Oh boy - Oh BOY! Check out the latest variation on the Nigeria scam I (finally) got!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I always wanted one of these!

**Scam Artists ** wrote…

Any one receive this variant, obviously my better judgement tells me to just delete it, but I can’t help but want to mess around with them, what do ya’All think?
:dubious:

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Any time now someone will be here to tell you that messing with these people will get you killed! People have REALLY disappeared… etc etc ad nauseum

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Hmm…maybe because they have?

from http://travel.state.gov/tips_nigeria.html

There have been some people who’ve messed with these scammers, and it’s hilarious, but unfortunately the people who tend to fall for this have less than hilarious results.

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Ah, but just so you don’t think that I’m totally humorous, here’s where you can see the funny results that come from these letters.

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That would be “totally humorLESS”, actually. And with that, I’m done posting to this thread. Really. I mean it.

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Hmm. One of the residents of Holland on these boards should play around with them… :slight_smile:

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** Sunspace ** wrote…

That might be a bit to close to home for whom ever is pulling this stunt, a check of the header says that it was generated out of here ** g196023.upc-g.chello.nl [80.57.196.23] ** which translates to this site
** http://info.nld.chello.nl/index.php ** which I guess is a sort of a ya-hoo type place, Its interesting that the return address is ** infoluckyday@netcape.net ** at Netscape. I suppose the best I could do is report it - Yawn.
** The Wrong Girl ** wrote…

Now we’re talkin’ [from the above site]

Thats why I always wanted to get one of these. I mean lets face it, Brazil is not exactly a model of civic organization. Good luck finding ME! I’m suprised more of this junk doesn’t come from here.

** Carl_A_Norris ** wrote…

Thanks for the concern, I would never do anything like set up an actual meeting. I may not be above turning this over to a few of my Police buddies, some of whom (Ahem…) might know some other people who might just be up for a little drive by kidnapping. Foreigners who have money for international travel usually know other foreigners who have money, often the people abroad will pay something to go the “bail” of one of their brethren, especially if that fellow was dumb enough to come here, If not I’m sure they would just send him back home with a warning. Right. That would be a neat turn about. But, I’m just not that kind of guy. Also, it is a fantasy - I don’t think I really have the cajones to seriously mess with ANY kind of face to face, weather by me or sent to the authorities. The idea is rather tantalizing though.

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in fairness, it’s not really the Nigerians this time, although this is a known scam.

please do report this.

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I don’t recall seeing the one in the OP this one seems to have been sent to everyone in the agency:

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Yes, this seems to be the newest variant of the Nigerian scam. I got my first one on October 22. It starts out:

I like the bit “Affiliate of watergate inc.”

Last week I received two different copies of thes one from different addresses:

The more traditional Nigerian scam itself has been branching out to different continents recently. Last week I also received a more typical scam letter from the wife of the former President of the Philippines, who has $17 million to share with me.

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Awww I haven’t had **any **interesting spam for such a long time. All I seem to get is ads for penis enlargement drugs.

*Dear Sir, Thank you for your offer of what appears to be an excellent product. I wish to inform you that I am quite satisfied with the length of my penis and will not be requiring any enhancement products. Your genuine concern is nontheless appreciated.

Yours sincerely, j_sum1.*

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A couple more examples, and a sample followup, from Snopes, that wonderful place. As someone once pointed out, funny how no one asks for the “lottery people” to just deduct the cost of the “fees” from their winnings…

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As you might suspect, it’s indeed the Netherlands.

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I came across this link earlier today

http://419eater.com/html/letters.htm

I think this one is one of the funniest

http://419eater.com/html/oduobi_tokunbo.htm

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I got a variation on the scam today - it was addressed to my real name and the person who’d died and left $10.5 million in a bank account to be transfered blah de blah was supposedly an uncle of mine by the name of Roy ********* !

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** beagledave ** wrote…

Boy! I haven’t laughed that hard in weeks!
This is the kind of thing I wanted to do, really string em along. I thought the Photos were hilarious till I read the letter of thanks. Does no one in these places know how to speak English?

Now, how could I get sneaky and string these people along, short of calling that is. Since they are in the Netherlands, and I am in Brazil I seriously doubt they could * ever* find me. ( I will spare you the details of this unless you insist) So with that danger out of the way, how could I go about making these people think I have taken the bait? I will put the results up in my home page and we can all have a good laugh!

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DR WILLIAM NAWA KAFA.
The Zambia Home Office.
The Hague.
The Netherlands.
Tel: +31 x xxx xx xxx.
Fax:+31 x xx xx xx xx
Email address: wkafa@netscape.net

Attn: Dear Sir

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION.

I am interested in your partnership in business dealing. This business proposal I wish to intimate you with is of mutual benefit and it’s success is entirely based on mutual trust, cooperation and a high level of confidentiality as regard this transaction.

