Nigeria 419ers

[Rebel=UK=]

I got a email of one of these and im planning on stringin them along for a laff...any ideas?

I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the oil ministry here

in Nigeria, for security reasons, I may not wish to disclose how I got

your email address for now.

After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you this

business proposal, we want you to assist us receive the sum of Twenty

eight million, six hundred thousand united state bills(us28.6m) into your

account. This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us

under the budget allocation to my ministry and the bill was approved for

payment by the concerned ministries. The contract was executed,

commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual cost of the contract.

Now, we are left with the balance of us28.6m as the over invoiced amount,

which we have deliberately over estimated for our own use. Please note

that the law forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign accounts

hence this contact, we have agreed to share the money in the following

percentages: 30 for you, 60 for us 10 for tax as may be required by your

government.

Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk hence

the business was carefully planned before it was successfully executed and

we the officials involved in the deal have put many years in service to

our ministry. We have been exercising patience for this privilege for so

long not until the presidential announcement last week, that all foreign

contractors owed be paid forthwith, this will enable the presidency

reconcile our debt ratio with the outside world and to most of us, this is

a lifetime blessing we cannot afford to miss. Upon indication of your

interest to fully co-operate with us, a payment application/information

form will be sent to you via email for completion.

Note that the following information: a)your private phone number and email

address, b)contact information will enable us seek/secure approval of the

fund from the concerned government quarters/ministries within 3-4 banking

days.

As soon as we confirm receipt of this money, my partner and I will come

over to your country to arrange for our own share and possibly invest part

of this money in your country.

Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout this transaction. I

shall furnish you with some details about myself. Your prompt reply will

be highly appreciated.

Best regards.

Engr. Idioma St.michael Adams

[expertec]

Any ideas? Yes... just delete it and ignore them.

[-pops-]

These 419s are run by organised crime setups, not little Africans sitting in mud huts. Cross them at your peril.

[andsome]

Keep well clear of it. Once they know that they have hit a genuine e-mail account***************

[dadyassa]

You might get some tips here 4'9eater

You might think it strange but they just arrested a gang of Nigerians in Spain who have conned millions of pounds out of people with this scam.

[mark2]

Engr Adams is honoured with numerous google hits to his name not quite 419, he's probably been baited a number of times and you won't get much fun from him.

But as -pops- says

These 419s are run by organised crime setups, not little Africans sitting in mud huts. Cross them at your peril.

There have been cases of contacts of the scammer turning up at a baiters workplace, (one used the works pc to email from) emails can sometimes be backtracked to isps or even closer to home. gmail used on the web interface doesn't suffer from this problem tho

419eater does have a lot of hints and tips if you decide you want to mess with him.

[Thos]

I remember seeing a site some time ago of a person who followed these up to extraordinary lengths. But basically I would leave well alone.

How do people still fall for them though. I know it is basically greed but surely everyone must now be aware that it is a scam?

Thos.

p.s. I like your avator Mark2 :lol: