I've gotten a few Nigerian scammers asking about a vehicle I'm selling.
Even have a souvenir check for full price plus a few thousand (which he
wanted me to wire to his shipping agent). It's so common there's even a
name for it, the "419 scam", supposedly from the article in the Nigerian
criminal code.
You can have fun with these guys; award yourself points if you can get
them to actually pay for anything. Typically they scam the relay service
they use to call you on[1]; scam Fedex to send you the check, or use
freebie internet checking services; use freebie email accounts, etc. Best
I ever did was get one to call me long distance on his own nickel (I
think).
[1] I read that something around 50% of calls placed through AT&T's relay
service are in support of these scams. They're honor-bound to take them
and not get involved.
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
David Zakar wrote:
On the same topic, I also just recently got an email from some guy in
Nigeria who's apparently got some money tied up in the government.
Apparently, he's got like five million in a bank account, but he can't
get it out unless he pays ten grand to the government. He offered to
split the sum with me 30-70 if I'd just send him the ten grand to get
the money out. Ten grand for 1.5 million bucks, sounds like a great
deal. Have any of you heard about this guy? Seems like it would have
made the news before, but I'm definitely thinking about taking him up on
his offer - it almost sounds too good to be true!
Maybe this will give you some inspiration on ways to deal with it:
http://sweetchillisauce.com/ntales/KK1.html
