Thanks to my african friend, I'll soon be a millionare!!

**Rhyfelwyr** · 05-16-2008, 11:48

I've never had one, though I remember seeing a programme on this years ago.

It was'nt necessarily about trying to scam the scammer, more humiliate them.

I remember one guy replied that he was a member of some sort of extreme Christian church/cult, and that he could only do business with his fellow members. So to join this cult, it ended up with the scammer sending pictures of himself sitting balancing fish on his forehead and things like that.

**PBI** · 05-16-2008, 12:04

I suppose it's not strictly a scam as such, at least not in the usual sense, but this one has to be my favourite out of all my spam:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

This showed up in my uni inbox a few weeks ago. It basically seems to me to be the physics version of spam.

Well, I'm convinced. Clearly my ideas about physics were wrong all along.

I was quite pleased, as for some reason my hotmail account never gets spam (and certainly not physics spam). It's a shame really, as opening my inbox to see "200 new messages" makes me feel like I have friends.

**CountArach** · 05-16-2008, 12:38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yj8ao9JxJ0

Nuff said...

**Redleg** · 05-16-2008, 12:45

I got one to send me 88,000 canadian dollars via a conterfiet check before. Was real fun and I even turned the check over the authorities.

Really made the guy upset. Got a couple of email death threats from the knucklehead to.

If your going to run the counter scam make sure your using a false address or one you plan to be moving from soon, if you have them mail you things, I used a P.O. Box so the knucklehead only had the city I lived in right. Some of these knuckleheads have others involved in their scam so be careful.

The way I did it was claim that while I was willing to help I myself was finicially strapped and could not provide any money to his effort. From there I let him build his own agenda thinking he was going to get me to go along with his plan. Then to really ice the cake I told him I had to declare bankruptcy and could not deposit his check because the courts would of placed a freeze on it, and would of taken his money to pay the creditors, and that if he would provide an address I would return his check to him via the Nigerian authorities.

**CountArach** · 05-16-2008, 13:15

Redleg, that just raises the bar

**Lemur** · 05-16-2008, 13:37

I've never had the energy to really work these guys over, but there are plenty of people who have. Example one, example two, a good article on the subject ...