My First African Moeny Scam EMail!!

dimerocks

I just received my first ever money scam email and to be honest I'm delighted. This fella has 10.5 million dollars for me, what a nice bloke. Anyway in his own words his father was assasinated to death whilst he was the military president of the ivory coast. sweet!!
so i propose to you how will i go about winding this guy up??

g-cad

bont waste your time ,, concider your self lucky its your first,,,think about this asshole realising ur mail account is live ,, t

g-cad

**** i cant spell

TerrorFirmer

Tell him you're the one that killed his father

xzanti

dimerocks wrote:

I just received my first ever money scam email and to be honest I'm delighted. This fella has 10.5 million dollars for me, what a nice bloke. Anyway in his own words his father was assasinated to death whilst he was the military president of the ivory coast. sweet!!
so i propose to you how will i go about winding this guy up??

ROFL

Tobias Greeshman

I must get one a month in my yahoo email. Normally get South African President died naturally and wanting to put the usual 10million in my account, yours got assassinated did he?? Ah well these boys are becoming a bit creative in there old age, aint that nice.

Setun

That's funny, about a year ago I got one in my old account saying:

A long-lost relative of yours has just died in a bus crash in South Africa. You are the only surviving heir on the will. There is $8.5 million dollars waiting for you, just send $1000 to cover legal fees and the money is yours

blah blah.

Seriously though? How many people do they con out of it?

WhiteWashMan

dimerocks wrote:

I just received my first ever money scam email and to be honest I'm delighted. This fella has 10.5 million dollars for me, what a nice bloke. Anyway in his own words his father was assasinated to death whilst he was the military president of the ivory coast. sweet!!
so i propose to you how will i go about winding this guy up??

welcome to email


by the way, you wont actually get to meet any of those horny girls, you probably wont get that honorary degree, you could try the dental insurance, but i wouldnt advise it, you probably dont need the viagra or other medication that is always on offer, i dont think a penis enhancement will make your life better, you wont get any weightlose over the internet, no one actually found your money, and you are probably too young to be worried about getting an unsecured mastercard..............

Frank Spencer

For answers to all your questions check out http://www.419eater.com/

StupidLikeAFox

dont forget the cheap rolex!

flogen

Daddio wrote:

That's funny, about a year ago I got one in my old account saying:

A long-lost relative of yours has just died in a bus crash in South Africa. You are the only surviving heir on the will. There is $8.5 million dollars waiting for you, just send $1000 to cover legal fees and the money is yours

blah blah.

Seriously though? How many people do they con out of it?

They only need 1 to make it worth their while.

I say you tell him that you would give him the money but you support non-violent peaceful political discourse and so disagree inherently with a military dictatorship. That and you're poor.

ianmc38

MobileInfantry wrote:

Tell him you're the one that killed his father

Brilliant. I second that motion.

hit_the_decK

i got one before and gave him bertie ahearns office address
he seems to love giving them money .........................

Binomate

http://www.geocities.com/got_mike2004/

A friend of mine scams scammers. There are some good ones on that site.

astrofool

as said before, use a temp email, or you'll get alot more spam to that address

whiskeyman

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3887493.stm

connundrum

ianmc38 wrote:

Brilliant. I second that motion.

Or... you could tell him that you're his actual biological father, and that the assasinated man was merely an imposter - then you could ask him for $1000 dollars for a plane ticket so you can go over and visit your long lost son!

I see no fault with my plan!

Archeron

MobileInfantry wrote:

Tell him you're the one that killed his father

LOL. Then go on to say that this just proves that it really is a smal world!!

RoundyMooney

Firstly, do not even think of baiting him from any address from which he can get your name or any contact details... Keep the address he uses, set up a nice anonymous hotmail account, and bait away! The first couple of mails will be scripted anyway, so just play along, short replies are best, 4 or 5 mails in, the requests for funds will start, or you'll be passed to a barrister/lawyer/security company (which may or may not be the same "mugu" << (nigerian slang for the victim/ means fool-baiters refer to scammers as "mugu/ maga").

