419 Email and my response

[Hafsy_Lady]

All this email scam sounds so ancient to me.........its old cake! No seriously, some of you annoyed me by taking the time, effort and energy to reply them. Some even garnished their replies with insults, dont get me wrong, I understand & I do empathise & I know you are not to be fooled with cus you got brains ;D. But heck! all you  need to do is set your emails to exclusive: you only get msgs from ppl in your contacts or better yet.......any names unfamiliar to you, in your inbox, hit on delete & send d darn thing to trash........kapish! Where does the difficulty lie in this ehn? Yet some of you have taken time to reply, opening a floodgate for more "crap requests"......they have their little cyber-sect, once you respond, thats it!! They will start playing dumb & duck with you.

[Hafsy_Lady]

Now to add my little own, since its all knew to you people :P They have upgraded their style. Its cell phones now. A little insight for those that dont know this:
I was up and running about my usual business, a call comes through I never pick withheld or unfamiliar numbers but at that time I expecting a message  but this voice, quite strange if I may say replied "Hafsy we are the "others", do not ask questions just listen. We are just coming back from a holy place and we branched to Bahrain and your plate number came up, fear us not but we want to help you then the female says hang on am passing the phone to Baba". I taught sho! Anyway, they went on to say even though am in a different place, one of their sons is right beside me (before you could say boo, I leaped from my bed & went straight for my door knob). Still holding onto my phone with sweaty palms and they instructed me to deposit quite a lump sum, if I want to be safe & need not mention it to anyone cus they are not to be known but that they will send their agents, to pick it up. I just said "ok" and they said I should call them the next day at exactly 10.30. They called me next day at 6.30am & it was the beginning of uncountable phone calls. At long run, I got tired of switching my phone off only to listen to v.mails & switch it back off, Paranoia kicked it. I couldn't even dress-up let alone bathe, "preying unknown eyes" might be watching me, you know! Long run, I said screw this I got faith in God. I refused to call or succumb to their demands & they started pestering me, day and night making more demands, I should put a bag of kolanut near an ants hill (where I live where pessin go even see ant hill) or deposit bags of rice in so, so, so, place or a bag of millet, or maize (I taught yanzu kuma kayan cefana ake bukata)?  It even went to the point of ridiculousness when they asked me to build a mosque in a month or I will face unrest for the rest of my life (Imagine!). Calls came day and night, I refused to budge, then came threats, I was going to loose my family this and that. On Friday at exactly 12pm they called, I answered and they expressed that they have really been patient with me & I seem to be taking them for granted. Point was: It was in my best interest to stop playing macho girl cos when they get even, their wrath, I will suffer. I was in a shitty mood that day cus my day went rough & I didn't care if they were the definition of paranormal activities. Anyway they said they were "Jinns". All I remembered saying was "what a coincidence cos you've just rang another Jinns cell & please next time if you make a stop at Bahrain, my regards to Michael Jackson & I hanged up..............& that was the end.

Now this is fast circulating.....I don't know if anyone's had same or similar scenario

[HUSNAA]

I was in a shitty mood that day cus my day went rough & I didn't care if they were the definition of paranormal activities. Anyway they said they were "Jinns". All I remembered saying was "what a coincidence cos you've just rang another Jinns cell & please next time if you make a stop at Bahrain, my regards to Michael Jackson & I hanged up..............& that was the end.

Now this is fast circulating.....I don't know if anyone's had same or similar scenario

So u see garnishing with insults stops the scammers. Same with yr case :) I never received another mail from the same source again.

[gogannaka]

LOL,Did you do what they asked?

[NewEte]

yea, did you serve rice to ants? Did you provide a bag of millet? Did you build a mosque? You failed to tell us if you complied with some or all of their demands.

[HUSNAA]

Forumnites, pls take a look at this disgraceful man confessing on 20/20!!  Very embarrassing!

