Just another Nigerian scam letter

[Matzzon]

I just wanted to share my wonderful experience yesterday. Now it has come just another Nigerian scam letter i the mail. I know there is a choice of just disregarding them, and I mostly do just that. However, the Covid tomes and the bore of having nothing to do is getting to me. So, I just thought it was fun to answer it. Below you have the letter and my answer. I really wonder how the person that reads it feels. Of course it came to one of my designated junk e-mail accounts that are totally anonymous. 

The Letter: 

 

My Greetings to you

I Am Mr.Georgios Berthon,I have a project of $12.5 Million Us Dollars
which I will like you to support me so that the fund will be transfer
into your bank account.

Please if you are capable and willing , kindly reply back to me so
that i will give more details about this project.my private e-mail at
(HiS MAIL THAT I HAD TO REMOVE ACCORDING TO THE FORUM RULES)

I am waiting to hear from you

Thank you
Mr.Georgios Berthon

Sorry if you received this letter in your spam, is due to recent
connection error here in the country.

 

My Answer:

 

Hi Mr. Georgios Berthon, (My Nigerian Friend)

 

In reality your name probably is Obubonko Ugagondo Ossumangani.

 

How are you, and where are your project money of 12,5 million dollar? Up your fat <deleted> probably!

So, now Mr. Obubonko. Take my kind advice. Go get drunk for the 12,5 dollar you have instead. After that you can go cry to mummy and see if she can support your growing alcoholism and total lack of brain function.

 

By the way, It´s actually amazing that a person with your lack of intelligence can write a letter in AOL-mail system. I congratulate you for managing that very advanced task. Who knows, maybe in a couple of years you can advance to writing letter with a fake amount of 112 million? That´s really something to look forward to, right?

 

I wish you all the luck with the development of your brain cells that unfortunately still seems to be left in the caveman and the ice age stage to be compared to todays modern cryogenic freezers.

Sincerely, Your Friend,
The Man in the Moon

[stouricks]

I decided to reply a few years ago, and sent the guy a false, made-up card number. I got a mail back saying that he couldn't access the card. I followed up with a similar reply to yours, but asking for a first payment of just £1000 sent by Western Union.. I didn't get it!

Edited June 8, 2020 by stouricks

[steven100]

don't encourage them .... just tell them you've been in touch with the Internet Fraud dept' & IFW and he should be getting a call from their dept' very soon.

[mr mr]

hahahaha i bet you actually sent the money.

[Crossy]

Some years back when we lived in Belgium I actually got one of these by snail-mail. Addressed to me personally, it even had a stamp (sadly I don't recall what nationality the stamp was).

 

The only outfits that had my name and address apart from work and the local town hall was Belgacom (for the internet connection).

 

I wonder who sold my details?

 

[camble]

Is the scam necessarily Nigerian or stereotyping?

[time2093]

I always have fun with these guys, On one letter I got they left a number of some African country, I decided to have a laugh and call the number pretending to be the FBI,the call wasn't much cost wise as I had a bunch of those hatari long distance telephone cards that you can buy at 7-11 at the time. Lets just say it was a hilarious call with these guys back tracking scared of me as I said we are in rout to your address in your country and your all going to jail for a long time.

[thaiflyer1]

419eater.com is always good for a chuckle.......................

 

this one made me laugh

 

https://www.419eater.com/html/bigman.htm

Edited June 8, 2020 by thaiflyer1

[Matzzon]

3 hours ago, mr mr said:

hahahaha i bet you actually sent the money.

With that comment, you just put yourself at the same level as dear Mr. Obubonko.

[Matzzon]

3 hours ago, camble said:

Is the scam necessarily Nigerian or stereotyping?

Let´s say stereotyping on the factual basis that approximately 99 % of all these letter are from Nigerians. Happy?

[Susco]

I don't bother with this kind of emails any more................unless they are $25 Million or more

[Matzzon]

3 hours ago, Crossy said:

Some years back when we lived in Belgium I actually got one of these by snail-mail. Addressed to me personally, it even had a stamp (sadly I don't recall what nationality the stamp was).

 

The only outfits that had my name and address apart from work and the local town hall was Belgacom (for the internet connection).

 

I wonder who sold my details?

 

Just because you gave your information to work, town hall and ISP does not mean they are the only ones that have them. Depending on how many years you are talking about the setup can be different. By, the way. You did not have a phone number or registered sim-card? No daily newspaper? You never registered for something or bought anything be postal order or Internet? All the things there is easy to look away from. 

After that you have the town hall. They probably have different departments. You were probably at sometimes registered for tax, union, insurance and maybe hospital. There are numerous things the register us automatically or that me make happen accidentally or not thinking about it. One of the registers can somehow be half open on Internet for some clever guy to just scrape the info from a website or an sql database. Can also be an attack at a register with an sql-injection that was very popular a few years back.

[CaptainCarrot]

11 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Let´s say stereotyping on the factual basis that approximately 99 % of all these letter are from Nigerians. Happy?

Well they used to be (commonly known as 419 scams, named after the section of the Nigerian fraud law), but it is still such a fruitful scam that it is in use all over the world now.

[CrunchWrapSupreme]

3 hours ago, Crossy said:

Some years back when we lived in Belgium I actually got one of these by snail-mail. Addressed to me personally, it even had a stamp

My mom struggled with depression after her divorce years back, and was up late at night signing up for all kinds of things online. In the mail then came tons of junk mail, magazines, and fake checks for several thousand dollars for some "secret shopper program" she was now a part of. They looked awfully real, with corporate letterhead telling her to deposit the check, then go out and spend. Of course as the scam goes, then your bank account gets cleaned out, but I managed to intercept them. The stamps were from Spain. I imagine their high unemployment had many stuffing envelopes.

[n00dle]

a very poor attempt at wit indeed.

4 hours ago, steven100 said:

don't encourage them .... just tell them you've been in touch with the Internet Fraud dept' & IFW and he should be getting a call from their dept' very soon.

yeah, because that scares them.

[pineapple01]

Black Lives Matter. So no offence committed.

[Matzzon]

43 minutes ago, CaptainCarrot said:

Well they used to be (commonly known as 419 scams, named after the section of the Nigerian fraud law), but it is still such a fruitful scam that it is in use all over the world now.

Yep, that out of the fruitfulness! the Nigerians now have enough scammed money to live everywhere. ????????????

Edited June 8, 2020 by Matzzon