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Postby Mark » Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:02 pm

Ever received a 419 scam email such as:

I am (Ben Coroma Esq),the Head of file Department in African developent bank (ADB).

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 15 million U.S.A dollars ( fifteen million U.S.A dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in (Monday 31st July 2000) in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relati on to the deceased as indica ted in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one official in my department now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.


Surprising, a lot of people still fall for them. Many victims are created every year, if they weren't the scammers would move on to more profitable causes.

Well, I've just joined a forum which tries to make life as difficult as possible for the scammers - mainly by wasting their time by entering into dialog and playing along with them. To the people involved, it seems like a whole new sport has been created.

You should check it out at: http://419eater.com
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Postby stevew8975 » Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:26 pm

Been following this website for a while - they have a very good image of a blank western union transfer note.

I have been winding up many a scammer in Lagos & Romania!

http://www.scambuster419.co.uk/
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Postby Mark » Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:34 pm

I have been winding up many a scammer in Lagos & Romania!


Excellent - I've got a few on the go at the moment, one who claims to be in "Japan" & the other in "London" - funny how both their ips resolve to Nigeria.
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Postby stevew8975 » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:12 pm

Found a new site for inspiration.

http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

Just need to think up some signs for the idiots to hold whilst they have picture taken of themselves.

Pill O'Biter or Ima Sh Irtlifter to start with I think!
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Postby Claire » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:46 pm

Surprised some people are so dumb as to fall for it. "You can't con an honest man", and the victims are only responding as they've after something for nothing.
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Postby k700 » Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:47 am

Surprised some people are so dumb as to fall for it. "You can't con an honest man", and the victims are only responding as they've after something for nothing.


Been watching hustle have we :-D

A lot of people fall for it are in desperate situations + desperatly need the money.
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Postby ahsan16 » Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:16 am

Thank you for letting us know. We will surely check the website you gave us.
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Postby Mark » Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:49 pm

This is great. The legendy Baiter, Shiver Metimbers has actually got some scammers to perform a monty python sketch.

http://419eater.com/html/bigman.htm
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Postby expitlad » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:38 am

Mark wrote:This is great. The legendy Baiter, Shiver Metimbers has actually got some scammers to perform a monty python sketch.

http://419eater.com/html/bigman.htm


.......what a great read, the scammer gets scammed :lol:
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