West African Email Scams.

stevoman · 21-05-2008 11:20AM #1

I have sold one or two cars this year through carzone and found it excellent to sell your car through. What annoys me though is the emails you recive from scammers on the west coast of africa trying to get you to lodge and send cheques to them so they can bend you over and give to you Nigerian style.

I get my kicks out of stringing them along giving false details right up until the point that they actaully think that they are gonna strike it rich and then as my last email i fill it with so much abuse i beleive i almost make them cry.

has anybody else had any dealing with these idoits?

biko · 21-05-2008 11:22AM

Nope, never heard of 419 scam ever.

mookishboy · 21-05-2008 11:29AM

These guys scam the scammer
http://419eater.com/

Gone West · 21-05-2008 11:29AM

A mate of mine was selling a laptop on ebay. He said he was going to post a laptop to one of them but he'd need a cheque first obviously. He got a fake cheque, cashed it out(€3k), didn't send the "change" by WU to the nigerian, and posted him a shoebox that he took a dump in, as well as signing him up for free incontency pants off the interblag somewhere.

Got some **** from the bank, but they let him off with it, as it was obvious it was the nigerian scammers again.

Sherifu · 21-05-2008 11:31AM

Wow, a scam baiter. Cool.

chopperbyrne · 21-05-2008 11:32AM

Saw this one the other day:

From: Barr. Mohammed Ali [mailto:ken-velo@freenet.de]
Sent: 20 May 2008 03:48
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL, From Barrister Mohammed Ali

My name is Mr. Mohammed Ali I am a legal practitioner Mohammed Ali Chamber in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

I saw your contact and profile I decided that you could cooperate with me in this proposition.

I have a client who was deceased in November, 2001, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I am contacting you because you have the same surname as my deceased client and I felt that you could help me in the distribution of funding that were left in my deceased client's bank account. This funding is closed to be declared UN-serviceable by the bank as there were no indicated next of kin or next of beneficiary of the funding in the bank account.

The total amount of cash in the bank account of my deceased client is US$8.7 Million (Say, Eight Million, Seven Hundred Thousand US$), only.

The bank had issued to me a notification to contact the next of kin of my deceased client for either to re-activate the bank account or to make claim of beneficiary, of the funding in the bank account, with a month surcharge of 6% to be deducted as an Escrow safe keeping fee of the bank account, so as to avoid the indefinite closure of the bank account.

My proposition to you is to seek your consent, and to present your kind self as the next-of-kin and beneficiary of my deceased client, since you have the same last name with him.

This means that the proceeds of his bank account would be paid to you as his next of kin or the legitimate beneficiary. When the proceeds in his bank account are paid to you, we will share the proceeds on a mutually agreed-upon percentage of 60% to me and 40% to your kind self.

All the legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next-of-kin would be provided by me.

The most important thing I would need is your honest cooperation to in this proposition. This will be done under a legitimate arrangement that would protect you from any breach of the law.

If this business proposition offends your moral and ethic values, do accept my sincere apology. Please contact me at once if you're interested by replying the mail and ignore it if you are not.

Best regards,
Mr. Mohammed Ali Esq.

Ali has fallen from grace!

Gone West · 21-05-2008 11:35AM

ohh dont start posting them here.
Our email filters them out so we dont have to look at them, why should we here!

kerash · 21-05-2008 12:09PM

done

MIN2511 · 21-05-2008 12:14PM

True i get them all the time!

Sir/Madam
blah blah blah...................

There was a time i would receive fax calls on my mobile and someone would say "Madam, can you turn on you fax machine"
I enjoyed winding them up too

stevoman · 21-05-2008 03:50PM

what a fun day! I have been winding them up all day! I said to him i received his cheque (even though i gave false address) and he wanted me to send him back €1000 to his shipping compnay in nigeria. I then emailed him back saying i was keeping all the money for myself as the cheque cleared. he then panicked and got ratty and asked me for my phone number. i then gave him the phone number for a local garda station. what fun!!!!!!

Latchy · 21-05-2008 03:52PM

The nigerian email scams have being going for many years now .Could easy fool an unsuspecting innocent into falling for them ,hopefully not

21-05-2008 04:00PM

My filters keep them out, so it was amusing to see one here.

Latchy · 21-05-2008 04:08PM

It's like those rip of letters from companys telling you you have won a major prize and for you to phone this number

calls cost £1 .50 per minute and will last no longer than 6 minutes .If they only get 1000 out of a possible 100,000 ringing in for the prize then they are quids in ,and guess what ? 99 time out of 100 some there is no prize or somthing you can buy in a cheap £ shop .The tv companys with their phone in shows are the biggest rip offs of the lot, encouraging people to ring up when the prize has already being won .

pljudge321 · 21-05-2008 04:24PM

stevoman wrote: »

what a fun day! I have been winding them up all day! I said to him i received his cheque (even though i gave false address) and he wanted me to send him back €1000 to his shipping compnay in nigeria. I then emailed him back saying i was keeping all the money for myself as the cheque cleared. he then panicked and got ratty and asked me for my phone number. i then gave him the phone number for a local garda station. what fun!!!!!!

You should try get two scammers on the phone to each other, ala the classic chinese take-away gag.

Gummy Panda · 21-05-2008 04:48PM

Wasn't there a thread before of a scam being turned around back on the scammers. It started on a different forum and ended up with a worldwide effort. The scammers were tracked down to some ****ty barber shop in london i think.

