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[damoon]

I dont Just understand ...... why is it that Nigerians wont just stop scamming....... they even scam each other... me am a Nigerian yet i get scam mails just take note of this new format..... its out and spreading wide....

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Attention; Beneficiary,

I am Mrs. Farida Waziri Chairman Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos Nigeria. We write to confirm if you sent Mr. Alex Moore to claim your fund of 7.5 Million USD on your behalf? However, we shall proceed to issue all payment details to the said Mr. Alex Moore, if we do not hear from you within the next two working days from today.

Here is my direct email: farida.waziri@efcc-ng-mail.co.cc

Please everyone take note

Edited by damoon, 28 September 2009 - 11:40 AM.

[akira550]

I also got so many emails like that some are from lotto's or from banks and from a person who was a manager
of a bank saying that he needs me to transfer his/her money into my bank account i just need to give
my bank account information.. lol as if... i won't give it.. it's a high risk

[phpphp]

I got many and everyone get these kind of mail, but how can you be so sure that only nigerian are doing this? I think you shouldn't blame only nigerian. Nigerian are very nice too as I have few students in my university xD.

Edited by phpphp, 29 September 2009 - 05:03 PM.

[willmark]

anything that says it is 4 nothing then it is generaly rubbish and should be ignored

[mew]

These Nigerian scams are everywhere. There was an article in the local paper a while back on these scams too and some guy actually got cheated of his life savings. I can't seem to find the article anywhere online though. I don't understand how anyone can fall for these scams...those e-mails look so fake.

Here are some other local articles on Nigerian scams:
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews...1021-95188.html
http://www.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/...1106-98663.html
http://www.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20071223-42188.html

It seems they'll stoop to anything.

I also found an article on BBC News on a bunch of people who do reverse-scams (they scam the Nigerians who try to scam them LOL)..thought it was pretty funny. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3887493.stm

Edited by mew, 30 September 2009 - 05:00 AM.

[damoon]

Nigerians are not that bad though just some of them........... but when i goto a cafe, i usually see most of them doing it...... its inhuman

[H.O.D]

Scamming's been rampant through the years and its not gonna stop in a hurry - there are plenty of people who are being introduced to the internet daily and these people are fresh meat for the scammers - they set a trap for them and before they know it they're scammed - it's really sad but there's not much that can be done abut it. New users and old ones as well should be sensible enough not to let their guard down. Only then will they be able to fight these menace.

[akira550]

how they can get the money with those email? is it when you give your bank account? or what?

[Nameless_]

I've done a school project on internet and mobile scams, so I've got some idea on how they work.

Basically, a ‘Nigerian’ scam are called Nigerian scams because the initially came from Nigeria, but they can are now basically spread across the planet (haha, who's ever heard of a copyrighted scam?), so they can now come from anywhere in the world. So damoon... they're not all made by Nigerians... So don't worry.

These people usually say that they've got some money or some thing (a huge sum, of course, like millions) that they want to share with you... or that they need your help in retrieving this "money" that has been trapped in wars or something. But anyway, they just can't get it out or something. Like government taxes or something, and they need your help in getting it out.

Then they like, ask you to pay some kind of up-front money or some sort or give them your bank account or credit card details (you never know, some people are actually desperate enough to fall for this. ) to help them get the money, and that you are promised to get a portion or a kind of percentage of it. You might be asked to pay some money for "taxes" or somethings to help get the money to your bank.

And oh yeah, they're usually (the scammers and scams) from overseas so you can't track them...

But anyway, these money that they ask from you may start out very small amounts. But if you actually pay them, they make up new fees that you have to pay out of your pocket before you can receive your so called "millions of money" that they have gotten. And then they will keep making up these fees until they think they should stop.

So yeah... and you will never be see the money that you have sent over, nor the money that was promised to you...

And no, they don't exactly get the money out of your bank account. If they do, they'd be easily traced, I reckon. But smart, isn't it? Well, it would be when it initially started. No one would be expecting it and they'd think that they actually would strike rich.

But if it was my case, like, if I was the first potential victim that they would try and scam off, I'd be like: "er... wrong email?"

"Maybe you should check the email first."

haha.

[mahesh2k]

Let's not generalize and put entire tag of spamming on "Nigerians". If we've to look at the spam trend we can see that. Most of the forum spam that comes from Russia. All those links to the porn site and viagra ads on dead forums is from russia. "Get-rich-quick-quick" and "SEO" ads based SPAM comes from canada and pakistan. Some pakistani spam even send ads of anti-virus and anti-malware. If you check the "Downline" and "earn money from home" type of scams then you'll see that is from india. And mix of all these spam is also from US. So at the end, let's not tag any single country for SPAM mail and postings. SPAMmer are universal, even on Trap17 too.

But seriously, i'm turn off with the scam mails like " x person is wife of y person and wants to transfer huge amount of money". Or "You've won this much money in uk lottery and you need to send x amount to receive your funds". There are even worst cases, some SEO companies are sending mails by checking whois and sending ads to lure domain owners to get SEO advice from them. Seriously, spammers get a life. Think differently, come up with something new.