Friendly warning, please read this

What? you say 15% for all that work. Get them to offer you at least 33%, I’m positive they will go for that. Then tell them you’ve reconsidered and want half in order to take part in their little scheme. If they are calling internationally, keep them on the line as long as you can while negotiating an even higher cut for yourself. When you feel they are getting suspicious agree to the last price, then ask if they will take Reichsmarks as currency.

I saw a website a while ago where a meeting was arranged in Holland where there was a webcam on the corner so they got a photo of the scammer.

Ali

If you take a look at “The Member of Parliament” story on the www.scambuster419.co.uk website, there are multiple photos that have been taken of a scammer waiting for his victim in a London street.

That is SO VERY FUNNY … and I see what you mean about time wasting. I just read through the The Retired Wing Commander II. Wonderful stuff.

I saw a website a while ago where a meeting was arranged in Holland where there was a webcam on the corner so they got a photo of the scammer.

Ali

There are plenty of these scams around – but this website shows how someone with enough time and patience can string them along – I have spent too many hours reading the wonderful stories on it!

http://www.scambuster419.co.uk/introduction.htm

That is SO VERY FUNNY … and I see what you mean about time wasting. I just read through the The Retired Wing Commander II. Wonderful stuff.

Hear Hear!! Good job….I have been contacted by lots of these folks myself, including some girl from Colorado who just HAPPENED to be stuck in Nigeria and could I send her some money so she could come home? I asked where she was from, she said Colorado Springs but my suspicions were aroused, so I asked her if she’d ever been up ‘the hill’ next to Colorado Springs (14,000 foot Pike’s Peak) and she had NO IDEA what I was talking about, so my questioning became more intense…she then stated that I did not trust her (which I told her was correct, I did’nt) but she continued to try to get money out of me to ‘come home’…later in doing some research I found out the Ivory Coast and Nigeria are some of the ripest areas for online money scams…so watch yourselves!!

Mark

I was getting sent Emails like this one quiet regularly a couple of years back, They came under different names and had slightly different “Hooks” to try and catch you out, But with all of them you could smell a rat straight away.
Last year my wife got a Email saying she had won a Lottery in The Netherlands, Considering the fact niether of us had been to Holland or bought a ticket we thought “mm maybe a bit of bullsh1t going on here”, So it was time to wind the fiddling git up.

We phoned him to find out what we needed to do he said needed to give around £400 to clear the lottery win, He said send bank details and proof of who we are, So we emailed a bit of brief information and five minutes later the phone rang, On the other end was a African sounding Gentleman saying “its friday evening if you transfer money to me tonight you will get the money on Saturday afternoon after i go to Lottery office” We said we can’t afford the full amount can you phone us back in a bit we will see how much we can raise, We also said “Why don’t you claim the Lottery win and take half” he could not answer that, We Emailed him again a bit later and the phone rang again the same Gentleman was asking how much we could raise he would take in his words “Any amount” We said we could only raise £5 would that be enough?, The phone went dead, We decided just for the fun of it to Email him again on the Monday seeing if he would accept our offer. Strangely he never replied, But we had a great time winding him up.

People if you can makes these theives lives hard then do it, They are led by greed and will follow the smell of of a Pound,Euro or a Dollar to its death, Take them on that journey waste their time and make it hard for them to screw others out of their hard earned cash.

This is the first letter I have recieved of this nature, but I had heard of them before to be honest.
The worrying thing is though this wasn’t just a letter, this lady (like I said if she is a lady) spent a great deal of time trying to forge a friendship.

I’m surprised people still fall for this stuff, especially given the amount of attention it has been given on radio, the internet and the TV. It was a TV program about scams like this that was on air a while back here that made me suspicious of her intentions. But it is reported that hundreds of people fall for this c*** every, don’t they pay attention to the media or something??? :rolleyes:

Good on you for warning people…

this has happened many times over here in Ireland over the last number of years.One even appeared on a forum site i was a member of using their profile as an ” advert” !

We mananged to get it blocked pronto but in the “real”world one very well known and wealthy businessman is reported to have got stung for an awfull lot of dough!!!

Beware the other one of the USD bills covered in black ink that your new friend will provide special chemicals to bring back to life!!!

There are plenty of these scams around – but this website shows how someone with enough time and patience can string them along – I have spent too many hours reading the wonderful stories on it!

http://www.scambuster419.co.uk/introduction.htm

I spend 3 straight hours going through this website … I found it very funny ( although some of these are too funny to be actual incedents) ..Loved the one with the signwriter and the MP from Gypping in the Marsh.

worthyone is this the first type of e-mail like this you’ve ever gotten?

I’ve gotten a ton of them, and as far back as a few years ago.

It’s a fairly convincing letter to be honest, but I’ve always been wary about e-mails from people I don’t know so I never bought into them. The fact that I’ve gotten multiple e-mails of a similar type with difference stories just proves how fake they really are.

Amazing what lengths people will go to so they can steal your money.

If you follow my link, I guarantee that:
a) you’ll laugh your socks off, and
b) you’ll probably become addicted.
Health warning – doing so will waste a great deal of your time!

Never had an African princess E-mail me 🙁
Had a few African QUEENS though 😮 ,note to self check where my E-mail address is being posted… 😀

It’s funny you should mention that.

I just happen to know a disadvantaged African princess who needs help in moving some money over here.

If you wouldn’t mind sending me your bank and credit card details, I’d be only too pleased to pass them on to her…………. :diablo:

If I had a penny for every e-mail I’ve had like that, I wouldn’t be requiring to help launder the fortunes of some disadvantaged African princess… 😀

These greedy scammers prey on the vunerable and feeble minded ……give them a wide birth my friend

There are plenty of these scams around – but this website shows how someone with enough time and patience can string them along – I have spent too many hours reading the wonderful stories on it!

http://www.scambuster419.co.uk/introduction.htm