Falling for Online Nigerian Scam: What Would You Do?
By myempress
@myempress (185)
Philippines
March 10, 2011 5:52am CST
If a stranger was being scammed, would you tell them? You see them all the time: e-mails from a "Nigerian Prince" with access to large amount of money, who says he needs your help getting out. While the stories in each e-mail vary, many of them include a request for a certaing sum of money, usually a few thousand dollars, which is needed by the "prince" to get access to a much larger amount, which he agrees to split with you for giving him the initial amount. While most of us simply delete these bogus e-mails without thinking twice, some Americans still get duped by these sinister scams and send there money to complete strangers.
Well I had my own share with this kind of scam, at first I did seem to believe but later on when he was asking and talking about money I ended that communication right away, I knew that it was already a scam. Have you been scammed before by a Nigerian?
1 response
@shertevs1964 (31)
• United States
12 Mar 11
Funny that you are writing this. I got it from skype and I was surprised who this person was and so I accepted his conversation. He said he was a prince and that he was on his way to america. The person(s) suppose to meet him will not be able to show up. He wanted to get more acquainted with me, so on and so forth. He was a black person and he was not from the USA.
I just got scammed but a Lucas Ruslan in the gmail. One day he just sent me and e-mail and a few days later, a check was delivered through UPS and the check that he gave me bounced and I became negative in the bank. When I paid the negative after a day or two, they closed my account and they said the check is under fraud investigation.
I wanted to report it to the police, but I felt like an idiot falling for their scam. Thank God, I only owed 100 dollars and I was able to pay it.
@myempress (185)
• Philippines
12 Mar 11
Really, you did? Wow! Good thing it was just $100, seriously these Nigerian are all over the internet and still trying to make their way out of scamming, sometimes they do pretend to be girls on networking sites posting sexy, pretty pictures of girls but they're actually Nigerian. My fiancé once fell for that, got his $200 wasted for a scam.
