Nigerian 419 scam

I don't know about you, but I find these quite entertaining and hilarious. Currently, I have a guy thinking that I will send him money to get my share of $xx,xxx,xxx. LOL! It's so easy to drag these criminals along.

The reason I chose to post this topic is because I found out that quite a few people get duped by it and actually send money. A lot of people from NZ, the UK and Australia were all played for fools so LISTEN UP!!

Here is a sample 419, it's very recent:

FROM:MISS KATE SOIMEI ([email protected])


I am Miss Kate Soimei 26 years old a citizen of the Republic of Benin. I sending you this mail with the believe that you will be willing to help me accomplish my goal in this business. My boy friend by name Mr. Joseph Deluca who was recently killed in United Airline Flight 93, Wish was high jacked on that dark day of Sept 11 2001, in the United States of America.

Two months before his death he was in Cotonou the capital city of Benin Republic in Africa to collect the some of 30Million USD in cash from his business associate here in Benin. However he could not transfer the funds out of our country through the Banks within that period he collected this money as he was told that the money must be inside this country for a period of six mouths before the transfer could be made to his account in his country. So the funds were deposited with an Investment/Security company who was mandated by him in my presence to keep until the time for the transfer is due. While he was waiting for the time to complete he died in the terrorist attack of Sept 11. When I got the news I decided to do everything I could to locate the family of Mr. Joseph Deluca to inform them of the money that is deposited in my country but I could not get anybody who is related to him.

Now I do not want to look for them anymore as I am contacting to come forward as the brother to the company so that the funds can be released to you as the NEXT OF KIN to Mr. Joseph Deluca so that I can use my share to better myself and that of my family. Please let me know if you can help me to collect these funds from the company so that I let you know what is needed by the company from you to release these funds to your account, since the document that was used to deposit this funds with the company is in my custody. Please help as I am the only person in this whole wide world that knows about this money and I will not want the company to confiscate the funds due to lack of collection.

Hoping to do business with you within the next few weeks.You can also contact me at: [email protected]

Yours Faithfully,

Miss.Kate Soimei

Needless to say BEWARE and BE SMART. Don't wanna be this guy in Australia.

I found all this info at Scamorama , the 419 Coalition website and NigerianFraudWatch.

[dancing queen]

This is widely known to be a scam in NZ...Nigerian banking is all you need to say,then we know its a rippofff

[Jay!]

I've heard of the ruse in general before, but where does the name "419" come from?

[hermunn123]

that dude is a moron...

[Jay!]

Originally posted by jay@af
I've heard of the ruse in general before, but where does the name "419" come from?

n/m, I found it...

"419 Fraud" (Four-One-Nine) after the relevant section of the Criminal Code of Nigeria

[CraigFL]

I've received letters like this over the last 15 years from Nigerian scammers. I can't believe they continue to send them because most know them for what they are.

[Gonthrax]

What is it with the tons of scammers out of Nigeria?

[ragt20]

I've had tons of e-mails with that particular scam....the first few were amusing now they're just plin annoying.......hit the delete button straight away......

Originally posted by Gonthrax
What is it with the tons of scammers out of Nigeria?

I read that the Nigerian government is corrupt to the point that it is very hard to track down the scammers w/ their aid. Also a lot of real companies and officials receive a cut from the profits of these scams. Scamming is the third highest grossing profession there I read. Add to that its pretty easy for Nigerians to get visa's for travel, many speak English, the monetary conversion rate, etc. etc...