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June 30, 2006
419 Scams... Why they work?

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If you ever wonder why Nigerian 419 Scams work, despite the staggering STUPIDITY of those running them, (Hat tip to The Commissar), you need look no further than the comments of this post. Dozens of people report the Australian Lottery as a Hoax, and yet day after day, I get people commenting, asking... "yeah but will they give me money."

Greed my friends... Sheer GREED. And occassionaly LOSS, as they have already given these people money and are reaching out for any thread of hope, that it may be true.

419ers and Lottery Scammers are dirtbags, animals with no sense of morality at all. They prey on the greedy and the stupid. And in the Google Age, those are their victims. Their stories are almost always lame, even stupid. But the fact that in 2006, someone would believe an email saying they won a lottery, that they neither registered for, and that does not have their name, is ridiculous. The fact that ISOU daily outs scammers, and they still send me emails, is proof of their stupidity, and yet...

They must be making money, or the scam would have dissapeared years ago. There is only ONE way to stop 419 and lottery scams... STOP FUNDING THEM!

Take a look at the following idiot for example:

OFFICE OF REVD.FR MARK PHILLIPS DIRECTOR SPECIAL DUTIES, UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICE DAKAR, SENEGAL. TEL: +221 4183317 Email: unospecialdutiesoffice@terramail.com.sv

ATTN: THE BENEFICIARY,

I am Revd. Fr. Mark Phillips, a senior staff with the World Bank fact finding & special duties office. I am writing you this letter based on the fact that cool penny is better than millions of dollars means it's better for one to live and die poor honest man than a rich dishonest one.

I and the Chief security officer (CSO) of this organisation have arranged with an officer in the computer section the person of Engineer Peter Cliff to bring out part of your total pending payment with reference number (LM-05-371) amounting to US$10 million. Why we did this is because according to information gathered from the bank’s security computer, you have been waiting for a long time to receive this payment without success. As I found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements in respect of your pending payment. The problems you are having is that of interest groups. A lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are merely doing paper works with you and that explains why you receive different kinds of untrue fax and phone messages from different people everyday. Also we found out that some of the officials of the parastatals have been extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of helping you receive your !
money. I can assure you this will keep happening if you do not do away with those officers. For security reasons you do not have to tell anybody that your have your payment on the way until the payment gets to you.

The said payment is been arranged in a security-proof box weighing 75kg. In order to get this box shipped to you I and the (CSO) Yesterday went to this four courier companies Dhl, Ems, FedEx and Ups to make arrangements on how to get the box shipped to you by courier, but to no avail the above courier companies all made us to understand that they will have to open the box for inspection by the customs before shipment. This is something we want to avoid because this box is been padded with synthetic nylon and to open it you will have to cut the pad before you will meet the button that you will press to open the dial code-lock. There is no way you can open the box and be able to close it again because it was padded with machine. We told the courier services that the box contained film materials and when open will spoil the materials. we did not declare money because courier does not carry money.

Today a friend of mine who is a diplomat disclosed to me that there is a security courier service company that is specialized in sending diplomatic materials and information from one country to another, which also has diplomatic immunity and consignment such as this cannot be checked by any customs anywhere in the world. I have therefore met the official of the security courier service and concluded shipping arrangement with them, which they will commence as soon as I have your go ahead order. The diplomat who will be bring in this consignment to you is an expert and has been in this line of work for many years now so we have Notting to worry about. After all arrangements we have concluded that you must donate Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars (US$500,000.00) to any charity organisation I designate as soon as you receive your money. To this effect, you will send to us a promissory note for the donation along with your address where you will li!
ke the box to be delivered to by the courier. Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if found out that we are using this way to help you. You are advised not to inform anyone about this until you received your money. Am helping you on this because something in me is tells me that you are an honest person. When you conclude this and you send our promise, we will help to ship the final part of your money to you.

May God be with you as i await your response. Feel free to call me if you will like us to discuses more on this TEL: +221 4183317 or send me an Email: unospecialdutiesoffice@terramail.com.sv

Yours Faithfully
Revd. Fr. Mark Phillips
Director, Special Duties. UNO/WBF

A high ranking UN officer using a free email account, to give away Millions to someone who's name they dont even know... Now how stupid is that? But I gaurantee you, someone will write me, even after reading this and ask, "Is it real?"

Posted by David A at June 30, 2006 05:25 PM
Filed Under 419 Scams, Scams and Internet Idiots | 1033 Words
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