It's not hard, you just put some holes in the FedEx envelope so the hippo can breathe.

The economy of Nigeria is based on the stupidity of Americans.

TFA: They were looking for a "good Christian home" for their English bulldog, reports said.

Uh, yeah. Because it's important that dogs receive a good, Christian upbringing.

Secret Agent X23: Uh, yeah. Because it's important that dogs receive a good, Christian upbringing.

i think they were worried if it went to a muslim home it might grow up to be a terrierist.

//yeah i went there

You know, you guys may laugh and make fun of it, but I have also fallen for this scam.
Twice.

How can people possibly be this stupid.

I have to start running scams like this. If people are that dumb they deserve the occasional financial spanking.

you'd think everyone online would know that ANYTHING from Nigeria is a scam at this point....

I have to give credit to the scammers for this one. It's pleasantly different.

So can I assume that the Elephant I ordered isn't going to arrive?

It is a good Christian elephant.

Suckers....I'll be laughing all the way to the bank once I receive my winnings from the lottery I won in Nigeria. And that's not to mention the millions I'm getting from a long lost relative who had a diamond mine that I didn't know about.

I know of a suspension bridge in New York City that can be purchased rather inexpensively. If you would send a cheque made out to CASH to Staja Number 84F.

Would you be interested in some scrap metal, previously made of a world's fair landmark? (new window)

They will chop your dollar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_YjvC4ndzM

I Go Chop Your Dollar
I don suffer no be small
Upon say I get sense
Poverty no good at all, no
Na im make I join this business
419 no be thief, its just a game
Everybody dey play am
if anybody fall mugu, ha! my brother I go chop am

Chorus
National Airport na me get am
National Stadium na me build am
President na my sister brother
You be the mugu, I be the master
Oyinbo I go chop your dollar, I go take your money dissapear
419 is just a game, you are the loser I am the winner
The refinery na me get am,
The contract, na you I go give am
But you go pay me small money make I bring am
you be the mugu, I be the master... na me be the master ooo!!!!

When Oyinbo play wayo, them go say na new style
When country man do im own, them go de shout bring am, kill am, die!
Oyinbo people greedy, I say them greedy
I don see them tire thats why when them fall enter my trap o!
I dey show them fire

a couple who claimed to be a missionaries in Africa.

You winz da journalizmz!!11!!1

I'm with eqtworld on this one. How dumb do you have to before Darwin kicks in?

Christians must make the best 419 scam victims. You already know they'll buy into a ridiculous story.

There's a saying that relates to this story but I just can't remember it. Something about a fool and his money.

Usually the Taz, arrived in a crate...

The couple's bank told them to contact law enforcement and have a report filed.

There will be a $350 processing fee to file that report.

what's really sad is that if they wanted a dog, they could have taken that money to the local shelter and adopted one, saving it from euthenasia.

/both my doggies are from the shelter, best dogs in the world

They wanted a good christian home because if somebody is gullable enough to believe that religous bullshiat. Then they will sure believe this rediculous scam.

geetus: The couple's bank told them to contact law enforcement and have a report filed.

There will be a $350 processing fee to file that report.



I lol'd hard!

I can see the use of the dumbass tag but it does make me wonder why the sad tag couldn't have been used because in this day and age, even if you don't have a computer there have been countless news stories reporting of variations of this 419 scam email.
there was another story here a month or so back and the article showed the newspaper ad with the guys email in it. I emailed it to see if it was still valid and sure enough within an hour I had an email with a picture of an english bulldog that needed to be adopted by a loving home.
/ctrlaltdelete you owe me a new keyboard.

Wow! There really is one born every minute!
In this case there were 2.

How can people still fall for these kind of scam ?

They sound like a brilliant pair. I wonder if they have contacted Mr Gumboodu the deputy minister about their 7 million dollar windfall?

feckingmorons 2008-04-06 04:46:31 AM
How can people possibly be this stupid.

Did you miss the Jim Baker post a couple of days ago, where not only is he starting a new foundation and people are actualy sending him money, they are signing over the restitution checks they receieved from being fleeced last time.

Laos for a dog? Don't they know dogs can drive now?

Jesus Harold Christ on a rubber crutch. My girlfriend and i answered an add on ocala4sale.com via email to buy an english bulldog pup for 350$. Which is pretty cheap, since they go from 120-3500 range.

This woman responsed to us saying that she had sold the last puppy but she had sold two to a missionary in Africa, and for a minimal fee, he would ship them to us, as he could not take care of him there.

We of course said no, but crazy like a month later readinf about it on fark.

Our mastiff wants a bulldog buddy, so we are just gonna have to suck it up on the cost.

This is refreshingly new. Usually, people fall for these scams because they're greedy and stupid. This couple was helpful and stupid. Lesson: Don't be stupid.

Oh, these Nigerian scams are so yesterday. The one Americans are falling for, hook line and sinker, are the Canadian lottery scams. I know a bank manager who sees about two customers a week fall for this scam. Usually the conversation goes something like this.

Manager: So you want to withdraw your life savings and wire it to Canada?

Customer: Yes

Manager: May I ask if you've been approached about a lottery?

Customer: (long pause and stare) I may have, why?

Manager: This is a common scam we see. A person is told they've won the Canadian (Or Irish) lottery but they must pay a number of taxes and fees before they'll send the money. Of course there is no money they just want the fee's you'll pay.

Customer: You don't understand, I received an official letter...

Manager: Sir, did you enter the Canadian lottery?

Customer: Well, no but the letter says I was selected at random.

Manager: Sir, it's a scam. There is no money.

