The New Nigerian Scam
I was approached online by someone who named herself Stacy (artist's conception shown here), saying she was from Brooklyn, but after traveling to Nigeria her parents were killed in a car wreck, and her passport was confiscated. She claims to be 31, (incredibly) single, (even more incredibly) white, and (still more incredibly) looking for her "soulmate," who will (of course) help her return to the USA.(I listened to this for educational purposes, being oh, so intimately acquainted with most previous incarnations of the Nigerian Scam.)
But she has major ESL issues, even for someone raised in Brooklyn. :-) :-) :-) Consider this excerpt from the "background" she sent me:
Furthermore,after the death of my parent i wish to come back to states but the people i thought they can help me denied me when i called them for help that is why i decided to used the little money they left to send myself to school of nursing where i have just finished as last two month.Now that i have finished as nurse i thought i can get job here but its a pitty that there is no job here ,then i started going to the embassyoffice just to seek for there help but there is nothing come out of all what i have been looking for, so i made up my mind to splitted the money left with me into two, i used one to pay for the hotel where i m living now cuz i have no place to stay and no one to stay with and used the rest to deposited for the flight ticket with aim that i can get job so i can pay it before i can get someone to stay with in the states but ordinary persona to stay with i mean solumate man to lean on forever .I'm posting this as a public service: this Stacy is most likely a black Nigerian man, looking to scam stupid Americans, as did "Miriam Abacha" before him. He may also be a Muslim, though I think that's neither here nor there -- I just heard the other day that Nigeria was mostly Muslim. The difference between this scam is that it is targeted at chatters rather than e-mailers. There have, of course, been any number of other scams pointed at chat rooms and the like, but this one is aimed at those who may not only be stupid, but vulnerable as well. A word to the wise, assuming I have any readers at all, much less wise ones. LOL
posted by Ron @ 8:13 PM
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