Another silly 419
The lads from Lagos must be hard up. They aren’t even making a decent effort at scamming us decedent Westerners anymore. At least if this gem is anything to go by:
Dear Friend i verry happy to inform you about my success in getting those
funds transferred under the cooperation of your help in UNITED KINDOM in our
last business and i hope i am contating the write person.Presently I signed a
cheque of ($850.000.00.USD) which i kept for your compensation for all the
past efforts and the attempts you render me in this matter. I realy
appreciated your efforts at that time very much.
finally remember that I had forwarded instruction to the DHL OFFICE on your
behalf to contact you on how to receive your cheque containg the funds i
kept for you, so you are to get in touch with DHL OFFICE with your full name
and contact address on their email on how to send you the parcell
Email claims_dhldiliverydepartment@hotmail.com
Phone +2348032185491
My Regards To Your Family
Mrs.Brenda Howell
Oh dear, dreadful spelling, probably as a result of being a non-native English speaker. Why DHL would have a hotmail address is anyones guess.
419 rating – 2 out of 10.
I would have given it 1 out of 10 but that phone number is genuine Nigeria so I give it an extra point for being a genuine 419 and not some cheap knock off from Ghana.
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Heh, seems Lagos is still recession proof.
Herself answered an ad on some site today, purporting to offer an admittedly ultra cute Chihuahua dog for adoption. I only gave a cursory glance at the pictures beforehand. She got a lengthy reply back almost immediately which I looked at more closely. I hadn’t the first line read before I had it sussed (poor composition, mangled Nigerish, and an unlikely name for someone supposedly from Cork, Doris somethingorother).
Of course, they were subtle, the reply was limited to descriptions of the dog, and how lovely it was. Cut it off at the pass of course…
A second email came in later, with the meat and two veg, apparently she’s actually in Glasgow or somewhere, but would be kind enough to post the dog for a fee of two hundred quid. I kid you not.
If it were an anonymous email that was used to start the ball rolling, I’d revisit my scam baiting days and fish an address out of them to pass on to the Strathclyde Police. We have now, by our leniency arrived at a point where more of these lovely people are operating outside of West Africa than ever before
Those dog scams are getting more and more popular. Needless to say there never was any dog to begin with. I haven’t got one myself yet though.
I’ve tried baiting a few of the normal 419ers but never managed to get any reply
Cheap knock off from Ghana? Feck it, the quality of everything has gone downhill so much in recent years that you’re not even guaranteed a proper decent Nigerian scammer anymore
Dan, I suppose it is only a matter of time before the Nigerian’s outsource their 419s to India.