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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:36 am

This guy's got problems

(Apologies if this is already here somewhere)

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Greetings,

Am xxxxxx, I live in United Kingdom; I have a problem that I wish you Will assist me for. I have 5 years Old boy (JOHN) lost my wife in a car accident. 2 months ago I was
diagnosed with an esophageal cancer; I am finding it difficult to cope with all the pains I am going through. It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a
few months to live, according to medical experts.

The issue for asking for your help is that I want to leave my son with you to take care of, and also along side with US$8M in your care and possession. These funds will be in your name, and you will do whatever you desire with it, as long as you take care of my son for me. You will take him to college to continue is school. He is all I have as a family.

I have contacted my attorney to take care of the transaction and other procedures. If you can guarantee me your trust, send your replies to this email address. ([email protected]).

THANKS

419Eater Admin Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Posts: 7469

Part of his message is very familiar to me, and I quote directly from a message received by one of my current scammers, Ony Obo ( www.419eater.com/html/bigman.htm ):

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...I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer, It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts.

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:01 am

Tell him it costs a lot more than $8 million to raise a child in today's Western consumer society.

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:12 am

He sounds like a bundle of laughs.

Tell him you don't want his money and that he should blow it in an orgy of booze, women and goat sexing before he meets his maker. Shocked

Hopefully sooner, rather than later. Very Happy

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:20 am

There's so many ways of dealing with this I'm getting confused just trying to work out which would be the best one Rolling Eyes

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:41 pm

It is a very common scam scenario - so over time you can try out every possible response.

I did one where I ignored the money and my doctor showed only concern to save the person's life. I think showing fake humanitarian concern instead of greed completely confused and baffled him.

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:41 pm

Text Dead wrote:

There's so many ways of dealing with this I'm getting confused just trying to work out which would be the best one Rolling Eyes

Try all from various email addresses - sort of referral to the subject of " so and so maybe of some help" or something simular

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:04 pm

Gomer Pyle wrote:

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I ignored the money and my doctor showed only concern to save the person's life. I think showing fake humanitarian concern instead of greed completely confused and baffled him.

I threw a money recovery scam off balance when I insisted the Lad lawyer forget about recovering my money and instead prosecute the one swindler they'd carelessly said they'd caught:

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We have arrested one person and others will surely be arrested as far as they remain in this country.
The arrested suspect will be taken to court by monday.

I told him:

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Look, my compensation ain't that big a deal � it can wait. Shelve it and put your efforts into putting those maggots behind bars.

So:

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You still need to get a lawyer for prosecution...
Contact the lawyer as we are now in a democratic settings and everything will be done within the ambit of the law.

I asked the EFCC Lad:

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Are you seriously telling me that I have to contact a lawyer to get some gorram low-life conman prosecuted?
Isn't that your job?

The rest of the bait devolved into an argument about why I should fund a presecution. It finally fell apart after the Lads told me:

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The government can only get a lawyer for a case that involves capital purnishment such as amrmed robery, murderer homocide E.TC.

I threw down a challenge:

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Do this; send me a scanned copy, with your signature, of the part of the legal code, or whatever document obtains in this case, which mandates that government prosecutors only handle major crimes. Get it notarized in some way. Then I'll take you seriously.

An unwise challenge, as it happened, because of course they weren't up to that.