Nigerian scams have moved to Liberia?

I just got a charming email from somebody who purported to be a 17-year-old l
Liberian girl. She begged me to adopt her and she would bring her $7.5 million fortune with her to give to me.

Naturally, i have started the adoption process. :smiley:

I got a trapped funds letter from a Singapore web address. I don’t think this con is limited to Nigeria, though they seem to do most of them. Also, they’ve been using out-of country web addresses and characters, now that “Nigerian email” has become such a cliche.

Why can’t they just farm gold in online MMOs like the sensible Chinese?

I get them from everywhere you can imagine. I get lots (usually in French) from Cote d’Ivoire. I’ve gotten them from South Africa, the UK, Palestine, Iraq, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. The “Nigerian scam” has been global for years; I rarely see on of the traditional ones from Lagos any more. When I do, it makes me nostalgic.

I got one in Esperanto:

I noticed they have moved too. Now I get notices from Cote D’Ivoire (it’ll always be the Ivory Coast to me), Sierra Leone, Liberia (remember when you only got flagged ships, and rubber from Liberia)

Oh, oh, do something like this to them!

(It’s a scambaiter’s email correspondence with a scammer, who turns the situation around. Long, but epic.)