A new twist on the Nigerian scams...

[lupo pazzesco]

At least this is a new one to me! Lookit what was in my spam box today!

Hello Friend


I am Mrs Mary Brown, I am a US citizen, 48 years Old. I reside here in New Braunfels Texas. My residential address is as follows.108 Crockett Court. Apt 303, New Braunfels Texas, United States, am thinking of relocating since I am now rich. I am one of those that took part in the Compensation in Nigeria many years ago and they refused to pay me, I had paid over $20,000 while in the US, trying to get my payment all to no avail.

So I decided to travel down to Nigeria with all my compensation documents, And I was directed to meet Barrister Richard Steven, who is the member of COMPENSATION AWARD COMMITTEE, and I contacted him and he explained everything to me. He said whoever is contacting us through emails are fake. He took me to the paying bank for the claim of my Compensation payment. Right now I am the most happiest woman on earth because I have received my compensation funds of $1,500,000.00 Moreover, Barrister Richard Steven showed me the full information of those that are yet to receive their payments and I saw your name as one of the beneficiaries, and your email address, that is why I decided to email you to stop dealing with those people, they are not with your fund, they are only making money out of you.. I will advise you to contact Barrister Richard Steven.

You have to contact him directly on this information below.


JOAKIN COMPENSATION HOUSE
Name : Barrister Richard Steven
Email: rachard.steven@gmail.com
Phone: +234-702-868-4931


You really have to stop dealing with those people that are contacting you and telling you that your fund is with them, it is not in anyway with them, they are only taking advantage of you and they will dry you up until you have nothing.The only money I paid after I met Barrister Richard Steven was just $150 for the paper works, take note of that.

As soon as you contact him he will send you the payment information which you are to use in sending the payment to him in order for him to obtain the document from the court of law there in Nigeria so that your fund can be transfer to you without any delay just the way mine was being transfer to me.

Send him the following details if you know you are ready to make the payment so that as soon as he receive your information he will send to you the payment details for sending him the $150 USD that is needed for him to get the document that is needed to make the transfer a successful one without any further payment.


Fill Out the information to him if you are ready to get your fund and also ready to make the payment.


Your Full Name:...............
Direct Phone:....................
Country.................
Occupation:.....................
Gender:.........
Age:..............


Once again stop contacting those people, I will advise you to contact Barrister Richard Steven so that he can help you to Deliver your fund instead of dealing with those liars that will be turning you around asking for different kind of money to complete your transaction.



Thank You and Be Blessed.
Mrs Mary Brown.
108 Crockett Court. Apt 303,
New Braunfels Texas, United States.

Anyone else receive one of these? It's a new one on me, and made me giggle greatly. Which in turn led to my coughing up a lung. But at least I got a laugh out of it.

[AriGriffin]

I keep getting e-mails from some woman named Elena (or something like that) in Russia asking for a wood stove. Snopes said it was some guy from Russia that has been scamming people for years.

[Jester]

Two things strike me as hilarious from that email. One is that it doesn't sound like an American from Texas, but rather sounds very much like someone who does not know English as their first language. It is very stilted and unnatural.

The other thing is that she constantly repeats the guy's name and title (something Americans would not do in that manner), and then the email address does not even match the guy's name (though admittedly that could be attributed to a typo on someone's part).

I don't know which is worse: the fact that they think people will actually fall for this shit, or the fact that there may actually BE people falling for this shit!

[lupo pazzesco]

Two things strike me as hilarious from that email. One is that it doesn't sound like an American from Texas, but rather sounds very much like someone who does not know English as their first language. It is very stilted and unnatural.

The other thing is that she constantly repeats the guy's name and title (something Americans would not do in that manner), and then the email address does not even match the guy's name (though admittedly that could be attributed to a typo on someone's part).

I don't know which is worse: the fact that they think people will actually fall for this shit, or the fact that there may actually BE people falling for this shit!

lol What struck me is the thought of a barrister showing a full and complete list of everyone ever taken in by those Nigerian scams, and miraculously, she saw mine, with my email addy? (This particular addy is an italian handle that is pretty damn difficult to spell without practice.)

