 | | Being dumb and greedy is a bad combination on the This scam is so old and so played out, if you fall for it now it's because of greed and/orstupidity.
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 | bgraham
join:2001-03-15
Smithtown, NY Reviews:
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| Re: Generally.... i must have gotten 3 or 4 of these faxed to me and yes i did do business in nigeria. anyone who paid anything to anyone because of this fax must be an idiot.
if you do business in nigeria you get the money up front so no one would owe you any money anyway. then on top of this, if anyone was sending you money it would be the company that you did business with not someone purporting to be the Nigerian government and of course they would be telling you how much they sent, when they sent it etc, not asking you for payment to collect. | |
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| | There is a difference... ...between being cynical, and being able to use common sense.
But using either one would have saved that guy 750 grand. | |
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| | | Re: There is a difference... How do people this stupid get 750,000 in the first place? For that matter how do they keep from getting killed in daily life? I just hope they dont breed. | |
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| | | | Re: There is a difference... I wish I had a non-breeding relative who was married to this guy. If I inherited any remaining money, I could at least put the money to good use. For example, I know of some really good broadband and computer deals coming out of Nevada (or is it Texas or Washington?).
But on second thought, this guy who lost the $750,000 was probably the one who bought all of those great Worldcore Online computers, leaving us poor DSL Reports readers stuck with the 'sorry, sold out' messages... | |
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How do people this stupid get 750,000 in the first place? For that matter how do they keep from getting killed in daily life? I just hope they dont breed.
By simple definition, roughly 50% of all people have less than average intelligence. I once saw a billboard that said, "40% of all incarcerated prisoners did NOT graduate high school". THAT moron never put 2 and 2 together to realize that he just stated that kids that drop out have a better chance (60% of all prisoners HAVE their diplomas) of staying out of prison!
P.T. Barnum was right... There is a sucker born EVERY DAY!
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| | not to mention greed... Every one of those Nigerian emails I've gotten, and the Nigerian faxes that went before it, appealed to one thing... GREED. Wanting more money isn't a bad thing unless you nix your morals along the way, and that's when it turns to greed.
In almost every case I've seen it's obvious that part of the scam is that someone's doing something illegal, or that something illegal has to be done to get the money. You know, like "we scammed this off of the people and now the new government is after us" or "we just need to pay some 'bribes' and we can get the money" etc.
Part of the charm of this scam, like many others, is that victims usually don't talk because they know they got taken trying to do something wrong. | |
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| | | Re: not to mention greed... I must get 5 of these things a week, sometimes more. I remember getting handwritten letters from Nirgeria in small brown envelopes as well. | |
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 AkumalDaveLife's A BeachPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-20
Minneapolis, MN | Any group that would have me for a member... Who was it that made that comment, Groucho Marx or W.C. Fields?
Anyway, my first reaction when I received a similar email was: You've got $25 million and you want MY help? I'm the BEST that you can do? There's GOTTA be something wrong here!
Of course, there was. I get some variation on the theme maybe once a month. It's simply amazing that people fall for it. Even more amazing that they'd get $750,000 into it before smelling a skunk.
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 ScottMoOnce in a LifetimePremium,MVM
join:2000-12-15
Stony Brook, NY | Called 419 Fraud Called 419 after the section of the Nigerian legal code that allows (and the Nigerian government seems to encourage) this kind of activity.
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| | What I want to know is... Who are the Royal Canadian Provincial Police? Some new hybrid of the RCMP and OPP? Nice work by the author on that one. | |
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| | NATURAL SELECTION AT WORK This is natural selection at work, the "thinning of the heard" is alive and well. | |
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 W8ASATieng gi vay?
join:2000-07-31
Dayton, OH
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| No surprise to me I had been receiving snail mail from these crooks for many years, and I even saved some up to present to the Secret Service. The agent was very friendly and knowledgable about this, and went so far as to say that ALL business in Nigeria is crooked in some way. The Nigerian government is the most blatantly corrupt and dishonest government in the world.
Snail Mail, Fax, then e-mail. I now get at least five or six of these every single day. I dutifully forward them to the appropriate ISP, such as hotmail, msn, aol, etc., to have that user's account yanked, but of course, as soon as they send the e-mail they stop using that account anyway. (Some of them even spoof hotmail addresses).
Until the Nigerians elect (!) an honest government, this will go on forever. This guy wasn't the only one to lose 750 grand. There are other people just as stupid as he.
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 Copzilla$Mmm... Donuts
join:2000-10-10
Friendswood, TX | Taking matters into the public's own hand
The thing to do would be to have everyone respond with bogus information. They would be working overtime sifting through the crap. Imagine having to look through ten thousand bank accounts numbers with the likelihood of any one of them being valid as next to nothing. It would throw up red flags at all the banks and point straight at the nigerians doing it.
There is a web site where this guy responds to spam and tries to jack with them and string them along... He really laid it on thick with one nigerian scam artist - »www.thespamletters.com/ | |
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| jrehm
join:2002-04-28
Wappingers Falls, NY | Re: Taking matters into the public's own hand A collective effort would stop a great deal of crap in this country and others.
The problem is that few have the nads to do it. They'll sit around an complain, but never step up to the plate.
The world has become overpopulated with spineless lemmings, and that folks is the root of the problem. | |
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join:2002-04-28
Wappingers Falls, NY | Did Someone Say Bonehead??? Nuff said about that! | |
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I've already reported them to abuse@yahoo.com, but I'm gunna play along for a bit...
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Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud
