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- sjbdallas, on 01/18/2009, -1/+254Some people should not be allowed on the internet.....or outside their home.
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……................f`-,………`-,/…*-,___,,-~*….,-*……|…`-,……….\……. - ninjafish87, on 01/18/2009, -8/+250I bet he uses AOL.
- inactive, on 01/18/2009, -3/+1903 words for this guy: Please don't breed.
- Noworkday, on 01/18/2009, -4/+176How come people still fall to such scams?
I dont even feel sry for them. If you are that stupid, then you dont need any money. - ralphodog, on 01/18/2009, -4/+98I have no sympathy for these people. They're the reason why I get spam in my email and why half the apartment ads I look through ask me to wire money to Nigeria.
- Finalreminder, on 01/18/2009, -0/+93"Hi Pa can I have $30,000?"
"You sure can son, what's it for?"
"To give to some Nigerians who are holding million of $$'s for me"
"Good for you!"
"Thanks Pa"
The whole family sound like ***** - jazzfunkblues, on 01/18/2009, -2/+93He also dropped out of school when his laptop was shipped with Ubuntu installed.
- radsdigger, on 01/18/2009, -8/+98See, the problem was he was thinking was his heart. Most of us think with our brains.... (read the last line)
- novenator, on 01/18/2009, -3/+79My uncle was recently deposed from his Kingship in Iceland, but has US$10,000,000 hidden away. If you would kindly give me your bank account information, he will deposit the entire sum, of which you can keep 10%. Thanks, novenator the Red, nephew of King Scamvaldsson IV
- chrissku, on 01/18/2009, -3/+63Dear Mr. Postman@gmail.com
My family feels many terrible sadnesses for what happend to you. We read about the plight of you in our local Nigerian paper. We sent a gift to you which has failed to arrive due to corruption of my government. Please send $250.00 American dollars to pay for required paperwork and postage fees to release your gift in turn we will mail you a check for the $350.00 for your gift. You will make $100 us dollars and get Nigerian sympathy goodwill gift.
Sincerly,
Donango Otango
Ministryofgoodwillofficialemailadress@gmail.com.africa
Minister of Goodwill, Nigeria
P.S.
As a show of goodwill please send me wire instructions to your bank account so I am set up to send future monies and gifts. - sdellboy, on 01/18/2009, -1/+60He wasn't thinking with his heart or his brain...he was thinking with his wallet....
- mess7777, on 01/18/2009, -0/+59too bad this continues to work. I once showed a guy the 419eater.com website and a link to a police website stating it was a scam. Next thing I know the guy is on the phone asking if it was so and so from the Bank of Nigeria. Talk about idiotic.
Remember the old saying "If it's too good to be true......"
Dugg to bring awareness and hopefully avoid someone from being as stupid in the future. - inactive, on 01/18/2009, -2/+55A secret formula that washes away the un-legal tender part of a note?
“I was like holy crap, is that mine?”
This dude watched way too many James Bond movies, and he should have known only the bad guys do that sort of thing with 'money'. - rikwakefield, on 01/18/2009, -1/+46Every now and again this really fits.
- KingBabi, on 01/18/2009, -0/+43I remember getting a Nigerian prince scam email a month after I opened up my first hotmail account. I noticed the numerous spelling errors, the fact that it was a mass email, and the unlikeliness of the whole thing. I promptly deleted the message. I was 12.
- qbthemc, on 01/18/2009, -4/+40Dear Sir/M,
I am Mr.David Mark. an Auditor of a BANK OF THE NORTH
INTERNATIONAL,ABUJA
(FCT). I have the courage to Crave indulgence for
this important business
believing that you will never let me down
either now or in the future. Some
years ago, an American Mining
consultant/ contractor with the Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation,
made a numbered time (fixed)deposit for twelve calendar
months, valued
$12M.USD (TWELVE MILLION US DOLLARS) in an account. On maturity,
The
bank sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no
reply.
