Messing with scam merchants.

Zoob · April 11, 2006

I'm sure at least some of you have received scam / Spam mails from people offering you $1 million + dollars in exchange for helping get $10 million out of some frozen bank account of a rich man who died in a plane / train / car / ufo crash.

These scams are generally known as 'The Nigerian scam' or 419 advance fee fraud. There are even documented cases of particularly gullible Americans losing thousands thinking these things are genuine.

A new variation on the theme is people sending messages to users of myspace.com - they will often be women sending messages to blokes about how they were tricked into going to Africa (normally Nigeria) and having been robbed of all their savings are now stuck in a hotel, where the management are holding their passport and return tickets until their bills are paid. They pretend to be English or American, and yet they can hardly speak the language...

95% of the time, the stories that these people tell are so very absurd, that I almost think that anyone who does fall for them, actually deserves everything they get. At the same time, I'm bored of scum like this trying to get money out of people.

There is actually quite an amusing sub-culture of people who bait these scammers and try to waste as much of their time as possible. My brother even managed to scam 20 Euros from one of the scammers. He also made the guy sing songs about Jesus and Judas, and bark down the phone like a dog - my brother recorded the calls, and they are pretty damn funny.

Yesterday, I received the following mail from someone on myspace - worth reading just for the absurd comedy value:

I am mary I love you Profile and I never believed anybody wanna be with a girl like mine who's got a fairy tale about life's experience o.k. If U really want to meet me for real, i want U to know the problem i have and what my hard experiences about life was ok!! Please read this carefully and U'll understand the kind of person i am and what my hard experiences about life is o.k. I was born in Ohio, USA, and my

parents were from United Kingdom. I started my fairly tale when I was just 18 months old, i lost my Mum. I didn't growup to know who she was or who ever my mother was o.k. My father had to raise me all alone. I was the only child of the family. I also lost my Dad few years ago, It was, when i was a kid and i lost my mum that my dad had to build a House in Ohio ok. that was where i grew up and spend most of my life time so far.

I met a guy after my father's death few months ago when i moved out to Evansville, because my father raised me never to have friends cos he had bad experience with friends when he was much more younger , and he made me stay indoor all day too. This guy i met was a german alright? He lived with me in Evansville, for over 2months , he asked if i would come over to africa to see his Uncle so we can get engaged and i can be happy after all the sorrows i've had I agree to go on the trip
to africa with him. I saved enough to keep us confortable while we were away o.k. I had to withdraw about $10,500 i have in my account to make sure we were safe and secure while we were on this trip .

So i closed up my account. But unfortunately, when we got to africa he took me to stay in a hotel, and after few weeks and days when we got here, he brought a bottle of champaigne and i think he wanted to propose marriage to me, but after i drank the champaigne i was asleep all through and when i woke up, i noticed that he had gone with all my stuff my money, my jewelries, and everything i had left out here ok. he only left me with some cloths and nothing else, I was all alone here, and he left me a note saying that he had gone over to the Ukraine, with another girl, the lady he really loved and he's been keeping for so long when he was once in africa .

Right now i'm in a hell oftrouble. I was left out here all alone with some billsto take care of at the hotel i'm staying and the hotel management won't let me get out of here if i didn't pay the bills ok!! It's really crazy. I feel like killing myself ok. At the moment i have an outstanding bill of $550 here on my accomodation and just $100 for the internet services, provided for me out here o.k. the hotel manager out here seized my passport andreturn flight ticket so that i will not run away.

Please i need your help to get my life back on track and start up a new life for a life time happiness I promise if U can get me out of here by helping mepay the bills to the Hotel management, i will surely make it upto U o.k. and hopefully i will accept that i have found a new life with U So it's up to U to decide on what U wanna do with me concerning these issues Waiting to read from U soon .i am also looking for someone that can be the flesh of my flesh and the bone of my bone , one that will not just be beside me but one that can be part of me pls o tell me more about yourself maybe we can get along fine and you can email me to mary_cuty001@yahoo.com

An American girl who fell in love with a German man in Ohio who had an uncle in Africa, but was actually in love with a Ukrainian woman all the time.

Perhaps I have too much time on my hands, but these people are really beginning to piss me off. So I wanted to post this incase anyone else wants to have some 'fun' with her - see how much absurd stuff you can say to her (I told one of these people that I was a Satan worshiper who was in the market for a new wife as I was currently selling mine, and had shot a circus clown because he was trying to steal my goat).

She'll have spammed so many people, she won't have a clue who she is talking to. The next step will be that she'll ask for the $650 to be sent by moneygram or Western Union. I'm going to tell her I've sent it, and see how many times I can send her to the Western Union office to pick up non-existent payment, before she realises I'm talking crap to her. She's already said she's happy to come and work on my camel farm, so there should be some milleage there.

Basically the more time of hers that I can waste (and it doesn't take me very long to write a short absurd e-mail) the less time she will have to try and scam any other people.

stressederic · April 11, 2006

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