African offering me €18m. Humourous people needed

O'Coonassa · 22-04-2009 01:29AM

shreddedloops wrote: »

Are you actually condoning (spelling??) these scams?? :eek:

In general I am most certainly. Please don't be shocked I'm from a bad line. Certain ancestors of mine from Wexford were involved in misguiding and wrecking ships off the coast. Still others from a line in Limerick were deported for the crime of stealing livestock. Bad genes you see

When the Aristocrats were the only ones with Education and Money we cheated them, stole from them, and lied to them at every chance we got. Nowday's I may well spend the equivalent of a mans entire days wages on a 500ml bottle of water that I could get out of the tap; but I will never think like an Aristocrat and make sport of the poor and uneducated.

The people in Nigeria are struggling to survive as did my ancestors so how can I blame them for fishing for greedy corrupt idiots? Besides, with the help of my Government's business partner I have anyways cheated them all out of hundereds of litres of oil.

AnonoBoy · 22-04-2009 10:03AM

stovelid wrote: »

They invented sarcasm?

Yes. Yes they did.

Babooshka · 22-04-2009 11:45AM

O'Coonassa wrote: »

...but I will never think like an Aristocrat and make sport of the poor and uneducated.

The people in Nigeria are struggling to survive as did my ancestors so how can I blame them for fishing for greedy corrupt idiots? Besides, with the help of my Government's business partner I have anyways cheated them all out of hundereds of litres of oil.

Well, I get what you're saying but two wrongs don't make a right. And it's more likely to be some innocent, but gulllible (ok maybe a bit greedy too) granny who answers those things anyway.

O'Coonassa · 22-04-2009 12:07PM

Babooshka wrote: »

Well, I get what you're saying but two wrongs don't make a right. And it's more likely to be some innocent, but gulllible (ok maybe a bit greedy too) granny who answers those things anyway.

Age should bring wisdom at any rate but mostly the peoples from teh interwebs aren't grannies. In general only relatively rich people with too much money and too little brain get caught out by these scams. I'm not saying that it's right, just that it's entirely understandable given the shoes the scammers are standing in.

MikeC101 · 26-04-2009 03:12PM

O'Coonassa wrote: »

If you're not the greedy eejit he's fishing for then really you should stay out of it (unless of course you have a clear idea of what it's like to survive in a non-welfare state on less than a couple of dollars a day with unemployment running at 30 or 40%)

Are you actually naive enough to believe that the people running these scams are average unemployed Nigerians and not lower level members of organised gangs that also run drug smuggling rings, are involved in human trafficking and prostitution?

upmeath · 26-04-2009 03:21PM

Was his name George Agdgdgwngo by any chance?

Youtube "Fonejacker George"

OP, Ray Foley on Today FM rings these scammers back every week, if you can get a number for your man in Africa forward it on to Foley and get him to follow it up on national radio, then we can all share in the laughs.

As a side note, none too impressed by your introduction "Nigerian or some **** like that". It's only 30 years since Irish people, along with Africans, were compared to dogs when applying for jobs in the UK.

Purple Gorilla · 26-04-2009 05:49PM

O'Coonassa wrote: »

In general only relatively rich people with too much money and too little brain get caught out by these scams.

Why would a rich person, who already has millions, go for a scam like this?

leitrim lad · 26-04-2009 06:23PM

the recession must be hitting the nigerians aswell they emailed me last year looking to give me 110m dollars out of a will, if i said i was related to muka taka yoba who ever he was

dj barr st louis was this blokes solicitors apparently, they wanted to meet me in johanesburg and insisted i brought €35,000 cash to cover legal fees, in good faith of course

i emailed them back and told them that my own solicitors would look after it for me , but i told them thanks any way ,we were well able to read a will here in ireland we didnt need ,continental solicitors

they didnt take it too funny, infact the opposite

Capt'n Midnight · 26-04-2009 06:35PM

leitrim lad wrote: »

the recession must be hitting the nigerians aswell they emailed me last year looking to give me 110m dollars out of a will, if i said i was related to muka taka yoba who ever he was

Nooo !!!!!!

