So, I recieved a spam email the other day and it is as follows. I always consider it entertainment to screw around with these spammers. I'm a 19 year old , my father died a year ago in a gold mine in Gbangbama district, Republic of Sierra Leone ,He was into legal gold minning, he has succeded in saving $12.8millions dollars during his Business on Gold, before he went on a trip to Republic of Cote d'Ivoire a near by country to our country to save his money for security reasons because of the political problem in our country. We need help from you out there to help us transfer this money to your country for investment and with a sincere mind to invert this money in your country without cheating us or doing bad to us on our arraival, me and my Sister, I'm willing to give the you 15% of the money after the transfer of the money , please mail me immidately to know your stands before looking else where you're the first person i'm contacting relating to this business. Now permit me to ask these few questions:- 1. Can you honestly help us as your son and daughter? 2. Can we completely trust you? Please,Consider this and get back to us as soon as possible. Treat this email confidential and it is never a joke for your information Yours Sincerely. John and Ruth Alouma For the family. I responded with something like this I want to do everything in my power to help. send me an email with what you need. I recieved this email back Dear I thank you very much for your reply and the interest that you showed, I hope that you read and understand the mail that was sent to you before. I will like to give you some more explanation. As I said to you, the money was deposited by our late father before his death. He has deposited the money in this country for security reason as there was political instability in our country. The money was proceeds from the gold business that our father was into. So were quired your assistant to transfer the money to your country where we could invest the money. Our father has informed the bank during the deposit of the money here that the money belonged to his overse as associate and that he should inform the bank the information of his overseas associate. He did this for the securityof the money. We came here to seek for the money while the bank directed us to produce the overseas associate of our father. It is for this reason that we contacted you to stand as the overseas associate of our father so that the bank will release the money to you and we come over to your country for the investment of the money. We will required your information, the information are, Your full name, address and phone number, please these information will be submitted to the bank and you will be presented to the bank as the overseas associate of our late father so that the bank will release the money to you. Please forward the information on your next reply so that we will move on with the transaction. Please, you can see that all our hope is on this money and our life depend on it. I will want that you keep everything about the transaction within you alone until the transaction is completed and we come over to meet you. You can see that the money is big so you should have to keep everything within you. Our father never disclosed to anybody except me and my sister whom he told the information about the money. He has done this for the security of the money because the government in our country were confiscating high people assests. Please I want you to take this information very important. Don't disclose this transaction to anybody. I hope that you get all my explanation? I will be stopping here and hope to hear from you For Your qestion we du not have money at hand Our kind and sincere regards John and Ruth So... any ideas on what I should add in my response?
Dude, dude, dude.....you gots to f*ck with these folks more and string them along. I will try and find this e-mail that this dude had for this Nigerian e-mail scam. It was hilarious. First of all. Create a new fake e-mail address without it linking anything to you. Second of all, try and string them along as long as you can. Deviate from the task at hand, and tell them how excited you are to help them out and recieve this money. Tell them that you already put money down on a house, and are gonna get a penis implant, sex toys, and whatever else is silly. If they ask you to send money a certain way, tell them that your dad is a US Postal Worker and guarantees that he can get the package to them quicker. Misspell or change your first and and see if they catch it. Man, the list is endless. Show them goofy pictures and say that is your wife and her sister, or you (in another goofy pic) and ask them if they find your wife attractive. Man, these can be fun...that friend of mine had them going for weeks. They kept getting pissed. So funny. I will upload some pics for ya, but I cannot right now for some reason. Oh, and when they ask you for your address, tell them only a city street, and small town somewhere, no state. If they ask there the package is, tell them you shipped it to Sierra Nevada Ca....then say.."was that wrong?"
Oh, ye of little faith... Seems legit to me. Just as soon as I finish paying off that bridge and attending the cash flow seminar, I'm gonna get in touch with those poor suffering people, and donate my proceeds from the transaction to one of those television evangelists.
alright man ill take your pictures and string them along I like your ideas this is going to be entertaining
This is remind me of Chris Hanssen on NBC Tell them you will meet them some where (Thai Lan) to hand over the money.
