suncrafter Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Have you ever gotten one of those Nigerian scams in your email? You know - where they say you won millions in a lottery (or whatever)? Well the webmaster on this site http://www.419hell.com/ answers those scam emails and does everything he can think of to mess with the scammer's head and waste their time. I particularly like the "testimonials" page. Very funny stuff! Here is a fake photo ID that one of the scammers sent him... (I think I could eat a photo with some paper and poop a more convincing ID!) Proud webmaster of:"Orc Magazine" and the "Stickman Murder Mystery Games" too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtrot17 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Isn't Alistair the name of a character in a Tom Clancy Novel? Veni, vidi, vici - Julius Caesar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serpent Eye Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I like how the words "BRITISH EXECUTIVE" have just been placed over the words "SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE." Internet scams are... meh :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wongtong Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Great find :P I think I'll spend my long, bored nights on this website. ^^ :lol: 8,180WONGTONG IS THE BEST AND IS MORE SUPERIOR THAN ME#1 Wongtong stalker.Im looking for some No Limit soldiers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warri0r45 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I think wasting the scammers time is definitely a good initiative in preventing people getting scammed, but by far the best way to avoid being scammed over the internet is to never give out bank details to anyone. Your bank will never ask for your pin number, passwords or anything like that anyway, so it's best to just delete or ignore anyone asking for them. Having said that, I have little sympathy for people stupid enough to continuously fork out thousands of dollars to these scams. They should be obvious enough to identify by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieMcD Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I could photoshop a better ID than that without using any government templates :lol: I've gotten hundreds, the very first one I got was rather convincing so I answered it, about 5 e-mails later I was told I need to pay 106 dollars first in taxes to claim my winnings which is obvious [cabbage] because no country would have such a minimal tax rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pryomancer Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Alistair Darling is a British MP. It's his eyebrows that get me though, compared to his hair. I've had a Nigerian scam email, some guy with the same last name as myself died and alledgedly left me his whole fortune. I've sent his representative the £5000 transfer fee, so hopefully I'll be getting that money soon! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLancer Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I got into a pretty long correspondence with 1 scammer from Congo in 2005, it's too long to copy+paste here though... I first kept serious & asked for instructions, then kept asking him things like his favourite food, if I may send the 'advance legal fee' in a coin bag, claiming my local Western Union caught fire just as I was sending the money, asking if he could send me coffee beans as a souvenir etc... Eventually after a few weeks he just stopped mailing back: Hi again Kibeki, I just read the weather report, seems to be rainy and chilly down there in Kinshasa. I got you one of those blue UNICEF pants. I'll send them to the address you provided for the wire transfer so you don't catch the flu. sir, this is merely wasted time, your funds of $14,500,000.00 shall not be retrieveable and deposited onto a bank account of your selection any longer. only have yourself to blame for this. frankly i lose temper with you for many weeks now, and progress has not been made. conversations are over. -signed, Kibeki Mbutu, deputy director of Central Bank of Congo I sent him some more messages afterwards but he wouldn't reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pryomancer Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Get them to phone you up, and answer saying 'Hello New Scotland Yard, your call is being traced, how can I help?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavi Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 :P Watch 'em all. It's interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh181830 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Those.... are so annoying #-o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laucha Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I haven't got these kinds of mails in a long time tough i used to got them quite frequently in the past 6 or 7 years. Once i got a mail pretty similar to this Yeah they are incredibly annoying especially when you get loads of them in a single day, hopefully i rarely get spam/scams mails these days. However it's easy to avoid them if you know how these works The best way would be simply ignoring them as someone here has said before and also never share personal info ( especially email accounts, bank accounts, full name, address etc...). Having an antivrus is a good move too, some of these emails scams uses phishing and other tactics to infect your computer with spyware software, which of course will be used to get your personal info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjrox32 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Isn't Alistair the name of a character in a Tom Clancy Novel? I think someone from the Rainbow Six book is named Alistair Stanley or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llcoolguy972 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 It's because of idiots like this that they keep trying these scams. I do like reading stories where the scammer gets messed with, though. (the p-p-powerbook is my favorite : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suncrafter Posted February 3, 2009 Author Share Posted February 3, 2009 :P Watch 'em all. It's interesting. That is great! Thank you for posting it. Proud webmaster of:"Orc Magazine" and the "Stickman Murder Mystery Games" too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furah Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I got one of those ones about them being assylums, I want to know how they got that email... I rarely ever use it for anything, and I have told no person about it... Hell it's useless for them, they were needing a British citizen and one that could access the account, I can do niether. Steam | PM me for BBM PIN Nine naked men is a technological achievement. Quote of 2013. PCGamingWiki - Let's fix PC gaming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suncrafter Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 I got one of those ones about them being assylums, I want to know how they got that email... I rarely ever use it for anything, and I have told no person about it... Hell it's useless for them, they were needing a British citizen and one that could access the account, I can do niether. You only need to use it once and they share the address with thousands of other con-men. Proud webmaster of:"Orc Magazine" and the "Stickman Murder Mystery Games" too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suncrafter Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 It's because of idiots like this that they keep trying these scams. I do like reading stories where the scammer gets messed with, though. (the p-p-powerbook is my favorite : ) That poor guy got owned. :( Proud webmaster of:"Orc Magazine" and the "Stickman Murder Mystery Games" too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerbeer0 Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 It's because of idiots like this that they keep trying these scams. I do like reading stories where the scammer gets messed with, though. (the p-p-powerbook is my favorite : ) That poor guy got owned. :( You mean that [wagon] failure-at-life got what he deserved? OH S***! He/she/it is back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suncrafter Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 It's because of idiots like this that they keep trying these scams. I do like reading stories where the scammer gets messed with, though. (the p-p-powerbook is my favorite : ) That poor guy got owned. :( You mean that [wagon] failure-at-life got what he deserved? "wagon"? Proud webmaster of:"Orc Magazine" and the "Stickman Murder Mystery Games" too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavi Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 You can count on any words in square brackets [] being something caused by the censor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_am_Geed Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 thats just a rofl failure for the nigerians! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obfuscator Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 That's quite funny. Pity people are still falling for these scams though. "It's not a rest for me, it's a rest for the weights." - Dom Mazzetti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
War_Junky_91 Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Whenever i get sent scams i usualy send a reply saying something along the lines of this "Thank you, all the information you provided i turned over to my local FBI office and i'm sure you will be getting a pleasent visit from them soon." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laucha Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Whenever i get sent scams i usualy send a reply saying something along the lines of this "Thank you, all the information you provided i turned over to my local FBI office and i'm sure you will be getting a pleasent visit from them soon." Actually by replying to that kind of e-mails, you're just asking for more spam/scam messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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