Yes, I just called it!
So, it’s over then, if the scammer calls. What a sweet ride! **Mangetout **has been brilliant.
It sounds like he does have a local buddy, although that might all be bullshit intended solely to get me to divulge my voice number.
It’s pretty clear that he’s trying to maintain the high ground and control the setup the meeting - I think it would probably be quite difficult to engineer a rendevous with the police unless I was working closely with them on this (and they don’t seem interested in doing that).
I’ve not had a reply to my last email - it may be that the ‘room 419’ reference was enough to tip him the nod.
Forgive my ignorance, but is it about Room 419?
These types of scams are called 419 Scams. Hence the thread title. Link.
It is a reference to the advanced fee fraud, the Nigerian Letter fraud which is designated as a 419 fraud
Duh…
I knew that, it’s in the thread title, and yet my brane…
It’s Friday afternoon. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
Well, long shot here, but Ecks has written:
Bwaha! this is good:
So it ends:
Damn it man! I wanted this to drag out for months. Well kudos on you for sticking it to them. Morons.
There’s a tiny chance he may still think Mange and Dastardly are in earnest. Tomorrow I’ll send him an email from Ecks saying not to tell M&D what a bastard I’ve been, then on Monday, Dastardly can send one of his chirpy emails.
Ain’t it fun to scam the scammers!!! This has been one of the most entertainintg threads in a while. It’s on a par with Cervaise’s telemarketer thread. More power to ye, m’boy! I have certainly enjoyed this while it lasted. I hope I see the next one.
By the way, that thread I referenced in my last post is here! This will be no revelation to most Dopers, as this is one of the all-time greats. I just think Mangetout’s recent scammer thread is right up there.
Incidentally, out of idle curiousity, I noticed that that badly-faked passport had some numbers at the bottom which appeared to be original (i.e., not the same pathetically bad photoshop job as the replaced name). By any chance, do those numbers happen to be uniquely identifying? It might be interesting to know whose passport was used for the original.
Dunno - it looks like it might have been a rehash of someone else’s fake - I found something quite similar on this page:
http://419.bittenus.com/passports/uk.htm
Third from the bottom in the left column.
When my wife and I were last messing with a scammer, we sent a badly photoshopped British passport we’d found on the web - there are lots of them available through Google images. (And we substituted a nun’s face for the original. And changed “United Kingdom” to “Craggy Island”. We also had him reserve rooms in a Lagos hotel for Father Ted, Father Dougal and Bishop Len Brennan.)
I’m really sorry this one has reached it’s conclusion, it’s been immensely entertaining. Usually I can’t be bothered to keep up with 419 threads but this one has kept me giggling for days.
Thanks, Mangetout!
Loved the “Bunte Republik Deutschland” 
…(pssst… fourth from the bottom)…
For the second time in a few months I’ve had a scammer suggesting that I may be a relative of a P.Cooke who recently died and left me a whole lot of money.
I’ve been toying with him. Firstly asking how many people he’d sent his letter took considering my family name is one of the most common names in the Western world. He said P. Cooke originated from NZ. I told him, it is still a very common name in NZ and I’m not an NZ Cooke!.
I got bored with trying to make him prove I’m related (and to be honest I have played with scammers before), so for fun and to try a very different approach, I told him I knew he was a Nigerian scammer and asked him if he wanted to see a picture of my breasts!
The next message from him was: “YES YOU CAN DO SO I AM INTERESTED TO SEE IT” - he he, so I told him to send a picture of his private parts first - but I got this message instead:
“Let us be a friends, i like somebody like you.
How many years are you.
Have you married?
What do you do for a living.”
Not sure what to do next, maybe reveal that I’m actually a man??!