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[txorakeriak]

Have you ever been contacted by someone who claimed to be a citizen of an African country and who needed your help with a business transaction that would involve millions of dollars for you? Welcome to the Nigerian scam! I'd only ever read about this before, but last week I finally received an e-mail myself! Just like the many examples I'd read

Comments

[wuschelfuchs]

Ooooh, you got a 419 scam. Is it weird that I am kind of jealous now? I've heard so much about them but never actually received one myself.

[txorakeriak]

LOL, I thought the same until I got one! :D

Would it help if I shared the letter? XD

[besanamo]

Thanks for the info, that's quite interesting. I've been getting these on a regular basis for years. Never knew they were such a big thing and founded in history though, I just deleted/ignored them.

[txorakeriak]

On a regular basis? Wow! They seem to be pretty persistent with you! Good idea to delete and ignore them though!

[besanamo]

Yes I get them at least once a month, probably more often but I only really notice the ones that aren't automatically relocated to the spam folder. Which version did they send to you?

[txorakeriak]

They sent me a .doc-file attached to an e-mail, called "Proposal", gonna copy the file here:

Dear Sir

[july_v]

You lost me. Is this supposed to be rasndom?

[txorakeriak]

What do you mean? This is supposed to be a LJ entry about a matter that interests me and that I figured might interest a couple of others.

[july_v]

I mean it's random! That's not a bad thing or anything, I'm just confused.

[txorakeriak]

Well, yes, but I'm interested in lots of random things and since I'm trying to get myself to use LJ more often, I must post about those random things as well!