I am scamming the Nigerian E-Mail Scammers

[Zuni]

I have seen some people posting sites about scamming these guys, so I have decided to try my hand at scamming them back. I hope this goes on for several letters. I could have great big fun with this.:P

Here is the original e-mail to me:

Mr Albert Abossi
No 24 Rue Tokon Avenue
Lome-Togo -West-Africa
[e-mail]
Tel[phone]

Dear Friend,

I am Mr Albert Abossi Regional supervisour/Manager with National Trust Security Company in Lome-Togo,and personal friend to (Mr P.Smith ) national of your country who is a Contractor here in my country Lome-Togo in West-Africa and have spent most of his life in my country (Togo) Herein after shall be referred to as my client.On the 21st of April 2003, my client,his wife and their only son were involved in a car accident along bagida express road.

All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my friend extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, to locate any member of his family hence i contacted you.

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating US$15.5Million Dollars left behind by my friend in the Security/finance Company before they get confiscated or declared Unclaimed bill by the finance Company Here in Lome-Togo where he deposited the fund,The finance company has issued me a notice to provide the next of Kin or have the fund confiscated within the next twenty Official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years now, I seek the consent to present you as the Next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last names, so that this fund would be released to you. On receipt of your positive response,I would draft an
application text which you will retype and send to the security company, For you kind assistance in this transaction you will be entitled to 40% while 10% will be used to settle any expences during this transaction.

All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.Please i will like to include your private phone number where to reach
you.

Expecting for your immediate response to this proposal.
Mr Albert Abossi
Tel:[phone]

:shrug:

so I decided to reply :evilgrin:

From: --------------- (my confidential e-mail address)
To: albert abossi <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Private and confidential
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 04:08:06 +0000


Mr Abossi, I am very interested in the proposal herein. I could use the $15.5 million dollars (or the fucking lame ass 40% I am actually gonna get), and I for one am not sad that the people are dead.;)
Please contact me with more information and I wioll gladly partner with you in this exciting and entirely moral, ethical venture.
On reception of further information, I will release my personal phone number. But I shall have you know, I am living currently in a home that also serves as a meth lab (we can discuss this business too, if you are interested in primo crank) so I am often out of my mind .

Mr. Zuni


I am waiting to see what comes next! I can hardly wait! :bounce:

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Brilliant

This has the potential to be an internet classic.

[Zuni]

2. I have seen some real funny ones, and got some ideas

but this is all me, my weirdness.

[KitchenWitch]

3. Your weirdness is DIVINE

:rofl:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. This has potential!

Keep us posted.

[Zuni]

6. I sure will

[Zuni]

9. wait---that asaparagus one

that was meant for you. replied to the wrong response. :P

[Zuni]

7. no, that asparagus you served for dinner last night

that was divine O8)

[KitchenWitch]

19. What about the chicken saltimbocca?

I thought that was divine as well O8)

[Zuni]

20. Actually, I think I am going to mention it in my next e-mail to him

;)

[RebelOne]

5. They don't even bother to read your reply.

Just so they get a reply from you is all they care about. But please do not give out any personal info. And use a catcher e-mail account like Yahoo. Have you checked out www.419eater.com? You will get a lot of pointers there.

[billyskank]

8. They're not even interested in your personal info

it's of no value to them. What they want is your money. In order to effect the transfer of funds to you, they will just need a small sum in order to bribe certain officials, pay certain taxes, etc. etc. Then once you have paid that, quelle surprise! There will be another obstacle, which requires another small sum of money from you. And so on, and so on.

I have heard that it all ends in a personal meeting where you hand over a final sum of cash so that you can pick up the briefcase full of cash, which turns out to be full of anything but.

