# WOOOO HOOOO! I'm gonna be rich! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 12, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591 "2003-02-12T16:25:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/41 "2003-02-12T19:35:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carrot \* > Yeah, **iampunha** , we’re all jealous because we’re all stuck with these big ones, while yours is really tiny. Hey, you know that just means I can park mine wherever I want and the owner rarely minds. Plus you ever see one of those get pulled over for speeding or anything? ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/42 "2003-02-12T19:36:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > \*\*Dear (Boss’s name,) > > I happily inform you that I’m quitting this lousy company to spend my days in the lap of luxury supported by can’t-miss Nigerian business deals. Yoiu can take this stupid job and jam it right up your skinny ass. I’ll never darken the doorstep of this hellhole again. > > Sincerely, > > (My name) \*\* I hope you haven’t turned in your letter yet. You mispelled “You” in the second sentence. Don’t want those kinds of mistakes to turn around and bite you on the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Trob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Trob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trob)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/43 "2003-02-12T21:56:05Z")
Well I ordered the peins pills and the breast enlarging pills. After all they are both guaranteed. What can I lose? I’ll keep you posted on the progress. Luckily I don’t fall for those get rich quick scams. Mongo smart. ---
**Author:** ![RangerDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@RangerDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RangerDude)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/44 "2003-02-12T22:04:13Z")
[http://www.thespamletters.com/search.php?search=Nigerian](http://www.thespamletters.com/search.php?search=Nigerian) Jonathan Lands writes some damn good funny stuff. ---
**Author:** ![RangerDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@RangerDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RangerDude)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/45 "2003-02-12T22:05:52Z")
Sorry. I meant Jonathan Land. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/46 "2003-02-13T00:25:16Z")
You people are suckers! **I’m** going to make big money working from home. As soon as I’ve sent off for the motivational video, and gotten together $200 for the starter kit, and recruited ten other people to do the same. Yep, I’ll be rolling around in a giant mound of cash, just like Scrooge McDuck! ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/47 "2003-02-13T00:45:00Z")
Pshaw. You’re all a bunch of chumps. While you’re frittering away your time trying to make money on the Internet, I’m kickin’ it old school: buying up depressed properties with no money down. Why, my current net worth is in the millions! And I just love being my own boss! That $500 for the starter kit was money well spent. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/48 "2003-02-13T00:59:11Z")
Oh, come on. Amway is the way to go. The rest of you are all weiners. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/49 "2003-02-13T01:07:49Z")
That letter from “Bush” was classic. Having it in all caps really added to it’s credibility. I gotta send it to my almost-sister-in-law, just for shits and giggles. That girl’ll believe anything. I wouldn’t let her send anything of course, but it’ll be cool to watch her get all excited and tell all of her friends how important she is, then watch her bang her head against the wall muttering “stupid, stupid!” when they all start laughing and pointing. Serves her right for clogging up my inbox daily with bullshit emails and ALWAYS. TYPING. IN. CAPS!!! I’m _such_ a bitch. _evil laugh_ ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/50 "2003-02-13T01:13:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*Oh, come on. Amway is the way to go. > > \*\* Ha-rumph!! We prefer to call it a multi-level marketing opportunity, thank you very much. Excuse me while I go roll around in my jacuzzi filled with ten dollar gold coins… ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/51 "2003-02-13T02:23:26Z")
I sure hope that wire transfer with the Nigerian millions comes in soon. I wrote a cheque for my herbal remedies distributorship and it won’t clear if the transfer isn’t there. But the herbal remedies distributorship is DEFINITELY totally the way to go as a backup plan. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/52 "2003-02-13T04:05:11Z")
\*\*Back up plan? \*\* The only back up plan you need is Jay-Sus! I will pray for your soul, you my close personal friend \*\*Richday \*\*! How much is your soul worth? Write out a check and Send it to me at: Pastor Bob 2312 Kudzu C/O Fire & Brimstone Evangelical-Pentecostal-Fundamental-Raelian Church of the Holy Brotherhood of Jay-Sus. Tranquility Shores Trailer Park Baton Rouge, LA ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/53 "2003-02-13T04:11:37Z")
There’s a very funny site somewhere (damned if I can find it now, unfortunately) which has loong email exchanges between scammers and the guys who run the site, who toy with them. These guys start corresponding with the Nigerians, and play them at their own game: always seeming to be just on the point of paying an advance fee to the Nigerians for something or another but of course never quite doing it. In the finale of one long email exchange, the scammers were sent an executable which the scam-scammers said contained an encoded password with which the Nigerians could supposedly collect some money that the scam-scammers said had been wired using Western Union (or whoever). Of course the executable contained a virus, hopefully wiping the scammers hard drive. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/54 "2003-02-13T07:04:31Z")
**Mangetout** , I’m disappointed in you. The very **first line** of your proposal said that it was to be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. Do you think that Dr. Ahmed won’t discover your treachery in sharing this delicate financial negotiation with 30,000 of your closest friends on the SDMB? I bet when he finds out the whole deal will be off. I mean, here are the rest of us, slaving away at stuffing envelopes and buying real estate, trying to scrounge up a few measly bucks so we can enlarge our schlongs, and you just **throw away** an easy shot at $10.125 million. Boy oh boy. I bet you pass up nude J Lo pics too. ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/55 "2003-02-13T07:28:02Z")
I would like to caution everyone, [not all e-mail propositions are honest.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=134123) I learned this at my own expense. **Princhester** , I think the site you’re thinking about is [www.scamorama.com](http://www.scamorama.com) . I liked the “Big Mac” exchange, which invloved, among others, having the scammer phone McDonald’s Investor Relation Services and ask to speak to “Big Mac Sandwich” as well as trying to have two scammers scam each other. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/56 "2003-02-13T18:28:28Z")
Well sure enough, I sent the email to my almost-sister-in-law, asking her if she thought it was legit and she replied “i’m not sure, but who knows?” I fear for her, I really do. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/57 "2003-02-13T19:03:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Protesilaus \* > \*\*I’ve never gotten one of those. I’m kind of insulted the Nigerians don’t think I’m worth stealing from. \*\* I’m sure they’ll find you eventually. I’ve actually received one of those here at work! What moron thought it would be a good idea to send a scam-spam to a .gov address? ---
**Author:** ![Zazie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Zazie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zazie)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/58 "2003-02-13T21:07:44Z")
I just want to know how many people have given some money for this! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/59 "2003-02-13T22:51:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*I will pray for your soul, you my close personal friend \*\*Richday \*\*! How much is your soul worth? Write out a check and Send it to me at: \*\* One dollar for eternal happiness eh? Mmm…no. I think I’ll be happier with my dollar. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591/60 "2003-02-14T01:35:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Carine \* > \*\*I just want to know how many people have given some money for this! \*\* Hundreds. To the tune of MILLIONS of dollars. The authorities have actually busted people who stole hundreds of thousands using the Nigerian scam, but more people keep using it. [http://www.cfe-arizona.org/nigerian\_scam\_arrests.htm](http://www.cfe-arizona.org/nigerian_scam_arrests.htm) [http://frenchcaculture.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa071401a.htm](http://frenchcaculture.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa071401a.htm) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woooo-hoooo-im-gonna-be-rich/154591.md?page=4)