Nigerian Scammers Brought to Justice 345
KaushalParekh writes "Almost all of us get those junk emails from someone in Africa usually promising millions of dollars if you give them your bank details. Finally good to know that they are being caught by the authorities and punished. These are also known as 419 emails named after the Nigerian penal code for fraud. As an interesting aside, fooling these scammers by responding to their emails is a fun passtime for quite a few who call themselves baiters. Check out the trophy pictures of these spammers.. pretty funny."
I can imagine the next nigerian spam now... (Score:5, Funny)
Getting rid of the scammer money. (Score:5, Funny)
T-3 days. Just you wait.
Proposal for you (Score:1, Funny)
My name is Offori Atta, I am the Regional manager of SSB Bank of Ghana Takoradi branch in the western Region of Ghana.I am married with two lovely kids. I am a man of peace and I don't want problems, I only hope you can assist me. I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and I, as the Regional manager of SSB Bank it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the Capital city Accra at the end of each Business Year.On the course of the last year 2004 Business Report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Three million five hundred and twenty thousand US Dollars ($1,520,000.00) which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this fund on what we call escrow call account with no beneficiary. As an officer of this Bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you to assist me receive this money in your Bank account and get 30% of the total fund as commission though is negotiable. There are pratically no risk involved, it will be a Bank to Bank Transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the Original depositor of this funds who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated Bank account.if you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much.My private phone number and my email is the above. Call me if you think we can work together so that we can go over the details, Thank you in advance and may God bless.
Yours truly,
Offori Atta.
I can see it now... (Score:5, Funny)
Glad to see those scammers are arrested ! (Score:4, Funny)
The tables have turned.... (Score:3, Funny)
Dear Guards, (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Proposal for you (Score:5, Funny)
It is good to see that you are not one of those Nigerian scammers. It would be great to do this business deal with you. However European banking regulations prohibit me from receiving such an amount at once since the bank has to tell this to the goverment and they will investigate it to see if it is legal or not, taking a lot of time. Can you however deposit it in amounts of $20.000,- per time (like once per 5 minutes). That will not raise any alarms.
Best regards,
Jurt1235
Re:What do we call a dodgy "sales order" (Score:2, Funny)
I'm a baiter... (Score:2, Funny)
I myself have quite a bit of experience at leading these folks on. Yes, I'm quite the master baiter... but I figure they deserve it because they keep jerking me around. They're such wankers!
Re:Takes time (Score:2, Funny)
Re:About time... (Score:3, Funny)
You would not think some spear chucker could outsmart an American.
Statements like that are immediately disproven when made by an American.
Re:This has nothing to do with email though. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It happened to me (Score:1, Funny)
As It happens I am in contact with an organisation which carries out recovery of moneys from these sort of scams. If you are interested send me your details. Infortunately we will require a $200 deposit first to ensure that you are not a time waster. if you send me your bank details I can
Re:It does not work like that... (Score:3, Funny)
You CAN MAKE MONEY from 419 E-Mails (Score:5, Funny)
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Master... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It does not work like that... (Score:3, Funny)
[srightmer@dfelker ~]$ ln -s democracy-1.0 democracy
[srightmer@dfelker ~]$ cd democracy
[srightmer@dfelker ~]$
[srightmer@dfelker ~]$ make 1>&2
[srightmer@dfelker ~]$ su
[srightmer@dfelker ~]# make install
Simple!