/goes off to find story

Degsy · 21-05-2008 05:09PM

Check this one out
http://419eater.com/html/video.htm
They get a guy to travel from australia to Dublin whereby the sammer is arrested by irish detectives!!Well done the filth!

elmolesto · 21-05-2008 05:14PM

I never heard of that scam

Maximilian · 21-05-2008 05:28PM

I think its the bad English that really cracks me up with these emails. You just couldn't write this stuff. Eg

chopperbyrne wrote: »

...I have a client who was deceased in November, 2001, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia....

Was? Is no longer?

chopperbyrne wrote: »

The total amount of cash in the bank account of my deceased client is US$8.7 Million (Say, Eight Million, Seven Hundred Thousand US$), only.

Only? OMG this guy considers that amount of money minor. This must be legit!

connundrum · 21-05-2008 05:45PM

Fuckin fordiners :rolleyes:

King of Kings · 21-05-2008 05:52PM

but she was hot and offering marriage!!!!

Eoin · 21-05-2008 06:43PM

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Wasn't there a thread before of a scam being turned around back on the scammers. It started on a different forum and ended up with a worldwide effort. The scammers were tracked down to some ****ty barber shop in london i think.

/goes off to find story

Here you go - very funny stuff.

Homer · 21-05-2008 06:53PM

This is one of my personal favourites!!

They string the scammer along telling them that their company is conducting a very important 4 year long research project on Advanced Handwriting Recognition and Graphology systems.

They then manage to get the scammers (on the premise that they will pay them handsomely for each page transcribed) to manually handwrite an entire harry potter book and scan in each page and email it to them for verification before they will send the money to the scammers!!

Pure class!

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

Lockstep · 21-05-2008 07:00PM

I still like the story where they tell a guy he can only recieve money if he joins their religion.

He ends up with a big massive tattoo as part of the initiatian.

Genius.

bronte · 21-05-2008 07:07PM

stevoman wrote: »

I have sold one or two cars this year through carzone and found it excellent to sell your car through. What annoys me though is the emails you recive from scammers on the west coast of africa trying to get you to lodge and send cheques to them so they can bend you over and give to you Nigerian style.

I get my kicks out of stringing them along giving false details right up until the point that they actaully think that they are gonna strike it rich and then as my last email i fill it with so much abuse i beleive i almost make them cry.

has anybody else had any dealing with these idoits?

I scambaited a fellow for 3mths last summer.
He professed his undying love for me , and wanted to visit me but needed money to do so (yawn)
Kinda missed the emails after a while, they were funny!

Lockstep · 22-05-2008 02:20PM

bronte wrote: »

I scambaited a fellow for 3mths last summer.
He professed his undying love for me , and wanted to visit me but needed money to do so (yawn)
Kinda missed the emails after a while, they were funny!

Well aren't we miss popular:p

Latchy · 22-05-2008 04:07PM

A lot of lonley females out there just waiting for mr right (for all the wrong reasons ) to come and part them from there money .Reading a few weeks ago in the daily mail about one guy who scamed several women out of a total of nearly a million £ and $ over a period of several years .He managed to have relationships with all 3 women ,one who lived in the states and convinced them he was from a very wealthy Sudai arabian family and stood to inherit a massive fortune .His good looks and upper class plummy accent went some way to impressing the ladies .

In reality was he a pennyless immigrant who lived in a council house .

(Would be funny if it wasn't so sad

)

A fool and his/her money are easy parted

Miguel_Sanchez · 22-05-2008 04:48PM

I'm normally loathe to do this but this one really cracked me up:

DEAR SIR,

I AM MR BERTIE AHERN, THE FORMER IRISH PRIME MINISTER. I HAVE IN MY
POSSESSION THE SUM OF 45,000 UNITED STATE DOLLARS (OR WAS IT 30,000 GREAT
BRITAIN POUNDS, OR MAYBE IT WAS IRISH POUNDS - MY FORGETTING IN THIS IS
COMMONE), AND THE TOP LIST OF MY PRIORITY IS WHERE TO INVEST THIS MONEY
OUTSIDE MY COUNTRY.

"REASON BEST KNOWN TO ME".I URGENTLY NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE IN PROVIDING A
RELIABLE GENUINE TRADE OR COMPANY WHERE I CAN INVEST THE FUND AND
IMMEDIATELY MEET YOU IN YOUR COUNTRY FOR SETTLEMENT.
PLEASE I WILL KINDLY WELCOME YOUR ADVICE TOO.

I AM EXPECTING YOUR URGENT MAIL RESPONSE. I NEED YOUR SUPPORT AND
SERIOUSNESS. I AM PRESENTLY ON EXILE IN DRUMCONDRA WITH MY BROTHER NOEL
AFTER THE COWENISTAS ASKED ME TO RESIGN AS THE PRIME MINISTER OF IRELAND.
YOUR URGENT RESPONSE IS EXPECTED. SEND YOUR CONFIDENTIAL PHONE NUMBER SO
THAT I CAN REACH YOU WHEN NECCESSARY.SEND YOUR RELY TO MY CONFIDENTIAL BOX:
ELBERTO@FAGANS.IE

MR BARTHOLEMEW 'BERTIE' AHERN

C/O ST LUKE'S

DRUMCONDRA, DUBLIN 9

Maximilian · 22-05-2008 06:45PM

That's classic!

Overheal · 22-05-2008 07:58PM

ah yes 419eater.com has done the rounds on AH a few times.

a lot of those stories on that site a terribly long-winded though to the point where that guy needs a real hobby.

Sofaspud · 22-05-2008 09:05PM

My favourite is the one where he they got the scammers to record themselves reenacting the dead parrot sketch!

El Weirdo · 22-05-2008 09:33PM

Or the one where the scammer ends up sending mp3s of himself reading The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy totalling 8hrs... Mug.:D

West African Email Scams.

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