English/Irish Nigerians

 

A newish twist on the old Nigerian scam

1. I know you can’t expect much these days, but do real Irish bankers have such problems with spelling, tense, grammar, and basic typing skills? This is pathetic; even allowing for “English” vs “American” differences, I count 17 errors.

   Posted by Drew458       12/07/2007  at  03:24 PM  



2. I saw the first Nigerian ones in the mail about 20 years ago and immediatly laughed at them, knowing exactly what they were. How some people fall for these and loose their life savings is beyond me.

   Posted by Paul "No Fear" Weir       12/07/2007  at  04:02 PM  



3. There is another one (same scam, different twist) that I got. I felt left out as I’ve never (despite several email addys over the years) gotten a Nigerian scam mail. But alas - I finally got one this year - shortly followed by the new twist. A ‘government’ official from some country whose husband made a ‘might be illegal’ contract and would I launder their money for a bit of free money crappola scam. . . also an afrikan country but I delete these - so I can’t remember all the details other than as Drew pointed out - a lot of grammer, spelling, tense mistakes.

   You know one of the congresscritters fell for the Nigerian scam - of course his fellow critters probably bailed him out and kept it quiet.

   How stupid can people be - but hey I’m did a third ‘as seen on tv’ before I started going to the internet - so I’m just slow, but I can learn.

   Posted by wardmama4       12/07/2007  at  05:09 PM  



4. my girlfriend as won $3500 in the Canadian lottey twice in 6 months!! cashier’s check to prove it!!....alas...no such bank.

   Posted by Rancino       12/07/2007  at  05:23 PM  



5. Don’t delete em, reply and have fun with the fucktards. Play back at them. feed them phoney details and waste their time.

   Posted by Jeremy       12/07/2007  at  09:56 PM  



6. We had a Nigerian working for us till they caught her selling visas to her Nigerian friends. You chaps should check out “Scambusters” they string these half wits along and have a lot of fun in the process. I recall in one they had the Nigerian phoning the Mexican Federal police HQ thinking it was what he needed to close the deal and telling them “You have no balls” in Spanish. Great stuff!

   Posted by LyndonB       12/08/2007  at  03:03 PM  



7. While this is old news and people should know better, many folks are more apt to fall for this right at the holiday season, or, a time when money’s tight. I received a notice via U S Postal Service last year informing me of a $50k winning but needed a mandated $2500 to process. They said they could transfer the funds needed in order for me to pay for the processing fee. I played along and the scammers Fed Ex’ed a Chase Manhattan cashiers check to me for $3500 with instructions to cash the check at my bank, Western Union them $2500, and keep the $1000 as a down payment on the $46,500 that would be forwarded once they received the processing fee. I called Chase and as expected, it was counterfeit. I called the local authorities and they couldn’t have cared less. Obviously, there was no $50k and I would have been liable for the $3500 bounced check at my bank. I suppose that if they send out 1000 letters and yield a 1% sucker return, it makes for a good month. Sad. Good article Mr. Christian and I hope that at least 1 person is the wiser as a result. Andy

   Posted by andy42302       12/10/2007  at  10:01 PM  



8. Got me wondering, SGT Jefferey Reeves has been dying to contact me for the last couple of weeks. That’s what the subject line says. I’d have thought he’d have died by now. But not yet, got a new one today.

   No, never have opened his email.

   Posted by Christopher       12/12/2007  at  05:48 PM  

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