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Old 04-27-2015, 06:18 PM
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To paraphrase Dennis Miller....

You gotta be a real piece of Samsonite to answer this email...

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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C.




Attention: Beneficiary,


We sincerely apologized for sending you this sensitive information via e-mail instead of a certified mail, post-mail, phone or face to face conversation, it's due to the urgency and importance of the security information of our citizenry, I am Special Agent Mark Giuliano from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Field Intelligence Groups (FIGs). We intercepted two consignment boxes at JFK Airport, New York. The boxes were scanned and they contained large sum of money ($4.1 million) and also some backup documents which bears your name as the Beneficiary/Receiver of the money. Investigation was carried out on the diplomat that accompanied the boxes into the United States and he said that he was to deliver the fund to your residence as overdue payment owed to you by the Federal Republic of Nigeria through the security company in United Kingdom.

After cross-checking all legal documents in the boxes, we found out that your consignment was lacking an important document and we can't release the boxes to the diplomat until the document is found, we have no other option than to confiscate your consignment.

According to Internal Revenue Code (IRC) in Title 26 also contain reporting requirement on a Form 8300, Report of Cash Payment Over $10,000 Received in a Trade or Business, money laundering activity may violate 18 USC §1956, 18 USC 1957, 18 USC 1960, and provision of Title 31, and 26 USC 6050I of the United States Code (USC), this section will discuss only those money laundering and currency violation under the jurisdiction of IRS, your consignment lacks proof of ownership certificate from the joint team of IRS and IRC, therefore you need to reply back immediately for direction on how to procure this certificate to enable us relieved the charge of evading the law on you, which is a punishable offense in the United States.

You are required to reply back within 72hours or you will be prosecuted in a court of law for money laundering, also you are instructed to desist from further contact with any bank(s) or person(s) in Nigeria or the United Kingdom or any part of the world regarding your payment because your consignment has been confiscated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation here in the United States.


Yours In Service,
Special Agent Mark Giuliano
Regional Deputy Director
Field Intelligence Groups (FIGs)
Which begs the question: why do people fall for this? I mean clearly it has to work on some percentage, however minuscule, or they wouldn't keep it going.

Maybe we should keep a database of people who are so daft that they respond, and we can also have them stripped of voting rights.

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Old 04-27-2015, 11:54 PM
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Chris Hansen had a show about catching an internet scammer and they found a guy in upstate New York who had been convinced that a hot babe was doing a mail order business in the US and needed his help in shipping packages. He would receive expensive items in the mail and forward them to her in Benin and pay all the postage. He believed he was going to profit from this business and marry the hotty who had sent him photos of herself. The photos had been found on some website of course and the guy was a near Elmer Fudd on the babe magnet scale. He was planning to leave his wife to go off with his business partner babe and had exhausted much of their savings by the time Hansen pointed out to him that he was being had. He was doing the 'dang, how can that be' routine. Imagine the conversation he had with his wife when he told her about it. Probably got some money from Hansen and team for allowing his story to be used. I suspect his wife had left him by then anyway.
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Old 04-28-2015, 10:39 AM
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i have seen were people send those scammers old washing machines, broke electronic stuff
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Old 04-28-2015, 11:26 AM
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You gotta be a real piece of Samsonite to answer this email...



Which begs the question: why do people fall for this? I mean clearly it has to work on some percentage, however minuscule, or they wouldn't keep it going.

Maybe we should keep a database of people who are so daft that they respond, and we can also have them stripped of voting rights.
You just want to beat me to collecting that 4 million!
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Old 04-28-2015, 12:33 PM
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Too late as I have the babe and money. I just asked the wife if she wanted two million dolllars and some help around the house.

Actually I can see an insecure and unknowing person responding. As the first letter would seem a threat to some. As stated the same basic scams have been present for years so they must still catch some fish.

Perhaps some scams are dropping off at the same time as we have not had the kind offers to fix our computers as much if at all as of late. I tried to be original when answering their calls. Things like I already have one Nigerian gentleman repairing it as we speak. As you are aware though money is everything. So if you send me fifty dollars you can replace him. Just send me a cheque for a milion dollars and being honest I will just take my fifty dollars out and send you the balance.
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Old 04-28-2015, 03:00 PM
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They prey on old people and morons. Plenty of them around. Most of the present members here excepted, of course.

Scare the bejeezus out of them pretending to be from the IRS. An associate of mine has an elderly couple as clients who fell for it....twice in the same day. . Go to Big Lots and send a payment draft to xxxx. Are you kidding me?
Then they reeled them in a second time as soon as the first payment was made. Stupidity and fear (or greed): a winning combo for thieves.
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Old 04-28-2015, 03:12 PM
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It is amazing the shamelessness of scammers who prey on the elderly. I've read of plenty of this sort of thing happening in bank parking lots, using some ruse of being a bank examiner who needs this stalwart's citizens help in ferreting out wrongdoing.
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Old 05-04-2015, 01:14 PM
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I used to get some of those eMails. Last was from the 'FBI' about 10 years ago, informing me of a child-porn investigation and that I better supply them with all my vital information 'or else!'
But lately it's been by phone.
Last year someone from 'Publisher's Clearing House' called (from Jamaica), insisting I had to send a $3400 money transfer via Walmart to verify my ID, in order to collect my 'million dollar prize'. Had alot of fun stringing this dirtbag along while I taped the conversation. Even got him to call back so I could tell him to go and (deleted) someone else.
Then this January, 'Agent Rodriguez' with the 'IRS' (California area code) called me at my Virginia Beach address to demand payment of an $8400 judgement in order to prevent immediate seizure of all my assets! When I questioned why the IRS would call me at a number that wasn't my official residence, and then told this creep that he was a scammer, he replied "Well, smart-mouth, just you wait there for the sherrif!" I'm still waiting.
I'd swear the 'Publisher's Clearing House' and 'IRS' scammers sounded like the same person.
Pity I didn't have my recorder handy this time.

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Old 05-05-2015, 01:14 AM
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I better go wade through that spam email folder before I gets me arrested !

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