$100,000,000.00 from Nigeria and other fun things (like fulcrumatic cancer)

Everyone reading this post must have, at some point, received some form of spam email about some poor fellow in Nigeria who needs to transfer $10,000,000 to your bank account for the time being in order to help his ailing mother…

These scams are known in the techie world as 419 scams.

Well, if you haven’t heard of them, they’re very prolific and, simultaneously, the subject of quite a few jokes around the water cooler. Unfortunately, they are also quite effective to the more gullible type, as apparently the authors of some of these letters make a living off of the money they receive from the fruits of their labor.

I’ve included a link HERE to a wonderful site that has made it its mission to scam the scammers. Yes, that’s right. 419 Eaters play along in the scam as far as they can, and sometimes, the results are very funny. In fact, this scam-of-the-scammer went so far that the results are quite astounding! Just visit the site and read through the emails that were exchanged...

Although not associated (as far as I know) to the group above, THIS SITE has a documented case of “playing along” as well (Have you met Wendy Wilcox and her dog? ). Anyone ever heard of Fulcrumatic cancer?

Enjoy the stories! I sure did. And remember: If you get a too-good-to-be-true email saying that you have something really good coming your way, it probably is to good to be true.

So have fun reading of these online escapades. And make sure to comment back your stories of these and other stupid (yet effective) scams!


--Xi Hyperon