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#21
I just got this email, but I don't want $1,000,000

so giving out the info of this lottery to anyone who wants it:
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#22
sicnarf Wrote:Somebody is bound to respond to one of those, and that's why they keep doing that. Even if it's 1 in 100,000, it's worth it if it gets any results.

I remember a friend of mine responded to a Nigerian scam email just asking "Do people actually respond to these?" and the guy replied "yes." Rolleyes

There was a story on the news a long time ago. Some poor idiot got conned out of his life savings by a Nigerian scam. He took a gun, went to the embassy of Nigeria, and murdered a consul. I don't know what's more sad, that the guy lost his life savings, or that he was such an idiot that he actually thought that he got scammed by the Bank of Nigeria.
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#23
Quantact Wrote:...Some poor idiot got conned out of his life savings by a Nigerian scam...

http://whatstheharm.net/nigerianemails.html

Also of interest, Project Eagle Claw.
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#24
RideBMX Wrote:http://whatstheharm.net/nigerianemails.html

Also of interest, Project Eagle Claw.

I read the first few emails and then stopped.

Internet is internet. Wikipedia is more reputable than most stuff on the internet, but teachers and profs don't let you use it as a source. That's becuase anything on the internet can be fabricated. What proof does this site have that its claims are real?

I find it really difficult to believe that somebody like a stockbroker, who makes money out of money for a living, or a treasurer (ie veteran politician,) will buy the Nigerian bank scam. A lot of older people don't understand the internet, but they DO understand the concept of predatory junk mail. If you receive a letter in the mail that is poorly written and claims to be from an official source, you trash it. Once, my mom got a "bill" from "collections" from some company, alleging she had purchased a book from them, (the book was about collections,) and now she owed them 143 dollars. She told me to write them a letter saying that if they sent her any more mail, she'd press charges. A stock broker or a politician wouldn't really react differently to such things. I really don't think somebody would invest 1.3 million dollars based on an unsolicited letter. I think this type of scam succeeds on smaller amounts, and generally against less educated people.
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#25
Quantact Wrote:What proof does this site have that its claims are real?
The "Read More" links; a lot of which link to published news stories.
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#26
RideBMX Wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ErNjRjHro

Listen to a former spammer on the subject.
Basically, it's still cost effective to send out bulk emails of them.

Still is the keyword. But if everyone had an FFB...
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#27
MasPan Wrote:Sorry, I don't do guys, pleasure your needle plantain somewhere else.

You're a douchebag.
Go choke on your mother's spit.
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