crying tears of laughter~

[Sarlon]

This just came into my inbox this morning....

Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Atlanta Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Intelligence field unit
2635 Century Parkway N.E,
Suite 400 Atlanta, GA 30345 USA
E-Mail: agentjohn_edward@qq.com


Urgent Attention:


I am Special Agent Agent John Edward from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Atlanta Division) Intelligence Unit. We have just intercepted and confiscated two (2) trunk boxes at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta international airport, and are on the verge of moving it to our bureau head quarters.


We have scanned the said boxes, and have found it to contain a total sum of USD$4.5M and also backup document which bears your name as the receiver of the money contained in the boxes. Investigations carried out on the diplomat who accompanied the boxes into the United States has it that he was to deliver this fund to your residence as your contract/inheritance payment which was due you from the office of finance Minster of the federal government of Nigeria.


We cross-checked all legal documentation in the boxes, and were about to release the consignment to the diplomat, when we found out that the boxes is lacking one very important documentation which as a result, the boxes have been confiscated until the required document is provided.


According to section 229 subsections 31 of the 1991 constitution on release of unclaimed consignment payment, your consignment lacks funds ownership certificate and for that reason you must contact me for direction on how to procure this certificate, so that your consignment can be legally cleared and okay for delivery to you.


You are required to contact this bureau within 72 hours or we would take it that you do not want your consignment, and would move it to the treasury Also, you must not contact any other bank for any payment, because your payment is here in care of our storage vault team and will be released to you once you follow my directives.


Yours in service,
Agent John Edward
E-Mail: agentjohn_edward@qq.com
Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Atlanta Division.

[Deserted]

I'm trying to figure out a way to scam people like this back. People do this sort of thing all the time; google for "scamming the scammer". (Only obvious scams I've ever had tried on me were a shell game (which I knew was a con but I paid in $10 because the guy was good) and a 419 email over a decade ago.)

[Sarlon]

I could say I live just a couple of hours outside of Atlanta, and know where the FBI head quarters are and would be happy to show up with proper identification.

[RayvenQ]

I'm trying to figure out a way to scam people like this back. People do this sort of thing all the time; google for "scamming the scammer". (Only obvious scams I've ever had tried on me were a shell game (which I knew was a con but I paid in $10 because the guy was good) and a 419 email over a decade ago.)

What I do is send it in to the guys on the 419 eater forums, they tend to know how to mess these guys about and can end up making the scammers lose their own money.