I've struck it rich! (Now what do I do with the money?)

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[Rubber Ducky]

More links for your reading pleasure:
419 Fraud (scroll halfway down the page)

Nigerian efforts to end these scams.

Nigerian letter fraud.

P.S. Pro wrestling and Hollywood are also make-believe.

[Eagle Eye]

But I need someone who knows something about managing money.

[Polybius]

I received one of those mailbox Nigerian letters last September. I think it is my third.

So, after you got your share of the money, how did you hide it from the IRS?

I insisted on getting my share shipped in cash in $100 k batches via UPS. I've got the $3 million buried in the back yard in surplus ammo boxes. I think the bank is getting suspicious as to why all my bank deposits are in cash.

[deport]

Be careful and don't get in line with the others that lose up to $100 million a year in this scam..... or so they say.

Nigerian Business Offer

[okiecowgirl]

I had one last week that was going to give me a commission for moving money from a Swiss account into mine and I would get lots of money. They were shipping arms somewhere. They would just drain my account. I'd like to know how they got into my mail. I just deleted it.

[Michael2001]

Nice. "I pity the foo" is one of my all time favorite lines.

[Eagle Eye]

Be careful and don't get in line with the others that lose up to $100 million a year in this scam..... or so they say.

I ain't got $10 to lose, let alone $10 million!

My job got eliminated in the wake of 9-11, I'm selling my house at a loss, so I'm not exactly flush with cash right now! If I wasn't so poor, this wouldn't be so funny.

[Don Carlos]

P.T. Barnum was right!

[shaggy eel]

,,, the sad reality is that if these scammers got your money, they'd be more creative and do a lot more with it than the government could with the same amount they scam out of you in tax.

[Eagle Eye]

Thanks.

We have four children. We stopped at four because we heard that ever fifth child born in the world is Chinese and we don't speak that language.

[isthisnickcool]

Barnum never said "there is a sucker born every minute". The fellow that said it was David Hannum.

See here

[yooper]

Reply to the e-mail with an anatomical instruction of where to put the money. Chances are it'll get returned to you, but hey, maybe the guy will get it and do it.....

[Eagle Eye]

Sad but true.

[shaggy eel]

,,, having three children is usually the optimum. It's called the lighthouse keeper theory. If two kill each other in a card game or some other likely point of disagreement, there's still one to keep the light burning.

[muggs]

I hand checks to people all the time and on those checks are my account # and the ABA bank routing #. You mean anyone with that info can take $ out of my account?

Yes they can take money from your checking account. Before my son opened his checking account he needed to pay a bill and he gave me the money, I gave him my checking account number and he called and paid over the phone. The company he paid never called me to verify that I gave permission, they just deducted the amount from my account. Pretty scary, isn't it?

[Eagle Eye]

Got me a spare in case one's a dim bulb.

[JimSEA]

You got one of those too?? And I thought I was soooo special. Now my feelings are hurt.

[shaggy eel]

,,, risk manager!

[antaresequity]

Try Day Trading

[another cricket]

In a word, yes. Covering your tracks is a bit more complicated but only a bit.

A. Cricket