My first Nigerian e-scam.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

I wondered why everyone else got them but not me. Was there something wrong with me (apart from the obvious)? Did they think my money was worthless? Or did they just realise that I wouldn’t fall for their lousy speling missedspacesand, punctuation?

2

Isn’t it interesting how an organization in the UK is giving out grants in USD? What’s even more interesting is that people continue to fall for this idiocy.

3

There’s always a man of the cloth in there somewhere.

4

Surely you’re going to reply. It can be fun to correspond with imaginary people in other countries. Just create a separate email account…oh and ask for pictures.

5

They’re getting lazier and lazier. It used to be a long letter describing the war plundering or “leftover money” from some transaction that for some reason needs to be moved to the US.

6

I got my 1st one within the last 6 months or so. Like the OP, I was always like, “WTF? Why don’t I get these fun scam emails? I’m not cool enough!!” Now I just think, “Who the eff keeps falling for these and perpetuating the cycle? Someone out there still hasn’t heard of the Nigerian email scam? Seriously?!?”

But at least I’m cool enough to join the club of those who have received the missive. :cool:

7

You have to string this scumbag along, there are great “scam the scammer” threads here in the SDMB archives, as well as on 419eater dot com…

here’s how I’d fill out the “demographic” questions;

1.FULL NAMES:Ka D’argo Tretal
2.ADDRESS:Hammond side quarters, Moya,
3.SEX:Yes, Please?_________
4.AGE:42 Yahrens___________
5.MARITAL STATUS:Single_____
6.OCCUPATION:Soldier/commando
7.TELEPHONE NUMBER:1-555-248-3631 x666 (1-555-biteme1)
8.CITY:/COUNTRY:Uncharted Territories
9.WINNING ZONE:Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha

8

Well now that you’ve joined the club you can get all the good offers.

Just this week the FBI approved the deposit to my account of several million dollars from a dying woman in the UK whose family has engaged in debauchery and are therefore ineligible to inherit. I was tempted to reply that the FBI clearly needs to practice their investigative skills :slight_smile:

9

If they’d sent it to one of my junk mail accounts I might have considered stringing them along for a while. As it was my main e-mail that got it, ain’t no way I’m letting them know it’s an active address.
Mind you, doing a version of the Hitch-hikers audio book on them is very appealing.

10

Hey, I once lost 3 relatives who were like 15th cousins twice removed to car crashes in Nigeria, all in the space of a week.

But I was somewhat cheered when I won the Canadian lottery.