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0EPII1
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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)

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"ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION
#782 SECRETARIAT ROAD, GOVT HOUSE

Motto: NO BODY IS ABOVE THE LAW
(WEBSITE: http://www.efccnigeria.org )

Attention:
Hope this mail meets you in good state of mind, As you are aware, through the help of our investigation team here in Nigeria and abroad, we found out that your name was short listed among list of scam victim that have been compensated with the total sum of $2.5Million from federal government reserve account and not yet receive their fund into their nominated Bank account. Therefore so many people have been parading themselves to be the Payment Officer or false Courier Company affiliated to DHL and so many offices used in caring out their fraudulent claims.

First of all is to bring to your notice that Barrister Andrew Stephen, David Moore, including and ATM OFFICE and ONE Mr. Scott Williams are among the top list of the FBI, CIA and the EFCC most wanted person, they are fraudulent and criminals.

We gathered that you have sent to them some certain amount to some fraudulent official of Bank of America, UBA, Oceanic Bank, and scammers that claim to be working for Courier Company. Below is the of the most wanted scammers Benson, Thomas, Ellis Bryan, Chambers, Coker, Cole, Coleman, Collins, Albert Smith, Duke, Duru, Edward, Sanusi Lamido, David Moore , Peter Pan, Adrew, James Grath, , Mike Anderson , Scott Williams, James Grant ,Mr. Phillip Richards, Mike Anderson, Eric Packer, we are an affiliated with the FBI and CIA we will get you arrested and charge you to court if you send money to them or have anything to do with them.

Because our investigation eyes are on you now and also you have to stop every conversation those whom claim to working for your fund release from the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT account. We are highly in search of them and you can also help us in their arrest by providing their contact numbers and address so we can get them arrested.

We have also investigated the circumstances that has brought about this winning and found out that it is real and legit your name was found among the list of people that the federal Government of Nigeria is compensating with $2.5Million United State Dollars, do you know that until this moment that am writing to you. The Compensation Office Board has no idea that you have not received your winning of $2.5Million which is your legitimate and rightful money.

It became imperative that your matter was brought to the lime Light when one of the representative here happened to go through your file and found out that your payment was still pending by some government and who have been demanding money from you for payment all sorts Certificates such as ANTI-TERRORIST CERTIFICATES, TAX CLEARANCE CERTIFICATES, etc., Also we found out that you have been promised severally that your money would be delivered by FedEx or Bank Transfer or through a diplomats and Universal ATM card. Today we happily inform you that your fund will get to you via Wired Transfer which will be wired into your Bank account once you provide us the content of emails you receive from those criminals also meets up with our Inquiries within the next 24 Hours from this notification.

Email: faridawazir@qatar.io
KINDLY FURNISH US WITH THE FOLLOWING DETAILS FOR PROPER CLARIFICATIONS:

FULL NAMES:
ADDRESS:
CELL NUMBER:
DATE OF BIRTH:
MARITAL STATUS:
RELIGION:
OCCUPATION:
POSITION HELD:
BANK NAME:
ADDRESS:
BANK PHONE NUMBER:
ACCOUNT NUMBER:
ROOT NUMBER:
SWIFT NUMBER:

They will keep demanding money from you until your account is frozen and you will be broke for life. Please for more stories of this log on to our website and see what we do to rescue people in this kind of dilemma like you. You will have to get back to us with telephone numbers and full address. That's all we need.

PLEASE NOTE: YOUR BANK YOU'RE OF $2.5Million IS NOW WITH US AND IT WILL BE SENT TO YOU VIA THE BANK TRANSFER INTO YOUR CORRESPONDING BANK.IMMEDIATELY YOU GET BACK TO US. Log to our website now and see our duties (http://www.efccnigeria.org) we are an affiliate to the FBI CIA and other government agencies abroad. You are hereby advised to keep this transaction confidential from these criminals until you get your fund.

