New Trick of Nigerian Scammers

January 7th, 2008 You can safely delete any messages contains with: "correspondence may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not met" This appears to be an often repeated phrase of nigerian scammers these days and is worth searching for in content of your emails for direct deletion (nuke).

October 27th, 2005 Nigerian 419 scammers anthem is titled - "I Go Chop Your Dollars". It aired few months ago as a CD penned by Osofia and is hugely popular in Lagos: "419 is just a game, you are the losers, we are the winners.

August 30th, 2007 Imagine that you have received a notification from a Bank that you are the lucky recipient of a beneficiary fund. What would be the bank you can absolutely trust, even with your life? You guessed it...

April 17th, 2005 I received an email today from the infamous Nigerian scammers. This time it was a job offer for financial manager and it ends with a hilarious disclaimer.

August 12th, 2007 Now I have seen it all. I received a nigerian scam as a comment spam on my blog.

February 7th, 2004 Plea From A Canadian Diplomat Or Canadian Mail Scam? Need I say more?

October 7th, 2005 The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria received Ig Nobel prize this year "for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq." The scams (also known as 419 scams) are notorious for asking people to reveal their private bank information to help fictitious characters transfer large sums of money.

July 13th, 2006 Phishing has been around for years. You get an email that looks like it arrived from financial institutions like PayPal or Bank of America.

February 8th, 2008 With the popularity of blog spamming, can Nigerian scammers (and spammers) be left far behind? Here is an interesting attempt to scam, posted as a comment on blog against this article: Name: frank taylor | Email: frank****@yahoo.com | URL: http://KindAttention | IP: 41.210.17.190 | Feb 8, 9:06 AM | Type: normal [[A (sub)human being actually took the trouble to spam me!]] Bujumbura Refugees Camp Room 32 Liberia Camp 3 Accra Ghana West Africa Kind Attention, Greetings , my name is Frank Taylor .I am making this contact to you in good faith and hope that it will transpire into mutual relationship for now and in future to come .I am the eldest son of late Sir Beuford Taylor a formal gold merchant and also a know politician in my country Liberia. After the fall of the government, my father with other top government officials was alleged financial losses and detained by the Interim government of the present administration, on 23rd 2003 November, unfortunately he died in the detention custody since then the government has been accusing my family with strange accusation.

March 12th, 2005 A 'comprehensive' sweep of the net by 70 law enforcement organisations from 26 countries should help authorities combat phishers, spammers and scammers, says a leading consumer protection agency. It sounds too good to be true and effective.

March 13th, 2009 Do you like the style of a website you have visited right now and want to take some screen shots or a section of the page as yours. You can do so for numermous cases like the paypal transaction section, a certain plugin section and many more.

April 21st, 2008 Here is a LinkedIn invitation I received from Elvis Ata (elvisata2001@yahoo.cn): Elvis Ata requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: Angsuman, DEAREST ONE PERMIT ME TO INFORM YOU OF MY DESIRE OF GOING INTO BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU.FOR THIS SIMPLE AND SINCERE BUSINESS. I AM ELVIS ATA THE ONLY CHILD OF LATE MR THOMAS ATA, MY FATHER WAS A VERY WEALTHY COCOA MERCHANT IN BOUAKE COTE DIVOIRE, BEFORE HE WAS SHOT BY THE REBELS ON ONE OF THEIR OUTING TO DISCUSS ON A BUSINESS.

July 5th, 2006 Today I received a spam (attempting to get my IP address and user accounts of my work machine / server) which stands out for its novelty as well as extremely poor execution. I think the spammers will have much greater chance of success by taking an introductory course in English.

July 24th, 2006 Scammers have set up an exact copy of the download page for Google’s Toolbar plug-in in an attempt to lure users to download Trojan backdoor (W32.Ranky.FW), Surfcontrol reports. Some versions of the scam even spoof the correct Google Toolbar web address for Internet Explorer, using Google’s own redirection service in an attempt to hide the real, non-Google address.

August 26th, 2006 Today I received a 419 scam email with a difference. It speaks of "genuine love".