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Those Whacky, Peppery, Obama-y Nigerian Scams

By ~LS~ On August 28, 2009 · Add Comment · In Humor, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Nigerian Scam

Bizarre Twist on Nigerian Scam

By ~LS~ On June 15, 2009 · Add Comment · In Random Musings, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Nigerian Scam, Weird Stuff

I don’t really know why I’m so fascinated by Nigerian Scams. But I am. I got a bizarre one today. I’m sure it’s been around for a while, but this is the first time I’ve received one like it. It’s the moneygram scam.

John Atkins emailed me (from a gmail account) telling me he’s sending me part of my money via moneygram. He gave me the reference code and the answer to the secret question. (I will share it with you so you have it too. It’s “green.”) Then the email says you can’t contact him at his email account, but if you have questions, write to this AOL account.

This is a very bizarre twist. I mean, do people really fall for this? Yep. For instance, some county treasurer in Michigan actually embezzled money from the county because he fell victim to one of the scams. How stupid [...]

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Another Nigerian Scam Link

By ~LS~ On December 4, 2004 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts, Humor, Link-o-mania, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Humor, Money, Nigerian Scam, Weird Stuff

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Nigerian Scam Moves to Ireland!

By ~LS~ On August 17, 2004 · Add Comment · In Humor and tagged Tagged With: Nigerian Scam

I can find on the web somewhere a copy of every Nigerian scam email I’ve received, from Nigeria or elsewhere. I don’t think I’ve ever received a single letter that wasn’t posted to a bulletin board or something and a simple google search always pulls up the post.

I’m excited! Today I received a first!

Gerard Watson in IRELAND, of all places, emailed me for help with his Nigerian/Irish Scam. I simply have to reprint the text of the letter. It sounds SO stereotypically IRISH. He should have written “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” at the bottom.

Dear Friend

Good day to you. I may have to trouble your sense of personal achievement and reward for an opportunity properly taken advantage of.My name is gerard watson,

I work for Allied Irish Bank here in Dublin, Ireland. I am a relationship officer and one of my biggest customers was Charles Green, an [...]

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Birthday Catchup Blog Entry

By ~LS~ On July 28, 2003 · Add Comment · In Humor, The Quotidian (yadda yadda), The Web, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Age, Food, I'm 40, Money, Nigerian Scam, Trivia

I woke up this morning to balloons, a birthday bouquet, and a cup of coffee. Life is good. I got email greetings from a bunch of folks including one from the cleaning chick and another funny one from Joshie. This afternoon I will have Gambino’s gourmet birthday cake. Tonite I am going to Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. When I lived in Austin as an undergrad, my roommate (coincidentally, her name was Ruth) told me that she heard Ruth’s Chris steakhouse, which was a Texas-based chain, was named after Ruth’s husband (or maybe her son…) who ran the steakhouse and then died, so Ruth kept the name in honor of him. Once, I mentioned this to Tracy who pshawed at me and told me Ruth was from New Orleans. So I looked it up on the web today and found out that not only was Tracy right, but Ruth [...]

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Birthday Countdown to 40

By ~LS~ On July 23, 2003 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Age, I'm 40, Nigerian Scam, Start Button

I have so many friends in Nigeria! They keep mailing me. They are all very rich. Nigeria must be a wealthy country. They all also have many problems getting access to their money! You would think that a country with so many rich people would have a better banking and commerce system. My newest friend is DR. CHUKWUBUEZE VICTOR.

Now playing on the start button:

1. Word Perfect
2. Microsoft Word
3. Front Page
4. Spider Solitaire
5. Microsoft Money
6. WS_FTP

Now, in all honesty, I cheated with that start button. Somehow, I found something called “pin to short list” that adds a program to the permanent list of programs in the short list of the start button. Follow that? And then I wiped out -everything- from the most used list beneath that. So, let’s be a little more honest here:

Now playing [...]

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Those Whacky, Peppery, Obama-y Nigerian Scams

Bizarre Twist on Nigerian Scam

Another Nigerian Scam Link

Nigerian Scam Moves to Ireland!

Birthday Catchup Blog Entry

Birthday Countdown to 40

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Those Whacky, Peppery, Obama-y Nigerian Scams

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