They're rioting in Africa

[erikred]

Well, not at the moment, but they've finally gotten around to sending 419 Scammer email to my work address. Took 'em bloody long enough.


ATTN.Erik Nielsen,

I am Mr JOHN DANILK, the only son Mr JACOD DANILK.The former
security adviser to the ousted Sierra Leonean military head of state, AZIZ KOROMA,
I am writing to express my interest real estate or any viable investement in your country. my father died in detention a couple of yaers ago while he been detained by the new governement.

Before his untimely death, he instructed me to leave the country for my safety and start up a business in any country for my choice with a total sum $ 25,000.000.00 (twenty five million us dollars) deposited in a security and finance company here in Dakar S?n?gal. Actually, i came accross your contact through internet. I decided to seek your assistance in transferring this money for investment purpose. I have all the documents that covers the deposit which could be faxed to you upon request.

Transaction of this nature demands the highest trust and confidence between both parties. if you will prefer it. this transaction is risk free in the sense that I have taken proper care of all formalities involved. for your assistance in this transfer, I have decided to give you 15% of the total sum involved and 5% mapped out for miscelleneous expenses that we may incur during the process. I appriciate any assistance you may accord me in this capacity.

I look forward to hear from you soon,

THANKS YOU GOD BLESS YOU.

Yours sincerely.
Mr JOHN DESUMANI


Maybe I should forward this to the Governor.

Comments

[mumbojumble.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should forward this to the Governor.

Hehe. I've received quite a few of these. What's "419 Scammer"?

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Ah, you'll want to read this wonderful article from snopes.com.

They're a particular flavor of spammer that focuses on scamming you out of your money through variations on the Nigerian Bank Needs Your Help scheme.

[mumbojumble.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It never occurred to me to actually answer one of these but I did kind of wonder how the scam would unfold; the article shed light on that. Poor greedy suckers.