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|  | Nigerian scammer IM'ed me!!!
« Thread Started on Mar 22, 2006, 7:39pm » | |
I started using Yahoo messenger today for the heck of it...right?
I set it to "away" when I went to work, and when I came back, I had an IM from some name I didn't recognise...it just said "hello" and "are you there?"...
I figured it was some random guy saying hi...well guess what? I was wrong...as when I checked my email tonite, I got one from the same guy that messaged me, only it was one of those Nigerian scams!!!!!
Ever have a Nigerian scammer IM you??? Weird!!!
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| | Re: Nigerian scammer IM'ed me!!!
« Reply #1 on Jun 5, 2008, 9:03am » | |
Last Summer, I had one IM me...
One day I just got an IM out of the blue, saying hello. So I said hello back.
we talked for an hour about nothing in particular, who we were, where we were from, etc, no red flags other than being a random IM.
For 3 weeks we talked on and off about how things were going etc.
I was told she lived in the UK, and about what school she attended etc..
Being suspicous by nature I followed up on most of the info, and it all seemed legit,
except for her pictures, This seems to be where most of the "Personalized Scam" people screw up. The two pictures she sent me seemed to be of different people. Very ver similar looking, but I do believe different. Plus the pictures seemed a bit too professional.
So red flag there, but so far everything else was harmless.
Thn finally, she said to me she needed to cash a check and her bank wouldn't do it for her, and if I would cash it for her, she would split it with me. I deferred, she put it away.. and asked again a few days later... it was like a 15K check...
She gave me some story about how her father died, and it was part of the estate, but had a misspelled last name.. or something I dont' remember it all, but it was rather amusing to a point.
It just amazed me, that someone would take that much time... weeks even, to run this scam.
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