Questions Young People Ask: How can I respond to Nigeria Scammers?

Most Noble

Attention Beneficiary,

I am Anyim Pius Anyim, Secretary to the Government; Federal Republic of
Nigeria. I am writing in respect of your long awaited contract fund. I have
been directed by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to contact you regarding
the release of your long awaited contract fund.

It is my pleasure to inform you that you will be paid through our
correspondence bank in United State of America . This was necessary because
we understand that you are been contacted by some fraudulent people claiming
to be Nigerian government officials and we understand that you have lost
some money in that process. Now you have the opportunity to receive your
long awaited fund. All you are expected do is to have an online account with
our correspondence bank in Madrid Spain were your fund is presently
deposited, this will enable the bank to transfer your fund to the new online
account were you can start to make transfer to your local account.

You are required to activate your new online account so that it will be
operational and able to accommodate the sum of US$5.2M (Five Million Two
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars Only) which the new Government of
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has agreed to pay you as compensation.

Note that immediately after the activation of your new online account, the
sum of US$5.2M will be credited into it for easy transfer to any of your
local account.

This is very simple and I expect you to take up this wonderful opportunity
that you have been given by the new government of President Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan.

I look forward to your urgent response.

Yours faithfully,

Anyim Pius Anyim
Secretary to the Government
NB: THIS IS A SECURITY COMMUNICATION (CODE BK0012012/NG) PLEASE DISREGARD
ANY MAIL WITH OUT THIS CODE

Night Owl

Sent me the money instead.

NightOwl

Most Noble

Nigerians are sooooooo

Slidin Fast

Set up a new hot mail address. Play them along, have some fun. I have a dud check for £7000 I got from a car scammer. It was fun whist it lasted.

Most Noble

That are just soo idiots, whoever is behind this crazy thing.

Kojack57

How can young people respond to nigerian scammers? Tell them to go to Hell!!

Kojack

poppers

Here's a good resource: http://forum.419eater.com/forum/index.php This site is dedicated to deceiving internet scammers.

Read the archived stories for some real laughs. http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm

brinjen

First, never respond to them with your own email address. Setup a new one. Gmail is the one I recommend as it strips your IP address off the message... they have no hope of tracing you (OK, some hope but they will never figure out how).

Make up an internet persona, stick to it. Play dumb and ask them a lot of questions. The longer you can stretch the thing out for, the more of their time you will waste and the less they will have to actually scamming someone who may have fallen for it. Think 'interested but not sure what I need to do here'. There are also 419 eater forums out there will help with resources (ie 80 page documents for them to fill out that your country requires due to the anti terror laws ). Don't post any responses on any forum until the bait has run it's course either... it's rare but sometimes they can find out that way you are only baiting them.

One more thing... never tell them you are baiting them. Let them think you were only wasting their time.

Final rule... HAVE FUN!

WTWizard

You don't need a washtowel rag to give you the answer. If something comes from Nigeria and asks for a sum of money to release a bigger sum of money, it's a scam. You get it in your e-mail, mark it as spam (there could be a worm, but these things are usually a simple scam out to get your money, not to ruin your computer). Get it in regular mail, place it in the recycling bin or the rubbish.

snakeface

Be sure to share the Kingdom message with them!

Questions Young People Ask: How can I respond to Nigeria Scammers?

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