Please, please , please tell me that Great-Uncle Yoba is OK :eek:

galwayrush · 26-04-2009 06:38PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Nooo !!!!!!

Please, please , please tell me that Great-Uncle Yoba is OK :eek:

Oh feck, you haven't heard, afraid he died in a plane crash. Highly suspicious apparently.

leitrim lad · 26-04-2009 06:56PM

so it was probably you 2 that i saw at the funeral then was it ,i didnt realise i had cousins on the boards.

and i guess you got the call via email at 3.45 am about the plane crash aswell , a great way to be told your going to be on the rich list
great uncle muka taba yoba is dead and your now worth 110m dollars if you give me the other half and 35k in good faith

Jet Black · 26-04-2009 07:01PM

Be careful, a lot of people ignore these emails and could be losing out on millions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Br6dK5yZQk

johnathan woss · 26-04-2009 08:48PM

O'Coonassa wrote: »

In general I am most certainly. Please don't be shocked I'm from a bad line. Certain ancestors of mine from Wexford were involved in misguiding and wrecking ships off the coast. Still others from a line in Limerick were deported for the crime of stealing livestock. Bad genes you see

When the Aristocrats were the only ones with Education and Money we cheated them, stole from them, and lied to them at every chance we got. Nowday's I may well spend the equivalent of a mans entire days wages on a 500ml bottle of water that I could get out of the tap; but I will never think like an Aristocrat and make sport of the poor and uneducated.

The people in Nigeria are struggling to survive as did my ancestors so how can I blame them for fishing for greedy corrupt idiots? Besides, with the help of my Government's business partner I have anyways cheated them all out of hundereds of litres of oil.

Well done that's the most unintentionally funny thing I've read in ages (if you're fishing I was caught) ! :pac:

Insect Overlord · 14-05-2009 06:40PM

Sorry to bump an old thread, but anywho:

URGENT CALL TO SERVE‏
From: mrdmalloy054@libero.it (mrdmalloy054@libero.it)
Medium riskYou may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as junk
Sent: 14 May 2009 17:20:25
To: mrdmalloy054@libero.it

Greetings dearly beloved!

My name is Donald Malloy; I am 55 years old white
farmer and hold a dual Nationality as Zimbabwean and British. My wife and two
children died in a car accident two years ago while on holiday in Egypt. Since
I have no children of my own and immediate relatives, I decided to ask for your
help in this project. I have been helping orphans and children in orphanage
homes by donating money and other valuable items.

Presently, I am receiving
intensive treatment having been diagnosed of cancer of the lungs and my doctors
told me that I have few months to live. Before I became ill, I saved the sum of
(US$3,350,000) which was derived from the sales of my farm, real estates and
gulf court with a private security & deposit company. I wanted to use it for an
urgent investment requiring cash payment in Europe because of the problem white
farmers were having in Zimbabwe with the government and the black locals which
lead to the killing and destruction of properties of some unlucky once.

I am
by this letter nominating you as the new beneficiary to collect the fund from
the company. After which you will donate on my behalf part of the fund to
charity and orphanage homes of your choice around the world.

I believe you can
be trusted for this task for the service of humanity and glory to God. I
authorize you to take 20% of the total sum for you and your family and use the
rest to touch the lives of the less privilege.

If you are willing and capable
to carry out this project, please email me back with your names, address,
occupation and phone to enable me send an official notification power of
attorney to the security company notifying them of your new status as the
beneficiary/trustee of the fund.

Kindly get back to me on my email address
mrdmalloy@hotmail.com ONLY if you are able to handle this project for the
service to humanity or you may call me.

I await your urgent response

Yours
sincerely,

Mr. Donald Malloy
+44 7045702210
Email: mrdmalloy@hotmail.com

Here's a new one to watch out for.

stepbar · 14-05-2009 09:40PM

OP, you should tell the scammer than you got a better offer and have decided to go with him.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-05-2009 01:22AM

An File wrote: »

Sorry to bump an old thread, but anywho:

Here's a new one to watch out for.

