Just noticed this one in a junk email folder that doesn't usually collect much:

Dear Friend,


I want to transfer US$20.5 Million to your bank account. The fund belong to our deceased customer who died with his entire family in Iraq War 2006, leaving nobody for the claim and as such, I decided to contact you as to enable us claim the fund. Your share is 40% while 60% for me. Contact me only through my private e-mail [email protected] for more details: This transaction is 100% risky free.

Thanks,
Mr. Berki Moussa
BANK OF AFRICA,
ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.


"This transaction is 100% risky free." Well of course then, I am completely reassured, let me just send you my account details.

Once upon a time they took some trouble to come up with these stories. They used to have at least two or more paragraphs.

Interesting read...
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I sent the following message to over 10,000 scammer email addresses...

Dear Scammer,
I am a online reporter who is doing a story about 419 email scams. Your response to this email will be added to my website and will be read by a sizeable audience of curious readers. Keep that in mind when I ask you the following...
"Why do about 95% of email scammers come from Nigeria? What is it about Nigeria that causes it to produce so many scammers?"
Please remember that tens of thousands of people (perhaps even millions) are eagerly awaiting your response...


I kept emailing until I received 100 responses. (I did not count auto-responses, error-responses, or scripted responses) Of the 100 who responded - only 18 bothered to provide a real answer the question "Why do about 95% of email scammers come from Nigeria? What is it about Nigeria that causes it to produce so many scammers?". Of those 18 who answered the question...
8 said white people, Americans or "you people" are to blame.
6 said poverty, joblessness and political corruption in Nigeria is to blame.
4 gave other answers.
0 gave "national character" as an answer.

Of the 72 who failed to answer the question...

30 said "I'm not a scammer.", "this deal is real" or other words to that effect.
19 just insulted me or used profanity.
12 stated or implied that slavery and other historical wrongs make Nigerian scams justifiable.
10 wrote cryptic or nonsensical messages.
3 promised to stop scamming if I sent them money or a gift.
7 gave some other sort of response that failed to answer my question.

All 100 responses are listed below.

http://www.quatloos.com/Q-Forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3637

i would love to find these people & seriously injure them with a cricket bat ..

That's worth a read...I guess you can understand their frustration...

...or have I just been scammed?


One of the more sensible replies:-

"You have asked a very good question,and you will get answer to it.

The reason why Nigerians are the major player in the 419 business is due to the fact that our government are the pacesetters,we have had continous corrupted government.They embezzle money and fly it over to foreign countries like Britain,France,USA,Switzerland to name a few.The never think of building the nation,they dont do things that will make life bearable for the citizens.All they have achived is failure and extreme hardship on Nigerians.

Nigerians have suffered unstable power supply for many years,and the government have been unable to solve the problem,we are talking of a problem of more than 25 years old,tell me,its that a government.Mind you they keep on spending huge amount of money on the power sector without result.Anothet means of embezzlement.The fact is that you will see them embarking onsveral project,but the fact is that they are not interested in the realisation of the project,but just a means for embezzlement.Imagine if we have had 23 years of total corruption and embezzlzment,then it tells you that Nigeria as a country as failed to progress for the past 23 years,do you know the magnitude of damage that as done to the country?Do you know that two generation are being wasted already?A great harm as been done.

Nigerians are very conscious of education,and the country have produced alot of graduate,specialising in different field of life.But they cant get employment,are are languishing and suffering,they are seek any means of lifelihood including scam.They have to survive.Tell me,in a country like America or Europe,can a trained lawyer,accountant,computer engineer,journalist become a scammer.It tells you something is wrong.

I want you to know that the American government and European governments are the reason for the plague and suffering of Nigerians and Africans at large,because they never stopped them when they bring huge amount of money to banks in america and Europe,knowing fully well that they are serving a nation and couldnt have earn that much.

That is the reson why Americans and the europeans are the target of fraudstars.

Our governmet enriches your continent to the detriment of our continent through massive embezzlement of money taken to your banks without questioning,and we retrieve some percentage of it from your citizens.

There is still more to say,but i have to stop here.I hope i have been able to make you understand some things."

GreenPat said...

"The people they eat are greddy once."

Aaaaahhhhh now I get it. It is all about performance parts for their Japanese cars

bingles said...

Dave needs a job!!

Started drafting at a metal fabrication place yesterday.. Not sure it it's permanent was supposed to be just a week's work, but there's lots to be done.

Getting up at 6am for the first time in ... a f'kin long time... is not cool

Will be doing 6-3 so I'll have to be up at 5am next week.. but I can kite in the avo's

Like this? Well worth the read.


www.419eater.com/html/john_boko.htm

This one is a new style, the "send to wrong recipient, here's a secret..." method:

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yeah finally :) thanks a lot mate! I`m starting today, thank you sooo much, you have no idea how much you helped me bro!!!
I have a serious new years debt and need to quickly make some cash :)

cheers...


----- Original Message -----
From: "bartholomew_andrew"
To: "larry"
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: Re: happy new year :)


yo mate, ok I`ll give you my trick but if you give it someone else I`ll ****in kill you :) you know in roulette you can bet on blacks or reds. If you bet $1 on black and it goes black you win $1 but if it goes red you loose your $1.
but I found a way you can win everytime:

bet $1 on black if it goes black you win $1

now again bet $1 on black, if it goes red bet $3 on black, if it goes red again bet $8 on black, if red again bet $20 on black, red again bet $52 on black (always multiple you previous lost bet around 2.5), if now is black you win $52 so you have $104 and you bet:

$1 + $3 + $8 + $20 + $52 = $84 So you just won $20 :)

now when you won you start with $1 on blacks again etc etc. its always bound to go black eventually (it`s 50/50) so that way you eventually always win. But there`s a catch. If you start winning too much (like $1000 a day) casino will finally notice something and can ban you. I was banned once on royal casino. So don`t be too greedy and don`t win more then $200 a day and you can do it for years. I think bigger casinos know that trick so I play for real money on smaller ones, right now I play on elite vip casino: [originator of email website] for more then 3 months, I win $50-$200 a day and my account still works. You`ll find roulette there when you log in go to "specialty" section - "american roulette". And don`t you dare talling about it anyone else, if too many people knows about it casinos will finally found a way to block that trick. If you have any questions just drop me a line here or on skype.

c ya


----- Original Message -----
From: "larry"
To: "bartholomew_andrew"
Sent: Saturday, January 2, 2010 12:26 PM
Subject: yo mate


please tell me when you will send me your roulette trick?
You promised you`ll send it few weeks ago :(

cheers

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