Saturday, May 9, 2009

I Got Another One of Those Stupid Nigerian emails

You know the one. They are all variations of the same theme. They come from the Executive Grand Poobah's Chief MuckyMuck of an Oil Ministry who has somehow gotten his hands on millions of dollars due to an overpayment to some other Deputy Oil Minister who has died in a tragic auto accident. And he has no heirs, so naturally in order to smuggle these millions out of Nigeria you have been chosen to effect a scheme to get the money into your US bank account. At first all they need is proof of your employment, and this will be followed up with questions about your finances and bank account which will naturally be needed in order to do the transfer which will result in you getting 10% of $40,000,000. What it will really result in is your bank account being cleaned out by the Executive Grand Poobah. I recently replied to one of these schemers:

Please send us your Social Security number, the routing and account numbers of your bank account and photos of your children immediately. We have a large amount of buried pirate treasure which we would like to turn over to you for no specific reason. Also please send us your mother's maiden name and a complete rundown of your prison record. We will need the name of your parole officer and your exact home address plus a picture of your house, and the numbers, user names and passwords of all your credit cards. Do this immediately and you will be rich beyond your wildest dreams by Tuesday. Thank you.

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