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InvisibleDiploidM
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Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! * 4
    #7596861 - 11/04/07 11:00 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

So I get one of those emails we've all gotten from some guy with an unpronouncable name who runs a big bank in Nigeria telling me that he wants to give me a few million bucks for helping him out. Instead of deleting it, I thought I'd turn the tables and have some fun.

After a few back and forth, he finally asks me for my bank account number so he can transfer the money to me. I make up a number and reply.

A bit later he tells me that the number was wrong and he was unable to send the money. I tell him I accidentally transposed two digits, apologize, and send it again. Next day he tells me it's still wrong.

I reply that, oops, that was the bank's phone number, not my account number. So sorry, my mistake! I make up another number and the back and forth goes on for another few days. He tells me that the bank people say the account number is still not valid. I keep swearing to him that I'm reading the account number directly off my checkbook and have double checked it. I accuse the bank people of being morons.

By this time, the guy is starting to get frustrated at being so close but still so far and it's starting to show in his writing. So now he asks me to fax him a photocopy of a check so he can show it to "the bank people" even though he's the president of the bank. I agree and ask for his fax number.

I don't fax him anything so after a couple of days I get another email asking what's taking so long. He seems pissed off. I tell him that I've been trying but I keep getting a busy signal.

Next he asks me to just photograph the blank check and email him the pic. So laughing my ass off, I get out the camera and shoot a pic of a blank check, but I do it from so far away that nothing is legible.

Next day I get another email and I can tell this guy is steaming mad at the idiot American but trying not to let it show. I tell him I didn't look at the pic before sending. So sorry, my mistake! I tell him I'll send another pic close up but the batteries are dead and it'll take a couple of days to get fresh ones and send him another pic.

Today I set the lens to macro mode and shot a closeup of the words "Pay To The Order Of" but nothing else. I'm waiting for a reply now.

If I can stop laughing enough to hold still, I think the next pic will be from a reasonable distance, but unfortunately the auto-focus system isn't going to work right... :rofl2:


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: Diploid]
    #7596891 - 11/04/07 11:09 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I'd be careful with sending a blurry photo. There's no telling if he'll be able to reconstruct the digits.

Just send him a well focused macro shot of your penis. :crazy2:

Oh and you might want to submit this to one of those websites dedicated to baiting and fucking with these scammers. I can't remember the site name right now, but I once spent about 3 hours reading different stories of people completely fucking with them, with hilarious results.


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: WakeboardrB]
    #7596907 - 11/04/07 11:13 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Haha, keep it up and screw with him for as long as you can.


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: TripleTree3]
    #7596935 - 11/04/07 11:21 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

the interesting things about these scams is that in the US, anyways, the bank has to prove that you approved of the demand draft being issued, so your really not liable for someone removing x number of dollars from your account. Unless the person is affiliated with a large company, they usually can't get a bank to request the funds from yours, as the bank would then be out of the money when it is disputed, and many banks won't honor out-of-country demand drafts due to their liability if its fraudulent.

THis is why most of the nigerian scams involve you activly giving them money, rather than simply giving them your number. In america the protection laws for consumers are much better than people presume


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: johnm214]
    #7596984 - 11/04/07 11:36 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Ask him to send you some money for a new digital camera since yours is broken. :rofl:


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: WakeboardrB]
    #7596987 - 11/04/07 11:37 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Here's some interesting tales from ebay about some idiots who fell for it, some who really didn't need the money to begin with:

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The victim becomes a criminal

Victims of the fraud often fall directly into crime by "borrowing" or stealing money to pay the advanced fees, thinking an early payday is imminent.

* One example of this was Robert Andrew Street,[37] a Melbourne-based financial adviser, who fleeced his clients for over AU$ 1,000,000 which he sent to the scammers in the hope of receiving USD$65M in return. Eventually the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigated the victim, who had now become a conman himself.
* Another example was a bookkeeper for Michigan law firm [38] Olsman Mueller & James who in 2002 emptied the company bank account of USD$2.1M in expectation of a USD$4.5M payout.
* John W. Worley fell for a Nigerian scam and was convicted of taking money under false pretenses[39].
* According to Kurt Eichenwald, author of The Informant, Mark Whitacre defrauded Archer Daniels Midland, a food products manufacturer for which he was a division president, embezzling $9 million during the same period of time that he was acting as an informant for the FBI in a price fixing scheme that ADM was involved in. His illegal activities in trying to procure funds for payment of his supposed Nigerian benefactors cost him his immunity in the price-fixing scandal, according to Eichenwald's book, The Informant. However, Eichenwald has recently lost his credibility, his job, and his career in journalism because of lying about his unethical payments to a source in a recent case.[40][41] James Lieber, author of Rats in the Grain and an attorney, also wrote a book about Whitacre in which he disagreed with Eichenwald's conclusions about Whitacre and the Nigerian scam. [42][43][44]





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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: Diploid]
    #7597012 - 11/04/07 11:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

fax him scat porn.


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: StonedShroom]
    #7597036 - 11/04/07 11:56 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

go diploid, i love fuckin with the nigerians as well :smile:


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: Diploid]
    #7597085 - 11/05/07 12:14 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)



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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: Silversoul]
    #7597127 - 11/05/07 12:28 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

There's a website called 419eater.com. IT IS HILARIOUS. This guy devotes his free time to scamming nigerian con artists. He saves all the email and phone conversations and posts them on his site. The addresses and names he gives the guy are all thematically linked to American pop culture these people couldn't possibly know; at one point he pretends to be Dana Scully and sends the scammer sexy pictures of Gillian Anderson. He also gets a few to send HIM money, and even gets one to get a large and embarrassing tattoo. I've spent hours on this site, the techniques of baiting are really funny and you can turn it into a serious hobby if you're careful.


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: kriminalelement]
    #7597196 - 11/05/07 01:04 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Hahaha nice work man. My buddy got another scam that claimed he had won a million for some scholarship by an agency from France.

Keep it up and save and post the emails!
Try to get some info out of him..maybe we can somehow bust this guy or at worst use his own weapon of manipulation against him for some hilarious end.


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: OMniversal]
    #7597210 - 11/05/07 01:15 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

go diploid!go diploid!go diploid!go diploid!go diploid!go diploid!go diploid!go diploid!go diploid!go diploid!go diploid!go diploid!


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: truekimbo2]
    #7597237 - 11/05/07 01:35 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

nothing instills confidence in the legitimacy of an offer like broken english... I got this once:

"Pleased sends moneys swiftly at your request.  We await your urgent reply."

:lol:


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: Diploid]
    #7597566 - 11/05/07 07:30 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Excellent work Diploid!


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:heartpump:


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: WhiskeyClone]
    #7597622 - 11/05/07 08:01 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Send him cupgirls. :rockon:


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: Diploid]
    #7599977 - 11/05/07 07:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

:rofl::congrats: God bless you sir, you are doing the lord's work.


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: StrandedVoyager]
    #7600296 - 11/05/07 08:56 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Thats awesome. how long are you going to drag this out?


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: Diploid]
    #7600309 - 11/05/07 08:58 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

:lol: This is hilarious


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: OMniversal]
    #7600336 - 11/05/07 09:05 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

:bowdown:

That is the funniest thing I have heard in a long time. Oh, please fuck with him some more.


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Re: Wow! Some Guy In Nigeria Wants To Send Me Money!!! [Re: mycogirl]
    #7600340 - 11/05/07 09:06 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

send him a pic of your bare ass for a finale with "fuck off" written.


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