Anyone want to have some fun with a Nigerian spammer?

[Archae]

Just got this in my e-mail:

Olakunmi Johnson
Head, Internal Control & Audit
Zenith Bank (Gh) Limited
Premier Towers, Opposite Pension House,
Liberia Road, Accra Ghana.

Dear Friend,

This letter is addressed to you in strict confidence and I trust it be treated as such.

I write, asking for your consent and approval in re-profiling funds, which I want to keep under your supervision and management.

The Fund is Twenty-Five Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$25.7M) only. The owner of this account was late Mr. William Barnes, an American, and he died since 31st Oct 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 along with his wife and immediate family members and all other passengers on board. I am contacting you believing strongly on your capability and confidentiality to handle transaction this magnitude. For your referral, see: http://www.sptimes.com/News/110299/Worldandnation/Passenger_list_for_Eg.shtml.

Since it is in my power to do as the Head, Internal Control & Audit Manager of this financial hub at this time, I want to present you formally to my bank as the legal and nominated next of kin to our late client so that his estate abandoned with us can be released to you. This proposed deal is strictly between you and me. I do not want to be greedy or selfish over the splitting ratio of the dividend as I see and term this opportunity as "a divine providence". Therefore, I propose to relinquish 40% of the entire fund to you at the successful end of the deal for your speedy attention, part-partnership, confidentiality and sincerity of purpose while I will be entitled to 60% as the initiator and master-minder of this uncommon project.

Considering your position in the society and that of mine as a senior bank staff, I have arranged the logical conclusion of this transaction in a way that our collective integrity will be protected from any trace or breach of law as I intend destroying the transfer disc immediately after transfer is made.

If I may have your confidence to partner with me to successfully achieve this life-time project, please reply with the reconfirmation of your name, address, phone and fax numbers for further details and its earliest commencement. Do not hesitate to ask me any question you may have as regards to this. Should your conscience permits you not to partner with me, please be advised to destroy this letter and do not use any part of the information contained therein against me or my good office.

As a seal of interest, do call me for brief voice information as soon as you receive and send me reply to this letter.

Thank you and God Bless.

In Sincere Partnership,

Olakunmi Johnson
+ 233-201900324

[Coyotl]

1. I replied to one of these once, sayin'

Grreat. Just set up an account in my name and send me the necessary info to access it.
I'm still waiting, and now I have to read them all because I forgot the guy's name

[ddavis195600]

4. hahaha, hilarious...

[sadbear]

2. I once tried to negotiate the terms of the deal.

75% me, 25% him. Dumbass replied, but he refused the deal. WTH? Is this a scam or not?

[applegrove]

3. I wrote back scolding them. They obviously had a second letter ready to go

out automatically because I got a second letter telling me I would be rich.

[Honeycombe8]

5. You can get a virus immediately insalled on your pc if you open emails from senders

you don't know.

If you go a step further and respond, you have at a minimum confirmed your valid e-mail address to a world of criminals. These addresses are sold and re-sold.

Also, there's no telling what other access you're giving a criminal to your pc, when you send them e-mails.

[RavensChick]

6. The best fun I have with those jerkoffs is this:

Empty Spam, click, back to my Inbox.

That's how I have fun with them.

[RebelOne]

7. Send it to www.491eater.com. That website will have fun with Mr. Johnson, n/t

[HeiressofBickworth]

10. that would be www.419eater.com

[RebelOne]

11. Sorry. Got it wrong. But I love those guys. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Scamorama.com

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I have often wondered why anyone would bite on these

since they are so obviously bogus. But I recently read that they are deliberately written that way so as to screen out the smart people; only dumb, gullible people who are easily scammed respond to them.

[Generic Brad]

12. Unfortunately, legions of people do respond

I do not consider the victims dumb. Instead I see them as lonely and vulnerable.

There are a lot of variations on this scam. Someone who might not get pulled in by the lull of riches might respond if there is hope for love or belonging involved.