Fighting Nigerian Email Scams (funny!)

[IndieBoy]

Next time I'll stick with underage austrian teens.

I never hear from Ines these days....

[Stupot]

Darren (Whackhead) Simpson does mainly prank phone calls for a South African radio station.  Most of them are really funny.  But the guy also enjoys confronting 419 scammers and playing them at their own game.  Here's a selection of his 419 phone calls:

Dec 07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SJLHXo4tuY

Apr 08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RPfhM89JUk

Jun 08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=durAMZxIfV8

Jan 09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu5-P9MrbwU
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhB74OEWmzM

Listen to some of his other pranks, too.  They are hilarious and highly addictive.

[Stumblebum]

I recently replied to one of these scammers just for kicks.  It was in no way as planned out or clever as a lot of these others, but I got a kick out of doing it.  His email contained the basic scam with entreaties to my "christian" nature.  (I suppose because my email address is sumojesus@hotmail.com)  Anyway, here is a short childish attempt to entertain myself.

Subject: Damn Geena

Dear Mr. James

I appreciate your efforts to reward me this sweet wad of magical mystical cash moneys via the esteemed Swiss bank of Gmail. As your email was so original, believable, and clearly legitimate, I would like to give you all of my worldly possessions in addition to any information you might need to continue taking whatever other worldly possessions I might amass in the future.  Also, for being such a saintly believer in the Bible, you deserve nothing less than  free front row tickets to my next match.  Clearly, it was but one small function of your vast intillect to offer religious appeals to someone whose email is "sumojesus."  You have discovered my true identity.  I am not a cynic, mocking christianity with a ridiculous nom de plum.  No, no, indeed I am a tremendously obese messiah, who for sport pushes other tremendously obese spiritual figures out of a ring drawn in the sand.

Please deposit the money that you are willing to give me for doing absolutely nothing in account number 369erW#4@*7 at The Bank of Total Fucking Retards.  Your divine wrastlin' tickets are in the mail.

Hugs and Kisses,

The Big Beautiful Son of God

[Phemar]

Wow Stupot I didn't think anyone outside SA knew about Darren Simpson. I met the guy once he's quite funny.

[Stupot]

I came across him due to his Asda prank call being getting media coverage in the UK, and have now listened to all of his prank calls, and am planning some of my own 

[Buckethead]

My brother was trying to sell his old camera. He got an email asking if he could send it to Nigeria. I thought it was kinda funny how fake it was.

[suncrafter]

No..wait... are you telling me that Yolanda are not really in love with  me?  :o

Cry on my shoulder. We have all been there.