After a month, The bank sent another reminder and finally his
contract
employers, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation wrote
to inform the bank
that he died without MAKING A WILL, and all attempts
by the American Embassy to
trace his next of kin was fruitless. I
therefore, made further investigation and
discovered that the
beneficiary was an immigrant from Jamaica and only recently
obtained
American citizenship. He did not decla re any kin or relations in all
his official documents, including his Bank deposit paper work. This
money total
amount$12M.USD ( TWELVE MILLION US DOLLARS)is still sitting
in my bank as
dormant Account. No one will ever come forward to claim
it, and according to
Nigerian Banking policy, after some years, the
money will revert to the
ownership of the igerian Government if the
account owner is certified dead. This
is the situation, and my proposal
is that I am looking for a foreigner who will
stand in as the next of
kin to beneficiary, and OPEN a Bank Account abroad to
facilitate the
transfer of this money. This is simple, all you have to do is to
OPEN
an account anywhere in the world and send me its detail for me to
arrange
the proper money transfer paperwork, and facilitate the
transfer.The money will
then be paid into this Account for us to share
in the ratio of 60% for me, 35 %
for you and 5% for expenses that might
come up during transfer process. There is
no risk at all, and all the
paper work for this transaction will be done by me
using my position
and connections in the banks in Nigeria. This business
transaction is
guaranteed.And the first phase of the transfer will be ($4M.USD)
FOUR
MILLION DOLLARS as advised by our insider in the bank.If you are
interested, please reply immediately through my personal email sending
the
following details: (1) Your Full Name/Address (2) Your Private
Telephone/fax
Number. Please observe the utmost confidentiality, and be
rest assured that this
transaction would be most profitable for both of
us because I shall require your
assistance to invest some of my share
in your country. I look forward to your
earliest reply.
Yours,
Mr.David
Mark. - Duggan360, on 01/18/2009, -2/+38Thats what she said
- chadwalters23, on 01/18/2009, -1/+37In the meantime, Rempel dropped the formula. The bottle broke.
Born to fail. - lisaawesome, on 01/18/2009, -0/+35The formula part was what really gave me a chuckle. How does that even make sense?
- tusseyd, on 01/18/2009, -2/+37If he will wire $50,000 to my off shore account, I will help him sue these bastards and recover all his money and more. I promise.
- Travelpilot, on 01/18/2009, -0/+34He was obviously blinded by the power of greed, with so many opportunities to see something was wrong he still continued. Sad!
- fluxion, on 01/18/2009, -1/+35Greetings Novenator the Red. My father is the greek god Zeus, ruler of the Earth and all the Heavens. We have in our account a sum totalling $50 bajillion in Mount Olympus funds (1 Mount Olympus dollar = $100 million USD). I would like to add this to the puny sum your uncle has hidden away. Just provide the location of the funds and a PS3 (80GB version) and we will place the money at the same location.
Sincerely Yours Truly with Blessed Wishes and Happiness,
Heracles, Son of Zeus, Slayer of the Lernaean Hydra - betheturtle, on 01/18/2009, -0/+34Some people should not be allowed to handle money, period.
- Borg7609, on 01/18/2009, -2/+35HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Dumb people actually fall for these scams!!!! Several national news sites were running a story a couple months ago of a lady that sent like $400,000 to these scammers. Dumb people!
- slickrocktrail, on 01/18/2009, -0/+33It is one thing that one guy would be stupid enough to send a large sum in response to an international e-mail, but he was able to convince one relative after another to loan him money.
He explained the situation to them and they ALL thought it was a good idea?
- j0hnc0ry, on 01/18/2009, -0/+33Hugh G. Rection
402 Hardon Road
Honolulu, HI 96818
808-862-8600
Can you send it all in cash please? - punkcat, on 01/18/2009, -1/+31“I never get calls anymore from my friends. You know, a bad reputation.”
for being an idiot. - crsturdivant, on 01/18/2009, -0/+28That's ***** sad. HOW EMBARRASSING! I mean...damn...that's really pathetic. A formula to make it legal tender? Are they ***** serious???!!! This story makes me feel like I'm the shrewdest ***** around.
- punkcat, on 01/18/2009, -0/+27i imagine he runs to the phone during every informercial.
