.and of course, they also say that the $2.5 million awarded to you by the NIGERIAN gov is real, and they can help you receive it.ok, that will most definitely rope in a few more suckers actually... but then they go ahead and ruin the sympathetic tone by threatening you at the end to come and arrest you in your country if you continue dealing with the aforementioned scammers overall, i would give it a solid B for creativity, whereas the typical scam email gets a D.it is actually a very official-looking word document with an FBI letterhead/logo plus a logo of the EFCC which includes a pic of a bald eagle, which can be see at the URL below and which seems like a legit site. here is the text.btw, what's "York's of eggs"? (see bottom)
8/8/2011 4:17:31 PM
Sounds legit. Don't be a pussy.
8/8/2011 4:19:04 PM
well the thing is, to my recollection, i haven't received any emails from that list of scammers they mention.if i had, i would totally go with this!
8/8/2011 4:21:36 PM
YOU CAN'T LOSE!!!
8/8/2011 4:27:00 PM
Sounds like the same old shit
8/8/2011 4:28:51 PM
I just don't understand how these idiots can't figure out that the real "ingenious new twist" that might actually work would be to get someone who actually knows the English language to write one of these. I don't care how good an idea they come up with (this one is NOT a very good idea, by the way) if it starts off with "Hope this mail meets you in good state of mind" and contains phrases like "First of all is to bring to your notice" and "It became imperative that your matter was brought to the lime Light" then you'd have to be as dumb as 0EPII1 to fall for shit like this.
8/8/2011 4:39:00 PM
8/8/2011 5:07:26 PM
8/8/2011 5:08:40 PM
Or maybe they're just too fucking poor to diversify their pitches.
8/8/2011 5:09:47 PM
I have a brother named David Moore. Should I be frightful that he may be a scamming scammer of scams? Must I, too, stop every conversation with him?Help me Tdub...your (sic) my only hope
8/8/2011 5:11:06 PM
^^ possible... but i do wonder how much these people make. i would think not much, but the fact that they keep going, i don't know. just $1K received from a 1,000 people makes a million. and their operational costs must be pretty lowi also wonder if there are just a few big "companies" that do this under different names, or there are hundreds of small-time 1-2 person scammers spread all over in small rooms/huts.^ ahaha...[Edited on August 8, 2011 at 5:18 PM. Reason : ]
8/8/2011 5:11:59 PM
8/8/2011 5:17:05 PM
^ yeah that's just a given, but i bet it mostly goes with being poor/desperate/destitute as well for those who fall for these scams.also, how does giving your bank account number to someone enable them to take money from your account... especially these days with all the terrorism concerns and everything. they require signatures and IDs for everything.
8/8/2011 5:19:03 PM
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8/8/2011 6:55:12 PM
^^ ahahahaha, that sounds like the plot to a shitty movie.
8/9/2011 9:31:12 AM
lol, Nigerian astronaut.
8/9/2011 9:36:03 AM
I am renting out an apartment, and this guy says hes coming from the UK and so he gets his "company" to write me a relocation check for 5k, and then asks me to take out my sec deposit, first and last months rent, and then send via western union the rest to his decorator and mover in the UK.
8/9/2011 9:39:25 AM
I remember writing back to one of these people a long and sordid sob story and they never wrote back to me
8/9/2011 9:45:29 AM
OK, I got a pretty cool one today. It is a job offer from Misericordia University in Dallas, PA. (uni is real).They said they got my resume from a job site where I have it posted, and I do have it posted on the site they mentioned.Seemed pretty legit, until I saw the URL http://www.unimisericordia.com and got suspicious. Checked it out, and it is a full-fledged detailed website, just like any other university's. Went to wikipedia and got the link http://www.misericordia.eduInteresting and amazingly, the .com page is nearly a 100% mirror of the .edu page , with all the same faculty names even. On the faculty directory page, the email addresses end in .com on the .com page, and in .edu on the .edu page, but with identical names and job titles. I wonder if I wrote to one of those .com faculty emails, if I would get a response.Anyway, opened the Word document attachment detailing the job offer they sent me, and got to the benefits section:
8/9/2011 2:38:23 PM
So apparently Robert Mueller is involved in this shit now... I know the times are tough financially speaking, but running scams now?
5/28/2013 5:05:03 PM
I, nor anyone I know has ever gotten one of theseI'm Krallum and I approved this message.[Edited on May 28, 2013 at 5:06 PM. Reason : and I know people who have signed up for HornyMatch because they thought it was legit]
5/28/2013 5:06:15 PM
5/28/2013 5:08:04 PM
I have to admit, that's pretty clever, based on the whole "you've been scammed let's get you not scammed", but the website? Really?I'm curious as to how long it'll be before they're arrested for impersonating government officials My latest favorite:
5/28/2013 5:10:05 PM
IBXZIBIT
5/28/2013 5:20:40 PM
5/28/2013 5:25:11 PM
^^^ scams revolving around the former leaders of egypt, libya, tunisia, and iraq are the latest rage.
5/28/2013 8:01:23 PM
Damn, Michelle Obama is getting in on these... can't blame her seeing as how her husband will be jobless in a few months!
6/27/2016 4:24:29 AM
6/27/2016 9:07:25 AM
GrumpyGOP is this what you did in Benin?
6/27/2016 9:29:17 AM
HahahaSo a lot of these actually do originate in Benin, though the senders may be Nigerians. On several occasions I have stood in a busy internet cafe, waiting for a computer to open up. I have surveyed all the people working around me - peeking over somebody's shoulder isn't so rude there - and 100% of the people would be sending scam e-mails.I'm going to have to disagree with 0EPII1 about these guys being intelligent or well-informed. They just have a copy-and-pasted letter from somewhere else and a document full of e-mail addresses that they try to copy in bulk. I say "try" because a lot of them are struggling to use the Yahoo! mail that 98% of them use. They are e-mail scammers who are flummoxed by e-mail. It irritated me because it meant they were taking longer at the machines I wanted to use.As for their being "less close-minded"...nah. The educated elite of Nigeria might be pretty worldly, but the low-level scumbags doing the e-mail scamming are the standard bigoted, narrow-minded homophobes who routinely asked me if I could get America to support a Biafra War 2 so they could kill all the Muslims. (For whatever reason most of the Nigerians I met in Benin were Christian Igbos)
6/27/2016 10:30:45 AM
you should have taught them how to use email.
6/27/2016 10:38:03 AM
The honest, hard-working people trying to improve their country already know how to use e-mail. My work partner in village knew more about how to use my smart phone than I did when I finally got one.
6/27/2016 10:42:20 AM
^^^ LOL... that was 5 years ago. I was either trolling or being an idiot, can't recall which one
6/27/2016 12:33:17 PM
WOW!Must read!https://www.quora.com/Have-you-ever-scammed-a-scammer-1/answer/Chris-Miller-383This guy need a superhero cape
1/18/2017 8:54:59 AM
1/18/2017 11:28:45 AM
^ exactly!
1/18/2017 5:54:55 PM
It's called the John Podesta.
1/18/2017 6:51:15 PM