Anyone want to help this girl get her 5.5 million?

[DaOld Man]

Come on! You wouldnt mind helping this poor little girl (possibly man), living in a orphanage (possibly Nigeria), now would you?

Got this email today:

Dearest One,
 
 I know that my message will come to you as surprise since I don't know you in person or met with you before, but I am of believe that God would use you to assist me.
 
 I am Felicia Drogba, 18yrs a Medical Student undergraduate, from Cote d'Ivoire, the only surviving child of Late Mr.Smith who was murdered alongside with my mother and only brother,last year by rebels while I was in school.
 Now I am presently hiding in an orphanage home because of wickedness of my uncle's and relatives.Before his death he had a domiciliary account here, up to the tune of (Five Million Five Hundred Thousand US dollars).
 Please I need your assistance to help me get this money transferred to your account for my education, investment and to be my guardian before my uncles will get hold of me and the money.
 I shall forward to you with the necessary documents on confirmation of your acceptance to assist me for the transfer of the money to your account.
 I am willing to offer you a reasonable percentage from the total money as compensation for your effort.
 May God touch your heart and use you to bring back happiness and joy in my life.
 my private email:***************
 Your Sincerely,
 
 Felicia

[struisje]

It's always funny to read how they don't trust their own uncle but have no problem what so ever with a complete stranger 

[J_K_M_A_N]

What is really sad is ANYONE that would believe that and give these people any money. You see it on the news sometimes and you cannot believe how dumb people can be. I mean, I sent them $5000 ONCE but that was it! I learned my lesson quickly. Some people don't learn though. Very sad.

J_K_M_A_N

[Ginsu Victim]

I mean, I sent them $5000 ONCE but that was it! I learned my lesson quickly

I am sorry to hear of this. I would like to replace this moneys for you, as recently I have come to inherit a large sum of moneys. If you would send to me the following information, I could send you the moneys right away:

Name
Address
DOB
SSN
Bank Account and Routing Number

Thank you and may God bless you many riches!

[J_K_M_A_N]

Trade count +5? I'm in! PM sent!!!1!!

J_K_M_A_N

[Ginsu Victim]

Hello, this is the recent widow of Ginsu Victim. I am sad to report to you his passing. He loved it here and in his will, wished to leave you (insert naJ_K_M_A_Nme here) his earnings of $13 million USD dollars as a banker for the Bank of the World in Nigeria. Much of what he earned was taken from rich warlords and evil businessman, so you can not tell of this.

The moneys is in a locker and to get the key, I will need $5000 from you for bribes.

Please let me know when you are wanting this moneys!

Thank you and blessings from God,
Mrs Ginsu Victim - widow

[newkillergenius]

The award winning grammar tends to stick out.

Nooo!  You are upon make bad robberies about mines moneybanks!  I am will stolens your life through holes bullet on your fayce!

[RayB]

On a whim I replied to one once, kinda with a "gee whiz WOW!" tone, mixed with a touch of skepticism. They emailed me back with a scanned image of some russian woman's drivers license or ID card (you know, to "build trust").

What's really dumb, or incredibly smart is that they kept using different names in the various emails. Now I say this could be "really dumb" as it's a glaring red flag of a mistake, or it's incredibly smart because it weeds out people smart enough to pay attention to such obvious details.

[newkillergenius]

Surely you guys have read this stuff.

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=175025#1458856

[Kevin Mullins]

The Russian bride ones are much more entertaining to play around with.
And they're quite persistent and yet patient at the same time.  You can string one along for quite some time before they finally give up.
My personal best was almost a year.  

[ChadTower]

Hey, he did get laid, at least... unless he actually was dumb enough to believe she was pregnant and he didn't touch her...

[ark_ader]

Surely you guys have read this stuff.

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=175025#1458856

Shivermetimbers is my hero.   

[Ummon]

I personally know a guy that got taken to the cleaners by a russian bride scam to the tune ~$30,000.  It was actually two 'women', one in Hungary and the other in Moscow.  The Hungarian sent him photos of the nice car and apartment he provided for her. 

He decided to fly over there, I guess the Hungarian didn't really exist, and the Russian was already married or had a boyfriend or something.  I think he sat alone in a crummy hotel room the whole time.  We honestly thought he'd never get back in the USA alive.

After a few weeks, he came back to the states and then started getting e-mails from her that she was pregnant with his baby.

For awhile, his nutty wife thought they should move the girl and baby to America and be a happy polygamous family.  Then I started suggesting to his son in law, "hey, how about he just, you know, stops answering her e-mail?"

