I switch volumes from TV to radio to stereo depending what's on, or what's not on.

I'm caught up somewhat in the past.

Them was good times.

 

I watched it on the radio I think


When my ship came in I was waiting for a train....but I followed the tracks

 

That kinda reminds me about the two blondes walking down this path and all of a sudden they came upon some tracks. The first blonde said, "Hey! I bet these are bear tracks!" Then the second blonde said "No way! These are deer tracks!." Then they got hit by a train.

 

It was either last year or the year before, one old man confronted a Nigerian offical in Holland about losing alot of money through just such a "Nigerian" Scam. He shot him. He wrote several letters to the Embassy about how to recover his money. But they could not help him. Was just enraged and frustrated over their inability to help him.
The offical had nothing to do with this, unfortunately.

This scam is very old and not just from Nigeria. I get simiar mailings from the Middle East, from Indonesia, any one of the former Yugoslavian countries as well. Generally if it isn't some ousted offical needing a bank account to put money it, it's a wife, widow or grown children of same.

I just delete them without openning them.

 

I dont check my yahoo email real often but after I saw that yesterday I went through the rest of my mesages and there was three more just like it. one is from nigeria but all of them have the same story, the person and there whole family was killed in a plane or automobile crash. One even says he picked me because I have the same last name as the victim. the funny thing is the victims name was Vigil and that aint even close to my name. Do you guys think I should call the authorities?

 

A lot of the problem has to do with the Nigerian culture. There has been low pay and high unemployment for generations. The people respect the citizens that make money by not working much, yet make a good living through the black market and working cons. It's so ingrained into their lifestyle that the authorities turn a blind eye. They have no problem with being good christians, and being thieving con artists - at the same time.

In the old days they used snail mail scams. Now with email, they can reach thousands. It's run like a business with job titles and employees and competition - the works. They don't understand the English language very well and when they get hold of a decent form letter, it finds it's way to all the different "companies" and they send it off to potential marks, victims, whoever, (basically anyone that might respond to the email they send.) They refer to a mark as a Mugu. (Not a term of endearment.)

The FBI, Secret Service and Interpol are very aware of what is going on. You can send off a copy of the emails you receive to them, but frankly, they have probably seen it before and it won't get high priority. Don't try and reply back to the scammers to get taken off the list - this just encourages them. Never give personal info.

When I get one of these emails I delete it, after adding the senders name and one of the misspelled words to my email filter. Ken doesn't allow posting emails in FTE, so the scammers can't get members email addresses. I know a lot of people like to send humor and thought provoking email to all their friends and will visit personal websites and sign the guestbook. No problem, but use a hotmail account, not your personal email.

Visit the site: http://www.419eater.com/ and read though it a little - it's very informative.

 

Heres some of the numbers from the bottom of my check. I think it is my routing number and acount number: 565376696 84627653

. . .Ain't I a nice guy

 

Thanks Steve! (As I fire up Photoshop.) Any particular background you want on the check? No? I guess kittens playing with ball of yarn will do!...

 

Hehe, I would hope for butterflies in a feild on the check But don't work to hard on it, if you can decipher the message in the numbers

 

Here's the best site I have found on this stuff. Tells you how they work, and the various letters used to bait you.
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/index.htm

 

I've been getting those things for years. Each one is worded a little different but all are the same scam. I've gotten the Nigerian one hundreds of times and also the ones about some guy and his wife and kids getting killed in a car wreck in the UK and the money he had in the bank there needs to be taken out of the country or the govenment will keep it or something along that order. These things have been around for so long that I can't believe the scammers can get anyone to fall for them anymore but you know what ol' PT Barnum said, There's a sucker born every minute.

 

You're over drawn! Oh man, there's goes my vacation!

 

I have recieved many of these scam offers, mostly responding to items i had for sale. I never gave them any information they did not already have, but I did drag them on for quite some time. Had them resend the counterfeit check because they misspelled my name, things like that. Make them call you on a payphone at a particular time and keep them on the line for as long as you can. Overseas calls are expensive. Do not give them any info but if they persist just let them know that you are aware of the Nigerian Task Force at the Secret Service and you regularly hand over any suspicious contacts to them. Yes there is such a task force and it's there because people do fall for this every day.

 

I've gotten 1 email of this scam before. I had never heard about it, but it sounded fishy, and then I got to the Nigerian part and remembered the Ebay scammers. I've probably warned a dozen Ebay Motors sellers who have had scam artists contact them.

Sierraben, stop writing those checks! They keep bouncing and the bank keeps charging me more of what they know I don't have

565376696 84627653 = JOKESONYO UIMBROKE