An email I received this morning...

[Eldo]

I usually avoid and delete emails like these, but since it was sent to my scanlation email, I thought it may have been some sort of recruit. Oh, how wrong I am. This guy emailed me via his hotmail account (I decided to remove the email address though):

Dear Friend,
I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise.Iam the bill and
exchange manager in Bank of Africa.I Hoped that you will not expose or
betray this trust and confident that i am about to repose on you for the
mutual benefit of our both families.
We need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of $11.3million
immediately to your account.The money has been dormant for years in our Bank
here without any body coming for it.
We want to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased
customer(the owner of the account)who died a long with his supposed next of
kin in an air crash since July 2000.
We don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury as an abandoned fund.So
this is the reason why i contacted you,so that we will can release the money
to you as the nearest person to the deceased cutomer.
Please we would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete if
you are not interested.
Upon receipt of your reply,i will send you full details on how the business
will be executed and also note that you will have 25% of the above mentioned
sum if you agree to transact the business with us.
kuroma jemba
Bank Of Africa,Burkina Faso-West Africa.

I just want to know: where does the Nigerian princess come in?

Let's see: the nearest person to their deceased customer? Yeah, I dug a lot of graves in my time, so they got me on that one.

And also, 25% of fictional $11.3 million bucks is an amazing amount of 0 real life dollars. That's about the same salary I get for not working.

[Artezul]

My condolences about the plane crash though.

[The Prince]

Damn...how close from getting hit by the plane were you? I'm glad you're OK.

BTW...I believe the message is legit, so if you don't want to give them your account number, here is my ex's.

Acc. 6820031 transit: 0100210

[War Machine]

What's so strange about this e-mail is that the bank is actually worried that the money might stay there unclaimed, which is something that not even reputable banks do.

I've gotten several of those on the e-mail I use to answer to my guide on gamefaqs. Although I use that e-mail whenever I think the site I'm using it in might send spam, so that's probably the reason why I get messages from Burkina Faso.

[dialdfordesi]

I feel bad for people that actually fall for the Nigerian scams.

[Shaka Zulu]

There's actually people who have fun with playing around and catching these guys, civilians who out them by tricking them, or online detectives. The result of it all are pretty hilarious.


The scammers(who are run and funded by real crime organisations, can you believe the russian mob starts stuff like this in africa, haha) are allways retarded, but they atleast TRY, this one doesnt seem to at all. Ameteur...

[MsNomer]

There's actually people who have fun with playing around and catching these guys, civilians who out them by tricking them, or online detectives. The result of it all are pretty hilarious.


The scammers(who are run and funded by real crime organisations, can you believe the russian mob starts stuff like this in africa, haha) are allways retarded, but they atleast TRY, this one doesnt seem to at all. Ameteur...

I don't know Shaka Zulu... all the offers of marriage and requests for help with these sort of financial transactions I get always look like this.

[Shaka Zulu]

Mostly yeah, but they usually have some hook to draw in the retards of the world, this doesnt at all. How is it tempting the retards? Total newbs compared to other scams I read.

[Buzkashi]

Wait..

I wasnt supposed to give them my account information?

>_>

[Starnum]

Heh, yeah, I've gotten that email too. What a scam.

[dialdfordesi]

I hear that some of them look way authentic. They even use the bank header images in emails and all that jazz, so I guess you have individuals at all ends of the intelligence spectrum who email scam poor saps.

[Tonbo]

There's actually people who have fun with playing around and catching these guys, civilians who out them by tricking them, or online detectives. The result of it all are pretty hilarious.

Haha, yeah... this story of the scammer scammed was pretty funny. I remembered reading it a while back.

http://www.419eater.com/html/okorie.htm

[uncempt]

I heard of a much better email scam recently. Some Japanese guy sent out a bunch of email to random women, saying he had naked photos of them and would put them on the internet unless... they sent him naked photos of themselves. And apparently a number of them did before he got picked up by police. I'll post a link to the story if i can find it again...

[Starnum]

That's retarded. Why would he need naked photos of you, if he already has some. Only a moron would fall for that.

[Deathbringer]

That's retarded. Why would he need naked photos of you, if he already has some. Only a moron would fall for that.

He probably saw that in an hentai and thought to give it a go. Because the best place to base a real life scam is a japanese porn comic.

[Fuji Nagase]

::nods::

[MrFelony]

so i just got this email

Notification of Tax Refund on your VISA or MasterCard Now,

> After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a
tax refund of $203.59.

