Hvae any of you have had any good Nigerian scam emails lately, my boss at work gets heaps. Most of them are rubbish and i delete them, but I read them occasionally as they crack me up. There are advance fee frauds, ones from banks saying they need $100 or so to release the $10 million that a British man called Kingsley Ofusu left me in his will, and even tasteless ones saying they are Haitian earthquake survivors which addresses in Benin and Togo. You can always tell if they are fakes with signs like.
1. Email addresses from different countries than the message purpots to be from.
2. Lots of spelling and grammar mistakes (Especially from Francophone countries, but Anglophone ones are just as bad).
3. People who claim to be European, American or white, but have names like Kingsley, Sunday, Benson, Gift, Blessing, Propser, Goodluck, etc, and then a Yoruba or Ashante sounding name like Ofusu, Mbongo, Obafemi, Temi, Kemi, Oluwafe, Obadougo, Kunta, Fela, etc. Names like this are names that Christianised Africans often have.
4. Dodgy institution names like Islamic bank of Switzerland and Bank de Commericale d'Benin.

The funniest are the romance scams, I got one from Daisy Kamara in Ouagadougou I think in Burkina Faso. It was full of language, like "We be making the happy babys togetha"

So have you guys had these emails before, if so tell us about them.
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Don't ever give any financial information. They will clean your bank account dry.

Forward the emails to your email service provider and the police

oh please... do you have any idea how many of these i get from dan each week?

Just pulled one off from a woman called Esosa Marvelous in Abidjan who wants to invest money in my country and give me 20% of it.

Who the hell would name their child gift, blessing, prosper or good luck? Who the hell would take a call or email from a person with any of those names?

DesireeNevermind said:

Sunday that's Nicole Kidman's kid isn't it?

ZombieKitten said:

She named that poor whittle babychile Sunday? Oh the humanity!

DesireeNevermind said:

No, no, Propser.
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I get a few of them. Usually from someone called something like Mr. John John.

The acting President of Nigeria is a man called Goodluck Jonathan, and I got a new scam email from a guy called "Rev. Miracle Simeon" in Ghana, also another one from Esosa Marvelous in Abidjan and those are names they use with Christian Africans. I knew a Zimbabwean guy called Blessing Obonga (He was a PHD student). These are common names there.
At least its not Rilo on the Cleveland show "Greetings my name is Ditembe from the Motumbo tribe"

DesireeNevermind said:

She called her baby Sunday Rose (and by this nation is affectionately named Sunday Roast)


She is named after Sunday Reed I think (or I like to imagine anyway
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...unday_Reed

I hope I don't but you never know with these mothafuckas.

One of them kept leaving me cryptic messages trying to get personal information and telling me that if I don't respond to this urgent message "I feel sorry for what will unfold upon you." He had 3 names but it was the same voice. He had Rider, Sean and Jarved. I finally called back and told him that I had reported him to the FBI and INS and a lawsuit has been filed and that I will take his house and his cars and I feel sorry for him that he will be so poor. Haven't heard from the muthafucca since.