Dateline: Abuja; Nigeria Fights Email Scam

dosten writes "Computerworld.com is reporting that the Nigerian government is tired of being known as the Spam/Scam capital of the world and setup a web site to combat the common email scam. The web site is almost as funny as the Spam Letters. There is even a place to report your victim "experiences" so they can be published. One of the "coming soon" features will be a lineup of bad guys so you can avoid them in case you end up in Nigeria to collect your loot."

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Re:i was sent this email

[GeekWithGuns]

Here is how I was told that this scam works:

1. You respond with an account number. They make a deposite to the account just like they said they would.

2. They come back to you and say "Please give us back $X of the money we sent you". Since you have the money in your account you write them a big fat check.

3. After a few big fat checks clear your bank, you you find out from your bank that the first big deposit did not auctually clear, you now have an account that is overdrawn because of all those big fat checks.

And since your name is the only name on the account you are entirly responsable!