i have been through all the comments and views. lovely.
there is a saying - duniya jukti hai jukane wala chahiye likewise admi ullu banta hai - banane wala chaiye. as commented by some one herebelow that a person gets a message that he has inherited a huge fortune - he knows that he does not have a distant relavtive overseas - but receveing this mail and goes head over heals and the rest you all know what happens and tehn he starts cribbing..... hats off to all indians who have fallen prey to these scams / mails / negirians.
Only greedy and jerk persons who wanna see girls and have some contact with girls and dont have any time will open these junk emails.even filters can understand that they are not more than spams,Why not humans.
RE:Only greedy will open such junk mails...
by Web Monkey on Jul 16, 2007 05:41 PM Permalink
Hah.. you know nothing about nigerian scam. they contact you on person on message board, classified ads, matrimonial sites and so on. One of my friend was a victim by a person who replied to his ad for selling his car. Man, they are smarter than you imagine.
Scamsters fool people because they know every human wants easy money. I am surprised that people travel abroad to see that they are lucky in some lottery or some relative has left a fortune even though they know that they have no relatives abroad.
People being fooled do not share with others as they would be ridiculed.
However after reading this article I must say this is a matter of grave concern
Now a days Scam thru matrimonal site also. Last week I got a mail from a girl Benny who claimed she is in senegal in a refugee camp and her parent were killed and left $10.5 million. ans ask to send 2100 euro to prepare a power of attorney to transfer the money to my account. she also send me a fake death cetificate and Statement of account. The Bank officer and the lawyer were also fake. when I contacted the bank. I came to konw of the reality. Beware friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RE:Scam thru Matri sites
by Sonu Madhavan on Jul 16, 2007 02:43 PM Permalink
roger me to get the same mail it was a girl named mary she claimed that his father owned a huge oil bussiness and got killed during the civil war and now she is living in sengal
first i got sympathi for this girl, but before i would do any foollishnee i was altered by my friends. there is a website to expose these scams
how about playing the reverse game?? the moment you get a mail from such and id, just have a separate id (like iciciOverseasfund@something.com) and send them a mail that there are funds waiting to be transferred in your name and repeat same process as they do !!! What SAY ??? no malintentions just a spoof to make them realise that we are no less smarter than them !
This maybe a story but there are home truths here:
In the Diwali vacation, my friend and couple of his friends had gone to Delhi .
They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing. The driver was an old Sardar, and boys being boys, Sudhanshu and his pals began cracking Sardarji jokes, just to instigate the old man. But to their surprise, the fellow remained unperturbed.
At the end of the sight-seeing, they paid up the hire-charges. The Sardar returned the change. Moreover, he gave each one of them one rupee extra and said, (in Hindi, of course),
..."Son, since morning you have been telling Sardarji jokes. I listened to them all and let me tell you, some of them were in a very bad taste. Still, I don't mind coz I know that you are young blood and are yet to see the world. But I have just one request. Here I am giving you one rupee each. Give it to the first Sardar beggar that you come across in this city."
Sudhanshu continued," That one rupee coin is still with me. I couldn't find a single Sardar begging on the streets of Delhi."
Friends, we all love sardar jokes. But the fact of matter is that Sikhs are one of the most prosperous and diversified communities in the world.
The secret behind their universal success, is their willingness to do any job with utmost dedication. A Sardar will drive a truck or set up a roadside garage or a dhaba, but he will never, ever, beg on the streets.
RE:RE:Counter Intelligence
by chandan sarma on Jul 16, 2007 02:37 PM Permalink
aray aap to senti ho gayay....aab SARDAR PAAJI MANMOHAN JI ko hi dekho.....india main ek hi to dimag wala politician hai!!
dear indians and friends around the world, pls visit : http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
beware of lucrative offers : to marry lottery win money transfer (war stories) money laundring job opportunities (nigeria / uk)
these crooks are identifying as bank officers, war victims, ngo members like UN/Unicef etc.
they have all sources, 24 hrs they are working and living in hut. they are more smart than CIA agents. and have all type of info on hand. one important point, pls don't send any money by wester union, bcs though western union knows that money goes from victims pocket to crooks they are continuing to allow u to send money to anywhere just for commission, they wl never ask u where u r sendg this money and why.
dear friends in nigeria all are crooks even govt. / police they failed to stop it. they are doing raids everyday, but major part of police is also part of these scams, which u call in india hafta wassoli, so pls beware. rgds : prakash
RE:419 scam
by prakash bhambhani on Jul 16, 2007 02:23 PM Permalink
dear all, some nigerians have steal pdc (deposited cheques) from bank of amrica and some credit notes (hundis/promisory notes), after theft bank of america has stopped and cancelled these promisory notes, these crooks are using these promisory notes as liquidable instrument, and they can give u lucrative offers, they ask u to legalise it send euro 4000~5000/- and they wl send u even certicate (notorised by court), it wl go smoothly as per their lawyer's help, then they wl ask u more money that money to get anti-laundring certificate that money is not used for terrorist activities and in last they wl send u promisory note, and if u put this note into ur bank a/c, u wl be behind the bars as per 419 scam supporter (US law). so take care, i m regular researcher on 419 scam and continously helpg banks to know abt these scams to all sweedish banks, abn amro, hsbc, bank of new york, etc. they reward me by thank you letters also they are seizing money of nigerians a/cs unless it transact by western union, bcs western union gives cash so can't control it. pls help banks and others to educated them abt 419-scam. rgds : prakash
RE:Nigeria calling
by partha bhattacharya on Jul 16, 2007 02:11 PM Permalink
You are very intelligent Mr. Dsouza, but everyone is not like you and that is why the whole conversation is going in this forum
RE:I guess
by Strange Frequency on Jul 16, 2007 02:28 PM Permalink
What they don't probably know about is the many different manifestations of this scam (ebay, matrimonial sites, etc) and sometimes it's really hard to figure out that it's a scam.
