
I feel so special – I got an email from Robert S. Mueller III, Executive Director of the FBI. Amazingly, it appears that the Bureau is aware that I’ve been contacted by the Central Bank of Nigeria, and they felt compelled to protect my interests and investigate the contracts and related fund dispersal promised by the bank in payment for the rendering of some unspecified services.
This is good news indeed, since I didn’t even know that the CBN owed me $10,000,000.00, and now not only do I know about it, but I can rest assured that the FBI has already confirmed for me that the fund transfer is legitimate, and they will closely monitor the transfer. All I have to do is contact the CBN using the phone number and email address that the FBI has so thoughtfully provided, and follow their instructions expediently.
Seriously, does anybody fall for these scams anymore?
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Christopher 10.07.08 at 6:33 am
Apparently people do, in fact like normal spam they only need a tiny percentage of people (something like 0.0001%) to fall for it, to make enough money to make it more than worth while.
In fact, they even made a video called “I chop your dollar” which is the 419 anthem that motivates the scams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1nKR3gYRY8