419ers

[Xinam]

Anyone had any recently? I've received 4 in the last 2 days through my Yahoo e-mail. Very annoying, but really quite funny to read their sob stories. Found a good anti-419 site in my research today!

 

[David Lindon]

What is a 419er?

 

[Xinam]

What is a 419er?

You must have had one... you know the scenario... a man named Mungo from Nigeria had a rich uncle who has died in a plane crash and has $27million in his account. Unfortunately, he's too poor to pay his solicitor $2000 to get all the documents together to get the money. This is where you come in! You send him the money in return for 10% of the $27m. Only, you don't get anything and they keep your money.

They are called 419 scams, 419 being the code used by the relevant authorities to identify them.

 

[Xinam]

(wrong button! Why can't u delete ur own posts? Lindon, pls delete this!)

 

[David Lindon]

Ah, I see. Yep those scams are crap!

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

yeah, bloody things, hate them! puttohy!