Oh noes! My friend got "mugged" in London!

[bluesbassman]

:rofl: First off, this particular friend would never say "lodged". Second, I don't think he's ever been out of the state, and I damn sure know he wouldn't go on some "secret" trip to London, hell EVERYBODY would have known he was going! And last, the only time this guy has tears in his eyes in when the tequila bottle is empty. :P

Guess I better let him know his email got spoofed or hacked or whatever the hell these jokers do...

I'm writing this with tears in my eyes, i came down here to London, England for some personal matter and got mugged at gun point last night at the park of the hotel where i lodged. All cash,credit cards and cell were stolen off me. I've been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all,my flight leaves tomorrow and I'm having problems settling the hotel bills.

The hotel manager won't let me leave until i settle the hotel bills($2,750USD).

Please you can wire it to my name from a western union outlet around.
Check: (www.westernunion.com) to find the nearest WU around you or you simply can wire the money from their online website, Once you do, please send me a scanned copy of the payment slip so i can use in picking up the money and settling the hotel bills.
I'm sorry for bringing this up to you, but i really do not want anyone knowing i came to London so please keep this to yourself, i will explain better to you when i get back home but for now please let this be our little secret...

Thanks in Advance

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Nice. And here I thought that I could count on you, bluesbassman.

When the Nigerian bank check clears I'm NOT giving you a cent.

[Paradoxical]

2. I had a similar scam email come through when I sold my old porsche. I reported it to the FBI.

Guy claimed to be an exotic car dealer and wanted my beat up POS 914 to bring back to london. But he needed me to route a lot of money through a shipper and then send him the extra cash. Of course it was a scam. I actually spent a couple weeks leading him on as I sent all the conversations to the FBI. My final email is one of the greatest things I have ever written.

Hey -------
Hows it going? I just wanted to let you know that you should recieve payment in your account kinda early ie today so check your online banking by 12 noon and confirm payment.. But is its not there today, it should be there by tommorrow same time. As soon as you confirm payment. I wil lneed you to forward the shipping fees to my shipper via MONEYGRAM with this information:

BRIAN SILVER
3030 VERDUN DRIVE NW
ATLANTA, GA 30305

As soon as you have done this, I will need the following information as i appears
on the Moneygram reciept:

Senders name
Recievers name
Reference number:
Exact amount sent :

As for the Moneygram fees you will be charged to send the funds. well let me know so I can send it along with the balance payment of $3200 for the vehicle..
Let me know as soon as you have recieved this

Thanks
Ken

So here's the thing,

I reported you to the FBI over a week ago and have been continually feeding them information about you and your whereabouts. I've known from the very beginning that you were a scam artist. It's not that difficult to do a simple google search to find out your "history". Did you honestly think I was stupid enough to fall for your little tricks?

I say this with all the sincerity in the world; find a career that you're better at. As of right now, you're a third rate hack trying to steal money from people only slightly dumber than yourself. Seriously, only people with an IQ of 70 would buy your garbage.

So you're a car importer from the UK who wants to buy a 4000 dollar car from Arizona and ship it 5000 miles across the world. And you wanted to pay me via electronic bank check. And then you wanted me to give money to some random "shipper"? Let me guess, the check is fraudulent. I would wire my real money to you and then the bank would find out that the check is fake and demand compensation from me?

I take shits that are better than your ideas.

I hope the feds find you and throw your dumb ass in prison until you're too old to feed yourself. I'd be more than willing to testify to help expedite the legal proceedings. Maybe I'll be able to look you in the face and laugh? Who knows what kind of glorious things are in your future.

Fuck off and die, you dumb $%^%$

Me

[Supply Side Jesus]

3. My favorite are actual death threats

Some people got a letter in the actual mail telling them to pay $50K to a Swiss bank account or they were going to be kidnapped and forced to commit suicide. I kid you not. I need to find the copy I have of the letter and scan it and post it. I was so funny the way it written

[Paradoxical]

4. See this is why I'm glad I have so little regard for my own life.

It makes death threats completely hysterical.

[LeftishBrit]

5. It's a pretty common scam

My favourite scam-attempt was when I received an e-mail supposedly from a firm of lawyers telling me that I was an heir to part of Sir Dennis Thatcher's estate. Firstly, the name is spelled 'Denis' and I think his lawyers would have known how to spell it! Secondly, can you imagine any member of the Thatcher family wanting to leave *me* money?!

[NewJeffCT]

6. The first time I got that email

I was a bit surprised by it, and thought it might have been legit.

[WildEyedLiberal]

7. Got one of these from my "friend" a year ago

Fortunately, she writes well - that was my immediate tipoff that it was a scam. She'd never use a comma splice or fail to capitalize her "I"s. :P

On the icky side, it took her about a week to get her gmail back :(

[nolabear]

8. I've always wondered something about these things.

Why is it there are always, and I do mean always, misspellings and grammatical errors? Even if you're scattershotting the thing into the cybersphere, wouldn't it take just a tiny amount of editing to be sure you sound like you might actually BE the counsel for the Bank of Nigeria or the Prince of Gimmeyomoneya or something? It's almost as though they're trying to sound phony.

That said, I know someone whose elderly and deeply unsophisticated parents lost thousands.

[DainBramaged]

9. I got one of them, but I can't find my Monopoly game to send him money.

[Call Me Wesley]

10. Ohhhhh, a hotel with its own park in London!

Must be the 'Park Hotel.'

[kimi]

11. Dang

All I get in my in-box are run-of-the-mill Nigerian scams. I actually might have fallen for this, till I read it closer and saw the total. $2750?!?! I was in London for a week last year and my "lodging" wasn't near that price.

But it's sort of convincing. Kinda scary, that the scam-artists are moving up in sophistry.

[mysuzuki2]

12. This scam was going around a few months ago too

I got an similar email from my friend "Dave". I could tell it was a fake because it said his employer had sent him to London for a business symposium. Since Dave is a salesman in an auto parts store this seemed pretty unlikely. So I replied saying I wouldn't lend him any money since he hadn't paid me back the $10.00 he borrowed in 1968 and anyway I would never forgive him for getting drunk and making a pass at my wife, Anyway, I never heard back from "Dave" who I know for a fact has never been to London. Similarly, a friend of mine got the email from her daughter, supposedly stranded in London too. The only problem was she was reading her mail at home while her daughter was actually sitting next to her on the couch. I wonder if anyone really sends these clowns any money?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. I recently got a very similar email purporting to be from someone

I don't know well personally (a business rather than a personal relationship), and I am not someone who this person would contact if this had really happened. The email address it came from was identical to the real address, except that it added a "1" after the name, so unless you looked closely it appeared to be the real thing. I notified the person, and also notified the FBI's Internet fraud division.

[RebelOne]

14. Undoubtedly, most of these scam letters

originate in Nigeria.