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Big M
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 14 Aug 2006
Posts: 5
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Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:27 pm |
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In the post (as in, Royal Mail) today I got a printed letter that is quite obviously a 419 scam. The envelope had the name of a real resident here with the correct address.
Can anyone imagine where a scammer may have got such details from? |
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Breddan Butter
Retired Moderator
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Posts: 4170
Location: Soligorsk, Belarus
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Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:32 pm |
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Err,
The internet, telephone directory, electoral roll, newspaper etc. |
_________________ Можно заплатить кредитной карточкой ?
Пошёл на хуй, мудак !!!
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Spooky Tooth
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 58
Location: Behind you...
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Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:37 pm |
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This is how they used to do it before the birth of the internets.
I got my first 419-by-mail when I was all of 12 years old. I saw through it even then. :p |
_________________ I'm here to bait mugus and chew bubblegum, and i'm all outta bubblegum. |
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Nurse Nasty
Baiting Guru
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Posts: 7251
Location: Australia, where a dingo stole my eski
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Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:55 pm |
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Simba
Baiting Guru
Joined: 19 Nov 2006
Posts: 4093
Location: Bila Shaka
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Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:31 pm |
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Breddan Butter wrote: |
Err,
The internet, telephone directory, electoral roll, newspaper etc. |
Yeah but other than those sources....
Can you imagine where he got the details from...
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=Mr Duru-Ouaga to Accra to Ouaga to Abidjan
=Mr Yetonde-Sierra Leone to Accra
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=Mr Dandy-Abidjan to Monrovia-SSC Liberia
=Mr Mandela-Jo'burg to Maun-SSC Botswana
=Mr Danka-Dakar to Bangul-SSC Gambia
=Mr Twumasi-Accra to Cotonou-SSC Benin
=Mr Gomer-Lagos to Douala to Parakou-SSC Cameroon & SSC Benin
=Mr Chukwu-Lome to Accra to Koforidua. Lome to Lagos. Lome to Cotonou.
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FiveForces
Elite Baiter
Joined: 05 Apr 2007
Posts: 1254
Location: Richville, USA (honest!)
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Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:49 pm |
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Yes! Well, not me, a lotto scam was sent by post to my ex-step dad who doesnt live with my mam anymore. It was odd timing, just a couple of months after I started baiting! (I didnt bait it though) |
_________________ THE MASTERMINDER OF FAKE NEWS
"GO AND DIE AND NOPT LIVE OK, YOU STUPID FOUL YOU TAKEW ME FOR PLAY? SEND YOUR SHIPPING INFO AND THAT ALL YOU TALK STUPID, SEND ME YOUR NUMBER THAT ALKL I NEED FROM YOU. NO NUKMBER GO AND DON;T SEND NO MONEY AND SEND HAVE NO PUPPY"
~ Bri Thany
"The whole situation is becoming ridiculous and absurd. Its hard to explain how a transaction that normally takes a few minutes to be concluded is starting to run into weeks."
~ Genesis Art & Craft
"you are treating me like a fool which is not supposed to be done"
~ Barryston Morgan
"I don't understand this...Its like you are playing on my intelligence."
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mathias
Baiting Guru
Joined: 18 Feb 2005
Posts: 4187
Location: Germany
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Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:37 am |
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could you scan it and post it with photobucket,com for all to see please |
_________________ x10 x3 x5
x4 (2 MIA) x lots
BASTARD !!! U JUST DEY MAKE ME SPEND MONEY SEND CHECKS TO NON EXISTING PLACES OL BOY NO TRY ME AGAIN OH ABEG JUST FUCK OFF MAKE I WORK COLLECT MONEY..
go screw your mother fucking uncircumcised rotten dick on your bedroom wall and die slow *DELETED* because you don't even worth a second out of my time
now you have taken me to a far area from my place ... I have to sleep under the bridge today ...
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Obi-Wan Knievel
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Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 1486
Location: Bald Knob, NF
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Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:43 am |
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I got one by postal mail when I was 18. Strangely enough, it was less than a month after I filled out a ballot for some "legitimate" contest to win a car. Never did win the car.
