I've just received another e-mail inviting me to become financially involved with somebody in West Africa... Unlike the only previous one that I'd received this lacked the "traditional" Nigerian connection: It was allegedly from the children of a Chief from Sierra Leone, who had also been a very prosperous DIAMOND DEALER (The capital letters were their idea...), instead. The spelling was rather idiosyncratic, as seems to be normal in such messages, and I though that one detail from this might amuse some of you: The author claimed that his father had been "poisoned to dearth" by his enemies.

Wouldn't dearth have left the family without the hidden funds whose transfer to a European bank they say they want me to arrange?

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Simon,

I get on average 3 of these per day. Always just a tiny bit different but mine all have a Nigerian connection.

I've tried to block them but they always end up with a new address.

The "Nigerian" one that I received had an address ending in .za , which I presume refers to Zaire: This latest one ended (if I remember correctly)in .ita , which is where?

Apparently somebody has already received an "Iraqui scam" e-mail, along very similar lines but purporting to be from a close relative of one of Saddam Hussein's generals...

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here in the States, there's a new Nigerian scam where they scammers contact people selling vehicles, homes, etc...big ticket items.

The scam arises when the buyer offers to pay for it all with a cashier's check. But that cashier's check is for more than the amount of the actual purchase. They say it's from an uncle or something like that and that they'll sign it over to the seller if the seller will deposit the excess amount in the buyer's bank account.

But of course the original cashier's check is bogus and will bounce. These forgeries are really good and unless the seller's bank calls to verify the amount, they'll usually get through the main part of the system. So feeling confident the transaction is good, the seller then forwards the overage to the buyer's account. But when the original check bounces, the seller is then out whatever they sent as the overage.

I'll take cash, thankyouverymuch!

You may find this link entertaining ... this guy fought back!

The Brad Christensen Exhibit

Now that's cool. :-)



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Sarah

Aww.... I never get these interesting e-mails! People are always trying to sell me degrees....



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I'll swap you 3 penis enlargements for 3 degrees, Sarah?!

I thought they'd split up!

Oh no Ptolly, I get those as well, only I was upholding my reputation as young sweet and innocent and not mentioning them...



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Made me laugh - I love all the stuff about bird-watching.

Jen _
Thank you for posting a connection to that site. I've only read a couple of those series of messages so far, but they were really, really hilarious.

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I too have received e-mails that offered me degrees, which in several cases would allegedly have been from "prestigious non-accredited" universities & colleges :-). I've also had the usual spam e-mails about penis-enlargment, aphrodisiacs, and e-mail-ordering medications. I wouldn't mind getting so many junk messages if they were just a little bit more varied & interesting...

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Yes me too. 'Repair your credit', 'the CIA say I'm evil for sending this banned e-mail' *yawn*.

Jen that's really funny, love it!



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Yes, but why septic tanks? I can understand all the other rubbish being spam material, but septic tanks? Can't be that big a market, surely?



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I get very little spam, but for some reason the spam I do get is almost always so grievously affected by the mispeling vyrus that I can hardly read it. The subject line generally looks roughly like this:

jjjjjjjjrea2lly greeattxbjqusmszkx

I never even bother to look at this stuff in case it's porn, but I very much doubt that even if I did I should get an answer to this question: why on earth do they insist on typing as though their keyboards had little legs and were trying to run away as fast as possible?



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Sarah

a few months agoi i posted a link to a site for "Nigerian email training center" or something like that... can't remember the link or the post now...

Jon: septic tanks? That's a new one?!?

What really scares me is that occasionally, this spam must work and someone must buy something. Otherwise, why would they do it?

Oh, yes, I've had a few emails about "rebuilding" credit, and (now that you've reminded me of its existence...) that message referring to the CIA once as well: None about septic tanks yet, though...

The "Nigerian"-type scam reminds me of a traditional confidence trick, which was known as the "Spanish prisoner" scheme. In that case the trickster would approach somebody with a story about how a piratical acquaintance of theirs was currently being held in a Spanish-run prison (somewhere along the Spanish Main, or elsewhere around the Caribbean region), knew the whereabouts of a buried hoard of pirates' treasure, and would be willing to cut that person in for a share of the to-be-recovered loot if only they would pay the bribes necessay to get the pirate set free. That one was around for several centuries...

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Auntysassy: The 3 Penis Enlargements split up? Why am I always the last to find out?!



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