an email from a "nigerian prince"

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**remilia_scarlet**

I received an email today, and this is what it said:

dear mr alexsandroff(he misspelled my name),

It has come to my attention that you have inherited a large amount of money, and it is my honor to present you this gift of wealth, of course, we will need your bank account number and your address so we can safely escort your fortune to you immediately.

Prince mathias kingsbury

Ok, so this is obviously scam, and sadly, russians are better con artists in my opinion, but, I just thought it was funny I got this email today.

Has anyone else had a nigerian "prince" tell them they've inherited a small fortune?

Please don't tell me you believe him?

**Coolyo294**

Pffft. You all might laugh at me, but when I recieve my multi-million dollar fortune from that African prince I'll be the one who's laughing!

**SagesStone**

Ask him if you can pick it up in person as a sign of good will.

**remilia_scarlet**

coolyo294 wrote:Pffft. You all might laugh at me, but when I recieve my multi-million dollar fortune from that African prince I'll be the one who's laughing!

It was all I could do to keep from replying with:

That's funny, because I know the prince of nigeria, and he's a cheapskate, and money hungry, you sir are fake.

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But then again, I think russian con-artists are better, they always talk about how they have a futuristi device to sell you, like a dancing doll, that's just being pulled by string, or talking about being missionaries preparing to head to africa.

**Chowderhead**

So, you did get my e-mail, good.

You see, as a rich African Prince, I have a duty to give my fortune to those with other fortunes.

It makes sense if you don't think about it.

**remilia_scarlet**

Chowderhead wrote:So, you did get my e-mail, good.

You see, as a rich African Prince, I have a duty to give my fortune to those with other fortunes.

It makes sense if you don't think about it.

Oh, you!

Let me get my purse.

**Monster Rain**

Well at least they've given up on the "You've won the Nigerian Lottery" schtick.

I mean, that was just silly. This inheritence angle? Pure gold.

**Mr. Burning**

Nigerian princes? pfft!

My dead ,Nigerian, relative has left me a large sum of money.

With all that money coming my way it is fortuitous that my bank emailed me telling me to reset my security information, which I can do via a handy link.....

**lord commissar klimino**

it could be worse. it could be real and because of emails like this no one believes them so you scam yourself

luckily that will never happen cause if you have that bad of luck you would be dead by now...wait,no,you would be alive,but hung upside down and beaten.

**Ratius**

As old as the hills, got my first one of these back in 2006.

Im now homeless and living off welfare.

**htj**

It pleases me that:

a) Someone still hasn't heard of these.

and that

b) They're smart enough not to fall for it.

Any fans of Irregular Webcomic here? I prefer his vision of Nigerian governance.

**BuFFo**

remilia_scarlet wrote:I received an email today, and this is what it said:

dear mr alexsandroff(he misspelled my name),

It has come to my attention that you have inherited a large amount of money, and it is my honor to present you this gift of wealth, of course, we will need your bank account number and your address so we can safely escort your fortune to you immediately.

Prince mathias kingsbury

Ok, so this is obviously scam, and sadly, russians are better con artists in my opinion, but, I just thought it was funny I got this email today.

Has anyone else had a nigerian "prince" tell them they've inherited a small fortune?

Please don't tell me you believe him?

You JUST started getting these? I feel like I am in 2005 over here! HOw many inheritances can one prince give out? Hes been given them away for half a decade already!

**remilia_scarlet**

I usually get email about discount prescriptions, or gaia online updates, after 3 years of inactivity. Well, you should see the crap that they pull on second life, they make sims, and spam them with all kinds of crap like freebies that wind up draining your money. Thankfully, the admins/super admins have zero tolerance and ban their ip completely from the game.

**biccat**

BuFFo wrote:You JUST started getting these? I feel like I am in 2005 over here! HOw many inheritances can one prince give out? Hes been given them away for half a decade already!

2005? Holy crap.

I remember getting these in my hotmail account back in the late '90s.

I should dig up my favorite scam email. Apparently the sender was a time traveller who was trapped in the past and needed money for certain parts to repair his time machine. I offered him a box of spare electronics from Radio Shack, but never heard back from him.

**Avatar 720**

All these rich Nigerians; and here I was thinking Nigeria was a relatively poor country. I want my money back from Oxfam.

