# Nigerian scammers in spaaaaaaaccceeee **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2004, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515 "2004-04-17T12:54:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515/1 "2004-04-17T12:54:44Z")
[Nigerians scammers in the 21st century](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/16/cosmic_419er/) Funny stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515/2 "2004-04-17T14:00:28Z")
Ground Control to Major Tunde … Ground Control to Major Tunde … ---
**Author:** ![CWN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@CWN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CWN)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515/3 "2004-04-17T14:13:30Z")
Snooooopy Very funny- now excuse me while I clean the OJ off the monitor 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515/4 "2004-04-17T14:25:23Z")
Bwaha! I was forwarded that the other day, by a colleague that had recieved it. Maybe whoever sent it out originally thought that we might be well placed to help - we are an astronomy and astrophysics research group after all. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515/5 "2004-04-17T14:49:46Z")
What a fantastic idea! let´s put all those scammers in orbit (preferably around Pluto) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515/6 "2004-04-17T16:31:08Z")
I wonder what the next scam will be! ---
**Author:** ![Low\_Key\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@Low\_Key\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Low_Key_1)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515/7 "2004-04-17T17:01:14Z")
Hahaha. Easily the best 419 scam I’ve seen. No way I actually believe that a Nigerian scammer wrote this, though. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515/8 "2004-04-17T17:15:57Z")
Never, never ends…it _never_ ends! :eek: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515/9 "2004-04-17T17:19:03Z")
> [@AngelicGemma](#): > > I wonder what the next scam will be! From: Mr. Barunda Motume Subject: Global Anti-Nigerian scam campaign. I, Mr. Barunda Motume, head of the Fraud Bureau of the Nigerian Department of Justice (FBNDJ) I am obliged to contact you through this medium to avoid the surveillance of my activities by corrupt staff members in the ministry department dedicated to the investigation of advanced fee frauds in my country. Until last year my department, under my direct supervision had made stagering progresses on the fight against scammers and as for last March we were in the verge of complete victory against them; unfortunately corrupt elements have infiltrated in the ministry and froze all our financial assests required for the completion of our plans. In view of this is that I seek your assistance for the trasfer of the frozen assests to your bank account outside Nigeria so the funds will be available for the final crack down on scammers; the sum to be transfered amounts to US$25.000.000 (TWENTY AND FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) I therefore need your immediate assistance to free this founds to be used against the criminals involved in advanced fee frauds before the window of oportunity closes; in exchange for your help I offer you 10% of the assets (TWO AND HALF MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) as a reguard. Please contact me at the e-mail adress [Barunda164@hotmail.com](mailto:Barunda164@hotmail.com) with this code **AR-19/g** for identification; because I am being monitored by corrupt agents I urge you to not contact through the FBNDJ directly and please ensure to keep this proposal very secret and confidential for obvious reasons. Help us to stop scammers and you will be reguarded generously. I await your immediate response. Yours sincerely, ``` Mr. Barunda Motumbe, Head of the Fraud Bureau of the Nigerian Department of Justice. ``` ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515/10 "2004-04-17T18:47:40Z")
Ooohh… an anti-scam scam… Use a little reverse psychology, that’ll make them open their checkbook and send huge amounts of money to “release” millions of dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515/11 "2004-04-17T21:21:42Z")
> [@AngelicGemma](#): > > I wonder what the next scam will be! [You are our only hope](http://home.tiac.net/~cri/2003/organa.html). ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scammers-in-spaaaaaaaccceeee/240515/12 "2004-04-17T21:39:29Z")
Am I the only one with this tune running around his head? \*And did he ever return, No, he never returned, And his fate is still unlearned. He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston, He’s the man Who never returned. Now you citizens of Boston, Don’t you think it’s a scandal How the Nigerians have to pay and pay? Fight the fare increase, Send us twentyfive million dollars And get N’Gunda off of that shuttle.\* OK, OK, I’ll stop. Regards, Shodan