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Nigerian "Scam Police" Shut Down 800 Web Sites
Sooner Boomer writes "Nigerian police, in what is named Operation 'Eagle Claw,' have shut down 800 scam web sites and arrested members of 18 syndicates behind the fraudulent scam sites. Reports on Breitbart.com and Pointblank give details on the busts. The investigation was done in cooperation with Microsoft to help develop smart technology software capable of detecting fraudulent emails. From Breitbart: 'When operating at full capacity, within the next six months, the scheme, dubbed "Eagle Claw," should be able to forewarn around a quarter of million potential victims.'"
Would you like to help me transfer millions of nira to me? You will be well paid!
I rather enjoy getting those letters. The last one I replied that I was extremely interested but that I had recently had a dispute with my Internet Service Provider and my access to email would be shut down soon. I would be more than willing to help them if they could send $98.43 to Time Warner Cable referencing account number ################.
There are other variations. Such as I can help them get the money out of the country but I need more money to pay my lawyer to settle some estate disputes. Buy me a ticket to Nigeria and I will come there personally. My rich family members think this is a joke and I have been cut off from the family money but I can show them if I can just get to Nigeria and show them that this is real.
My record so far is stringing these guys along for 2 weeks. They finally give up frustrated. I actually had one of them write me back asking to be left alone and stop sending him emails.
Some king just died and his cousin needed my help and promised to repay me half a million dollars for my bank account information, which I sent of course, because I'm not an idiot. But just how the hell am I supposed to contact him now?
Was it this professor at Harvard who sent 600k to nigerian scammers?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/31/harvard_prof_scams/
What? You mean that some of those scammers were ACTUALLY Nigerian? I had always assumed even that was fake...
Well, there goes about a quarter of the scam email I see on my servers.
Per HOUR.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
I AM A LOWLY CIVIL SERVENT RESPONSIBLE FOR CLEANING UP AFTER THE GLORIOUS OPERATION 'EAGLE CLAW' AND HAVE DETERMINED THAT YOU HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY DUPED INTO GIVING $ 77, 056 USD TO NIGERIAN SCAM OFFICER. AS A RESULT OF THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT TIRELESS SEARCH OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE, I AM HAPPY TO SAY THAT WE WILL BE RETURNING ALL OF YOUR MONEY.
PLEASE FAX US ALL OF YOUR CURRENT BANK ACCOUNT AND IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS TO 01-234-419-23222 AND WE WILL IMMEDIATELY BEGIN TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION, AS WELL AS ADDING A $5,061 DOLLAR REWARD FEE AS REQUIRED BY THE NIGERIAN FEDERAL COURT. TO FACILITATE THE PROCESSING OF YOUR INFORMATION, PLEASE INCLUDE THE ROUTING NUMBER, ACCOUNT NUMBER, AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR PRIMARY BANKING ACCOUNT (FAILING TO INCLUDE THIS NUMBER WILL DISQUALIFY YOU FROM CONSIDERATION FOR THE $5,061 REWARD).
YOUR FAITHFUL CIVIL SERVANT,
MOGWAH MUBUGASHS
That's no eagle claw, it's just the way Wikus's hand grew back, you insensitive MNU clods.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
A cherrypicked group of humans?
Yeah it turns out that some people are much smarter than the average person. Shocker.
Explains hotmail...
I know some people here don't like xkcd, but this felt relevant
Aw man! That must be why the Honorable Mr. Ngoti Mbutu is not returning my calls. He happened to know my uncle, the esteemed Doctor Alfred Mookiemu, who unbeknownst to me was rich and was sitting on $9,764,546.56, when he was killed in a car crash with his whole family. Fortunately for me Mr. Mbutu was managing his account at the time of his death and found me in the International business archives. He is taking a great risk by contacting me to help me get my uncle's money. All he asked for in return was my bank account numbers, my personal info, and my Social Security number! Sadly, I haven't heard from him since I gave him my info. Gee, I hope the little fella is OK. He seemed like such a nice guy with his endearingly bad grammar and spelling.'
My cat tried to achieve the same results by installing Vista.
Table-ized A.I.
Ok, so how are we supposed to do that? In 2009 we still have finite supplies of everything, if I want a ham sandwich I can't magically produce ham by speaking "create ham", it isn't even digital where if you have one piece of ham you can make almost infinite copies without damaging the original ham or using any other parts.
Did you try "sudo create ham"?
Let's just see how stupid you are shall we?
I have a cat
That's strike one.
Having carefully observed me using the computer over a long period of time, he figured out how to reset my computer
Very doubtful. I think you're anthropomorphising - strike two.
He had to stick his claw in that specific hole, and *bam* - there goes an hour of work
Went an hour without saving work. Strike three.....you're outta here!
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Heck, I would accept help from Satan himself, if it reduce the spam and online crime.
Allow me to introduce myself, being Dr. Faustus a business associate of Mr. Satan who as you know is an excellent Prince of Darkness and Spam, resident in many parts of Nigeria. I am sure we can come to an amicable arrangement whereby Mr. Satan's spam services are directed to others instead of yourself. Some anticipated administrative expenses needing to be circumvented, please be replying with your credit card and banking details, and numerous photographs of naked women.