I think that's been the end of it....

....  ....nothing from his wife about his infidelity, mm?  Fascinating. Except that she already had runt, maybe he should've passed her my way.

[Epyx]

Except that she already had runt, maybe he should've passed her my way.

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Amen

[SavannahLion]

Back a few years, didn't AOL or some other ISP attempt to ban all of Nigeria and the surrounding countries? A lot of people got into a fluff about it. I guess the same people getting scammed believe buying Wal*Mart is buying American or something. 

[Silas (son of Silas)]

Perhaps all the '1ps and 2ps' mentioned in this clip are still available?   

[protokatie]

If any of you get scam mail like this, just go to this http://www.spyrkes.info/wugen2/index.php and fill it out. Take the pic and send it back to them saying you paid them in full. My first lad was so confused as to why Western Union didn't have any record of my payment towards him, especially from someone so esteemed as Rev. Flatus Maximus (my alias at the time) that I got a good chuckle for about a week. He held on for awhile waiting for me to "fix" the transaction error.

[RayB]

ugh. That receipt maker could have nefarious uses as well, especially in the hands of 419'ers and unethical Ebay buyers.

[DaOld Man]

Bumped to update:
I got this email today. Does it sound very familiar to the first one?

Dearest One,
 
I know this mail will come to you as a surprise since we have not had previous correspondence, please bear with me. I will really like to have a good relationship with you, and I have a special reason why I decided to contact you.
I am Patrick Neol.from Cote d Ivoire, the only son of Late Mr. Steven Neol, this year 2009, the Rebels in my Country Struck our township and killed my parents and my only sister in one of their attacks. My late Father,being the government opposition leader.
 
Before his death he had a domicilary account with a bank in Cote d'Ivoire, up to the tune of (Five Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars) . Please I need your assistance getting this money tranferred to you for investment and to be my guardian in investment.
 
I shall forward to you with the necessary documents on confirmation of your acceptance to assist me for the transfer of the money to your account.As you will help me to travel and to complete my studies in your country.
 
I am willing to offer you 25% of the total sum as compensation of your effort.
 
 
Your Sincerely
 
Patrick Neol.

I wonder if ole Patrick meant to spell his last name Noel? Since it is the Christmas season and all.

[Ryglore]

I wonder if ole Patrick meant to spell his last name Noel? Since it is the Christmas season and all.

It is the season of Giving! 

[mimic]

Oh, c'mon don't be so harsh on the guy, he must be a felow video arcade player, girls' name "Felicia Drogba" spells "GROBDA" if you rearrange it!

[SNAAKE]

Trade count +5? I'm in! PM sent!!!1!!

J_K_M_A_N

 


I cant believe anyone actually falls for these retarded scams. like average americans have 5.5 million to help out random strangers. this is not imaginary dreamworld where people have millions laying around.........

I dont even "spare change". I live in newyork so regular-ass/non-homeless people always trying to hustle for money. "ey mah mayne you got some change on you". my answer is always something like "sure I got change and I have more in my bank account but I am not gonna give you anything"

[mimic]

I dont even "spare change". I live in newyork so regular-ass/non-homeless people always trying to hustle for money. "ey mah mayne you got some change on you". my answer is always something like "sure I got change and I have more in my bank account but I am not gonna give you anything"

That's a line that's asking for troubles if I ever heard one

[protokatie]

I dont even "spare change". I live in newyork so regular-ass/non-homeless people always trying to hustle for money. "ey mah mayne you got some change on you". my answer is always something like "sure I got change and I have more in my bank account but I am not gonna give you anything"

That's a line that's asking for troubles if I ever heard one

No kidding. When I lived in Portland Maine, I either always gave out a quarter or if I had no change told them that I had no money on me. Either way they said "God Bless". No need to incite people who have almost nothing.

[SNAAKE]

but its not the people that have nothing. its the people that think they can just ask other people for money and I should just give it to them because they asked. not like I never gave anything to actual homeless people. I have and I will again. how you gonna walk around with a cell phone and jordan shoes and ask me for change(thats your average beggar around here). and no offense to anyone but its always a random black guy lol...

[ChadTower]

Heh, back in the day when I was single, unemployed, and broke myself I took a cab to a job interview to make sure I was on time but didn't have the cash to take one home.  During the long walk a guy asked me for money "to fix the tire on my car, I'm stranded".  I didn't have any and told him that.  He was working the whole area and must have asked me 3 more times over the next couple hours as I walked home.