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The "Nigerian" scam.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 11:26 pm
by mart
I've given up sending rude replies, they never get delivered.
I'm now trying the "I'm interested, please tell me more" tack and so far, no-one has.
You can't win.

Mart


Re: The "Nigerian" scam.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 11:35 pm
by Pervert
I don't think they're interested in hearing anything from you except your name and bank account number.

I got a variation on the theme about six months back. Someone saying, "Hey, your credit card is being used by someone else. Send us the number so we can check it out."

Re: The "Nigerian" scam.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:39 am
by Deuce Bigolo
To think that there are people who actually reply

Scary world

cheers
B....OZ

Re: The "Nigerian" scam.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:12 am
by DavidS
They rely on the old Phineas T. Barnum(1810-1891) maxim. "There's a sucker born every minute."

Re: The "Nigerian" scam.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:23 am
by steve56
i just delete when i see a nigerian sounding name.

Re: The "Nigerian" scam.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:37 am
by Kryten
LOL at Steve.

They reckon every day in London there are 2-3 people being fleeced by these crooks. Truly amazing that anyone believes this shash. Suckers the lot of them.

If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Kryten.

Re: The "Nigerian" scam.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 12:55 pm
by Peter
I know there are a lot of people who will fall for this, but why do so many of them seem to have 10's, even 100's of thousands of cash to "invest".

I can't see how someone who has the ability and business acumen to make a lot of money from a sucessful business, can so easily be fooled.

Re: The "Nigerian" scam.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 4:29 pm
by jj
Apparently so.
The funniest, I think, was two of your, ahem, fellow Americans who arrived in Edinburgh only to find the address was a take-away.
Stupidity and greed know no frontiers.........

Re: The "Nigerian" scam.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 4:32 pm
by steve56
it had to be macdonalds the takeaway,lol.