It's nice to see there are some old-school, nostalgic lads that are still out there. Nobody respects the classics anymore! |
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Gnasher
Baiting Guru
Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 2849
Location: Centre Stage in the Theatre of Cruelty
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Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:42 am |
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Believe it or not I received a few 419s via snail mail at my work address and they were hand written with real Nigerian postage stamps (which I kept). This was in the days when a fax was cutting edge communication technology. |
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"you have to pay because he need to submit this form to the Federal Ministry Of Fancies" Barrister John/Mike/Richard Okeke
"they are in deed the swinders rotating about in the net and searching for whom they will stylishly defraud your belongings" A. Moron
"Please pray harder for God to guide and protect us during our travelling because flight airplane i observe is a very big risky" Abdul Karibu
"WE DOESN'T LIKE HOW DISOBIDIENT YOU ARE!" Coco Law Chambers
"BE INFORMED THAT YOU WILL INCUR DUMMERAGE AFTER 9 DAYS FROM TODAY" Burkina Faso Air Secure Air Service.\ |
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Race
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 70
Location: On an adventure with Dr Quest..
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Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:56 pm |
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Wow I didnt know they used mail - our first was via fax. pretty much as soon as we got our first fax macnine back in the 90's. |
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Hellbastard
419Eater is my life
Joined: 04 Apr 2007
Posts: 381
Location: Outside the Western Union office, with a sniper rifle.
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Wed Jul 04, 2007 2:29 pm |
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I've got plenty of scams via mail, but never a 419-er. Still, if people are still sending them I can live in hope. |
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"If you only play with me that to me it is very a pity." - Elena (3), Russia
"I could not understand a word scatologist. You could explain me it. I think that it is connected with public health services?" - Elena (4), Russia
"Why are they always called Elena?" - HB, UK |
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Tsnerd
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 41
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Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:38 pm |
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A snail mail is what brought me here almost two years ago:
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Fakers: many, many, lots; an SSL and a couple of Resellers.
x 6
AH, AH, AH! Two little ! |
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Obi-Wan Knievel
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Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 1486
Location: Bald Knob, NF
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Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:26 pm |
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Great pics TS! I wonder if that particular paper lad missed the seminar on how all caps is more convincing. (Write better emails, make more moneys)
At least the postal lads (can we call them Plads?) put a small bit of time and expense into their scamming. I'll bet those guys don't do 10,000 a day. |
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4X1X9
Baiting Guru
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
Posts: 5905
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Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:57 pm |
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Wow retro lads |
_________________ I can sense tunes of unnecessary logic in your mails, meaning that you can never work with us to actualize this project no matter how we try to convince you - Mr. Chidi 0kpala
You will have to munch the statistics of the transfer so I can give to them - Mr. James Hessom Hessom
If not that you only hide behind computer and be playing prawns with us - Benny Clifford
France - Luxembourg
x26 - 2012 x258 - 2013
x263 - 2014 x160 - 2015
x204 & x1 - 2016
x177 - 2017 x81 - 2018
x85 - 2019 x9 -2020
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sellingrich
Master Baiter
Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 247
Location: Far East LA
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Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:10 am |
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I had a customer 15 years ago that got an airmail letter from Nigeria with the basic "contractual overpayment" jive. He kept it in a safe because he thought the FBI was going to raid him. He confided in me that he was considering opening a separate account and funding it with $100.00. I told him the best that could happen is he would lose his $100.00, and the worse was unlimited. I took a copy to my employer, who showed me about 15 of them that he kept as conversation pieces, he claimed he got one every other week. |
_________________ "all this name list and people are the trueful people that i want you to deal with not this idiots but imposters scammer like Obi Won Kenobi," James S
"Bastard! That's what you really are,I have taken your insults for too long son of a bitch!"
"I am in receipt of your email, but the contents beat my imagination."
"May your anuse turn back." Joe Morengi
"You better run for your life, because the FBI are coming to your house tomorrow to kick your ass out of your house." Barr. Jonathan
Mr kelvin Jordon that call you from our branch office in canada explain that the chicken background voice has been querried, claiming the voice was his telephone ringing tone, therefore accept my deepest appology for that. |
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MattNW
419Eater is my life
Joined: 21 Nov 2005
Posts: 264
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Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:53 am |
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Race wrote: |
Wow I didnt know they used mail - our first was via fax. pretty much as soon as we got our first fax macnine back in the 90's. |
When the 419 started they used messengers to deliver the letters. The 419 has been around since the middle ages. Kind of played to the damsel in distress ploy where a young woman would be stranded in an evil baron's castle and needs help paying her ransom. You can guess the rest of the script. |
_________________ please feed me in with more info. - Dr. Soludo
Also we found out that some of the officials of the prostates may have been extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of helping you receive your money.
LET ME TELL YOU,SINCE YOU DID NOT HAVE A SINGLE RESPECT,YOU MOUTH MAY PUT YOU INTO TROUBLE. |
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