You should comment on what a great idea this is and how you have a terminal disease, like Cirrhosis and would like to do the same in the time you have left and when they find someone would they like to take care of your money too

15-05-2009 01:37AM

You should reply and tell him your having some difficulty at the moment with your bank as a Ugandan prime minister has just deposited 150million dollars into your bank and the bank are becoming suspicious,ask him for his details so you can offload it to "rest" in his account and as a good will jester he can keep the interest gained.

Then tell him to pass it on to 10 people within a second or he'll choke on the third Sunday of June whislt riding a unicycle dressed as a girl.

Kold · 15-05-2009 02:04AM

Don't use code tags =/

Sofiztikated · 15-05-2009 09:53AM

Aw, wish I was that lucky.
Seems like everyone is getting all this money, and noone is giving any to me.

O'Coonassa · 15-05-2009 10:11AM

Purple Gorilla wrote: »

Why would a rich person, who already has millions, go for a scam like this?

Just by virtue of the fact you're living in the west and using a PC to regularly pick up e-mail that makes you rich beyond the wildest dreams of most of your fellow humans on Earth. Poor people don't have any spare money to sling around, they need to use it right away to stop themselves from starving.

ScumLord · 15-05-2009 10:53AM

You should really just ignore the email, all your doing is confirming that theirs a real person at that email address and he's biting. You'll probably be passed onto much better Nigerian scammers. I hear some of those guys can change shape and read peoples minds.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-05-2009 11:40AM

O'Coonassa wrote: »

Just by virtue of the fact you're living in the west and using a PC to regularly pick up e-mail that makes you rich beyond the wildest dreams of most of your fellow humans on Earth. Poor people don't have any spare money to sling around, they need to use it right away to stop themselves from starving.

poor people are most likely to be taken in by get rich schemes because they are desperate

look at the Lotto here, I know of people who saved up £100 for the ESB and spent it on lottery tickets. 60% of the worlds population have a mobile phone so there are a lot of people out there with some money

O'Coonassa · 15-05-2009 01:50PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

poor people are most likely to be taken in by get rich schemes because they are desperate

look at the Lotto here, I know of people who saved up £100 for the ESB and spent it on lottery tickets. 60% of the worlds population have a mobile phone so there are a lot of people out there with some money

There's a big difference between being relatively poor and absolutely poor. I've been unfortunate enough to have been on the dole in the past. Even then I was only relatively poor compared to other people in this country but I was living in absolute luxury compared to most people on the planet. Even so I couldn't have afforded the fees that the scammers are asking.

Anybody who spends their ESB money on lotto tickets or falls for one of these scams is a greedy idiot IMO. I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for them tbh. If we lived in the wild they'd have died out long ago.

As for phones I know plenty of guys who've parted with one or two months wages in order to own some old clapped out second hand model like a 3310. Not all phones are equal.

LaMer · 15-05-2009 01:57PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

60% of the worlds population have a mobile phone so there are a lot of people out there with some money

That is pretty nonsense. In 3rd World countries phones are pretty cheap second hand etc. That's where some of the 'recycled' phones from here go. I've seen it first hand, people in shantys don't have land lines, so the government is happy enough that they have cheap mobiles and a couple of cheap mobile networks, cheaper for the govt than putting up telephone wires, assigning numbers, blah blah.

O'Coonassa · 15-05-2009 10:58PM

LaMer wrote: »

I've seen it first hand, people in shantys don't have land lines, so the government is happy enough that they have cheap mobiles and a couple of cheap mobile networks, cheaper for the govt than putting up telephone wires, assigning numbers, blah blah.

lol African oligarchs backed up by western moneymen are charging the absolute maximum and milking the people along with their chums in government. The phones that go second hand in the southern half may seem cheap to you but they are not cheap. The very cheapest you'll get is around a months wages for somebody like a waitress or a security guard. The networks like MTN are vampires, so are the governments that we support and the western moneymen that we bank with.