I will do all I can to help you with your transfer of money and investments. It must have been god himself that has allowed us to meet and comunicate. I hope that I can confide in you my secrets that I have not told anyone. I do not have any friends here, just aquaintences and Im really looking foward to having true friends. My parents died in a tragic fire that took out the entire stripclub that they worked in. The only person that I have that is considered family is the pimp that ran the place. He grabbed me right out of the childs seat that I was sitting in next to the bar. He barely made it out alive safe in one arm me in the other. Now that I know im getting a generous 15 percent, i am going to put a down payment on my enlargment surgery I will be so big I cant wait. here is my address Jeff chlzapps 117 9th road kansas Email me back as soon as possible this transaction is our secret Jeff
Hee Hee, there are about 100 9th roads in Kansas. I believe the next email will require a social security number or a 'small cash payment' to process the transfer. I would turn the tables and ask for an advance to open account here for the money. Get their personnal info so you can 'make them signers on the new account.'
Nepix. Check your PM's. I gave you a link to some great info/ideas for this. Check it out. Oh, and don't ever let them know you are on here (VFRWorld), or it could bring hackers/scammers and such to this site.
Here is a little cutaway of a e-mail scam a friend had going. The whole thing is hilarious. ------------------------------- Subject - Fwd: TEXT OF CLAIMS/APPLICATION LETTER: Great news!!! The money is on the way! I was so pleased to hear that the total amount was only $1,450. Thank you so much for your generosity in raising the $1,000 in my behalf. In fact, since my reward is going to be 3 million dollars, I decided to thank you for choosing me, and I sent you a total of $5,000. I hope it is no problem that I am sending you more money, but I am so happy that you were so nice to me. I am really looking forward to my new life as a millionaire, so much that money doesn't matter that much to me anymore. I will finally be able to find a good man! (I've been very lonely). Since my father works for the US Mail delivery system, I decided to send a check by mail. My father is a very good mailman, and he will make sure it gets to Michael. Besides, we do not have a Western Union in our town. He even stamped a "DO NOT BEND" sign on the envelope, so it will be very well taken care of. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks. -------------------------- Subject: Re: Fwd: TEXT OF CLAIMS/APPLICATION LETTER: ATTN THE BEARER. YOUR EMAIL SOUNDS EMBARRASING TO ME CAN YOU PLEASE CLARIFY WHO YOU ARE? MRS.JANET SAMBA I KNOW BUT YOU I DO NOT KNOW. MICHAEL ooh, nice touch! now I'm supposed to reply back and "convince" this guy that I'm the next of kin to the late "Mr.Robert Rice". I should say this, but I will purposeley mispell it as "Roland Rice", and see if they even try to correct me. I also cc'd janet on this one. Here's the reply: Subject - Re: Fwd: TEXT OF CLAIMS/APPLICATION LETTER: I'm so sorry I did not properly introduce myself! I am actually a relative of Mr. Roland Rice, and I am his next of kin. Mrs Janet Samba will confirm this for you, as I already have my documents being sent to you along with $5,000 in U.S. Please let me know what else I can do to help out! The 3 million dollars are rightfully mine. I may even raise your reward up to $10,000 if I need to. Thank you. ----------------- Subject -- Is everything OK? Hello Janet. Michael sent me an email saying that the US mail is inappropriate. Should I cancel my check? Maybe we can come up with some other way to transfer the money. I'm desperate! I've been looking at a very nice house to buy, and I will need the money very soon. I will be willing to pay you even more. I've got a high limit on my credit card, and I could some how get a large amount of cash up front to give to you somehow. Do you have any suggestions? Oh, and by the way, I have attached a picture of myself and my good friend Gertrude. I am the girl on the right in my new Chinese silk dress. I love the color of gold, so I decided to get it! Gertrude is very excited for me, and I promised her that I would give her $500,000 (five hundred thousand dollars). She also will buy a very nice home with this. Please reply soon, so I can have a chance to cancel the check if I need to. Thank you. I would give you pictures Nepix...but for some reason I cannot upload photos right now.
I would email him back and be like "I am sincere in my desire to help you with your tragic situation. However, I'm still not sure that you're real. Please send a photo of yourself with a cup in one hand, spoon in the other with a shoe balanced on your head. I am fairly confident that no such pictures exist on the internet and it will more than suffice to prove that you are a real individual. I am a professional graphics designer and can detect photo alteration to matter how minute. Thank you for your taking this transaction very seriously. I look forward to helping you out. Thanks."
