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 […]
419ers - Scammers
419 is another way of saying that something is a scam. A 419er is a scammer. 419 is the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code regarding "Obtaining Property by false pretences; Cheating". That's where the term 419 comes from.
A sensitive brief from Bank of China
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
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?
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
04/11 2006 – Wow! It was so long since a 419 mail slipped through my double spam protection, that I’m almost excited to hav received one. And such a gem it is. Complete with all-caps, a dead father, a surviving son and daughter with the exotic name Kady Bakassa… and a deposit of 7 million […]
Nigerian 419er sentenced to 376 years in jail
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
Did you know there is a Nigerian top hit named I Go Chop Your Dollar? It’s hugely popular in Lagos, and hit the Lagos radio stations a few months ago as a CD penned by an artist called Osofia (his real name might or might not be Nkem Owoh. It’s as catchy as Nigerian music […]
Edward Lugard (or Luggard)
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
How bad would it have to get before you would ask a complete stranger in a far away country for help in lifting 12.5 million Dollars from the bank? I know that life is really bad for most people on Zimbabwe. I actually grew up there, and my parents are still in contact with friends […]
Graham Lee wants to be contacted ASAP
Another do-gooder spam scam. This time allegedly from an aging Brittish citizen, hospitalized in Dubay. It’s another one of those wellfare scams where a formerly greedy businessman wants our help to give away their life savings to good causes. I think the idea is to wake the plan to grab the money for myself, and […]