I am representing the board of the contract award and monitoring committee of the Zambian Ministry of Mining and Resources. I am seeking your assistance to enable me transfer the sum of US$15,500,000.00 (Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) into your private/company account.

The fund came about as a result of a contract awarded and executed for and on behalf of my Ministry. The contract was supposed to be awarded to two foreign contractors to the tune of US$100,000,000.00 (One hundred Million United States Dollars). But in the course of negotiation, the contract was awarded to a Bulgarian contractor at the cost of US$115,500,000.00 (One hundred and Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) to my benefit unknown to the contractor. This contract has been satisfactorily executed and inspected as the Bulgarian firm is presently securing payment from my Ministry, where our Board is in-charge of all foreign contract payment approval.

As a civil servant still in active government service, I am forbidden by law to operate an account outside the shores of Zambia. Hence this message to you seeking your assistance so as to enable me present your private/company account details as a beneficiary of contractual claims alongside that of the Bulgarian contractor, to enable me transfer the difference of US$15,500,000.00 (Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) into your provided account.

On actualization, the fund will be disbursed as stated below.
20% for you and 80% for us.

What We request from you.

1,your names, company name if any- otherwise we will use your name to register the company. 2, your address, tel, fax and cell phone numbers. 3 Private email address.

All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for a smooth actualization of the transaction within the next few working days of commencement. For further details as to the workability of this transaction, please reach me as soon as possible for further clarification. Please, call me on receipt of this mail on Tel: 0031-xxx xxx xxx

Thank you while I await your urgent response.

Yours Sincerely,

DR WILLIAM NAWA KAFA.

OTTERY WINNING<auto computer<: thisweek :>ballot system>NOTIFICATION

INITERNATIONAL LOTTO CLUB PROMOTION COMPANY S. A.
CALLE JUAN CRUZSUAREZ 24,28009 MADRID-SPAIN.
TEL/FAX: +34 xxx xxx xxx.

REF NUMBER:GXX/18905/MA-SP./03.
BATCH NUMBER: CA03/093RTG/MA-SP.

ATTN: Sir/Madam,

DEAR BENEFICIARY,

We are pleased to inform you of the recent result of CLUB LOTTO/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM, held on SEPTEMBER 30TH
2003. Your email attached to the ticket number 055-11879443 with serial numbers 40678-02 drew the lucky numbers 6-12-24-34-65-75, which consequently won the lottery in the 3RD category. You are therefore been approved for the lump sum, payout of US$915,810.OO (NINE HUNDRED & FIFTEEN THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED AND TEN UNITED STATES
DOLLARS) in cash credited to file number GXX/18905/MA-SP/003.This is from the total cash prize of US$9.450.550.00(NINE MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY US DOLLARS ONLY). Shared among the international winners in this category.

Your fund is now deposited with a security company insured in your name. Due to the mixed numbers and names in this office, we ask that you keep this award from the public notice until your claims has been processed and your fund remitted to your designated account, to avoid double claims. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 55,000 names around the world: Asia, Australia, Middle East, Europe, United State of America, Canada, South America and Africa. As part of our international promotions program which we conduct once every two years. We hope that with part of your prize, you will take part in our end of the year high stake of US$1.5 Billion international lotto Club by November this year.

To begin your lottery claim, please contact lotto club agent MARK LOPEZ ALLIED ADVOCATES AND SOLICITORS S. A at
TEL: 0034xxxxxxxxx Fex: 0034xxxxxxxxx Email: marklopez@mail2agent.com for necessary assistance as regards to your claim and final release of the prize money to your designated bank account. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 1ST of DECEMBER 2003. After this date, the entire fund will be forwarded back to the treasury of the lotto commission funding account.

Congratulations on behalf of our managements. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is AUTOMATICALY DISQUALIFIED.

Yours Sincerely,

JOSE LUIS
MANAGER/LOTTO CLUB.

INTERNATIONAL LOTTO-2003.ALL other right reserved. CODEX-SADOE GS-(MADRID-SPAIN).

I x’d out the phone numbers because the op did.

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Heh. Chello is indeed a Dutch ISP.

BTW, I’ve never heard of the last name “Van Borsch”, although I suppose it could exist. The capitalisation is wrong, however. Only Flemish names are capitalised in all cases: Dutch last names lose the capitalisation on “Van”, “De”, and such when the first name is included. So, it should have been “Susan van Borsch”.

“MINISTERIAL VAN DE ECONOMIA” is I think their attempt to say “Ministerie van Economische Zaken”, which would be Dutch for Ministry of Economic Affairs. As you can see, they failed miserably. Ministerial and economia are not Dutch words.

So, yeah, a scam all right.

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** Coldfire ** wrote…

I had an idea that it might be. But how to string em along, thats what I want to do now. He heheh

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Another twist: using the 1988 Lockerbie crash in your scam. Live, from my very inbox!

I could pick it apart and show the inconcistencies, but what would be the point? I love how they’re cashing in on a major disaster, though. Niiiice.