>A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

> Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.

> To access the form for your tax refund please copy/paste the link below in your browser (or click the link below).

http://tadohb.notlong.com

> Note: For security reasons, we will record your ip-address, the date and time.
Deliberate wrong inputs are criminally pursued and indicated.

Regards,
Internal Revenue Service

© Copyright 2008, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A.

I dont think i even made almost $200 last year

[Eldo]

I had this email followup:

OFFICE OF THE SENATE HOUSE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT
RESOLUTION PANEL ON CONTRACT PAYMENT
GARKI-ABUJA NIGERIA.
mrmusamorris1@yahoo.gr

Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB
Your Ref

THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE VERIFIED YOUR INHERITANCE
FILE AND FOUND OUT THAT WHY YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR PAYMENT IS
BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT FULFILLED THE OBLIGATIONS GIVEN TO YOU IN RESPECT OF YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE PAYMENT.

SECONDLY WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT YOU ARE STILL DEALING WITH THE NONE OFFICIALS IN THE BANK YOUR ENTIRE ATTEMPT TO SECURE THE RELEASE OF THEFUND TO YOU. WE WISH TO ADVISE YOU THAT SUCH AN ILLEGAL ACT LIKE THESE HAVE TO STOP IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT SINCE WE HAVE DECIDED TO BRING A SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM. RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ARRANGED YOUR PAYMENT THROUGH OUR SWIFT CARD PAYMENT
CENTER ASIA PACIFIC THAT IS THE LATEST INSTRUCTION FROM MR.PRESIDENT,UMARU YAR'ADUA (GCFR) FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND FBI.(FEDERAL BEAREAU OF INVESTIGATION)

THIS CARD CENTER WILL SEND YOU AN ATM CARD WHICH YOU WILL USE TO WITHDRAW YOUR MONEY IN ANY ATM MACHINE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, BUT THE MAXIMUM IS TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($10,000.00USD)PER DAY, SO IF YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE YOUR FUND THIS WAY PLEASE LET US KNOW BY CONTACTING THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDS DEPARTMENT CARD PAYMENT CENTER.

MR.Mr Musa Morris ON HIS EMAIL :mrmusamorris1@yahoo.gr
AND ALSO SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

1. YOUR FULL NAME:
2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER:
3. ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT YOUR CARD TO BE POSTED TO:
4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION:

THE ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER HAS BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT USD2.5MILLION AS PART PAYMENT FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR 2008. ALSO FOR YOUR INFORMATION, YOU HAVE TO STOP ANY FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH ANY OTHER PERSON(S) OR OFFICE(S) TO AVOID ANY HITCHES IN RECEIVING YOUR PAYMENT. FOR ORAL DISCUSSION, EMAIL ME BACK AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR FURTHER DIRECTION AND ALSO UPDATE ME ON
ANY DEVELOPMENT FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED OFFICE. NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF
IMPOSTORS, WE HEREBY ISSUED YOU

OUR CODE OF CONDUCT, WHICH IS (ATM-822) SO YOU HAVE TO INDICATE THIS
CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE CARD CENTER BY USING IT AS YOUR SUBJECT.

KINDEST REGARDS,

Barr. Bola Ige.
SENATE PRESIDENT
+234-8028163825

And also, I was almost tempted to click on the link in Felony's post out of reflex, but then rationality kicked in and luckily didn't.

[Aetherfukz]

LOL @ Capslock Spammail... that has to be one of the worst attempts to fake an organisation ever.

[MrFelony]

i dont know where that link goes, but am not willing to click it either. I was kinda hoping someone here would click it for us lol

[The Prince]

i dont know where that link goes, but am not willing to click it either. I was kinda hoping someone here would click it for us lol

Don't do it....all you get is a THANK YOU pop-up, and are redirected to a site asking you to refine your search.

And despite refining my search, I can't get back to that THANK YOU page for the life of me.....???????

[War Machine]

Damn, now I wanna click it.

[MrFelony]

that has to be one of the worst attempts to fake an orgasm ever.

I believe Lordmune faking for buzz came in 2nd. ba-da-ching

[The Prince]

that has to be one of the worst attempts to fake an orgasm ever.

I believe Lordmune faking for buzz came in 2nd. ba-da-ching

Huh?

[MrFelony]

i was saying that lordmune faked an orgasm for buzkashi, and then i made a pun by saying came