Above all, be safe, never give out personal info, never do more work than the mugu, and remember that the more of their time you waste, the less time they have to scam some other guy.

The advance fee fraud epidemic and variations such as phishing et al., are responsible for the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars per annum. Hotspots for efraud include Nigeria, Romania, and Bangladesh. However, a scammer can *be* anywhere even though he probably belongs to one of the above demographics.

And yes, people still fall for this crap...

As someone else said, quite eloquently, Welcome to email!

muckwarrior

dimerocks wrote:

his father was assasinated to death

LMFAO! Reminds me of that bit in hot shots: "I shall kill you til you die from it!"

RoundyMooney

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Cue some of the bleeding heart brigade around here to say, "Well they only do it because they're starving"

Ah bless, they can afford to sit in a cafe all day with a satellite hook-up to some Israeli IP, but they can't afford to work...

F**k em...

Devon

Buck_Naked wrote:

For answers to all your questions check out http://www.419eater.com/

Beat me to it... while you're there take a look at the letters archive and see the hoops he has these scummers (not a typo) jumping through because they think they're onto a winner... priceless!

Sarsfield

I think it's 419eater that has the "Butch Driveshaft" audios on it. "Butch" being the scambaiter who winds up the scammers over the phone. Some of them are hilarious (but with foul language - not work friendly!)

RoundyMooney

jerryadams wrote:

Beat me to it... while you're there take a look at the letters archive and see the hoops he has these scummers (not a typo) jumping through because they think they're onto a winner... priceless!

If ye have a few hours to kill, have a look at www.thescambaiter.com

Also a few brilliant baits there, check out Cole V.1.0 and the others...

*edit*
@yourself above; the Butch Driveshaft Freight baits and phone calls are on thescambaiter

Butch's alter ego theFailure owns the site. IMHO it is a much more open community than the 419eater, although bith have a noble aim...

cooperguy

Definatly email him back and ask for the account details to send on the money and keep stringing him along

Atrocity

Funniest thread I've seen in all my time here. Assassinated to death ha ha

Atrocity

Sorry to double post, but I've got a friend in 3rd year Government & Public Policy. He swears to this day that they studied about a President Banana who was overthrown. He might have been the Ugandan president. Anyway, it's damn funny.

spiderlegs

Atrocity wrote:

Sorry to double post, but I've got a friend in 3rd year Government & Public Policy. He swears to this day that they studied about a President Banana who was overthrown. He might have been the Ugandan president. Anyway, it's damn funny.

Haha wasn't gonna post here but the banana thing was just too good not to comment on. :rolleyes:

GLaDOS

Daddio wrote:

That's funny, about a year ago I got one in my old account saying:

A long-lost relative of yours has just died in a bus crash in South Africa. You are the only surviving heir on the will. There is $8.5 million dollars waiting for you, just send $1000 to cover legal fees and the money is yours

blah blah.

Seriously though? How many people do they con out of it?

It wasn't a con, i got the same e-mail now I'm rich, I'll prove it to you, just send me €1000 to cover travel expenses...

Mr.Nice Guy

One of the links said Americans are conned out of $200m a year from these things. I can't say I'm surprised. I was chatting online with some American girl one time and she said she had been scammed out of money by this guy from Nigeria. When I asked why she agreed to send the money she said it was because he told her his father was dying and he was going through a rough time.

You just can't trust anyone out there in cyber space...

Atrocity

There's always enough gullible people to make these things profitable.

RoundyMooney

Atrocity wrote:

There's always enough gullible people to make these things profitable.

How true. Darwinism at its finest... *sigh*

I'm amazed at the otherwise commonsense people I and others come across who are *vehement* that Governer Charlie Soludo and Mariam Abacha are genuine people... and not seventeen year old proverbial monkeys on typewriters

Sarsfield

Atrocity wrote:

Sorry to double post, but I've got a friend in 3rd year Government & Public Policy. He swears to this day that they studied about a President Banana who was overthrown. He might have been the Ugandan president. Anyway, it's damn funny.

