Fraudsters
Intro
A whole industry has
grown up
generating fake letters and e-mails sent by people pretending to be
relatives of deposed African leaders who say they are in urgent need of
financial help to move secret fortunes away from their countries.
The
details vary but those
orchestrating this type of crime offer their victims a cut in the money
they claim to have. Then usually, after a few letters or e-mails about
the proposition, they ask for the victim's bank details, for the money
to be transferred to them. But instead of the transfer, the fraudsters
then clean out the victim's account.
The
way these cunts work is
really
simple. The offer of a share in a vast
fortune does actually tempt some people and there are some victims who
have lost hundreds of thousands of pounds! After
the exchange of a few emails, the scam artist then informs the victim
that they are on the verge of completing their ‘secret deal’ BUT
obstacles then spring up but the victim can only see the vast fortune
within grasp and happily send off relatively small amounts of money (at
first) to speed up the deal that they hope will bring them this vast
fortune. These obstacles could be ‘corrupt
officials’ who need paying off – only say - £500, then no sooner
has that little problem been resolved than yet another ‘problem’ pops
up – this time £1500 is required and so on and so on.
Well,
I don’t know if you have
heard of the current sport of winding up those scam artists who send
out these letters and emails, but I did and decided to join in! (For
those considering taking up the sport, I'd recommend taking a look at 419eater.com
where you will find a lot of useful information.)
An ‘INVESTMENT
PROPOSAL’ email was posted on a website by a recipient of that
email, so I contacted the author of the email (Kwame Adu - probably not
his real name) and informed him that a friend of mine received his
email and then passed it on to me and that I was *extremely* interested
in his little proposition. These scam
artists send out thousands of these emails and have no way of tracking
the suckers who reply. If you decide to
join the sport of taking the piss out of these cunts and jerking them
around then make sure that you NEVER give out any personal
information!
First, I
created the alias
Takin Gthepiss, then an email account to go with it:
takin.gthepiss@ntlworld.com
The cunt’s
alias (I’m
assuming it’s an alias – maybe it’s his real name) was Kwame Adu and
his email address was:
kwameadu@mail.com
And that was
it! All set to
go! 
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