# The newest Nigerian scam **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-nigerian-scam/642237 "2012-11-27T03:23:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-nigerian-scam/642237/1 "2012-11-27T03:23:57Z")
"I have registered your Compensation Fund of ($12.8Usd) with FedEx Express Courier Company with registration code of (011-827-8947) for 48hours Delivery. I packaged the total sum in a Consignment Box sealed as Christmas Gift & succeeded in it with FedEx Express Courier Company to ensure the delivery is complete within 48hours as we agreed… I have paid all the fee involved for the Delivery except their Security Keeping Fee of (US$95.00) which you have to pay them as beneficiary of the Consignment. " So let’s see. If I send you $95 you’ll send me $12.80. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. My eyes are rolling so far back in my head I’ll bet you heard the CRR-RR-ACK clear across the oceans. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-nigerian-scam/642237/2 "2012-11-27T03:28:08Z")
Man, some people get all the good mail! All I get are the Horny Housewives. Why I’d want them, I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-nigerian-scam/642237/3 "2012-11-27T14:33:49Z")
I just get the ones saying to “click on this link and reverify your Facebook password”. ---
**Author:** ![Hogfather65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@Hogfather65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogfather65)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-nigerian-scam/642237/4 "2012-11-27T14:47:43Z")
Dam I just get the Viagra ones… ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-nigerian-scam/642237/5 "2012-11-27T14:48:47Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Man, some people get all the good mail! All I get are the Horny Housewives. Why I’d want them, I have no idea. I know right! I get “Connect with horny women on Fcukbook!” Just WHAT do they think I can do about that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-nigerian-scam/642237/6 "2012-11-28T22:36:12Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I know right! I get “Connect with horny women on Fcukbook!” Just WHAT do they think I can do about that! 😃 Send them to me? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-nigerian-scam/642237/7 "2012-11-29T14:08:15Z")
Went to check out what’s in my Spam folder thanks to this thread, and found “Here’s your Steam key” email from an indie game dev - I had bought the game ages ago and now that they got to Steam they had sent me a key. Should check the Spam folder more often I guess. Also, a bunch of Facebook notifications sent to me from Vietnam. You’d think they’d mask that email address when they go through the trouble of looking legit otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-nigerian-scam/642237/8 "2012-11-29T15:28:34Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > So let’s see. If I send you $95 you’ll send me $12.80. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. That sounds like a Mister Boffo cartoon: “Nigerian Scammers Unclear on the Concept” ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-nigerian-scam/642237/9 "2012-11-30T13:16:08Z")
How about bizarre solicitions on Skype? I have a ton of these…from women who want to “be my firend”? Even linked in seems to have been hacked…I get requests to “join a network”-from people I never heard of. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-nigerian-scam/642237/10 "2012-11-30T13:29:00Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > How about bizarre solicitions on Skype? I have a ton of these..from women who want to “be my firend”? Even linked in seems to have been hacked..I get requests to “join a network”-from people I never heard of. Yes, I think linkedin has been hacked. I can’t use all this Viagra the Canadian Pharmacy keeps offering me (don’t have the correct parts) so if anyone would like me to forward these e-mails, just speak up. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-nigerian-scam/642237/11 "2012-11-30T14:21:55Z")
No one’s offering me Viagra yet, they’re still intend on enlarging my penis, yet I’m happy with its clitoral stature.