Now they pose as the Nigerian GOVERNMENT

[Del]

This email I got is new to me... usually it's a sob story from a private businessman. Think-you-get-rich-but-actually-have-your-bank-account-sucked-dry emails.

I wonder how legitimate Nigerians handle trying to use the internet with all this crap floating around.

Del

 

[CarlZog]

I wonder how legitimate Nigerians handle trying to use the internet with all this crap floating around.

It's actually a big issue for the Nigerian government, which would like to attract legit business to the country.

These scams have been going on for years and predate the internet by a LONG stretch. Email and computer money transfers have just made the operations a whole lot easier than they used to be -- and, consequently, a whole lot more popular.

By the way, there's a hysterical website by a guy who's made a hobby of stringing the scammers along. He replies using outrageous aliases and stories, then posts the resulting email exchanges. He's played all kinds of great pranks on them, including getting them to show up at locations that have webcams, whose video he's then also posted.

Unfortunately, I don't have the link for his site anymore, but it probably woulldn't be too hard to find. Definitely worth the effort.

Carl

 

[reveal]

Googled "nigerian scammers" and guess what the first link was?

http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

 

[CarlZog]

Googled "nigerian scammers" and guess what the first link was?

http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

I just went looking too. I guess scamming the scammers has become a popular pastime. The ebolamonkeyman is NOT the site I'd read before. Here's the guy I'd seen:

http://www.geocities.com/scamjokepage/

who's more creative and a lot less obnoxious than the "ebolamonkeyman"

 

[Darth K'Trava]

It's bad enough their women like propositioning guys here in the US to get them to marry them just so they can get into the country.... a friend of mine got one and sent back "Keep sending those letters and I'm gonna blow up your country". He didn't get anymore, at least from that person....

Damn nigerians. Ain't they got anything better to do than this p'taq?

 

[Del]

I just went looking too. I guess scamming the scammers has become a popular pastime. The ebolamonkeyman is NOT the site I'd read before. Here's the guy I'd seen:

http://www.geocities.com/scamjokepage/

who's more creative and a lot less obnoxious than the "ebolamonkeyman"

Is that the run of banter that eventually leads the scammer to imply he's going to throw the netizen into a bathtub full of acid? I'm not sure if it's safe to bugger with an organised criminal without police support.

Really, would you prank phone call a Hell's Angel Chapter house?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I really hate this kind of spam!