'Nigerian Scams'

imaginarydivabc from vancouver, bc -

A girlfriend of mine recently fell for one of those Nigerian email scams telling her that some daughter of a dead philanthropist will send her money for safe keeping.

She received the money and went directly to the police after realizing there was something wrong with all of this.

Good for her. And I hope at least this puts at least one scammer away for good.

Comment #1 Elroy from New York -

What do you mean "She received the money". There is no money the scam is the Nigerians try to get you to send THEM money in hopes of the "big payoff".

Costa Ricans pull a similar scam telemarketing people saying the won the lottery and see to send (by western union) payment of the "taxes" first. Of course there is no lottery and no taxes.

Comment #2 zoya from middle of america -

I heard aboutt hat scam as well. It's actually quite popular and it's usually where you get an email from a person who asks for your help. He/she gives a story about a kin of a person has left a large sum of money earned through illegal means. He has died and now the person in charge wishes to give it to a charity but requires a foreigner to help him conduct the work. The requirement is that the helper should have a bank account in from where the transaction could take place. If you open an account with a meager sum it would not convince the authorities so you have to keep a large sum for it. When you deposit a substantial sum your money vanishes in air without any traces of it. It is then that you realize the trap.

Quite sad that some people would fall for that. I don't think your friend fell for this scam. It must have been something else?

Comment #3 Keter from the garage door -

Hard to believe that the Nigerian scam is still going strong after all these years. I have received several of these 'proposals' over the years, and when one sees how poorly they are written and how obviously unlikely the scenario they claim is, it is amazing that they have had the success rates that they have. I suppose the success of all spam is that if you send out enough, sooner or later someone will bite, and if the returns are big enough, it makes it worthwhile for the scammers, but I really can't understand how.

Comment #4 Eileen from The Blogosphere -

Yeah, I don't know how people can even fall for these. I suppose there are the gullible ones out there that believe everything.

Comment #5 Neo Anderson (72.66.111.62) - Sat Aug 9 03:11:34 2008

I get over 20 of these scams in my email EVERY SINGLE DAY! I decided to post the more classic ones on my blog. I hope their email address gets scraped off my blog and spammed just as much as mine does.

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Comment #6 Teddy (63.176.159.227) - Sat Aug 9 06:00:45 2008

Do you think they care about junk emails.. while you fret over spam they glee over the suckers that send them money!

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