Presently we are notified that you are still having some transactions with another fraudulent office claiming to be from Bank of America you are highly warned to stop communicating with these Frauds and face the reality with us to make sure you get your fund which you have been suffering from since Last year.

We are giving you our full support and word that we are trying to protect you but if you feel you are brave then dare us and see what the outcome will be, we will come and get you arrested for paying money to scammers in your resident over there in your country.
BE WARNED! AND WARNED!! BE WARNED!!!


For security purpose make sure you keep it secret until you get your fund get transfer into your Bank Account and never you contact this bad York's of eggs anymore again , they are fraudulent.

Dr. Farida WaziriExecutive
Chairman, Economic and Financial Crime (EFCC)"

8/8/2011 4:17:31 PM

Mr. Joshua
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Sounds legit. Don't be a pussy.

8/8/2011 4:19:04 PM

0EPII1
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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

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YOU CAN'T LOSE!!!

8/8/2011 4:27:00 PM

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Sounds like the same old shit

8/8/2011 4:28:51 PM

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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

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"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."


Maybe because they are smarter, more knowledgeable, and less close-minded than you?

English is the first language of about 6% of the world's population. The rest of the world writes English (if they know how) just like what you see in the letter or [much] worse than that. (including in official documents)

They know that they are pretty much not going to get any sucker from the US/UK/Can/Aus/NZ, EVEN if they wrote their emails in perfect English. They know that almost all of their victims will come from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Russia, and South America. So why SPEND money on hiring someone who speaks/writes perfect English when it pretty much won't bring them any new victims?

Also, in most of Africa and Asia (you know, like 3/4 of the world's population), they use British Colonial English, and if you have ever even skimmed through one of those scam emails, you would see that that's exactly what they are written in, barring the grammatical errors.

So before you call me dumb, realize that those scammers are smarter, more knowledgeable, and less close-minded than you, as I have just shown.

8/8/2011 5:07:26 PM

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"you'd have to be as dumb as 0EPII1 to fall for shit like this."


At first I was like, hey, this is over the line

Then I read OEP's last post

8/8/2011 5:08:40 PM

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Or maybe they're just too fucking poor to diversify their pitches.

8/8/2011 5:09:47 PM

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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

0EPII1
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^^ 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 low

i 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

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"you'd have to be... dumb... to fall for shit like this."

8/8/2011 5:17:05 PM

0EPII1
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^ 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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"we are highly in search of them"


good one

8/8/2011 5:41:48 PM

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"My dear friend
by Dwayne A. Day
Monday, August 1, 2011

My Dear Friend,

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the International Space Station in 2009. He was stranded there in 2011 when the American Space Shuttle was retired. He was supposed to return to earth on the American Space Shuttle Mission STS-135 with his other American crew members, but his place was instead taken up by return cargo. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.

In the year since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight and hazard pay and interest amounting to almost $15,000,000 U.S. American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $3,000,000 U.S. American Dollars. In order to access this trust fund we need your assistance. "

8/8/2011 6:53:57 PM

0EPII1
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8/8/2011 6:55:12 PM

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^^ ahahahaha, that sounds like the plot to a shitty movie.

8/9/2011 9:31:12 AM

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lol, Nigerian astronaut.

8/9/2011 9:36:03 AM

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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

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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

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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.edu

Interesting 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:

Quote :
"Remuneration:

This is a highly competitive package consisting of the following:

* An extremely generous tax-free monthly salary paid in United States Dollars; (US$ 8,500.00 per month) = (US$ 102,000 Per annum)
* Monthly inflation allowance (currently 15% of basic salary).
* Monthly transportation allowance.
* Free furnished accommodation, according to marital status.
* Free health care.
* Elementary and secondary school education for 2 dependent children.
* Free flights to US, as well as annual air tickets to point of origin for vacation purposes.
* Up to 60 days paid summer leave plus 2 short national holidays (of approximately 10 days each)."


And I am like there is no way they would pay that much to someone with a master's degree!!! $120,000+ free furnished accommodation?

Then I am trying to figure out how they will make money off of me?

