Recently received the following email, with exciting news…
Hello and good day.
My name is Edward, and I am contacting you for partnership by
reason of the significance of your Nationality, which concerns
claim/transfer of Approximately 21 Million US D0llars ia a fixed
deposit account left by a deceased Boss and Friend for onward
sharing between you and I in a ratio to be agreed.Kindly get back to me as soon as you receive this email for
complete details as time is of the essence giving that we have
less than 2 month period to achieve this.Regards
Edward.
Can’t wait! So jazzed. I understand there will be some small enabling fees, but after that nothing can possibly go wrong.
Seriously, I’ve heard that people actually fall for this shit. They also say you can’t con an honest man…
I have just discovered that you and I are fourth cousins thrice removed and I’m sure you will be willing to share your new wealth . . .
Yeah, those Nigerian princes have gone global now, I get them from Nigeria, Madives, UK and one from the BVI. Kept a few samples over the years for giggle factor and can attest that the “quality” keeps improving, not sure where i stuck them, maybe under “humor, international”. We just had a poor old fart fall for this scam in the South Bend area, he lost $10K, so yes, there are still suckers born every minute but it is sad that people can’t smell a scam when they see one. That old rule of “if it seems to good to be true, it ain’t” needs to be dusted off and re-launched.
That old rule of “if it seems to good to be true, it ain’t” needs to be dusted off and re-launched.
I always heard that as “if it seems too good to be true, it is”, i.e. it *is* too good to be true.