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/216/popup/index.php?cl=2042536

[gogannaka]

Very very embarrasing.
This is actually how they do they scamming.
What he said about the clients being greedy is true too.
One funny thing about scams is that the victim never tells anyone about the deal untill he has already been duped.Its always good to confide.

[hayat]

Quite interesting, but a careful scrutiny of the accent and you'll know that he is not a nigeria but a Ghanian! and even the name.

[Muhsin]

Somebody today sent this to me. Read it..

From:  "Mr. Badara Samba." <bd_samba10@yahoo.co.uk>  Add to Address Book  Add Mobile Alert 
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:20:33 +0100
Subject: RE: TRANSFER OF (USD 8.7 MILLION)
     
RE: TRANSFER OF (USD 8.7 MILLION)
In order to transfer out (USD8.7 MILLION) United States Dollars) from
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK .I have the courage to ask for your assistance
to handle this important and confidential business believing that you
will never let me down either now or in future.
I am Mr Badara Samba, Position Auditing Department Office AFRICAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK here in dakar senegal. there is an account opened in this
bank in 1982 and since 2001 nobody has operated on this account again.
After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if
I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for
nothing.
The owner of this account is a foreigner, and he was a miner at CIVOTT
GOLD MINNING SARL. and he was a Geologist by profession and he died
since 1992 in plane crash. No other person knows about this account or any
thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary or next of
kin and my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not
know anything about this account and the amount involved is (USD 8.7 M)
United States Dollars).
I want to transfer the [USD8.7 M] United States Dollars into a safe
foreigners partner abroad , but I don't know any foreigner, I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to any
africa person here, but can only be approved to any foreign person
because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the account is a
foreigner too.I know that this message will come to you as a surprise
as we don't know ourselves before,but be sure that it is real and a
genuine business.
You are the only person that I have contacted in this business, so
please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take
urgently. Send also your private telephone and fax number . I want us to
meet face to face or sign a binding agreement to bind us together so that
you can receive this money in your country in cash through our diplomat
that we used to air lift funds to shell and chevron oil companies in
europe and america. I will fly to your country for withdrawal and sharing
and other investments after you have confirmed the money in to your
account,
I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with
foreign foreign address as beneficiary. I need your full co-operation to
make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this
payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this fund, which I
will give to you later immediately, if you are able and with capability
to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my
instructions and advice for our mutual benefit because this opportunity
will never come again in my life.
I need truthful person in this business because I don't want to make
mistake I need your strong assurance and trust. With my position now in
the office I can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable person,
intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. and I
want to remaind you that your share has been carculated at 35% of the
total sum and 5 will map out for the transfer expenses .I waiting for
your urgent reply so that I will give you more informations about this
transaction on how you can receive this money in your country.if this
proposal are well understood and ready to proceed further with me provide
me with below information's immediately.
FULL NAME:
SEX:
COMPANY: IF ANY
FULL CONTACT ADDRESS:
PHONE:
CELL:
FAX:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE
COUNTRY:
OCCUPATION:
This will help me to start the process of this operation.
Contact me via my this e-mail: bd_samba@yahoo.co.uk
<mailto:bd_samba@yahoo.co.uk>
Best Regard.
Mr. Badara Samba.

[NewEte]

Hayat, Bull. This man is a Pure Nigerian. Ghanians have a totally diistinct accent from Nigerians.
How can you listen to this man and even remotely think he is Ghanian? Seems he is 419ing you are well, or perhaps this is denial on your part.
This prick is from the East, plain and simple.

[gogannaka]

I was reading through an article on MSN and came across this: http://j-walk.com/other/conf/

Nigerian's eyes don open wellu wellu o!

The complete article is:http://tech.msn.com/news/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=4831281&GT1=10036

Interesting read.

[Janwuya]

I either ignore them or try to trace the source IP...its fun  :)

[HUSNAA]

After u have traced the IP what happens next?  :D

[Dan-Borno]

F.Y.I. Only  ???  ???

[amira]

these 419 emailers have time to be sitting there writing fake demands to random people. What a WASTE of TIME!!!