BS: Let's scam the Nigerians

Subject: RE: BS: Let's scam the Nigerians
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 02:35 PM

Heck, if he never gets the millions, he can always make a living writing copy for Asian ad agencies.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's scam the Nigerians
From: Amos
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 02:45 PM

To the fond correspondent who provided this link, I replied:

"Multiple thanks and grateful reconnaissance of your helpful spirit, and wise directionality of optimizing the relations of chronological duplicity in such a leveraged attitude!"

Which is a sentiment I felt most sincereness of in the transmission of it to her honest ears entwined.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Let's scam the Nigerians
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 08:38 PM

If we ever sold them any sub prime mortgage derivitives...
we already scamed them.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's scam the Nigerians
From: Gulliver
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 09:59 PM

That idea is so bloody childish! There are lots more smart-arses conning you or trying to make a buck out of you, and a lot closer to home than a few hard-up Nigerians.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's scam the Nigerians
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 11:29 PM

They're not nearly as hard up as you think, Gulliver. Many of them are full-time pros who work in an office every day at the job of swindling little old ladies and other lonely, not very well informed people out of their meager life savings. They have sometimes succeeded in even luring some person all the way to Nigeria for a personal "business" meeting at a pre-designated location to give them their money....and you know what happens when they meet them? They murder them and steal their credit cards and valuables.

I think your sympathy for these lowlife bastards is highly misplaced.

Subject: RE: BS: Let's scam the Nigerians
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 12:00 AM

Shame on you Little Hawk for even hinting that the Nigerians are genetically or culturally predisposed to scamming, or that internet scamming may be the exclusive province of Nigerians. Many Nigerian scams may very well be Swedish, Tahitian, or even Peruvian scams in Nigerian clothing. And besides, even if a Nigerian was able to bilk an 83 year old retired Elementary School teacher in Lethbridge out of her 63,924 dollar life savings, there are worse crimes in the world than that, like buying up Nigerian oil at bargain-basement prices, or exporting Pizza Huts and Starbucks to Abuja. Don't get me wrong. This doesn't mean you have to intentionally fall victim to a so-called "Nigerian Scam" just to exercise your voluminous Canadian sense of fair play.
But would it kill you to buy a couple of Sade albums, or maybe a gongon drum?

Subject: RE: BS: Let's scam the Nigerians
From: GUEST,fed up
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 03:17 AM

How about this.

My husband and i are looking for land to purchase in your country as we have heard the weather is lovely and so are your people. Our asset base is roughly about $30million dollars and we are actually ready to retire.After doing a wide world search we decided we wanted to settle in Nigeria. How ever there is one slight problem.We want everything to go with us including our money,but our concern is the tax that we would have to pay on this large sum.Are you or someone you can trust able to help us at least get some of it into your country.I promise you will get what you want at least 20% of what ever we can agree on to get it into your country safely.I await your reply.

Lady and sir Ralph scavinger

Subject: RE: BS: Let's scam the Nigerians
From: Ritchie
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 10:28 AM

Govinda,

Ok, I realise it was some time ago that you wrote but ...,

I have tried to access your web site from the link you provided on lot's of occasions, but nothing has happened, or rather, to be more precise, it isn't available. I feel it is my duty to inform you and everyone else just in case it is a scam.

regards

your fellow mudcatter

Ritchie

Subject: RE: BS: Let's scam the Nigerians
From: Anne Lister
Date: 17 Feb 08 - 06:10 PM

What puzzles me is why for every "Nigerian" letter I receive I also get at least a dozen messages from banks I don't have accounts with, messages from PayPal and eBay that don't use my member ID and all manner of lotteries I haven't entered ....It's annoying to receive attempted scam spam, but it's even more irritating that they're not even trying to target their scam accurately.

Here's to less indiscriminate scamming!

Anne