One funny thing with Nigerian 419 scammers is that they have so many difficulties with understanding first names and surnames. Reverend Brian Williams would have a much better pick than Reverend Williams Brian, don’t you think? As always when the scammers use addresses that I have never sent one single mail from, however, it’s published [...]
Confidencial letter from Mrs Aminah Osuman
2007-10-14 Av 10 kommentarer
Pastor Powell has willed me his money
2007-10-11 Av 65 kommentarer
Pastor Powell and Armed Hassan are two new scammer aliases that I haven’t come across earlier. I cannot find any other accounts of these aliases, but the content of the mail is a good example of a classic 419 scam, and the originating computer has the IP Address 77.70.128.170 which is registered in Nigeria.
Don't sell anything to Steve Mackay
2007-10-08 Av 8 kommentarer
Jacinta Malaki – 419 scammer
2007-09-30 Av Kommentera
Jacinta Malaki isn’t a new name when it comes to 419 emails, but she seems to have changed her address since earlier mails. (She also seems to have moved from the Ivory Coast to Sierra Leone since the last attempt.) It’s a classic 419 setup with a young girl asking for assisntance, and you will [...]
Princess Jovita Kamara
2007-09-25 Av Kommentera
Major Paul Bruces and Lt. Col. Ralph Harland wants to smuggle out funds
2007-09-25 Av Kommentera
This is the first time I’ve seen a Nigerian 419 mail from someone masquerading as a UN army officer. It has all the classic signs of a 419 mail, with the large hidden funds in need of an outsider acting as a go-between, promises of a 100% risk-free business, the phony details (two large metallic [...]
Two mails from the Central Bank of Nigeria
2007-09-24 Av 197 kommentarer
Yesterday, I received a funny-looking html-formated mail from a »Barrister Goldstein«, acting for the »Central Bank of Nigeria«. It was quite difficult to understand anyting of it, and it had a funny bang of officiality, with beaurocratic wordings, Nigerian flags, an official logo… and centered text with links to a website that looks as if it hasn’t been updated since year 2000. Today I received the followup, which in part explains the first mail.
James Kwame: Funds for Investment under your care
2007-09-14 Av 2 kommentarer
After a quiet period, I’m suddenly swamped with shady business propositions. Today, there is a scammer that claims to be working att Fidelity Investment International, the world’s largest funds management company. The setup is that Mr. Kwame has found a way to transfer forgotten or lost funds into my care. The share with James Kwame [...]
Compasation? A mail from Dr Peter David
2007-09-13 Av Kommentera
Somebody calling himself a philanthropist, going under the name of Dr Peter David, has written me a mail with an offer of ‘compasation’ (which I guess should have been compensation). However. Since I got it, it has probably been sent to many others as well. And since the contact phone number has a Nigerian area [...]
I wouldn't contact Prof Ola Williams
2007-09-12 Av Kommentera
This is such an inbelievable 419 scam that I don’t quite know where to begin. I consists of a wrongly addressed mail, where we (the potential victims of the scam), are supposed to believe that we have the opportunity to claim money from a fund in Nigeria. Nigeria being one of the most poverty stricken [...]
A sensitive brief from Bank of China
2007-09-03 Av Kommentera
I just love it when I get shady 419 propositions from new markets, such as Hong Kong. This one, which is a combined bank scam and 419 scam, just arrived in my mail, and it seems to be from some Johnny-come-lately beginners at iscamming. They don’t even mention how many million dollars they want my help in moving…
Ahmed Kaddia thinks I'm J. C. Lindqvist's relative
2007-08-17 Av 15 kommentarer
It’s been quite some time since one of these lost relative scams ended up in my inbox (see below). Probably only thanks my double spam protection. But this mail, sent from a yahoo.fr account, is a classic example of how scammers try to find victims. I have no relative with the initials J. C and [...]
A blow on 419ers or not?
2007-07-05 Av Kommentera
The register has all the relevant articles on the large arrest of 111 suspected west African scam artists in June. Quite an interresting read, just as the comments from Akin, who also has a gret interpretation to the lyrics of the well known Nigerian top-hit I Go Chop Your Dollar: The Register: Dutch police arrest [...]
Kady Bakassa and the Mr Bakassa incident – 419
2006-04-11 Av 4 kommentarer
Nigerian 419er sentenced to 376 years in jail
2006-02-14 Av 4 kommentarer
Last Friday, a Nigerian 419-scammer was sentenced to jail for 376 years by a Lagos court. Harrison Odiawa was convicted for ”stealing, forgery, impersonation and conspiracy to obtain money by false pretences” contrary to the Advance Fee Fraud Act, the Nigerian Daily Independent reports. Harrison Odiawa, 38, alias Abu Belgori, managed to extract $1,939,710 from [...]
I Go Chop Your Dollars
2005-10-21 Av 116 kommentarer
Edward Lugard (or Luggard)
2005-10-11 Av En kommentar
I just cannot understand why the type of scammers sending out these 419 type of email scams make all the small mistakes like in the below. They haven’t even managed to get the name right. In the from field, it’s spelled Luggard, but in the text and the reply-to address it’s Lugard. And why did [...]
Mrs Susan Buwala, Zimbabwe and Sudan
2005-10-09 Av Kommentera
1 juli klubbade riksdagen en lag som de inte ens följer själva, som handlar om att jag som sajtägare måste ge dig som besökare möjlighet att stänga av kakor från den här sajten. Jag väljer att följa lagen genom att hänvisa dig till Googles guide för hur det går till att stänga av cookies.
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