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Harry Potter Fans - Nigerian Bank Account - Funny!
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ouch 
nice
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nice-Nick
dragonwillow
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Not a HP fan, but wtf 
Man that is one fucking stupid scammer.
Man that is one fucking stupid scammer.
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pwned!!!
tsukaesugi
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What if there actually were banks in Nigeria that desperately needed our help.
These e-mails might really be a cry for help... and yet we mock them.
How many Nigerian banks have collapsed due to our insensitivity?
These e-mails might really be a cry for help... and yet we mock them.
How many Nigerian banks have collapsed due to our insensitivity?
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tsukaesugi said:
Atleast one... "Nice catch Rameriez, but you got SAAAAAAACHED!"
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Oh, and am I the only one that thinks that:
Catch the Golden Snatch
would make a nice Harry Potter themed porno? Ron Jeremy could play Ron Weasely (with a red wig of course!)... but who to play Harry... and more importantly, who to play Hermonie and the oh so fine Choe Chang?
-Nick
Catch the Golden Snatch
would make a nice Harry Potter themed porno? Ron Jeremy could play Ron Weasely (with a red wig of course!)... but who to play Harry... and more importantly, who to play Hermonie and the oh so fine Choe Chang?
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I get like 50 of these a day. Well ok more like 1-2 a week. I always string them along but have no idea how to report them.
I either pretend to be a hispanic boy named Julio Octavio Morales III who hardly knows English, lives in a little hick town in Texas, gets $10 a week allowance ("Wow mister that a lot of money for me! It like one million year allowance!"); OR I just pretend to be a little hick boy in Texas who thinks every email isn't spam ("Are you the guys who sent me the Viagra medicine? I think that's for Gramps, but you have the wrong email. How is it in Nigeria? Is it like Texas?" etc).
If ya'll want I can post the emails next time I do so. Usually I get replies like:
"Dear Julio,
It gladdens me to see such in interest in my cause. I need your personal information. No we do not give you Viagra. Nigeria is not Texas, it is in Africa. Your response is needed, as this is important business.
Dr. M. B. Ntumbu"
And they just ignore when I'm like "I 15 age old" or "I'm just a stark youngin' of 15, but golly mister I would like to help, the Bible says to always help your brother, and you must really need my help a lot to have that Ambassador from the USA give you my name", they act like I'm actually an adult. Weird.
Yeah lemme know if you want me to post a convo with them, just wait about a week and I'll get a mail
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BTW my mom says this is an old scam, when she was in college these people would call her on the phone with the same thing.
I either pretend to be a hispanic boy named Julio Octavio Morales III who hardly knows English, lives in a little hick town in Texas, gets $10 a week allowance ("Wow mister that a lot of money for me! It like one million year allowance!"); OR I just pretend to be a little hick boy in Texas who thinks every email isn't spam ("Are you the guys who sent me the Viagra medicine? I think that's for Gramps, but you have the wrong email. How is it in Nigeria? Is it like Texas?" etc).
If ya'll want I can post the emails next time I do so. Usually I get replies like:
"Dear Julio,
It gladdens me to see such in interest in my cause. I need your personal information. No we do not give you Viagra. Nigeria is not Texas, it is in Africa. Your response is needed, as this is important business.
Dr. M. B. Ntumbu"
And they just ignore when I'm like "I 15 age old" or "I'm just a stark youngin' of 15, but golly mister I would like to help, the Bible says to always help your brother, and you must really need my help a lot to have that Ambassador from the USA give you my name", they act like I'm actually an adult. Weird.
Yeah lemme know if you want me to post a convo with them, just wait about a week and I'll get a mail
.BTW my mom says this is an old scam, when she was in college these people would call her on the phone with the same thing.
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They're hillarious.
What's not hillarious is that MULTI-MILLIONS actually do get sent to these scammers each year.
I've got the emails before, and one time I actually had one call me on my cell (after he didn't identify himself in 10 seconds I hung up, he called again, I said "oh, you're breaking up!" and hung up, he called again, I said "You've really got your work cut out for you?", by the fourth time I just hung up the instant I accepted and he finally got the hint -and a nice sum on his phone bill).
Oh, there are some more of those counter-scams listed on this page:
http://www.taynow.wisesurfer.net/
What's not hillarious is that MULTI-MILLIONS actually do get sent to these scammers each year.
I've got the emails before, and one time I actually had one call me on my cell (after he didn't identify himself in 10 seconds I hung up, he called again, I said "oh, you're breaking up!" and hung up, he called again, I said "You've really got your work cut out for you?", by the fourth time I just hung up the instant I accepted and he finally got the hint -and a nice sum on his phone bill).
Oh, there are some more of those counter-scams listed on this page:
http://www.taynow.wisesurfer.net/