Nigerian scam variation of the week
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I love collecting these. They get more creative all the time. The latest I’ve seen comes from a guy who calls himself Hassan Mohammed and he has a very creative sob story with the message title “Kindly Fulfill My Last Wish.”
He claims he’s from Dubai, in the U.A.E., (though he uses a French e-mail address) and has been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer, with only a few weeks to live.
He says he was a greedy man who got very rich at the expense of others but, now, facing death, “I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to prosperous.”
So… here comes the come-on… he wants to give away his fortune. Alas, though, he says he can’t trust his family and friends as “they refused and kept the resources to themselves.”
So, poor, dying Hassan writes in his poorly-spelled scam e-mail: “… the last of my belonging which no one knows of, is the huge deposit of eigteen milion US dolls that I have in a safe keeping Company abroad, which I will want you to secure and dispatch to charity organizations… For your time and devotion, I have set aside a tenth of this for you”
Wanna mess with this scamster? E-mail him at moshammed24@yahoo.fr.
Deluge this dude. String him along. Make him work. Get just as creative in your fake replies. For some examples on how to do it, check out this site, which shows how one hilarious counter-scammer did it.
In fact, there are some who have dubbed this reverse scam “spambaiting” and call it cyber-sport. Here’s a Website that explaing how to do it and offers tips for turning the tables on the 419 scammers, so called after the Nigerian criminal code 419 that makes such operations illegal.
This could be fun. It’s time to fight back.
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