They give me the details of a private immigration office to contact which will help me apply for the H1B visa (employment visa). Of course, they mention that all visa expenses are 100% reimbursed later on

Quote :
"TRAVELING DOCUMENTS;

MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY will provide Flight Tickets, Work & Residence Permit for you after the confirmation of the prototype copy of your H1B Visa (Employment Visa) therefore, you will have to urgently secure your 2 Years H1B Visa (Employment Visa) through the below office because your contract documents hard copies will be dispatched to them upon the confirmation & acceptance of the offer.

Also note that all expenses inccured during the procurement of your H1B Visa (Employment Visa) formalities are 100% reimbursable, MISERICORDIA University is not eligible according to the US Immigration Department law to apply for H1B Visa (Employment Visa) for international expatriates, we are only eligible for the procurement of your Flight Tickets, work & residence permit.

Selected international employees should contact the below office to procure and secure their H1B
VISA;

Contact Person: Mr. Thomask Rodriguez
Chief Consultant (H1B Visa Section)
Oceanic Immigration Office
1013 South State St, Suite 400
Alpena, MI 49707, USA
Email: h1b.visa@oceanicoffice.com
Website: http://oceanicoffice.com "


I would say this is a pretty good one, and I can name a few colleagues and ex-colleagues who would possibly fall for this. That website is a good trick.

8/9/2011 2:38:23 PM

0EPII1
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So apparently Robert Mueller is involved in this shit now... I know the times are tough financially speaking, but running scams now?

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"Robert S. Mueller III <RobertSMueller01@plum.ocn.ne.jp>
10:28 AM (0 minutes ago)

to undisclosed recipients

From: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dept: FBI Anti-Terrorist & Monetary Crimes Division
Office: Washington, D.C. Headquarters
Address: J. Edgar Hoover Building 93 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Date: 28/05/2013

ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY,


This is to bring to your notice that my office has taking over all the money transfer originated from any part of American, African country and European countries as contract payment, fund inheritance or lottery winning due to unauthorized/incapability of financial institutions/security companies in releasing such huge sum of money result of fraud, terrorist and money laundry activities going on World Wide.

We have been having series of meetings for the passed 7 months which ended 2 days ago with the secretary general of the United Nations, Central Bank of Nigeria, HSBC Bank of United Kingdom (UK) with the World Bank Officials. This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the United Nations, HSBC Bank of United Kingdom (UK) with the World Bank officials have agreed to compensate them with the sum of Four Millions Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars each victim. This includes every foreign contractor that may have not received his or her contract sum and people that have had an unfinished transaction, people who have inheritance to claim or international businesses that failed due to instability of government in some part of America etc.
We found your name in our list as one of the beneficiaries and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed. These also indicate that the Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) often referred to as a Criminal History Record or Rap Sheet, is a listing of certain information taken from fingerprint submissions retained by the FBI in connection with arrests and in some instances, federal employment, naturalization, or military service. This condition is valid until 3 days after which the funds shall be confiscated and legal action will be taken against you.

Guarantee: funds will be released upon confirmation of the DIST document. Final instruction given below;

1. Credit payment instruction: irrevocable credit guarantee.
2. Beneficiary has full power when validation is cleared.
3. Beneficiaries Bank in can only release funds.
4. upon confirmation from the World Bank / United Nations.
5. Bearers must clear Bank protocol and validation request.

We have confirmed that the amount required to procure your document which is called the Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) which will cost you a total sum of $195USD only and the fee should be paid directly to the payment office Mr. Karen Hawkins the IRS director via Western Union Money Transfer.

NOTE: You should contact Mr.Karen Hawkins with his Emailmrkarenhawkins@zing.vn) on regard with the payment information of $195USD via Western Union Money Transfer and Mail him with the MTCN NUMBER, for him to procure your DIST Document ready for the release of your fund worth ($4.5million).

You have hereby been authorized /guaranteed by the federal bureau of investigation to commence towards completing this transaction, as there shall be no delay once payment for the (DIST) document has been made to the authorized agent.

