Open an account in a bank totally different from yours.

Then put in $20 and send them that bank acct. info so what you lose $20,
they will loose more in all the paper work they do.

that shall teach them a lesson

probally not but still be funny.

I got this one not as interesting but its okay....


Hello my dear stranger!
I searched for acquaintances man on site
Also has casually come across your profile.
It has liked me also I has decided to write you,
If you not against acquaintance me
I shall wait for your letters on my email
Nastyalovely2780@yahoo.com

Okay I am going to say it again. It was a cashier's check coming out of
Canada from the Sweepstakes Clearing House, like the Reader's Digest
Clearing House. This nice man said that they sent it to him, with his
name on the letter as I saw it, and they awarded him $5,000 which he
deposited. So you Canadians are saying you have not heard of such a
thing coming out of Canada? Well, I'll be........

No and if he didn't enter any sweepstakes there is a catch...Nobody...I
mean nobody...Gives money for FREEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

So scam or some other catch!!!!!!!!!!!

Duffy,but how long after your friend deposited the check, did the bank
notify him it esad s bogus check? Thats how those scams work at least
most of them. If allthose scams were true and the checks were goodJust
think of all the new milionares there would be now. Butthe only thing
these scams do is,make poor people poorer,after havingto pay back the
money to the bank. I get tons of those e-mailscamsand they go rightinto
the circulat file.

Here's one I got

Name:uzoma chima
reply to: chima_uzoma@yahoo.co.uk

Dear marjorie

TRANSFER OF $8MILLION INTO YOUR COMPANY OR PERSONAL ACCOUNT
Iam chima uzoma the chief finance officer at the National Electric
Power Authority (NEPA) now power holding company of Nigeria. I got your
information when i was surfing the internet,
In my search for a reliable and reputable institution/person who
can handle a very strictly, confidential transaction of the transfer
of $8million to a reliable account.

This $8million is in the suspense account of my department for
some time now which represents the surplus of an over valued contract
executed for the corporation some years back.

Iam seeking if you will permit the surplus to be remitted into
your personal/company account so that the money remitted will be
shared among the parties concerned.

However, I want to receive your assurance that you will not sit
on the money when it goes into your account. Most importantly, this
transaction must be kept confidential in order to protect the confidence
reposed in the officials involved in this transaction.

We have agreed in principle that 80% of the money goes to the
officials where the money originated while 20% to the owner of the
account. I wish to inform you that this transaction requires urgent
reply to enable us conclude the transaction soonest.

please contact me through the above
addresses for further details. Your urgent response will be highly
appreciated.

Best regards
chima uzoma


Here's my reply in VERY large red font

GO **** yourself !!!! you loser !! you think that people in the West
are dumb **** to believe this s*** !!!! I have seen this scam a million
times and they all say the same thing. Why don't you take my share of
the money I'm supposed to get and buy a gun and shoot yourself, you
******* blood sucking waste of space. Another piece of advice would be
to get better educated!!!! I will forward this email to Scotland Yard
who are on the look-out for bs'ers like you,they will in turn pass
letters like this on to Interpol,with so many law enforcement
authorities on the look-out for you,I would be very careful and stop
harassing innocent people You w **** !!! get the **** out of my face you
a***hole!!!!!!

Of course I deleted all the swear words to post it here, I never heard
about my fortune again

how come all you ladys have all the fun August 13 Il be hear a
year and I have not had one scam email

maybe they suspect that you do not need $15 million US

True story of an almost scam:

A guy, supposedly from Kent, England, contacted me at the "other" site.
Movie star handsome, romantic, educated, loved romance novels, yadda,
yadda, yadda. Computer Engineer, working as a consultant for major
companies in Europe. Widely traveled. Within 2 weeks of having started
contact he was already calling me his angel and he was head over heels
in love with me. Right Then he informs me that he won a big
contract with Shell company and he has to go to Nigeria for 2 weeks.
Right I am pretty much a skeptic, and I don't hesitate to call
overseas to check on things... I was never able to reach his cell phone
while he was in Kent, but once he "flew" to Nigeria, lo and behold, his
roaming kicked in... What I was doing was switching the first digits of
the number he gave me and replacing them with +44 (which is
international code for England) and the area code for Kent... the
numbers he provided all along had been for Nigeria, which he thought I
was never going to find out.

Anyhow, within a week of being in Nigeria, one night the hotel he was
staying in was raided by robbers, and he was robbed and beaten, his
passport, check book, credit cards, cash, stolen... He ended up in the
hospital with a broken arm and collarbone. Right His cell phone
nor his laptop were stolen. I looked up to see if the incident had
been reported on the newspapers, after all, a major hotel full of
tourists being robbed must have been reported in the newspaper, right?
Not one mentionto the incident.

When I talked to him on the phone he did not sound British at all, it
sounded like someone who barely spoke English... like a Nigerian.

He "needed" me to set up an account in Panama (where I live) so he could
contact his bank in Kent to transfer the money to Panama, so I could
send it through Western Union to him. Ha! Panama's law for money
laundering does not allow a person to open any kind of bank account just
as easily, it takesa few days for the bank to check your references. So
that was a no-no. He was broke, he didn't have any money, not even for
food or hotel By this time, I was a bit concerned of his well
being, but red flags were popping around my brain, which tends to think
like a criminal would, at times...

His parents were dead, and his ex-wife was a b**ch that had stolen from
him before...

His b-day came along... Ok, buddy give me your address to send you a
b-day card. He gives me an address in Kent. Which turns out to be the
address for a NGO, where he doesn't work, and nobody has ever heard from
him (I called them). When he gave me the name and address of the person
I was supposed to send the Wire transfer to, it wasn't his name, of
course, he didn't have any documents to retrieve the cash.

Needless to say, when I called his bluff, he was very hurt and didn't
wanto to hear from me ever again.

I had saved all of his emails and sent them to the Judicial Police
Department of Internet Investigations, or something like that.

What do you think?

nothing this guy said ever added, he kept getting confused and
forgetting what he had told me... so funny and so weird...