Hell, I might as well, I have all of those millions of dollars waitng for me there ... I think. : )
And if you haven't gotten spammed with all too many of the emails I'm referencing - you ain't yet been around the Internet block, kid. The lo-down on the scam is actually a fairly interesting read. Even if it will tick you off, especially if you're white.
I guess there are people who fall for that crap. Interestingly he is right about the concept of Americans by most foreigners, probably everywhere, with the possible exception of western Europe.
My wife is from Peru, and they think I am rich. Totally, totally wrong. They have the concept that we wake up and there is money growing in the bank...seriously, they do!
It took her about 5 years to convince them that we were not rich and could not just send money whenever. Her parents are educated...teachers.
Posted by: Thealamo | Friday, October 21, 2005 at 08:39 PM
Thank God for Mailwasher Pro....delete, bounce, blacklist. They keep sending me the unclaimed funds scam. Last person that wrote me was a Prince somethingerother...I feel so important.
Posted by: newswatcher | Friday, October 21, 2005 at 08:42 PM
Received my share of Nigeria email scams, many of the emails were coming from a Canadian server, funds drawn from the World Bank. Did alittle searching, found that the RCMP is interested in these emails:
http://www.rcmp.ca/scams/west_african_e.htm
also turned the same over to FTC
Posted by: *flo* | Friday, October 21, 2005 at 08:56 PM
POST THE ADDRESS OF WHERE TO FORWARD THESE TYPES OF EMAILS TO. I get them all the time. LOL
Posted by: ! | Friday, October 21, 2005 at 10:30 PM
POST THE ADDRESS OF WHERE TO FORWARD THESE TYPES OF EMAILS TO. I get them all the time. LOL
Posted by: ! | Oct 21, 2005 10:30:48 PM
!...for Canada, Forward Nigerian/West-African letters to: wafl@phonebusters.com
Forward spam you get in the U.S. to the Federal Trade Commission: uce@ftc.gov
Excluding these "Nigeria" emails, if all possible, I also try to trace the ISP responsible routing the email through the headers in a email and FWD a copy to their Abuse@( )department.
Really don't get as much spam these days that technology is advanced, also due to anti-spam laws
Posted by: *flo* | Friday, October 21, 2005 at 11:08 PM
Dan, that humor blog link I sent you has some funny stuff on it with what Brian Sack did to the e-mail scammers.
http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000204.html
This is some funny stuff I am tellin ya! lol
Posted by: Aunt Em | Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 12:44 AM
Rather than accepting the money , maybe we should just ask for an invite over and live it up in Nigeria for a while. ;@)
Posted by: \\\CrossBronxExpress/// | Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 08:40 AM