I am sure many of you have seen the scam, unsolicited emails from someone, who’s family member is being persecuted, and has funds in a bank in excess of millions of dollars and needs “your” help to procure the funds…
Well, I am beginning to play with one of them, now…we’ll see where it ends…
This was my reply to their initial email letting me know she needs my help getting $10 million USD out of a Russian bank…
nigerian scamz are bad. for full protection against these scams mail me your bank acccount numbers to i_r_legit@yahoo.com
Videotoast, you may enjoy perusing this thread. Cheers.
Hey Mike, that’s funny that you’re fooling the scammers. You should do a google search for it, if you haven’t already. There’s websites dedicated to toying with those scams. 
Yes, that is good…
The best scamming the scammer site I have found is: www.419eather.com
BTW…my real name is not Mike Litoris…LOL!
Here’s some detailed info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud
Usually only the elderly and the gullible become victims of these and other scams.
I heard about a really good story where a guy played a Nigerian scammer and made him go to Chad and he said he almost died…it was on a This American Life podcast but I think it costs $0.95 to download it more than a week after the broadcast.
They arent just in e-mails anymore.
My dad has watch that is worth around $800 new, and he listed it on craigslist for $450. A gal offered him $600 for it. She lived in Texas.
My dad doesnt do too many out of state sales, so was asking me about shipping methods, and I let him know.
So the lady says she sent the money to my dads paypal account, and that the money will be in pending till she gets the tracking code and verification that the watch has been sent . She also says that she is buying the watch for her husband, and guess where he lives? Aba, Abia. Working in the embassy of Nigeria. Also noted was the item must be shipped within 48 hours.
My dad being new to online sales, craigslist, and common internet knowledge of transfers, felt it was fishy, but she said the money was sent to his account, and he wanted to be nice and fair and try to send it out. UPS wouldnt let him send into Nigeria, and USPS told him that jewelry is very bad to send into Nigeria.
So now my dad asks me about it. I tell him, wait until the money is transferred from paypal, to your bank account. Once you have the money, then you send the item. Its not like we go to the 2nd window first at mcdonalds grab our food, then back up to the 1st window and pay the lady. lol
So we look into this, and companies she listened to help with shipping do not exist. Paypal said they do not know the companies or are associated with it in anyway. The money was never transferred, and when checking the “Paypal: Funds have been transferred” e-mail my dad got, I saw it was a very good fake.
So he avoided that crap scam, and I told him to re-list the watch on craigslist and let me know if anything else comes up with what he is selling. My dad is very easily angered, and gets really really bad when he is angry, so I can only imagine what verbal abuse he sent her when all of this fall through. haha
So be careful with ebay and craiglist. It looks very real for the first part of the deal with funds and all, but as soon as shipping comes up, read twice, cause thats where they will get you.
Haha, you should have sent them a watch made out of paper or a McDonald’s watch 
Gotta love Phonejacker.
Warning, bad language in the first one.