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    Who beleives in such bull****?! And what is the point of this guy, or everyother guy that sends me e-mail like this one. Worse, is that they sent-it to my info@email of my company....Look at the e-mail.

    From:
    To:
    Date: 4/4/05 11:43AM
    Subject: RE:CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS REQUEST.

    Dear Friend,

    My name is Mr. Andrew Esemezie; I am the Kaneshie regional manager of the
    International Commercial Bank (ICB) of Ghana in West Africa. I believe that
    you will be capable and trustworthy to handle this transaction after getting
    your contact information.

    Please I am soliciting for your assistance. I am in control of Four million,
    eight hundred and fifty thousand US dollars ($4,850,000.00) and I realized
    the excess profit from a contract that was awarded to a foreign company
    here in Ghana by the World Health Organization to supply ante-natal and
    post-natal drugs to rural areas in Ghana and other West African countries.
    I trade with the money in Ghana stock market before the contractors withdrew
    the money for the said Purpose from our bank. I deposited the profit I made
    on ESCROW CALL ACCOUNT and I did not declare this to my head office.

    I contacted you, to stand as the beneficiary of this fund because as the
    regional manager I don't have to be involved with this kind of amount of
    money. You can deduct 35% of the money as your commission. If you accept
    my offer you can contact me on my personal email-address a_esemezie101@yahoo.com
    for more details.


    All I need is an account where this money will be transferred into. There
    are practically no risks involved; it will be a bank-to-bank transfer.I
    hope you will understand my situation.

    Thank you and God bless.

    Yours Truly,
    Mr. Andrew Esemezie
    What is their goal in sending this stuff?!

    Spec.
    -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
    Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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    • #3
      ?!?
      -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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      • #4
        How stupid can poeple be...
        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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        • #5
          Re: How stupid can poeple be...

          Originally posted by Spec
          Who beleives in such bull****?! And what is the point of this guy, or everyother guy that sends me e-mail like this one. Worse, is that they sent-it to my info@email of my company....Look at the e-mail.



          What is their goal in sending this stuff?!

          Spec.
          They hope that you will be stupid and send them money The internet is full of them as you can see here
          I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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          • #6
            The scam is they want your bank account number and routing so that instead of deposit they wipe the account clean.
            "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

            “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
              The scam is they want your bank account number and routing so that instead of deposit they wipe the account clean.
              Gee, d'ya think???

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              • #8
                Re: How stupid can poeple be...

                Originally posted by Spec

                What is their goal in sending this stuff?!

                Spec.
                Prolly but I figured Spec wanted the REAL goal.
                "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

                “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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                • #9
                  A rather funny e-mail exchange between a scammer and someone with a lot of free time...

                  I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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                  • #10
                    MtG was planning some scammer baiting IIRC.
                    "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

                    “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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                    • #11
                      Re: Re: How stupid can poeple be...

                      Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe


                      Prolly but I figured Spec wanted the REAL goal.
                      Sure. I mean, the 1003rd e-mail like the last one is starting to convince me.


                      ..........



                      Spec.
                      -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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                      • #12


                        Referring to Section 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code, these are internet pranksters who enjoy anoying 'mugu's, which is the Nigerian word for these 'scam artists'.
                        "Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
                        "...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
                        "sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.

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                        • #13
                          Actually, I believe they use bank account numbers largely to test your gullibility; bank transfers leave a trail which can make them nervous. No matter how stupid you are, you eventually catch on, and they need to be able to disappear.

                          The vast majority of the time they try to squeeze a WU payment out of you. It's the fastest way to send money worldwide and never see any of it again, ever. Try and respond to this and it'll take maybe two or three e-mails before the guy mentions an unfortunate fee needed to process forms, bribe a crooked bank worker, and so on. And when you've paid that he'll ask for another, and another, until you get sick of it. At which point he'll stop replying, sever all contact, and run away laughing.

                          Scam-baiting is HUGE; I've seen this played out time and time again at www.419eater.com, which is the unofficial headquarters of Nigerian-torture. These men are often made spectacularly stupid by their greed. I have seen:

                          *Pictures of a man "proving his sincerity" by posing naked in a bathtub full of milk with a goat.
                          *Another man posing naked with a bucket on his head, holding two torches, with a rock dangling from a string tied to his member. Both of these were presented as "initiation rites" of the church headed by the pastor character the baiters posed as.
                          *Recently, one baiter has gotten a man to pay shipping and handling fees on a transatlantic shipment of a busted washing machi--er, 26 state-of-the-art laptops. He blamed that on disgruntled employees playing pranks on him, and is currently shipping the REAL laptops to him, disguised as a broken dryer to match. Yes, they can be that stupid.

                          It's great fun, seeing how low a man can be dragged by his own greed.
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                          Pyrebound--a free online serial fantasy novel

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Seeker


                            Referring to Section 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code, these are internet pranksters who enjoy anoying 'mugu's, which is the Nigerian word for these 'scam artists'.
                            Mugu is Nigerian thieves' slang for "idiot" and refers to the victim or mark. The thief himself is a "guyman" in this parlance. The mugu label is just used on them because it makes them mad, which in turn often yields amusing death threats.

                            My previous post included a comma in the URL which will screw up linking, so for your convenience,

                            Join the world's largest scambaiting community. Over 22 years of fighting 419 scams, advance fee fraud, and protecting victims worldwide.
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                            Pyrebound--a free online serial fantasy novel

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                            • #15
                              Or the guy they sent to an airport in another country and just had him wait there for days...

                              PS more grimly some of the scammers are bad bad guys, whose method is to find some excuse that you have to meet them somewhere in person, where they kidnap you.
                              "Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
                              "...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
                              "sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.

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