I'm looking for someone who lives in Nigeria

[CNCadmin]

I have a spacial problem and I need someone from Nigeria to help me out. Please let me know if you live their.

[buscht]

I hope you didn't take any cashier's checks from Nigeria! It's a scam!

[3t3d]

Originally Posted by CNCadmin I have a spacial problem and I need someone from Nigeria to help me out. Please let me know if you live their.

Are you going to claim that you need to transfer $25B into the country, and
you need to access their bank acount? Maybe offer them 30% of the total for
their troubles.

Hmmmm...

Pete

[DareBee]

LOL
Cynicism at its best.
Here .... we better poke him a bit as well

[CNCadmin]

Man with all the time I spend on the net, you would have thought I knew better. I did get scammed. Believe me I learned my lesson, none the less I will still try to get this Mother Father.

[unterhaus]

We had a grad student trying to sell an oven, but the scammers got greedy. Our guy wanted to get something out of the oven that he got forced to replace by his apartement manager. Turned out that it wasn't the oven that was bad, so he had a good oven on his hands. I would have liked to have gotten involved in that scam by a red-blooded American crook, but it was too late for me to fix it by that point.

Anyway, a scammer said they would give the grad student $350 but he had to cash a $5000 money order for them. I told him what the scam was, and he backed out. The scammers kept raising the amount that he could keep from the money order, getting to $1500. The person he was communicating with was supposedly in London. They did have a local rep though. Police were called, but wouldn't do anything.

[unterhaus]

More than a year ago, a guy in Europe had been taken in by one of these scammers. He kept going to the Nigerian Embassy in his country trying to get help, and of course getting none. Nigeria probably could help if they wanted to, but they are too poor. Anyway, this guy ended up killing one of the Nigerians at the Embassy.

The classic scam where the Nigerian has custody of a large sum of money that they need help stealing and have been referred to you as an honest and trustworthy person has an average haul of over $350000 American. My understanding of the scam is they keep asking you to forward more money for bribes, not so much just transferring money out without your permission. Think about how few people actually have large sums of money in their bank account. But many of us could liquidate assets if we were going to get a few million out of it. And if I gave that much money to somebody I'd be shooting up the Embassy too.

[Al_The_Man]

Originally Posted by CNCadmin Man with all the time I spend on the net, you would have thought I knew better. I did get scammed. Believe me I learned my lesson, none the less I will still try to get this Mother Father.

paul, In the meantime I have some prime real estate in Florida.....
......Seriously though I would love to set up a sting for these guys.
Also be on the look out for the scumbag bogus tsunami relief collectors coming out of the woodwork.
Al

[unterhaus]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Man paul, In the meantime I have some prime real estate in Florida..... ......Seriously though I would love to set up a sting for these guys. Also be on the look out for the scumbag bogus tsunami relief collectors coming out of the woodwork. Al

Hopefully, no Nigerian scammers reading here. This thread makes me realize that a potential minor scam could involve tracking down other Nigerian scammers for pay. I have heard it is pretty dangerous messing with these guys though.

[ESjaavik]

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[ESjaavik]

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