Nigerian Django Scam!!!

MichaelHorowitz

Ok...we've all gotten the emails about Nigerians wanting to transfer millions into our bank accounts. But this email I got the other day is really weird...

Hello Teacher,
Good day to you.My name is peters edwards
based in london.My son(18 years ofage) will be
coming to the state for a 2(Two) month
holiday but will stay with my elder brother.While he
his there,i want him to attend your teaching class
.I want you to e-mail me the modalty of the
programme,rate/hr,number of hours a day,your location
,duration of the lesson and other things necessary for
a smooth learning.Please get back to me asap .

peters edwards

Obviously written by someone who is not a native English speaker...I traced the email and guess what...it was sent from a computer in Nigeria.

I humored the guy a little and he sent some more:

Dear Michael Horowitz,
Thank you so much for your reply i really
appreciate the details you made available to me
regarding the
lesson,my son put more intrest in guitar yes he
can stay with you so during
his times in state i want you to be his teacher in
state
you sounds apparently nice
lesson three times in a week for just for 2hours
for each time of
meeting formy son.Pls i want you to calculate the
cost of the lesson for
the next 8weeks so that a check could be send to you
in fulfilment of
payment.In your reply,let me have the name.address
and a phone number so
that the check could be directed to the right
address okay.Get back to
me soon because demand is time sensitive.

Kind regards

edwards peters

and then this one where he agrees to pay me $5K to teach his "son"....oh boy!

Dear Michael,

Thanks for your kind reply and i really appreciate
your concern towards helping my son to be part of your
private student.

With respect Mr Michael,i wish to let you that i am an
international business man and which i`ll be making a
business trip to japan this saturday.

Actually Mr Michael,my client in U.S.A who is oweing
me alot of money wish to take care of my sons
expenses;called me and bluntly told me that my money
won`t be ready till next week and you know children
being what they are if you don`t give them their heart
desires;they keep disturbing you and i love my son so
much and i try as much i can in going extra mile in
fullfilling his heart desire.

So,I called my other client in london;who immediately
issued a cashier cheque to your favour;the name of the
bank is : Farmers state bank.

I am sorry for the misinformation,my son will call you
and i have enlighten him of the present circumstances.

The amount issued on the cheque is $5000.00 dollars

Edward Peter

I guess these Nigerian scammers have become slightly more sophisticated in that they're trying to add some degree of context to their scam. I guess they just found my site and figured they could bait me with lucrative guitar lessons. I'm not sure where their taking it...but I guess at some point they'll ask me for my bank account info so they can transfer huge sums of $!

I'll let you all know where this goes...

'm

thrip

If you need some inspiration have a look at this site:

http://www.419eater.com/

MichaelHorowitz

thanks for the link....hard to believe anyone ever falls for these scams!

'm

Jack

Michael wrote:

I guess these Nigerian scammers have become slightly more sophisticated in that they're trying to add some degree of context to their scam.

But apparently not sophisticated enough to avoid signing three different names:

peters edwards
edwards peters
Edward Peter

One sad part of these things is that it's often the already struggling who fall victim.

Best,
Jack.

MichaelHorowitz

I noticed the inconsistency with the names as well....

I was surprised to read on the 419 scam site that they can't actually do anything with your bank #, which is what I always thought. It's just a way of testing your commitment to the "deal." Their ultimate goal is to get you to send them $ for various "fees" and to try and actually get you to go to Nigeria to "collect" your $. I guess some really naive and desperate people have actually gone all the way to Nigeria!! Weird...

'm

Tom Conway

This guy emailed me also saying he was from London and that his son was coming to Maui to stay with his brother for two months. He said he wanted his son to take four guitar lessons a week and that he was 'urgent' to get payment details. This fellow is weird for sure!

Toms Conways

nwilkins

Tom Conway wrote:

Toms Conways

:shock: IMPOSTOR!!!!!

AndreasOberg

This is another interesting story that I heard a few months ago.

A friend of mine from Sweden put out an ad on hotclub.co.uk because he wanted to sell his left-handed d-hole. He got a reply from a british guy who wanted to buy it immediately (without asking any questions at all about the instrument!!).
He sent a check for approx. 5000 euros and the guitar costed only like a third of that money. He wanted my friend to cash in the check and send the rest of the money to a bank-account in Greece where his wife was in a hospital.
My friend was told at the bank that I should take 3 weeks to confirm the check and the british guy wanted my friend to pay the money to Greece immediately because his wife was dying and he couldn't transfer it himself because of some problems with the IRS.
Of course my friend refused but he has saved the check as a memory to put on the wall...
Sounds like a scam, doesn't it?
/Andreas

British_Guy

AndreasOberg wrote:

He wanted my friend to cash in the check and send the rest of the money to a bank-account in Greece where his wife was in a hospital....his wife was dying and he couldn't transfer it himself because of some problems with the IRS.

Sounds like a scam, doesn't it?
/Andreas

Not only does my sweet young wife lies buried in the cold, cold ground, but now my reputation is being sullied on this good forum!

My wife's last words to me were "I hope you will enjoy that new guitar, dearest...I can't wait go get out of this Greek hospital and come home to hear you play it."

But she'll never hear its dulcet tones, and neither will I. The world is a cruel place; please don't make it any harder on those unfortunate souls who must fight the IRS while while their loved ones lie dying in foreign lands.

When you get a plea such as the one Andreas describes, people, don't be so quick to judge it a scam. Think of the poor, motherless children that I now raise alone, and reconsider. Open your hearts, Djangophiles--you'll be so glad you did.

Reginald Conartis
U.K.

AndreasOberg

I only heard the story from my friend so I can't tell what's true or not. If what your telling is really the truth then it's a very sad story. But don't you think that my friend was right to be suspicious in any case, he just wanted to sell his guitar and not to be involved in any transfering of money to foreign countries.
I didn't want to mention any names( to avoid to intimidate anyone), just tell this story and see what people thought


Best Regards
Andreas

Agent

British_Guy wrote:

Reginald Conartis

Yes, it's most odd how the names keep changing.