I was also amused at the "I think I'll relocate, cuz I'm rich now!!" bit, and how I just HAVE to stop dealing with all those other scammers, and deal with the one scammer who will absolutely give me money...after I pay him, of course. But it's not another scam!

Yeah, sad to think about people actually falling for this, but that's why the scams are still so strong. We could blast every major news outlet for months telling people that all those emails are scams, and there's still going to be that select few, who I think are of SC/EW mentality believing "Oh, well, everyone else is being scammed, but it couldn't possibly happen to me, I'm special! I'm going to actually get the money because I'm just that deserving/entitled!!" who will always fall for it.

Well, them and the standard clueless idiots...

[Broomjockey]

It's not even a legit Texas address. Google has a street-view for it, and it's all housing, no apartments.

[calulu]

The sad thing is that Nigerian scammers bilk people of over 15 BILLION every year. And I'm not talking about sweet uneducated old ladies, I'm talking college professors, professionals, people from all walks of society.

http://www.419eater.com

[ditchdj]

I dont get why so many people are STILL falling for it.

Honestly people, how many people do YOU know that are living in an affluent part of YOUR town that made their millions by doing business with anonymous Nigerians over the internet???? I have yet to meet ONE.

[Jester]

It's not even a legit Texas address. Google has a street-view for it, and it's all housing, no apartments.

Naturally. I mean, to what purpose could listing their "real" address serve, other than to convince people they are "legit"? Which, of course, they aren't.

If such a thing were real, it would be far less stilted, far less trying to convince you it was real, and far more businesslike and straightforward. More bureaucratese.

I'll stick to my method for throwing away money in the hopes of millions: purchasing the occasional $1 lottery ticket, thank you very much.

[Broomjockey]

Naturally.

I just found it hilarious that the address exists in the town, just as a house rather than apartment. I'd have fully expected them to put some random schlub's legit address.

[calulu]

That's what trips them up and making baiting them and taking these Mugu down so much fun. They trip up on the little details that any one with half a brain not blinded by greed would notice right away.

[NightWatch]

In my particular line of work we get a lot of people calling us to report they fell for such a scam. The saddest one was this little old lady who called to say her grandson called asking for a couple thousand. So she sent it to him. Then she remembered that her grandson had died a few years back in a car wreck.
I'm guessing she had some form of dementia to really believe she was talking to her grandson.

[SG15Z]

He said whoever is contacting us through emails are fake.

So let me get this straight. The people trying to contact us are fake, but we still won some money. So if we did really win the money why didn't the "real" people contact us, and only the "fake" people have. If that's true and the "real" people know that these "fake" people have gotten a hold of confidential information and have exploited it, why haven't the "real" people started any sort of investigation and at least tried to compensate the people who have been scammed? Instead they wait for some lady to travel all the way to Nigeria to get her money and then decide they should spread the word, only instead of them doing it they have her do it?

Sorry it's just that's exactly what ran through my head when I read that. I had to share that since it seems you guys didn't catch that part. Hard to believe people will fall for this despite the countless red flags all over it.

[lupo pazzesco]

Who says we didn't catch it?

There were just so many other issues to deal with that were mentioned, too. So there. neener neener. and again.

[SG15Z]

Who says we didn't catch it?

There were just so many other issues to deal with that were mentioned, too. So there. neener neener. and again.

Ok fine you didn't mention it. There happy.

That's just the first thing that waived a red flag for me. And a big one at that.

I do find the "I'm moving now because I'm rich!!!!" thing hilarious! Because yeah 1,500,000 is soooooo much money. Please unless you invest that money it would be gone pretty quickly these days. Especially if you buy a new house. That alone would eat a huge chunk of that money.

[Jester]

I do find the "I'm moving now because I'm rich!!!!" thing hilarious! Because yeah 1,500,000 is soooooo much money.

I don't know about YOU, but if *I* got that kind of money, yeah, I could definitely move. Hell, I know what I need to move back to Phoenix, and it is a fraction of that.

As for buying a house, that really depends on where you buy it. Here in Key West, that would take most or all (or more) of that 1.5M. Back in Phoenix, not as much. In many other places, even less. Especially in this economy, which is so completely a buyer's market when it comes to houses.

Someone hands me even 5% of that, I could not only move back to Phoenix, I could do a LOT of traveling.