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Old 06-12-2009, 08:43 AM   #1
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In this morning' emails I received th following concern scam. I am really glad these Nigerians are taking such dedicated watch on my ATM card, not.


Dear Beneficiary,

FROM THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE HOUSE OF NIGERIA

This Email is from the Ministry Of Finance House Of Nigeria. We hereby bring to your notice that your ATM CARD that was surpose to be deliver to you by the courier company is been brought back to us due to some reason that you refuse to comply with them and also you refuse to pay for the safe keeping fee which is just $100.

Meanwhile it has came to our notice that you have been dealing with some group of people that claim to have your ATM CARD but we the Ministry Of Finance House advise that you should stop every thing you are be doing with them because all there are trying to do is to rip you off your money.

We want to bring this back to your notice again that your parcel is here in our office whihc you are given just 48hours to get back to us and let us know if you will be able to make the payment or not and if you are not ready to make the payment let us known and we are going to cancel your compensated fund worth $750,000.00 but if you known you are ready to pay for the safe keeping of your parcel to able the courier company commence this delivery get back to us and let us know when you will be making the payment.

Also we want you to know that we have done all neccessary papar work that is needed for this delivery so you have to get back to us so that we can get this ATM CARD to you and also we want you to get back to us immediately with your personal details so that we can reconfirm your information.
Note: Your ATM CARD is now approve by the State President and also the ATM CARD has an Inssurance Certificate to it.
Provide us with your personal detail if you really know you are interested in getting back your ATM CARD.

Fill the below information:
Name:...........
Address:........
Country:........
Occupation:.....
cell Phone#:....
Time To Call:...
Sex:............

We don't have much to tell you then to let you known that you just have 48hours to still have your fund or to lose your fund.
WE AWAIT TO READ AN EMAIL FROM YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Thanks for your Concerning.
Best Regards
MR JOSEPH MIKE
MINISTRY OF FINANCE HOUSE
monetaryhouse_finance@hotmail.com
+234-706-634-5351


I know I am a lousy speller, heck compared to these folks I am bloody William Safire, Master of English.
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Old 06-12-2009, 08:56 AM   #2
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That is a great one. Wonder why spellcheck doesn't ever seem to work in Nigeria?
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Old 06-12-2009, 09:34 AM   #3
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Even scarier these scams still get people.
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Old 06-12-2009, 10:53 AM   #4
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This reminded me of a fun site: Welcome to the 419 Eater

It is all about scambaiting. A fun little hobby whereby you scam the scammers.
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Old 06-12-2009, 12:39 PM   #5
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This reminded me of a fun site: Welcome to the 419 Eater

It is all about scambaiting. A fun little hobby whereby you scam the scammers.
Fuego, that site is brilliant. There is one scam that some in Britain pulled on the Nigerians which is absolutely hilarious. The link is below.

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Old 06-12-2009, 12:51 PM   #6
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Fuego, that site is brilliant. There is one scam that some in Britain pulled on the Nigerians which is absolutely hilarious. The link is below.

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That is great. I did a similar thing with a guy in the US. Scarily similar.

It is AMAZING what some of the scammers are willing to do to reel in their catch.
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rip you off your money.
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That does sound like it could hurt! They have no idea how hard I hang on............
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Old 06-12-2009, 11:07 AM   #9
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hmmm oww
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Old 06-12-2009, 12:16 PM   #10
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Fill the below information:
Name:.......Otis Finstink
Address:........4116 Rectum Road
Country:........Californistan
Occupation:.....Nose miner
cell Phone#:....555-555-5555
Time To Call:...3 a.m.
Sex:............Not often enough
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