Nigeria jails woman in $242 mln email fraud case

[Supreme Cmdr]

Seriously people can't be this gullible. Can they?

[Guest Grayfox]

ummm ya they can. if theyre making millions off the scams...

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Scams have become so successful in Nigeria that anti-sleaze campaigners say swindling is one of the country's main foreign exchange earners after oil, natural gas and cocoa.

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[LostInSpace]

Hah, just got one of those faxes like last week again with a sob story and they can't get access to a dead husbands fortune.

[Guest Remo Williams]

Heres a copy of an email I just received. LMAO!

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Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is miss Mary Okoye I am a manager of Global Bank Plc Ikeja Lagos.

I know my letter will come to you as an a surprise but is because of how is all about with me. I want to express my pleasant to you.

I discover a very huge of amount of money(10,000,000,00) Ten Million Dollars from my bank from our dead client who died in a air crash, But do to my level in my office I disclose it within me and my accountant.

Now we planned to shift this money out from our country where we can invest something that will yield us something in future.

But the most important thing is that we don't have a person in the outside who we trust that will receive this money for us with trust after he receive it then we can now planed to fly to meet that person so we can share the money and do some investment.

We agreed to give the person who will receive this money for us a share of 10% of the total money and we can share the remaining ones.

We mapped out 5% for any expenses which the person did on the process of receiving this money, you are entitled to remove your expenses first immediately you receive this money from this security company which will help us to fly this money out to Europe.

If your sure that you are a trusted and God minded person who will not betray us

when you see this money with you just reply to us immediately with your corresponding information e.g.

Your Full Name:

Address:

Phone Number:

Fax Number:

Reply to my private email as soon as possible to enable us prepare the money and contact you on the time the money will be in security company in Europe.

Sincerely,

Mary Okoye(Director Global Bank Ikeja Lagos)

Email:[email protected]

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[LostInSpace]

Yup, that's one good example. The sad thing is that I'm pretty sure there are some either dumb or extremely greedy people (who have avarice totaly blind them) that actually respond to those.

What I find all the more facinating is this little piece of logic:

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But the most important thing is that we don't have a person in the outside who we trust that will receive this money for us with trust after he receive it then we can now planed to fly to meet that person so we can share the money and do some investment.

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They are sending these things all over the world to people they don't know. Like they are going to find somebody trustworthy that way. LMAO!

[Darkling]

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Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr:

Seriously people can't be

this

gullible. Can they?

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A couple of years back a friend of mine cashed a Bank Draft from one of these Nigerian individuals in the amount of $25,000.00. Right after he cashed it, the man called him to say that he had to go on the run because the communists were after him, to please send him $15000.00 Immediately via Western Union, and he could keep the other $10,000.00. He got a little suspicious and called the bank and asked them to please verify the funds, even though they had already cashed the check. The bank later informed him that it was a forgery.

Imagine if he had followed instructions as the Nigerian had asked him to and sent the money, he would have been on the hook for that additional $15,000.00!