Have you ever been scammed by the famous nigerian 419 scam?

o well, the fact that we receive an offer from someone that he will transfer millions or even half of it is a giveaway that it was a scam. There are lots of email circulating that is almost exactly like this. that is why we must have to be cautious in responding especially to those who ask for account numbers and other details..

I once saw a investigative show tracing the origin of this scam. They've discovered that it was run by a syndicated based in the UK. Of course there are different variations of thes scam, but the gist is always the same. Theres a lot of money involved, and you've got to send them your bank details. I've received this email a few times, and I've just learned to ignore it.

Personally I have seen this one many times, and even had people try to send this one thru here via the messages and on Facebook. The problem is they have people everyday who have not heeded the warnings and still loose a lot of money. One better here in the US is promise of a job, and they will send you a Money Order via FedEx and then you have to cash the check, keep like $700 and send the rest to somewhere else via Western Union. People that fall for this especially if they have spent any of the money and sent the Western Union on are out a lot of $$ and usually even with the Police involved, etc. never get all their $$ back if anything. Personally there needs to be an easier way to STOP these.

Has anything legal EVER come out of Nigeria? Really, we try not to be racist, but it's damned difficult sometimes. I now send these scammers posts back to each other. Sometimes I vary it with an offer from a loan company or something. There's some good "scambaiting" forums where you can see how low these scum will go. When they realise their nasty little plan hasn't worked, and they've been duped by the dupees, they start making threats to kill. I'm currently trying to find a witchdoctor curse to send 'em.

That is most popular in email scam that always said "you are winner" or "package send via DHL or fedex"... I don't take seriously those email because how can I win in lotto draw since I don't even pick any number and play lotto... Who is the person to send a thousand dollar in LBC I don't know anyone. Those are all flaws...

I've never fallen for one of these schemes but the idea of free money, and a lot of it, pushes people's greed button. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Most of these emails end up in my spam folder anyway.

Nigeria 419 scam is run by a group of clever criminals belong to international crime syndicate. They are make up by men and women con artists that are good at exploiting American targets, fortunately i get to see 'Dateline' TV show that took on many hours of production hours, man powers and financial resources in order to track its player in U.S. and warn its viewers on this rising scam inside the country, so whenever i receive internet offers of million dollar inheritance or lottery winning money, i know it is too good to be true. These criminals are not good at mail and wire fraud, they are also very good at producing fake government official documents from foreign country to trap unaware and unsuspecious individual from U.S especially the retirement senior citizens community to suck dry their life long saving. I am appalled by the amount of moeny many people had been scammed back in U.S by these criminals that are operating from oversea together with agents station in U.S. in the past. Many time they are able to wire transfer a stolen Paypal account or bank account of someone into the victim personal account in return for a large sum of commission before the police catch up with them, ended up the victims are being arrested by police and facing charges of wire fraud or wire theft. They are the real smart international criminals that always avoid capture by local police.