Canaan Banana - First black Zimbabwean President.

His obituary

RoundyMooney

Atrocity wrote:

Sorry to double post, but I've got a friend in 3rd year Government & Public Policy. He swears to this day that they studied about a President Banana who was overthrown. He might have been the Ugandan president. Anyway, it's damn funny.

You are correct. It gets better though. Apparently said President Canaan Banana was charged with 11 counts of sodomy!

More here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/222476.stm

Atrocity

Ha ha brilliant! I never actually imagined that this guy existed for real.
President Banana.. You couldn't write this stuff. It sounds like a fruit drink from Lidl!

Banana had had an honourable career as an opponent of the Smith regime, and as a radical theologian

Oh my god, I can't believe it.
They caught him for sodomy? He's lucky they didn't skin him

ZING

he had been systematically raped and sodomised by Banana over a three-year period when Banana was president

I think I just wet my pants.

RoundyMooney

Atrocity wrote:

President Banana.. You couldn't write this stuff. It sounds like a fruit drink from Lidl!

You could probably buy the real Banana for less though...

dimerocks

President Banna?maybe i should tell him that i am a rdescendant of President Bannana in Uganda. i think ill set up a joke email account next week.
i cant believe in years of web use i ave never received one until today. it's crazy but fun. i feel like my 2 year internet initiation period is finally over now!

spiderlegs

Oh jesus ....youre mate wasn't imagining things about banana presidents...it makes it even funnier..oh god....:D

dr zoidberg

My college email gets inundated with this crap, never had it in other mail accounts.

dimerocks wrote:

i cant believe in years of web use i ave never received one until today. it's crazy but fun. i feel like my 2 year internet initiation period is finally over now!

eh, congratulations with that then:p

RoundyMooney

spiderlegs wrote:

Oh jesus ....youre mate wasn't imagining things about banana presidents...it makes it even funnier..oh god....:D

...and they said banana republics were a myth...

spiderlegs

Hahaha!! God, I'd forgotten all about that
Still though...a mr banana...*snigger*

RoundyMooney

You can imagine the conversation in the corridor(s) of power in Zimbabwe;

"Banana is coming, bend over n' look busy...!"

damienom

Afternoon all,

Work as a freelance radio producer, did a thing for RTE Radio1 a couple of months back, we followed up one of these scams, worth a listen

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/netnanny/rams/s2p1_2.smil

RoundyMooney

^^^

Thank you sir. Anything that raises awareness of this is a good thing.

Chances are the C'ote D'Ivoire individual was a Nigerian, they usually are ;-)

"Linda" sounded lovely didn't (s)he?

Mind if I link this to www.thescambaiter.com ?

spiderlegs

RoundyMooney wrote:

You can imagine the conversation in the corridor(s) of power in Zimbabwe;

"Banana is coming, bend over n' look busy...!"

Someone get me banana!! Not an actual banana goddammit!!
Oh the jokes I could make...I'd be here all day.

RoundyMooney

spiderlegs wrote:

Someone get me banana!! Not an actual banana goddammit!!
Oh the jokes I could make...I'd be here all day.

*Peeling one...*

"One skin...two skin...three skin...oh jaysus!!!"

BigArnie

dimerocks wrote:

his father was assasinated to death

ROFLMFAO.

I was assassinated once but they didn't kill me.

Atrocity

I'll get you yet BigArnie

damienom

RoundyMooney wrote:

"Linda" sounded lovely didn't (s)he ?

You should have seen the pics they sent us, very nice indeed!!

BigArnie

Atrocity wrote:

I'll get you yet BigArnie

Bring it on

Atrocity

You are proving a worthy opponent.
However, I beg you to reconsider, for if you do not surrender I have no choice but to unleash the wrath of General Banana