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

Hmmm. Perhaps Nigeria's been building up it's wealth secretly or something.
Alternately, scambot creators have little imagination. I'd prefer Biccat's time traveler. Now THAT was classy conning.

**biccat**

Here's something similar...not sure if it was the actual email or not:

Hello,

I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me. I am going to need a new DWG unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display.

I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its received certification for being safe on carbon based life forms.

In terms of payment: I dont have any Galactic Credits left. Payment can be made in platinum gold or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit.

Please transport unit in either a brown paper bag or box to below coordinates on Monday July 28th at (exactly 3:00pm) Eastern Standard Time on the dot. A few minutes prior will be ok, but it cannot be after. If you miss this timeframe please email me.

Latitude N 42.48018 & Longitude W 071.15503 and the Elevation is 96. WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRANSPORT ITEM BY REGULAR MEANS OF TELEPORTATION. THEY ARE MONITORING AND WILL REDIRECT THE SIGNAL!! I DO NOT CARE HOW YOU HAVE TO GET IT HERE, JUST DO IT IN A WAY THAT NO SPYING EYES WILL POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO REDIRECT THE TRANSFERENCE. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU BE ABLE TO MONITOR THE TRANSFER.

Although those coordinates are a secure guarded area, these channels through email are never secure. Unfortunately it is the only form of communication I have right now.

After unit has been sent please email me at: info@federalfundingprogram.com with payment instructions. Do not reply directly back to this email.

Thank You

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**KingCracker**

It sounds stupid, but people DO fall for those. I worked at a Family Dollar years ago, and this lady called me and asked if I would get an order for her, and then starts spitting out numbers. I was like "what the hell are you talking about?" She was giving me her credit card number, the 3 numbers on the back and THEN was starting on her bank account number

Sometimes when I feel broke, I wish I could remember those numbers

**Samus_aran115**

He would've lost me after spelling my name wrong

**BearersOfSalvation**

biccat wrote:2005? Holy crap. I remember getting these in my hotmail account back in the late '90s.

Late 90s? The Nigerian government issued an official statement warning about these scams back in 1991, when email was still noteworthy instead of something your grandmother uses. The form of the scam goes back to at least the 1920s, though the "Nigerian Prince" part probably only started in the late 80s or early 90s.

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/advancefee/nigeria.asp

**remilia_scarlet**

I don't know why they use the "prince" thing, like it's going to make me want to fall for it.

**metallifan**

I got one of those. It's been two years since I sent him my life's savings, but you'll see. Some day soon, I'll be rich!

**Toastedandy**

I never got emails from princes, only generals

**remilia_scarlet**

Of course, if they have that kind of money, why don't they just use it to fix things in their society instead of giving it to me.

**lord commissar klimino**

remilia_scarlet wrote:Of course, if they have that kind of money, why don't they just use it to fix things in their society instead of giving it to me.

cause your american so they like you better.

**BearersOfSalvation**

remilia_scarlet wrote:Of course, if they have that kind of money, why don't they just use it to fix things in their society instead of giving it to me.

Well, the tale is that they have a bunch of money, but have to bribe someone or pay big bank fees or use a US account to get at it, while in the original version they were a rich guy who needed ransom money to get out of prison so they could get to their vault of jewels. The whole idea is that "I can pay you a lot of money later if you can lend me some money to sort out the situation now".

**remilia_scarlet**

lord commissar klimino wrote:
remilia_scarlet wrote:Of course, if they have that kind of money, why don't they just use it to fix things in their society instead of giving it to me.

cause your american so they like you better.

Somehow, I'm reminded of the hispanic maid from family guy..

No...no, mr john no es here.

**Zefig**

One of my old roommates got one of these, actually asking for a reply via fax. So my friends and I found an online fax service and about 50 pages of pdf copies of all the Nigerian prince scam letters, and got to faxing.

**Redbeard**

One reason these things work is because it takes a very very small percentage of respondents in order to turn a profit, and it takes very little time on their part.

If you really want to have fun with them, turn the tables. Write back, pretend that you want to get the money, but that you're having bank problems because you were expecting the inheritance sooner, and could they forward you a small percent of it via cashiers cheque so you can get the bank problems straightened out.

**Ma55ter_fett**

What I wouldn't give for a Nigerian scam email. Instead I open my mailbox and see picks of an elderly nude Ron Jeremy trying to sell me penis enlargement tablets.