[Zuni]

11. It actually comes to a personal meeting?

Hell, I thought this guy is just trying to pry my financial information, SS# and that kind of stuff so he can do some E-commerce fraud. He is probably working for some massive scam operation, and he himself wouldn't see much money at all, anyway. There is probably some real prick running in Nigeria an e-mail scam sweatshop or something. :shrug:

[billyskank]

12. No, he doesn't want your bank details or anything like that

the scam is nowhere near that sophisticated. He just wants you to send him money, simple as that. It comes to a personal meeting if you are so gullible as to actually keep giving the scammer money and thus follow the thing through to the finish.

[Zuni]

16. I wonder how long I can bait him

before he needs me to send money. Fuck if I am gonna actually send this wanker cash.

[RebelOne]

22. You can keep him on the hook for months if you play it right.

Here's a few tips to keep the bait going. These are from 419eater.com.

Once your bait is started just play it by ear. Ask stupid questions, misunderstand anything you possibly can in his emails, ask for him to sign meaningless documents, get him to pose for stupid photos, anything you can think of to keep him busy playing with you instead of scamming someone for real. Be sure to mention fairly early in your emails to him that you're quite filthy stinking rich and would love more money and his deal sounds just great. They love to know they've got a rich greedy mark hooked and will put up with just about anything to get your imaginary money out of you.

[RebelOne]

27. Do not even consider a personal meeting.

You've read my post at the bottom about the cold reality.

[RebelOne]

10. Also check out TheScambaiter.com

for some real funny stuff. Read about Butch Driveaxle's escapades.

[radwriter0555]

13. I'm scamming a guy who emailed me to buy my Miata; he claims to be from

Norway or something. So we've been emailing, and I told him I have an uncle who owns a freighter that will be in port in mid-june and I could have it shopped to Rotterdam for free!

He has a friend who owes him money, so he's going to send me a cashier's check and I'll refund him $3000... so he thinks. I'm going to ask him for money today I think.

[Zuni]

14. awesome!

You should add your e-mail exchanges to the thread (minus anything sensitive you don't want floating on cyberspace)

I find it amusing that they haven't caught on to the fact that their scam is too well known to work. I really can't imagine it ever working, really, but then again, people have sold Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower and the Brooklyn Bridge before, for large sums of cash and gotten away with it.

[RebelOne]

15. Oh, yes, the old cashier's check scam.

It's amazing how many people have fallen for that. They send you a check for way over the amount and then ask you to refund the difference and ship the goods right away. After you cash the check, you find out from the bank in a week or so that the check was a fake and you are out thousands of dollars and maybe any merchandise that you sent. There are sellers who fall for that scam every day.

[radwriter0555]

17. I'm open to suggestions on how I can scam him.. right now I'm just playing

the gosh, I'm Glad I sold my car" game... I'm not sure how I can reel him in....

[Zuni]

18. same goes for me

right now I playing the "greedy asshole cooking up crystal" game, but not sure where to take it.

[RebelOne]

21. Go visit these sites for pointers.

These people are professional scam-baiters.

http://www.419eater.com and http://wwwthescambaiter.com

Lots of good info and you can get a mentor to help you out.

[RebelOne]

23. The cold reality of 419 scammers. Please read

and realize that these scammers are very dangerous criminals.

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1641875,00.html

[Zuni]

24. holy shit

these guys aren't so amusing anymore---

[gmoney]

25. Uh, Zuni...

Do you have a little larger image you can use in your sig line? I'd like to see this gentleman's shoes.

[Zuni]

28. That gentleman is Hubert Sumlin

a living legend. He was Howlin' Wolf's guitarist. He is one of the last living bluesmen who grew up in the delta and migrated to Chicago. He has played guitar on most of Howlin Wolf's records, he played lead guitar on the classic Muddy Waters track "I Got My Mojo Workin'" and has shared the stage and studio with everyone from the Rolling Stones to members of Zeppelin to Eric Clapton to the White Stripes.

He deserves as big as a sig pic as I can fit, honestly. He was a genius and one of the most important guitar players in terms of style development that ever recorded at Chess studios.

[valis]

26. A good counter-scam would be more subtle...