OT: Are People Really Dumb Enough?

[Atrocities]

Are people realy dumb enough to fall for a scam as stupid and transparent as this?

Dear friend,

I am Mr richard.a worker in charge of auditing and accounting section of Banque
Togolaise Pour Le Commerce Et L'Industrie Lome-Togo in West
Africa with due respect and regard. I have decided to contact you on a
business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of
the transaction.We had a foreign client Mr John Schelpert who deposited a huge
sum of money (US$8.5million) with our Company.Eventually, this client was among
the victims of EGYPT AIR BOEING 767 FLIGHT NO.990 that crashed on the 31-10-1999
in U.S.A but, since then we have not had any body coming for the claims as the
next of kin. A sitaution I have monitored closely with my position inthe
Company.Now, having monitored this deposit and managed it over the years before
hisdeath, and hence nobody has showed up as the next of kin for the past one
year plus, I have removed the file to my private volt. I now solicit for your
assistance to present you as the next of kin as every other arrangement has
being concluded by me and I am only waiting for a foreigner to enable me move
the fund to his account.
This does not have any risk attached to it as all the internal
documentations will be handled by me. I therefore request you to confirm
yourinterest by a return message and I will furnish you with details.
Your interest will be negotiable before we commence the operation.
I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards

MR RICHARD UROMI.

The dumb arses who sent this must realy have a low opinion of us to think that any one would ever fall for this. My God how dumb do you have to be to be taken by something as stupid as this?

The idiots mailed if from HOTMAIL so abuse@hotmail.com just recieved this once in a life time oppurtunity. I wonder if the guys at Microsoft will fall for it?

[PvK]

This is one of (or maybe the?) leading industries of one or more African nations - churning out scam emails to gullible westerners. No joke. Yes, people are that stupid.

PvK

[Atrocities]

You've got to be ****ting me, people are that stupid?

For Gods sake, how is that possible?

[Cyrien]

Yep. I once did a bit of research on it and there are people who have gone through with it and handed over large sums of money and then left to meet the person and ended up dead.

Scams like this one are actually quite common and can potentially draw in quite abit of money for the perpetrators.

So... yes. People are that stupid.

I myself recieved such an E-mail a few years back before it was really known as a big scam and even then I thought... How stupid do these guys think I am? (It was the princess of African nation one I believe)

[Gryphin]

Do a search at Google
+hoax +scam +Nigerian

[rdouglass]

I read somewhere recently that Interpol estimated that on any given day there are 4 people somewhere in the world waiting in a hotel lobby for a guy from Nigeria...

[Kamog]

Yes, sadly, some people do lose a lot of money on this sort of scam.

[Karibu]

You would be surprised how often police warn about these "Nigerian letters" or "Nigerian mails" in TV in Finland. For some reason, some people either do not watch TV, discuss their intentions with anyone, or simply think that it must be their chance of life...

yes, as civiliced we think of ourselves, there is always some idiots amogn us

[General Woundwort]

From my favorite source on these matters, snopes.com...

Nigerian Scam

[Baron Munchausen]

I recall seeing a news story a few month ago about some secretary who used her access to the business accounts, yes, boss's money, to answer one of these scams. Guess she thought she'd be patted on the back for making them some money? Sent more than 2 million dollars off into the ether. Oops...