KimyReizeger Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 What many of you describe is, I believe, the Nigeria scam, whereby people purposefully give you far too much cash for your product with the instruction to forward the excess money onto someone else for 'shipping'. Of course, cashing the oversized cheque is futile and you end up simply giving your own cash away.Friend of mine offered music lessons, to which someone in London wanted to send their kid up here to receive. The excess 'shipping' fee became merely 'hotel fee' to be posted onto 'the nanny'. Ludicrous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis Skyline Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Welcome to the 419 EaterWas just about to post that. Hours of amusement reading that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Was just about to post that. Hours of amusement reading that.Fuck yeah! that's my new favourite site!For anyone with a spare hour "The Road to Nowhere" one is an absolute gem.The Dead Parrot one is the obvious one and is also beyond funny.The guy who runs the site seems to spend longer than the scammers, but it makes for bloody hilarious results! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraser Mac Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Another scammer got in contact with me today, im going to lead this one on,UBS AGPost fact 8098 ZurichSwitzerlandSwiss Clearing Number: 230Postal Account: 80-2-2SWIFT: UBSW CH ZH 80A Web site: UBS - UBS Homepage - You & Us | Wealth Management | Investment Banking | Asset Management Dear Good One...........??? I am an investment consultant working with Bank UBS AG Zurich at their offshore department Zurich Switzerland. I will be happy to work this deal out with you if you have a corporate or personal Bank Account and if you are capable to keep TOP SECRET. I need strong Assurance that you will never let me down, if I transfer this money to your account.During one of our periodic auditing I discovered a dormant accounts with holding balance of US$ 232,000.000.00 {Two hundred and Thirty Two million US Dollars only} Sometimes a person will open a bank account, deposit money, and then disappear into the tin air. Banks are not always able to find out what has become of these silent customers, or to know whether they should follow up on requests from people who claim to be heirs to the accounts. The main problem is that the customer resides abroad and, due to bank secrecy, the bank cannot publish notices in the international press to locate the depositaries. This has led the majority of Swiss banks to refrain from opening small-deposit accounts for foreign customers; for fear that they will forget that the account exists.It has happened in the past, however, that customers pass away and their heirs can neither prove the death, nor their heir ship. This was a frequent occurrence during the wartime periods, and the banks have now set up a simple, rapid resolution procedure operating to their customers advantage.Dormant assets are defined as any assets deposited with a bank (i.e. an account, a custody account or a safety-deposit box) for which there has been no contact with the customer in the banks files for the last ten years or more.If you believe you have claim to a Swiss bank account for which the holder (e.g. an ancestor) has not been in contact with the bank for over ten years, there is a fairly simple procedure to follow, depending on the date the account was opened this account has not been operated for the past years. As at this moment, I am constrained to issue more details about this business until your response is received.If you are not familiar with Swiss Dormant Accounts and profile, please take a moment of your very busy schedules to read about Swiss dormant accounts: website;CRT-II - Claims Resolution Tribunal - 2001 Published List of AccountsIf you know that you are capable to handle large or small amount on trust and can keep secret and ready to take 40% of any amount I transfer to your account from the dormant account and I will take 60%, send the following information by return mail:Beneficiary Bank name...Bank address..................Account no.....................Swift code....................Account name.................Beneficiary address...........Your phone no................Your Occupation?Age.Tell me more about yourself, while I look forward to receive the aboveInformation.I want to re-assure you that this business is risk free and you can send an empty account to receive the funds, provided that the account is capable to receive incoming funds. Contact me urgently via email privately for further details:(kevinwilliam174@googlemail.com)Thank you for your time and attention.Warmest regardsMr Kevin William. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraser Mac Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 my first reply ""Many greetings mr kevin,I am highly interested in helping you with your transaction! oh it must be gods good grace that has led us to meet yes?how can i be reasured that this is not a scam sir? i know there are people out there not as desent as you or I!thanks you, fraser" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 I started stringing along a scammer once, it was something to do with an African lottery or something, but I quickly got bored! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 PASS ON TO ALL - FRIENDS AND PARTICULARLY FEMALES....The guy who sent this to me, works for a primary school, so take this seriously!!!I know someone who was approached last week in the line for the tuck shop by some kid asking if he liked cheese. He said yes and so then the kid says "Smell the cheese" and he puts his right fist on the palm of his left hand and raises it up. The first kid went to smell it and the other kid PUNCHED HIM IN THE NOSE!!! WARNING! If a kid comes up to you and says "smell the cheese" dont do it! It is not cheese at all it is his fist and he will punch you in the nose!!!!!!! I was at McDonalds yesterday and a kid came up to me and asked if I like cheese and I said no because I got this email but if I didn't I might have gotten PUNCHED IN THE NOSE!!! Then I told every- one in McDonalds that there's a kid who wants to punch people in the nose so if someone tells them to smell the cheese don't do it he is the kid that will punch you with his fist which is not actually a cheese but his FIST!!!!@!!!@112!!Please pass this on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nev Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Best scam I've seen was when I told my girlfriend I wasn't going to blow my load in her mouth... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKA the brando Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Best scam I've seen was when I told my girlfriend I wasn't going to blow my load in her mouth...my story is similar but slightly more romantic,i said that its ok you can swallow the lot, but at the last minute i pulled out and nearly blinded her! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexytunk Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 A few years ago, actually a lot longer ago abut thats not important, a guy from my work got sacked, basically for being a complete cock. Anyhoo, on clearing his things he managed to steal 2 Purchase Orders, he hired a van with one and filled the van with booze from Macro with the other. It seems a great scam, but he was so thick that he kept the van parked at his door for weeks, selling booze out the back of it, so when the invoices came in and the company got suss, and when my boss drove past his door and saw the hire van sitting outside he put 2 and 2 together and called the cops, naturally he got lifted and felt the full force of the law! Close to being a great scam if he had played it a little better.BTW, if my boss is reading this, I in no way condone the actions of any person in the story above, and I also don't find it at all funny that he almost fucked you over bigtime! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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