Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Every single day 10 minutes of my morning time is spent, sipping a hot cup of coffee and deleting spam mails.
You know the funny part, I read them... I am very curious to find the story that the person on the other side is writing. I have read all kinds of stories, you name it - "my cancer stricken wife counting her last days... Microsoft Online Lottery Lucky Draw (Imagine Microsoft Lottery)... A millionaire couple dead on a plane crash who left behind money for me...FBI watch list has verified I have legit money..." the list is endless.
Anyway the point is this is not funny, this is serious business. There are people earning money either by scamming or by stealing your identity. And surprisingly 90% of the mails I receive are from African countries, how I know? Well from the addresses written in the mails. I have no prejudice against people from those regions but ironically I came to know of two incidents in my close circle, which happen to involve people from Nigeria.
There was a breaking story today from New Zealand.
"A Porirua woman lost $10,000 to a scammer who told her that he was a widower, and employed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in Lagos.
In one scam he emailed her a business letter showing US$200,000 ($290,740) he had deposited in a United States bank account.
Police believe the same scammer was responsible for extorting almost $70,000 from an Auckland woman - using a similar story."
I don't make that money burning 40 hours a week.
For more on the story, read the article published in New Zealand Herald.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10529343
1 comments:
Actually I'm very happy someone brought this subject to the open! A couple of years back I had a similar experience with a guy that said he was living in Nigeria with a pastor who had adopted him. According to "His Story", his parents had died years efore in a accident and he was left "alone in the whole world"! Well, after talking chatting for sometime he started flirting with me and making sure to write "I Love You" in every sentence. Of course after a while He started asking for money because (I) as his "Future wife" needed to support him and send the money for him to come to America. Hell No!!! I played the game for a while and the guy sended me some pictures of him taken in a studio. (How can you afford a pic taken from a studio when you are barely surviving!!) At the end he called me twice and when I verified the number it was from N.Y. What a bastard! After I confronted him, he stopped contacting me. NOTE: Just because they "CLAIM" to be from Nigeria doesn't mean they ARE from Nigeria.
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