Graham_B18C · 15-05-2009 11:07PM

I got one of these yesterday from an equally generous Gentleman

Very Generous Man wrote: »

Greetings from Dubai,
This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe
it is only a day that people meet and become great friends
and business partners. I am Mr. Nadeem A. Siddiqui, currently
Head of International Business Officer with a reputable bank
here in U. A. E. I write you this proposal in good faith,
believing that I can trust you with the information I am about
to reveal to you.

I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition
for you. On November 6, 2003, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant
/contractor with the CHEVRON PETROLEUM CORPORATION, MR MOHAMMAD
AL NASSER made a (Fixed deposit) for 36 calendar months, valued
at US$17,500,000.00 (seventeen Million Five hundred Thousand
Dollars only) in my bank and I happen to be his account officer
before I was moved to my present position recently. Upon
Maturity in 2006, as his account officer and as well the bank
Manger, it is my duty to notify him on the maturity date so I
sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but the
letter was returned undelivered.

After sometime, I tried sending back the letter, but it was
again returned and finally I discovered from his contract
employers, Chevron Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Mohammad Al
Nasser died as a result of torture in the hand of Saddam
Hussein (former Iraqi President) during one of his trips to
his country Iraq, as he was accused of leaking information
to the Americans. On further investigation, I discovered
that Mr. Al Nasser's family wife and two sons died during
the Gulf War in Iraq and was the reason why he did not declare
any next of kin or relation in all his official documents,
including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank and did not
leave any WILL. This sum of US$17,500,000.00 have been
floating and placed under dormant/unserviceable account by my
bank management since no one have heard from the owner since
2003. I wish to let you know that all the investigation I
have made so far, my bank management is not aware of it, I am
the only one that have the information.

With the recent change of government in my country and with
their efforts to support the United Nations in checkmating
terrorism aid in the U. A. E. By end of this year, the
government will pass a new financial control law which will
give the government authority to interrogate account owners
of above $5,000,000.00 to explain the source of the funds,
making sure it is not for terrorism support. If I do not
move this money out of the country immediately, by end of
the year the government will definitely confiscate the money,
because my bank cannot provide the account owner to explain
the source of the money.

I cannot directly transfer out this money without the help
of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an
assistance. As the Account Officer to late Al Nasser, coupled
with my present position and status in the bank as Chief
Credit & Risk Officer, I have the power to influence the
release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the
next of kin to the account, with the correct information
concerning the account, which I shall give you. All documents
to enable you claim this fund will be carefully worked out and
there is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of law, beside U. A. E is porous and anything
goes.

If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you
wish us to share the funds in percentage, so that both
parties will be satisfied. If you are interested, contact
me as soon as you receive this message so we can go over
the details. Thanking you in advance and may God bless you.
Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I shall send
you copy of the deposit certificate issued to Al Nasser when the
deposit was made for your perusal.
I wait your urgent response.

Regards,

Mr. Nadeem A. Siddiqui.

O'Coonassa · 15-05-2009 11:18PM

lol @ that

The person who would go for that is a bad person.

They deserve to burn and be ruined.

ScumLord · 15-05-2009 11:28PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

poor people are most likely to be taken in by get rich schemes because they are desperate

look at the Lotto here, I know of people who saved up £100 for the ESB and spent it on lottery tickets.

That's just natural selection. Nature will always find a way to **** up the lives of idiots.

Riddle101 · 15-05-2009 11:37PM

I think you should say something like this

Dear Mr Kama

I thank you for your genorosity and i'm sure you're being serious because my friend did something like this a few months ago and got 18 Million US dollars, he's now living the life in Chile and has adviced me to accept your offer as I am infact poor and have no money what so ever, so having a couple of million in my bank account would be great. Please reply back to me, as i'm an very interesd in your offer.

Graham_B18C · 15-05-2009 11:40PM

Riddle101 wrote: »

I think you should say something like this

Dear Mr Kama

I thank you for your genorosity and i'm sure you're being serious because my friend did something like this a few months ago and got 18 Million US dollars, he's now living the life in Chile and has adviced me to accept your offer as I am infact poor and have no money what so ever, so having a couple of million in my bank account would be great. Please reply back to me, as i'm an very interesd in your offer.

I just sent that back to my guy!

African offering me €18m. Humourous people needed

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