- killsunday, on 01/18/2009, -0/+25Well, it obviously needs laundered. How do YOU do that?
- footodors, on 01/18/2009, -2/+27Well, at least he can thank the nigerian scam for exposing his underlying mental illness, which otherwise he might never have known about.
- jetboyterp, on 01/18/2009, -0/+24moron.
- techdever, on 01/18/2009, -0/+23they don't fall for your comment link spamming however...
- Iglio, on 01/18/2009, -0/+23I'm interested my email is coolmom123@AOL.com
- sndream, on 01/18/2009, -2/+25Well, he only have to choice. Either get back his truck driving job and try to pay the 150K over the next 5-10 years.
Or even better, go to Nigeria, gets lots of guns there and have Hollywood style revenge!!!!! - freediverx, on 01/18/2009, -1/+22"How come people still fall to such scams?"
Because for a large portion of the human population, greed far exceeds intelligence.
Reference:
Is greed or stupidity the cause of the world's financial crisis?
http://sundaytimes.lk/081109/FinancialTimes/ft306. ...
Bush Wins Second Term
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A195 ... - JackSchittt, on 01/18/2009, -1/+20Why don't we just cut to the chase?
Dear Sir,
Please send me $10,000. I just want to blow the money on beer, prostitutes, and pay off my internet bill in hopes of finding another person stupid enough to send me $10,000. You won't receive promises of millions of dollars in return. In fact, the only thing you'll get is a picture of me laughing at you for sending me $10,000 in the first place. But at least you'll walk away with the satisfaction of knowing exactly what your hard-earned money was being spent on and not have that feeling of despair one gets when they realized that some scam artist was lying every step of the way.
Please respond ASAP if interested so I can take all your money as quickly as possible.
Love,
Me.
I figure with all the people who continue to fall for the 419 scam, buy $1000 "I am Rich" pictures of rubies for their Ipods, and trade their IPods for cab rides, if I send out a million of these emails, I should get at least one bite, right? - mysticalone, on 01/18/2009, -2/+20LOL, duh he uses AOL, what else is there?
- Ibox, on 01/18/2009, -1/+18He's a dumb ass and deserves what he got...
- logicalfallacy, on 01/18/2009, -1/+17Sweet, mine is, Rusca Meed, natwest, sort 60-11-33., acc no, 22820000, pin is 2012, password Ihatemacsftw
- lisaawesome, on 01/18/2009, -0/+16I prefer Tide.
- Finalreminder, on 01/18/2009, -5/+20They should just build one big wall around Nigeria and chop all the phone lines and masts.
Call it the Great Global Firewall.
The GGF ( I like that)
The GGF-419ER - hawkeye22, on 01/18/2009, -2/+17Dear Sir
God bless you. How are you today? I hope you and your family are well, under the Lord's glorious sun. I am in possession of a witty and informative Digg comment, but I have been unable to release that comment because of the recent war situation in my country of Zimbabwe. Currently I am in talks with my lawyer, the honorable Mr Samuel. R. O. F. Lancet, who has told me that the comment can be released immediately through my government's administration. To use this service, however, there is a small fee - but do not worry, my good sir, because if you would kindly please send $100 US Dollars, I will be able to release the comment immediately.
I will be requiring a copy of your passport for authentication purposes also.
God bless and may you live peacefully in propser,
Mr Obleigh D. S. Scamarova - DoTheFandango, on 01/18/2009, -0/+14ITS SO SIMPLE, HE JUST HAVE TO CHOICE
- inactive, on 01/18/2009, -0/+14Or to vote.
- onimusha115, on 01/18/2009, -2/+15or blow that 150,000 on another scam.
- perryc, on 01/18/2009, -2/+15For those interested, this is the first movie ever made on the Nigerain Scam topic (mostly it shows how the scam works):
http://www.419thenigerianscam.com/ - haikuFU, on 01/18/2009, -2/+15Actually, the guy's greed was what caused him to do this. I try to have sympathy for him, but I can't. I just can't get over the fact that he's a dumbass.
- GUTTS, on 01/18/2009, -1/+14don't know why you were buried but that ***** was hilarious.
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