Did anyone ever fall for that African internet scam?

SOMEBODY has to be falling for that Nigerian scams, or they still wouldn't be circulating. I'm guessing it's old people who are new at using computers...

this scam has been going on for years. before PCs became popular they used to send these out by regular mail. i got one of these letters in the mail about 30 years ago. kept the envelope because it had a nifty looking nigerian stamp on it.

I get those all of the time. I fell for the on where U We are offered a job. I worked very Hard. I never got PAID.I Well, it turns out He is a CON ARTIST. The POLICE Got INVOLVED. I did nothing illegal. Thank goodness. He even said We were MARRIED.

I am brutally ashamed to say that my father fell for one, but I managed to save him before he gave any important info. I still struggle to grasp HOW he could EVER fall for something so obviously fake. I really could not make a less convincing scam if I tried.

Newbies fall for this kind of crap all the time!

Everyone gets these e mails.

But you can always scambait these b@$^@#ds!

"So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves."

"It doesn't matter if you are new to this sport or a hardened veteran; if you are wasting the time of a scammer, or frustrating them in any way well that's good enough for us, and we would welcome you to join with our now very large community."

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http://www.419eater.com/

Enjoy :-)

Just delete them, they are phishing scams.

There's thousands of them crawling around the internet all begging for money for various sob stories or non existent lotteries.

I get them now, but I just delete them and not worry until a new batch comes my way, then I do the samething with those also

I get those things all the time. I just marked them as junk and I don't get them anymore.

I've had them and just deleted them

they are liars!!

if you go to Africa , you can pay for sex, ok, but not for scam