Prime Time Nigerian scams

Those Nigerian “scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” spam emails have finally made it prime time. MSNBC is running an article on how to keep yourself safe from becoming a scam victim. Poor Ms. Krause was scammed of $18,000. That’s a hybrid car right there.

“(Nigerians) are just great at social engineering. They keep finding new victims,” [...] “And Americans are very gullible.”

Personally I find the Nigerian emails that land in my spam label humorous and entertaining.

Dear sir,
I am a prnice sittng on a lagre sum of monies wishing to bekome a US cityzen. I need a contct frm the stats that wold be willng to sponsr me. Unfrtnytly I am unble to covr the inital paprwk fees. If u wold be kind enogh to wire $5000US dollrs I wold be willng to shre the 1million dollrs.

A prince with piss-poor spelling? If there was so much ‘monies’ involved you would think a secretary would be on hand to catch the errors.

Read More on MSNBC or click here for more stupid emails.