Note: We have requested for the DIST document to make available the most complete and update records possible for the enhancement of public safety, welfare and security of society while recognizing the importance of individual privacy rights. If you fail to provide the document to us within 48hours, we will charge you with the financial crimes.

The United Nations department of justice order 556-73 establishes rules and regulations for the subject of an FBI identification record to obtain a copy of his or her own record for review. The FBI Criminal Justice Information Service (CJIS) division processes these requests to check illegal activities and once you have completed payment of $195USD to the agent in charge of this transaction, you're advised to keep us posted to enable us follow up with the release of your payment and act fast.


Regards,
Federal Bureau Investigation.
Robert S. Mueller III,
FBI, Director."

5/28/2013 5:05:03 PM

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I, nor anyone I know has ever gotten one of these

I'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

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Quote :
"MONEY

LAUNDRY

ACTIVITIES"


you are a funny man robert mueller

5/28/2013 5:08:04 PM

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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:
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"I am Mrs. Susanne the wife of the Former Leader in Egypt Hosni Mubarak. You may aware that my husband is presently facing retrial in Egypt and we his family members are not free. All our documents and Money has been seized to prevent us from traveling out of the country.

I need somebody from outside my country who I can transfer my funds to. For the future of my children, The Amount is US$50,000,000.00 (Fifty Million United States Dollars).You can imagine the government had seized my family up keeping assets in Egypt, Please if you are capable to receive and handle the $50,000,000.00 USD keep me posted urgently.

I want you to indicate your interest and provide the basic information to me as follow. Your Full name, Address, Age, and cell phone number. So that I will forward them to my accounting officer in the bank out side my country Egypt immediately to verify your capability and transfer the fund to you for business purpose and for safe keeping for the future of my children, I need your honesty and trust, if you will be good to me I will entrust more funds on your care, and we will negotiate on the percentage that I will offer you of the total funds. I waite your respond."

5/28/2013 5:10:05 PM

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IBXZIBIT

5/28/2013 5:20:40 PM

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Quote :
"WARNED!

AND

WARNED!!"


[Edited on May 28, 2013 at 5:25 PM. Reason : n]

5/28/2013 5:25:11 PM

0EPII1
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^^^ scams revolving around the former leaders of egypt, libya, tunisia, and iraq are the latest rage.

5/28/2013 8:01:23 PM

0EPII1
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Damn, Michelle Obama is getting in on these... can't blame her seeing as how her husband will be jobless in a few months!

Quote :
"From Mrs. Michelle Barack
The White House
(Official Residence of the President of the US)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20500 USA

How are you today? This is last you will ever hear from me and you fail to
comply.

I am Mrs. Michelle Obama and I am written to inform you about your Bank Cheque
Draft brought by the United Embassy from the government of Benin Republic in
the white house Washington DC which contains the sum of $20.000.000 millions
us dollars credited from the bank of America, the delivery of your funds has been
mandated to be deliver to your address on Thursday, June 2, 2016 to you as
soon as you get back to me with your home address and your cell phone number.

Bear in mind that I have taking my time to be in charge of your funds as
instructed by my husband to ensure that you received your funds successfully
from the white house to reduce the economy and I’m the only one that has your
funds in regard to my husband Mr. Barack Hussein Obama II and you will have to
pay the sum of $69.00 only before your Bank Cheque Draft will deliver to you on
Friday, the reason why the fee is required is to have your funds clearance
paper from the origin of the funds to avoid any harassment from the authorities
and you are also expecting to be announce as winner of the said amount by
Friday as soon as your fund is delivered to you.

So you are urgent advised to get back to me with your home address and also the
payment information today for immediate effect of your delivery. Note that the
$69 is the only fee and final payment you have my assurance.

However, according to our agreement with the Fund originated Benin
Republic, all our communications should be on email for record purpose so follow my instruction
accordingly, even if you don’t have the $69 try to borrow it and send it
immediately today because this is your life opportunity and I don’t want you to
lose the chance any more.