Customer: But, I'll lose the money if I don't pay the tax within 48 hours.

Manager: Sir, there is no money. They're going to steal the money you send them for the fee's.

Customer: Look this is my money you can't keep me from withdrawing it.

Manager: Ok but, first I need for you to speak with our fraud department so they can explain to you how we will not be responsible for your losses.

Believe it or not, often the customer will send the money, then a few weeks later, come back to the branch and want to be reimbursed for money that was stolen from him/her.

In one case, a 25 year old woman borrowed $8,000 to buy a car from a man in Greece. He was selling it for half it's value and was shipping it for free. The bank employees discovered what was happening when she received the loan money in her account then immediately wanted to wire it to Greece. 4 bank employees, including the fraud department begged her for 45 minutes not to send the money. She simply insisted that the bank didn't understand and that she had spoken to the man and he was a very nice person. She wired the money and a month later, when she couldn't provide proof of collateral (title) they converted the loan to a personal unsecured loan at 12.5% interest. They called her about the loan conversion and she admitted she got scammed and that once she sent the money, he stopped accepting her calls.

A week later, her mother called and asked how she could pay off the loan for her. Which she did.

As someone already said, the stupidity of Americans is funding economies around the world. Many billions of dollars are going overseas for these scams each year.

english bulldogs are at least a grand. they tried to get a deal and got burnt. good christians.

Living things were shipped from Africa all the time about 400 years ago. You mean to tell me they can't find a way to do it now with today's technology?

steelpeg: You know, you guys may laugh and make fun of it, but I have also fallen for this scam.
Twice.

I have puppies for sale. And kittens. And baby giraffes. You could be the first idiot person on your block to have a real live giraffe in your yard. That'd be pretty hot, huh? Hell, you and me could go into a giraffe distribution business, turn 'em into the hippest pet out there. I can get 'em to you for about $350/per. We ship 'em straight from the veldt, freshest giraffes on the market.

jack21221: Living things were shipped from Africa all the time about 400 years ago. You mean to tell me they can't find a way to do it now with today's technology?

(I Should Post the "I see what you did there" pic, but too lazy.)

SlappyKincaid: you'd think everyone online would know that ANYTHING from Nigeria is a scam at this point....

I'll say. My university even got scammed recently...
If it's from Nigeria, it IS too good to be true. Especially when it comes to basketball...

jack21221: Living things were shipped from Africa all the time about 400 years ago. You mean to tell me they can't find a way to do it now with today's technology?




/......Approves?
//One ticket, please

steelpeg: You know, you guys may laugh and make fun of it, but I have also fallen for this scam.
Twice.

twice? twice?

i'll just kinda leave that question hanging there. twice.

If you're dumb enough to believe in jesus, you're dumb enough to fall for anything.

wallytacker: If you're dumb enough to believe in jesus, you're dumb enough to fall for anything.

...I'll bite.

I'm a Christian and I haven't sent money to pay for my English Lottery tickets or to help out a Nigerian political prisoner yet.

If you'd like, you can send me some money so I can get you my own special needle and thread that I like to give out to people who need to sew up their gaping, blubbery vag.

Ha-ha!

The people who run this scam deserve every penny they get in my opinion. If you are as stupid as these people and have $350 laying around then giving it to smarter-more cunning people is the price you pay for being dumb. This is in a nutshell how the rich get richer.

You just know it's an elderly white couple who will vote for McCain.

theflatline: Jesus Harold Christ on a rubber crutch. My girlfriend and i answered an add on ocala4sale.com via email to buy an english bulldog pup for 350$. Which is pretty cheap, since they go from 120-3500 range.

This woman responsed to us saying that she had sold the last puppy but she had sold two to a missionary in Africa, and for a minimal fee, he would ship them to us, as he could not take care of him there.

We of course said no, but crazy like a month later readinf about it on fark.

Our mastiff wants a bulldog buddy, so we are just gonna have to suck it up on the cost.

Either I'm really hung over, or this hurt my head.

jack21221
I know you're being facetious, but many Africans died en route to slavery in the Americas.

Asshole slave traders stuffed the ships to overcapacity, and threw the dead folks overboard as the journey progressed.

\few things must be more horrific in the annals of human history

HamSlammer
The people who run this scam deserve every penny they get in my opinion. If you are as stupid as these people and have $350 laying around then giving it to smarter-more cunning people is the price you pay for being dumb. This is in a nutshell how the rich get richer.

Oh I don't know. It's hard for some people to get their minds around the fact that there are many untrustworthy types and misinformation running around the Internet.

My parents are relatively smart people who can answer most Jeopardy questions between the two of them. But even they occasionally forward stupid chain emails that really don't require a visit to Snopes to know it's bullshiat.

I think older people need "Internet Safety 101" classes before they're certified to get online.

\kids need to take "Internet Stranger Danger 101" before they can get a Myspace account

Ooo, Ooo, we have scams like this originating in America, too. They're called Rent-To-Own businesses. See, it's pretty ingenious: You give them a small up front fee, on the belief that it's the first of a few instalment payments and that when you're done, you'll own something you couldn't otherwise afford. Little do you know, by the time interest, fees, commissions, etc. are factored in, you actually just paid some guy in a bad hairpiece for the pleasure of owning your life. Hooray!! Much more elegant and American than the 419 scam.

So Nigeria is where they make those cool plastic bricks-oops, nevermind.

Umm, isn't the correct term, a code 419? Farking schmucks invoking 911 for this? People can not think of 3 numbers without putting 911 together...

It looks like I won't be getting my new dog. Anyone want to buy a real nice, unused, dog house for $350?