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Fighting Nigerian Email Scams (funny!)

Have you ever gotten one of those Nigerian scams in your email? You know - where they say you won millions in a lottery (or whatever)? Well the webmaster on this site http://www.419hell.com/ answers those scam emails and does everything he can think of to mess with the scammer's head and waste their time.

Here is a fake photo ID that one of the scammers sent him...
(I think I could eat a photo with some paper and poop a more convincing ID!)
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...rling_Mpja.jpg

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Originally Posted by toranokaze (Post 537715)

I like it

The link or the ID?

Breaking news here.

Good luck with that guys. If you spent half as much energy doing something about the problem instead of acting outraged when someone makes a reference to it, it would be solved by now.

I'm guessing the end result of all of this is that Nigerian scammers will only be able to buy Xbox 360's with their loot.

Quote:

Sony Corporation portrayed Nigeria as home of fraud – FG

National News Sep 8, 2009 …demands apology
ABUJA— The Federal Government yesterday asked the Sony Corporation to withdraw with immediate effect and tender an unreserved apology for posting an advertisement on the internet portraying Nigeria as a home of fraud where its citizens hardly do genuine business.

Quote:

The Minister of Information and Communication, Prof Dora Akunyili said contrary to the insinuations being made, “Nigeria remains a major investment destination and a country where most businesses thrive in trust, good faith, competence and integrity.
According to the statement, “Nigeria also demands an unconditional apology from Sony Corporation for this deliberate negative campaign against the country’s image and reputation.
“The apology must be given the same measure of publicity by Sony Corporation in all channels where the unfortunate adverts were aired.

The offending commercial....

Like anyone in Nigeria wants the scamming to stop. It's their chief source of income. It isn't the scamming that upsets them, it's the perception that they are scammers and fact that anyone ever says anything bad about it that they don't like.

The commercial doesn't even say anything that bad.

Nigerians are such law abiding citizens.

They're doing the same to District 9.

Oh god yes, that site is awesome.

I remember seeing this one on there that was really freaking cool, where they convinced the scammer that they were a moneylending institution for artists, and needed a wooden bust to be carved and sent before they would give out any money. And there was a huge fake rigmarole with a fake shipping company, they sent a photoshopped picture of the bust destroyed by a squirrel, etc