Please I will advice you to urgent make the payment this morning via western
union or money gram money transfer to the listed cashier information as
instructed you by the Fund originated authorities. I will look forward
to received your email today with the payment to enable the origin secure the required
clearance papers required at White House Kenya to deliver your funds. Note that
it will take only 14hrs to deliver your Bank Cheque Draft in receipt of the $69
payment.

Please find the payment data below to send the $69 via western union or money
gram.

Receiver Name: ANHONY OSITA
Country:. . . .Benin
City:. . . . .PORTNOVO
Question: Urgent
Answer: Needed
Amount: $69.00
MTCN reference number............
cOUNTRY CODE 00229.

I look forward to your respond to your email with the payment today.

Regards

Mrs. Michelle Barack
The White House
(Official Residence of the President of the US)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20500 USA"



Quote :
"WHITE

HOUSE

KENYA"


6/27/2016 4:24:29 AM

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Quote :
"the government of Benin Republic in
the white house Washington DC which contains the sum of $20.000.000 millions"

6/27/2016 9:07:25 AM

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GrumpyGOP is this what you did in Benin?

6/27/2016 9:29:17 AM

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Hahaha

So 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

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you should have taught them how to use email.

6/27/2016 10:38:03 AM

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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

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^^^ LOL... that was 5 years ago. I was either trolling or being an idiot, can't recall which one

Quote :
"the sum of $20.000.000 millions"


[assuming . = ,]

GODDAMN THAT'S USD $20 TRILLION DOLLAR BUCKS!!!

Damn, Ban Ki-Moon is getting into this as well... must be legit!

Quote :
"from: Mr. Ban ki-Moon <secretary11111@unn.org>
reply-to: repnig001@hotmail.com
to:
date: Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 4:20 AM
subject: GET BACK TO ME FOR YOUR ATM CARD

3 Whitehall Court London
SW1A 2EL United Kingdom
Attention:Beneficairy.

NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, it is because of the restrictions imposed by your Mail/Internet Service Provider, we urge you to treat it genuinely.

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family? You may not understand why this mail came to you. I wish to inform you that we have been having a meeting with the IMF for the past 1 month now which ends yesterday in regards to innocent individual who has been a victim of scam that was going on in African and Europe, this Organization(UNITED NATIONS) have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$750,000.00.

This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their Contract sum, and some people that have an unfinished Transaction/International Businesses that failed due to one problem or the other.

Going through our data base your email contacts and name was found on the list and that is why we are contacting you for you to receive your own compensation and this said money will be paid via ATM MASTER CARD Payment Method which is the easiest and safer way of receiving without any hindrance and it will be issued to you from our Authorized Bank in Nigeria(Africa) You are advised to contact

Mr.Herbert Wigwe
Email: mrher55bertn@yahoo.com

As he is our Legal Representative in Nigeria, contact him immediately for your own ATM MASTER CARD, you should send him your full Name and telephone number your confidential address where you want him to send the Card.

Hoping to hear from you as soon as you receive your MASTER CARD.

Best regards,
Secretary-General"


LOLOLOLOL!!!11


[Edited on June 27, 2016 at 12:34 PM. Reason : ^^^ pretty cool you saw them in action! ]

6/27/2016 12:33:17 PM

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WOW!

Must read!

https://www.quora.com/Have-you-ever-scammed-a-scammer-1/answer/Chris-Miller-383

This guy need a superhero cape

1/18/2017 8:54:59 AM

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Quote :
"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."


Actually, the reason these emails are as base as they are is so only the most gullible among us would fall for it. These scammers want to weed out any critically thinking person early on, so they don't waste their time when they can be scamming someone who would actually fall for it. So these scammer emails are actually pretty brilliant in doing what they need to do.

1/18/2017 11:28:45 AM

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^ exactly!

1/18/2017 5:54:55 PM

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It's called the John Podesta.

1/18/2017 6:51:15 PM

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