Anyone else being bombarded of late with multi million pounds offers to help people in Siera LEone to get rid of money and inheritance??

Where do i report these scamsters to again??

Moon

Abuse.net (http://www.abuse.net/) have information about what and how to report, and who to. Don't send reports directly to them though.

My friend has had some from someone from Nigeria, basically asking him to launder money for him. I personally haven't had any. My friends email address is just his name + domain, so nothing out of the ordinary there. We have a firewall on the computer and Spybot search and destroy, but obviously that doesn't stop it.

Visit www.quatloos.com. Its a site dedicated to these people and don't miss the Brad Christian part of it. Brad sets out to wind up these people and does a cracking job of it. He gets into very detailed wind up chats with them and you can read all about it. Tears rolled down my face. I tried it with a few too when I got their emails and always got some amusement out of them.

For instance, one Nigerian wanted me to visit, I sent him a photo from a website of a glamour model wearing a mini skirt. He replied saying he loved me and wanted to meet me. I made him send me a picture of his knees as in the Sheffield culture we only trust someone if they have good knees - I duly received a pic of his knees. Classic! After a while he gave up on me giving him money, but always replied to my silly questions.

Over the last few years I have received 35 of these Nigerian scam e-mails to one or other of my various e-mail accounts. Not, thankfully, to any of the ones I really use. Bored at work one day I composed the following letter and sent it to each of the originating addresses and included the addresses of all of them. Strangely enough, I haven't received a reply.

Gentlemen,
May I first off thank you all for your generosity in offering me first refusal on your honourable attempts to recover some of the several billions of dollars which have been left by your uncles, fathers, mothers, aunts, associates and managers? Equally, may I extend my heartfelt condolences to you all on your extraordinary bereavements?

I revel in the trust you have extended me and in appreciation I am furnishing you with the email addresses of other unfortunates who find themselves in similar situations.

You will appreciate that time does not allow me to undertake in-depth correspondence with all of you, attractive though that proposition would be. However, I will not dismiss your pleas out of hand. Rather, I offer you a simplified method by which we can extract the funds which you have at your disposal, pending a suitable recipient of your munifence.

I am willing to act as broker for all of you but would rather only have to deal with one of you so my suggestion is that you form an alliance, notify me of an acting agent and advise me of the total sum of my proportion of the monies. Using this method I am prepared to accept a mere 2% of the total in recognition of the reduced effort on my part.

In order to get the ball rolling in our new, streamlined endeavour would you please furnish me with a single contact name, phone or fax number at which time I will furnish you with the information you requested, namely bank account details.

I remain yours faithfully,

This is not copyrighted so feel free to adapt to your own use.

Well I guess you ignore them, things like "African businessman needs help exporting his money" and the like. Here is a funny site where this guy plays along with the people and some of the results had me in tears, take a look at http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm the story titled
The tale of the painted breast is a good one.

hahaha!!! I used to get these a while a go...Oh my god that is hilarious...poor guy looks a wee bit p*ssed off in the photo!

Now it is tribble season, Pappa's got a brand new bag....strung-a-long...Shiver Metimbers....aaaah the joys of email...

I got one of those emails last year and tried to string the guy along for a bit, but i think he clicked on when i went over the top a bit and he stopped writing to me. Doh!

I always act like I'm thick / guilable and play along and see how far it will go.

I used to get them regular, I just delete 'em.

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
Anyone else being bombarded of late with multi million pounds offers to help people in Siera LEone to get rid of money and inheritance??

Where do i report these scamsters to again??

Moon

Been getting them for Months, just delete them straight away.

Hiya,

I've had quite a few of these over the years - Nigerian 419s, Sierra Leone, Eastern Europe, etc.

I believe that the NCIS used to be interested but now I think it's just a case of deleting them after having a good laugh!

Joe

Usually from Nigeria or Ghana.

I've never actually had an e mail asking for money, but some stupid 'slice puppies' have asked me for my bank account details so they can pay me my 'inheritance money' from my dead auntie who perished in a pile-up with an elephant whilst driving an articulated truck on a dust track in a rain forest during a storm.

What alerted me to the problem, though, was the fact that my Nigerian auntie Bin-linga Winga-Woos didn't even have an HGV licence.

Cons. Take no notice.

Some people must fall for these scams ... if not ... the scammers would have stopped doing this years ago ...

Its fun to "play along" with the scammers:

www.419fun.com

Originally posted by Jamie
Some people must fall for these scams ... if not ... the scammers would have stopped doing this years ago ... Yes people do fall for it, I read somewhere that the average financial loss to them is £30,000.
I believe the typical cost of sending bulk emails is about £10 per million so for the scammers it's worth sending 100 million if they just get one success a year.

Beware, there are plenty of more plausible sounding schemes. Sadly the ONLY approach is to regard ALL incoming email as trash until proven otherwise.

There is very little possibility of any spam filtering technology being successful without the cooperation of the legislators - who are so in bed with the marketing companies that in both UK and US the legislation passed last year was not merely ineffective but counter-productive.

How many of those email exhortations to buy (legitimate) products and services are just fronts to collect your money but never send you anything in return? Or send you something worth a fraction of what you paid?

I refuse to have anything to do with any organisation that sends me unsolicited mail, if they are legit then why use the tools of a fraudster?

Smartest move with these things is to just treat them as normal Spam and just delete them...

Don't reply and don't bother getting worked up about them...

Getting into "fun" with 419 scammers may get you into hot water if you're not careful... Granted none of the funsters have had problems as yet but the scammers have shown a willingness to kill as FBI records on American gullible idiots have shown... 20+ murders/disappearances to date..

So, my advice again.. leave well alone...

My name is kuti. Sierra Leonean residing in
burkina faso,West Africa.I am 28years old. You will be surprise to
receive this mail from a total stranger like me,Anyway,i got your
contact through internet in my search for honest person abroad who
will assist me to invest my inherited fund abroad,this is why i
decided to approach you for assistance.

My father,the late,CHIEF ALI Musa was one of the
prominent Gold & Diamond dealers in my country Sierra Leone,he was
also the traditional ruler of my home town before He was murdered in
cold blood early last year alongside with my mother by the Rebels of
R.U.F when they invaded my home town.

When i got home from school to see the remains of my late father and
other family members,i discovered that my home had been burnt down
and my parents were both murdered by the Rebels of R.U.F that has
been fighting against the legitimate Government in my country since
1992.

My late father deposited the sum of(USD$20million)as a FAMILY
TREASURE IN A SECURITY COMPANY here in burkina faso,West Africa before
his untimely death,this money was meant to be used to build an
ultral mordern medical Clinic here in burkina faso,for me after i
shall have completed my studies as a qualified Doctor but the
untimely death of my parents have denied me this good opportunity.

Now,as the next of kin and the only child,i have made claims of
ownership of the box containing the money although the people at the
Trust Company are not aware of the true contents of the box,But i
need a reliable person outside Africa through whom i could move the
money abroad and who will subsequently help me to invest the money
wisely while i go back to school to complete my education.

Bear in mind that i would entrust this money in your care if you
would be willing to help me in this matter.I am also willing to give
you 25% of the total sum if you will be willing to assist me in this
matter.
In addition,i will equally deduct 5% after the transfer to reimburse
each party for the expenses that may be incurred in the course of
moving the money into your country and you make it a private and
confidential matter

I look forward to hear from you soonest.

kuti.

Should I play with them?

Any fun suggestions?

I get them every couple of months from people claiming to be in Nigera and Sierra leone.They're wanting me to set up a bank account/use my existing one to deposit something like a million quid then i get a 10% cut or somert.......er,no thanks