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jukes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 02:50 PM
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"nigerian" email scams
site of a guy that plays w/ these morons, driving them nuts for trying to con him!

http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 03:13 PM
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1. Sides are hurting
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 03:21 PM
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2. Incredible.
Ebola monkey man must have time on his hands!
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MaryH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 03:23 PM
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3. Our business got two e-mails from Nigeria.
We jumped right on them.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 03:30 PM
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4. Go to this site.
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 03:31 PM by RebelOne
http://www.419eater.com

I'm a register member. Read some of the baits. You will fall off your chair laughing. I don't do much baiting. I just like to warn potential victims. Or I send insulting letters to the scammers.
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jukes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 03:41 PM
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7. i had no idea
i just delete these guys w/o a thought; gee, what fun i've been missing out on! you can bet i'll be a little more thoughtful in the future & entertain these fellows as they deserve!

some seriously funny shit!
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livinginphotographs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 03:39 PM
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5. What a coincidence, I just found that site today.
n/t
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 03:39 PM
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6. I love the Tiffany Minx one!!
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 03:45 PM
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8. That is really funny.
eom
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 03:49 PM
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9. too funny - I can't read it at work
I was laughing hysterically when Anita Hanchob came up...
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scarlett1 Donating Member (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 03:55 PM
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10. I know a guy who f***'s with these morons also
I haven't talked to him recently, he's a freeper so I don't really want to talk him.
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silverpatronus Donating Member (520 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 04:17 PM
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11. a friend of mine got hit by one of these scammers...
his brain was on the fritz at the time, otherwise he'd have recognised it for what it was, and he only told me about it after the fact. my friend was trying to sell a ring and this scammer told him that he could only send him a cheque for twice the amount (six grand) and that he'd have to make change. why he fell for that i will NEVER know. he's usually a smart guy. anyway, this cheque was sent and deposited into his bank account, and the stupid bank changed the balance before they cleared the cheque, so he thought it was legit and sent the guy a return cheque for $3000 and the ring. by the time the bank woke up to the fake cheque and my friend woke up in the middle of the night like 'what the fuck was i on?', he was out 3 grand AND the ring worth another 3 grand. trust me, he's not proud of it. it definitely wasn't one of his more intelligent moments. as the police pointed out to him, it could have been a money laundering scam...anything, and he wasn't too bright about it.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 04:30 PM
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12. That's terrible - and a good reminder of what these scammers do
Whenever I start to feel sorry for them I think about people like your friend who got scammed. I do feel sorry for the people in the photos - I doubt they are the scammers, just some poor people who are probably coerced by the scammers into posing for photos.

These scammers are everywhere. When we sold our car using an online listing service we got dozens of scam notes pretending interest in buying the car, all with sad stories and complicated ideas for "closing the deal."
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 04:30 PM
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13. They even send the scams to churches and use a "Godly" angle
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 04:31 PM by notmyprez
I work in a church office, and we constantly get "nigerian scam" emails that are from a person that is supposedly "born again" and needs someone to do "Godly" things with the money.

When you think you've seen everything, something like this comes along!
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 04:38 PM
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14. I knew idiots in College who fell for that shitl
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Lisa0825 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 04:46 PM
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15. my friend Dave does that too, and fwds all the emails to me.
Funny stuff!
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