Most outrageous Nigerian email scams

It's amazing how easy it is to recognise them without actually reading any of it. Fuzzy logic ftw.
 
Black Money Scams are specifically addressed in the CPA, Section 42 and 43.

S42(3)(a)(i)
(i) producing currency by washing, dipping or otherwise treating any substance that is not currency with a chemical substance, or exposing it to an electrical charge, or to radiation of any kind; or

One of the methods of marketing these scams are via online classifieds. This would put the parties hosting these ads at odds with the CPA as it also addresses this:
S42(2)(a)
(2) A person must not directly or indirectly promote, or knowingly join, enter or participate in—
(a) a fraudulent currency scheme, as described in subsection (3);

Parties such as OLX, GumTree, JunkMail have done a stellar job at removing these as soon as they spot them.

Other local parties have been ducking the issue. One radio station station allowing ads on their website ran to their lawyers to find plausible deniability. This really makes you wonder about the ethics involved.

This question also spans Google's involvement in marketing these scams via their Adwords and the implications it has for local business.

Yet the black money scam is the easiest to spot?

Search for "SSD Solution" on Gumtree.co.za. Clean as a whistle. Yet Adwords sabotages their efforts. In fact Google is a major marketing mechanism for the non-existent chemical "SSD Solution", "Vectrol Paste", "Castrox Oxide" and a span of other fictitious cleaning chemicals. These scams flourish on Google+, Youtube, Blogspot etc. Just like these scammers had a field day on WozaOnline.

Considering the Black Money Scam is an end-of-the-road scam, when the victim is already desperate, you will not be able to convince a victim that this is a scam - Google says it does. Also consider most of these scammers use GMail.

Yet all business look at Google to see what is acceptable. So much for the CPA vs Google.
 
I absolutely love to reply to these emails, I swear at them so badly.
 
The Nigerian Prince, and Dying man wants to please God scam got me laughing :D

They also do the funky RICA scams
 
You must be a fool to fall for these scams.

That's kind of the point - they purposefully make them like this so that if people fall for the initial email, they know they're dumb and/or ignorant and easy to manipulate. They get a lot less dumb once you're in the scam. You could say the initial email is an entrance exam in stupidity.
 
You must be a fool to fall for these scams.
The thing is a lot of the victims are doctors or other people in the human sciences, also academics. So stupid? No. Perhaps wired differently to you and I. Also older people. Also people new to the net.

If it were not for the low hanging fruit, these mugus would not have persisted so.
 
Perhaps it's time RPM starts digging into the Cameroonian scammers. In South Africa and other countries they are making the other West African scammers look like wannabe's:
Export scams / non-delivery scams: agricultural, couriers, fake passports etc
Classified scams and fake websites: electronics, trailers, containers, pets, generators, etc
Also Black Money Scams (Geelie, you still in South Africa?)
Love & witchcraft scams

Many of our WozaOnline woes came from these guys.
 
Just received this gem.

Aattention: Beneficiary.

The North America Clearing House is pleased to commence on the final payment release of your blocked funds, through the Clearing House Interbank Payment System (CHIPS). Basically, this message is notifying you that your blocked funds, that has been in the coffers of the North America Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) since is finally unblocked and authorized for immediate wire transfer into your receiving bank account by the Clearing House.

We at the Clearing House received a certified payment instrument from OFAC in your favor containing your personal details and a new receiving account in the name and favor of your financial representative and partner, Mr. Richard Salazar. In view of the issued payment mandate from the OFAC, the Clearing House conveyed a payment message through CHIPS, which will effect the transfer of the funds via S.W.I.F.T MT2O2 COV into the account of Mr. Salazar in the nearest 72-banking hours after a confirmation to proceed from you as the original beneficiary.

Please do kindly confirm if the account information are correct to receive the funds,

Bank Name: U.S Bank Trust, N.A, MN;
Swift Code: USBKUS4TCOR;
Routing #: 121122676;
Account Number: 153459581457;
Account Beneficiary Name: Richard B. Salazar; Beneficiary Address: 5021 Laguna Blvd, Elk Grove, CA 95758.

The funds will be available in the U.S. Bank Trust, N.A account as above in the next 72 working hours as soon as we get a permission to proceed from you, and a copy of the MT202 COV Payment Slip will be sent by fax to the receiving beneficiary bank, U.S. Bank Trust, N.A; Mr. Salazar, We hope this letter is understood, if not, kindly go over the content twice or more before responding, And If you have any questions as regards this matter, kindly reply me or call me as we would be pleased to discuss any of our comments in more detail. If you have any questions.


Yours Sincerely,

Account Auditor North America Treasury Control David Williams.
Fax:+1-206-600-9256
 
My favourite... And I get one every month:


Dear e-road User

VPC TAX INVOICE OUTSTANDING AMOUNT: R23 765.72
REF No: XXXXXXXX

Please note than non-payment of e-Tolls is a criminal offence. Please contact the e-Tolls Violations Processing Centre (VPC) on 0800 SANRAL (726 725) to arrange payment.



Classic. Bloody 419'ers !
 
If you're truly good at leading these scam artists on you'd convince them to open an account and stick R200 in there for you to access!

Would love to see that :p
 
Last week I received a call from the Dominican Republic asking if I want to invest in the US stock exchange.
 
I need some extra cash. These are all very good ideas and it seems to work.

How would I get caught if I tried to setup my own 419 scam?
How illegal is it to do this?
 
I need some extra cash. These are all very good ideas and it seems to work.

How would I get caught if I tried to setup my own 419 scam?
How illegal is it to do this?

There is a helpline for this. I found it on the dark web. It's 10 111.
 
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