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    Good day
    I am Mr. Olu Benson, managing director of Zenith Nigeria, on the 2nd of this
    month I received an instruction from one Mr Bill Wilson , to remit a total sum
    of $450,000 to you, I did tried contacting you on phone with the number he gave me, but it seems your phone numbers was out of service at the time I was calling or maybe the network here in Nigeria was really bad , The said cashier cheque has already been prepared and I am waiting for your response to provide with the name in which you want to be shown on the cheque and your mailing address , I hope this contact do not sound embarrassing to you as I am only fulfilling my Obligation in getting my orders straitened up , I certainly hope this mail meets you in good condition and await your response via email or call +234 8035474016 or
    Regard
    Olu Benson,
    MD Zenith Bank, Auchi,Edo state

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    I have a friend who is, literally, the son of a Nigerian Prince. He honestly has no clue where the fuck all these jokes towards him come from. It's reeeaaaally funny.

    So you calling them now, right?


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    Reference Number:LSUK/2031/8161/04
    Ticket number:56475600545188
    Cash on file: £206,289.00

    Dear Email Owner,

    Your email has won a total Cash Prize Of Two hundred and
    six thousand,two hundred and eighty nine pounds sterling
    and a consolation prize of Dell pentium 4 laptop, T-shirt
    and face cap. Contact our claims office on;
    Email: [email protected]
    Phone: +44-704-575-70-21
    Claims officer: Dr. Allen Stuart

    With the following vital information:
    Full Name:............................
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    International Passport................
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    I have a friend who is, literally, the son of a Nigerian Prince. He honestly has no clue where the fuck all these jokes towards him come from. It's reeeaaaally funny.

    So you calling them now, right?
    I so would just for the hell of it BUT I dont want the international fees. Maybe they'll let me call collect?!

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    I swear I get soooo many of these - I guess Im on the 'idiot' hit list...

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    lol for some reason when i saw the thread title i knew it was going to be this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AudreyLeigh View Post
    Reference Number:LSUK/2031/8161/04
    Ticket number:56475600545188
    Cash on file: £206,289.00

    Dear Email Owner,

    Your email has won a total Cash Prize Of Two hundred and
    six thousand,two hundred and eighty nine pounds sterling
    and a consolation prize of Dell pentium 4 laptop, T-shirt
    and face cap.

    WTF is a face cap?

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    I have a friend who IS a Nigerian prince. So boo yaa...haha

    I wanted to know what a face cap was too. You should e-mail them back and ask, ahah.

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    Nice!--- if you've got time Audrey, you should peek at http://www.419eater.com/. They bait these guys into wasting time and resources with them, rather then going after more victims. They even keep an archive where you can read through the email correspondence and see what happens if you do respond to one of these

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    my friend runs a site that makes fun of these guys and lead them on heres a good example.

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    I was caught up(thankfully NOT a victim that had money stolen) of a check scam like this lately. Several elderly cpls have been taken..I've contacted them so they can freeze their bank accounts and everything. Contacted the FBI on their "report a check scam" site and they emailed back saying they dont care. All these old people are being bilked of their life savings and the people who are supposed to handle this dont care.

    Not so funny now....

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    I read your story Cam. Thats way different than what these emails are. Those people had their identity stolen. These guys are emailing me saying I can get 1.2 a mil by contacting them. Yea, a scams a scam but these 2 are totally different.

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    ^^yeah still sucks though. I dont find scams very entertaining considering how many people get hurt and have their lives destroyed by them

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    Quote Originally Posted by CKXXX View Post
    ^^yeah still sucks though. I dont find scams very entertaining considering how many people get hurt and have their lives destroyed by them
    My thoughts = if someone is dumb enough to fall for these stupid emails they deserve what they get for being so greedy.

    In the situation you were involved in I feel sympathy for them. Its very sad. Im still dealing with when someone stole my ID in 2005 and its a PITA... and wasnt for much - whats happening to those people and others involved is appauling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AudreyLeigh View Post
    My thoughts = if someone is dumb enough to fall for these stupid emails they deserve what they get for being so greedy.

    In the situation you were involved in I feel sympathy for them. Its very sad. Im still dealing with when someone stole my ID in 2005 and its a PITA... and wasnt for much - whats happening to those people and others involved is appauling.
    I used to think that,but sometimes it isnt greed or stupidity. These people just trust and believe that it is real. The one I was in all started with a guy booking a shoot with me,then saying he'd mail me a check and I'd give the MUA her cut and the studio fee out if it. Thankfully I knew better...but a naive person wouldnt have known. And it wouldnt have been out of greed.

    The people in this one are elderly...these people still trust humans in general and arent up on scams like this as most arent on the computer or whatnot where info about them are passed along. Some had no idea how they were involved...checks were just stolen.

    REALLY fucking sucks. I feel SO bad or them. Esp since the damn Feds dont seem to give a crap and nobody is doing anything to stop this guy..he's got 4 victims that I know of..god knows how many more there are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AudreyLeigh View Post
    My thoughts = if someone is dumb enough to fall for these stupid emails they deserve what they get for being so greedy.
    I don't think they're greedy- just naive, and a lot of criminals target old people because they're easy victims.

