I need advice, my friend fell for Nigerian internet scammers for around 10,000 dollar

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by reds4ever


How about:


"I am a bankrupt waiter needing to pay my through university, if you would send me a Western Union bankers draft for $10,000, my father who is the Crown Prince of Zululand will reimburse you the money plus $10,000,000 for your trouble"

[Kingof the Apes]

Another good site:

http://www.scamvictimsunited.com/

Hope this helps.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
The key part is that he endorsed the money order.

What exactly does that mean? All I can tell from the OP is the guy cashed $10,000 worth of them. Did doing so require him to "endorse" the money orders?

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
What exactly does that mean? All I can tell from the OP is the guy cashed $10,000 worth of them. Did doing so require him to "endorse" the money orders?

Uuhhh, yes, that is how you 'cash' or otherwise 'negotiate' (assign) any commercial instrument. I take it you have never cashed a check and signed it on the back.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


What exactly does that mean? All I can tell from the OP is the guy cashed $10,000 worth of them. Did doing so require him to "endorse" the money orders?

i used the word 'vouch' in an earlier post, but 'endorse' is probably better. the bottom line is, he signed it and presented it and the buck has to stop somewhere.

[spartak]

https://www.419eater.com

[Last Conformist]

Whack your friend in the head till he dies. His stupidity is a threat to sane people everywhere.

[OzzyKP]

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by ColdWizard
This is why you should trust no one.

Before I run for any office, I will change my middle name to 'No One'.

[pchang]

Before you run for office, you should stop posting here and pay to have all reference to you deleted from these servers.

[Dinner]

This seems like a good thread to point out the spoof page on the University of Nigeria. Check out the courses.

http://www.universityofnigeria.com/index.htm

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Your friend is dumb as a rock.

You're a rock-geek. You should know not to insult the rocks, their feelings would be hurt.

[Ming]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


You're a rock-geek. You should know not to insult the rocks, their feelings would be hurt.

MtG... whatever happened in your reverse scam?

[MichaeltheGreat]

They stopped playing...

I had another one where the story was that something to the effect that some bad guy had the writer's mommy hostage as she was the widow of the rich chief of the whatsituya tribe, and that they needed some form of payment to bribe some lower level lackeys of the bad guys to release mommy so she could sign over the title to the old dead guy's account to her son (the writer).

There was a bank and a safe deposit box and some other things in that story.

I wrote back and told him that it was his lucky day, I was just back with a group of mercenaries who had worked as security contractors in Iraq. I asked him for maps, the location of the nearest airfield with at least 2000 feet of runway, and pictures of the bad guy (so we knew who to kill), the mommy (so we knew who not to kill), and the bank with all approaches, so we could empty out the safe deposit box. I promised I could deliver 45 mercenaries with man portable and light vehicle mount heavy weapons, standard infantry weapons, and air transport in and out of the country within two weeks.

That was a bit of fun, but after an email or two, he went away also.

They've apparently gotten wise to the fact that a lot of people string them along and play back.

[rah]

Yes, Oerdin, amusing.