Nigerian Scammers Fleece Australians For Millions

[jeffrey]

Police are staggered by the amount of money Australians are losing to Nigerian investment scammers.

The long-running internet-based rort has netted more than $7 million from Queenslanders alone, and the loss Australia-wide is likely to be far higher, police say.

Among those being duped are financial advisers, lawyers and university professors, and one person had put $2.2 million into the hands of scammers over the past two years... Entire Story

[Broken Arrow]

Here's an updated article stating that 419 scams are still going strong.

Beware!

[miclason]

I receive these periodically in my email...sometimes I'm tempted to reply pretending I believe them, but, for example, one was supposed to be from a young man, where the money had been wrongfully gotten by his father, and was now being claimed by his step mother, and he was just an innocent bible scholar trying to get the money that was his because it belonged to his father...I was tempted to write: surely your years of bible study would let you understand that this money is evil and you should just forget about it and let your step mom take it and be punished for it ...or something like that...
the other one was about some money supposedly left to me by some rich guy recently deceased who wanted to do charity and help someone in need...to this one, I was tempted to reply: oooh, great, thanks, but, I think you must have the wrong email address, since I didn't know kind Mr. X....

Of course, I didn't waste my time...but, honest, is funny to see the kind of stuff they come up with!