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    I used to think that,but sometimes it isnt greed or stupidity. These people just trust and believe that it is real. The one I was in all started with a guy booking a shoot with me,then saying he'd mail me a check and I'd give the MUA her cut and the studio fee out if it. Thankfully I knew better...but a naive person wouldnt have known. And it wouldnt have been out of greed.

    The people in this one are elderly...these people still trust humans in general and arent up on scams like this as most arent on the computer or whatnot where info about them are passed along. Some had no idea how they were involved...checks were just stolen.

    REALLY fucking sucks. I feel SO bad or them. Esp since the damn Feds dont seem to give a crap and nobody is doing anything to stop this guy..he's got 4 victims that I know of..god knows how many more there are.
    I think you are such a good person and thank you for helping these people, ck-tripleX. I know how much you could use the funds yourself right now but instead you're helping innocent trusting people who have worked hard their entire lives hold onto their life savings. You have some major good karma coming your way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LuckyOne View Post
    I think you are such a good person and thank you for helping these people, ck-tripleX. I know how much you could use the funds yourself right now but instead you're helping innocent trusting people who have worked hard their entire lives hold onto their life savings. You have some major good karma coming your way.
    Thanks..I do believe in karma so I hope you are right! But IMO there was never a choice.And I would rather be homeless then steal.Esp from people like this..they were all so nice. One cpl....she is blind and he is in a wheelchair from MS. How anyone could steal from people like this and look themselves in the mirror astounds me. There is true evil in the world.

    Though it SUCKS to have the money I could use so badly right now dangled in front of me and not be real.

    Sorry..threadjack over I promise!

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    Yeah, I knew a couple who fell for this. Honestly, they were pretty dumb, but I don't think being stupid makes it okay to defraud you. If that were that case, then all fraud would be okay, since if it works obviously the fraudulent party is more intelligent, right? And if it doesn't no harm no foul.
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    My uncle played along with one of these scammers but this one was a phone one. They were asking him to pay some money into this investment and it would return some ridiculous amount. So my uncle is playing along telling this guy he would like to invest MORE than the given amount and he had some friends who would also like to invest. This guy was ringing my uncle from overseas all week until my uncle finally told him to fuck off and the joke was on him LOL.
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    You, too???? I got this message too!!!

    haha

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    I get 5 of these a day!


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    those wesite do have some good reads
    for instance this illustrated story
    http://pugwash.100free.com/patrickbait1.htm

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jenny View Post
    Yeah, I knew a couple who fell for this. Honestly, they were pretty dumb, but I don't think being stupid makes it okay to defraud you. If that were that case, then all fraud would be okay, since if it works obviously the fraudulent party is more intelligent, right? And if it doesn't no harm no foul.
    OK, with all the media on these email scams how can you not know by now that they are scams? And I mean the emails aren't even addressed to a name. I've yet to get one addressed to me.

    Now, in the beginning of these scams (the email ones) yes, I feel sorry for those involved. But, how can someone claim they 'didnt know' by now? Its on the news, there are commercials about them. Anyone who has the internet to access their email has tv and cannot say they had 'no idea'. Its just ridiculous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AudreyLeigh View Post
    OK, with all the media on these email scams how can you not know by now that they are scams? And I mean the emails aren't even addressed to a name. I've yet to get one addressed to me.

    Now, in the beginning of these scams (the email ones) yes, I feel sorry for those involved. But, how can someone claim they 'didnt know' by now? Its on the news, there are commercials about them. Anyone who has the internet to access their email has tv and cannot say they had 'no idea'. Its just ridiculous.
    Many times they specifically target the elderly who arent likely to watch shows about it or have computers.

    And think of how many they must send out? If they spam a million people and 10 are naive enough to not know and fall for it..theres their big money.

    Think of all the girls you've worked with....if they were offered a shoot scenario like I was how many would think it was real?HOw many believe the guys who come into the club and claim to shoot for Playboy and shit like that?
    Some is stupidity...but most are just naive and trusting. Thats what these parasites prey on. Thats why so many of the victims are elderly.

    In my case...these people had not even BEEN contacted..just me. He got a hold of their checks and bank info and sent me the checks. They would have had no idea what happened had I not called to alert them.Money would have just disappeared.

    I think of my grandmother..she had no computer..I doubt she even knew what the internet was. She watched her Laurence Welk show and Wheel of Fortune and not much else so she would have had NO idea.Just thought she was getting a reward for helping someone out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AudreyLeigh View Post
    OK, with all the media on these email scams how can you not know by now that they are scams? And I mean the emails aren't even addressed to a name. I've yet to get one addressed to me.

    Now, in the beginning of these scams (the email ones) yes, I feel sorry for those involved. But, how can someone claim they 'didnt know' by now? Its on the news, there are commercials about them. Anyone who has the internet to access their email has tv and cannot say they had 'no idea'. Its just ridiculous.
    Are you suggesting that it is not that people are dumb and don't know any better but that they just wanted to give their money away to email scam artists? I mean, I would suggest it is pretty obvious they didn't know it was a scam, or they wouldn't have done it. Millions of these emails are sent out looking for one or two people who don't know its a scam. That's the point of them.

    As for whether they should know better - I'm not really looking for a "survival of the fittest" outlook in laws protecting me from fraud, and throwin the gullible and foolish to the wolves. I'm sort of the opinion that fraud is fraud even if only dumb people fall for it. Like I'm not sure I want laws that only protect people I deem intelligent enough to be worthy of protection.
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