OMFG!!! This is BEYOND disgusting!

[IDrinkaRum]

You all know about the Nigerian money scams, right?

Well, today I got an e-mail that gives a twist on the Nigerian money scam. Someone, posing as an American Soldier in Iraq, requesting assistance in transferring $8 million dollars. They found the money in the old palaces/homes of Saddam Hussein.

How low can someone get to impersonate an American Soldier? There are still some pro-military, let's help the military out as much as possible people out there who might just fall for this scam! It really boils me!

[Dorath]

I"m pro military, just not pro-Iraq war.

[Greenday]

Hey, no kidding, I got the same email the other day. Quite an interesting read.

[Seshat]

About as low as you have to be to impersonate a dying kid, or any of the myriad other ways scammers tug on decent peoples' hearts.

Sadly, it doesn't surprise me. The only surprise is that you've not seen it before.

[crazylegs]

The latest one to circulate over here is that an email lands in your inbox claiming that someone has taken a hit out on you, for the princely sum of $10,000 you can get the hit taken off send half now, you'll receive a tape with all the conversations between hitman and their 'customer' and then you'll send the other half.

Now thats sick.

[DesignFox]

Crazylegs, that's pretty awful!

I have gotten the Nigerian money scheme email, but not one from someone posing as a soldier in Iraq. People stoop to such low levels... *shakes head*

[lordlundar]

It's really no worse than the ones circulating after September 11, 2001. That one was a survivor of the disaster either:

A) finding a huge stash of precious items (precious metals, jewels, artwork, etc) and needing the money to get it out of the country.

or

B) severely injured and needing a truckload of cash to pay for their recovery.

The worst part is that I don't even think those were foreign correspondence, but originated in the states.

Heck if the internet was around in WW2, you would have seen the same thing, just replace Iraq with Germany.

[Skunkle]

This IS sick. I get the generic Nigerian scams all the time, and I usually fuck with them. Not to the degree of, say, 419Eater.com, but they're fun to toy with a little bit. As much as these new tactics are upsetting, they don't surprise me in the least, really.

The oddest I've gotten was not nasty at all, but it played on the same forces that may induce people to jump onto a random class-action suit in hopes of getting money they don't deserve: I was contacted by a "British barrister" who was also a "Reverend" (Wow, a man of law AND a man of God, I trust him double!) who claimed that my name was one released by the whistleblowers of a crime syndicate, and they wanted to return money stolen from me. Not really nasty, but definitely playing on temptations. They got a long and detailed affirmative response from Mr. "Hugh Gerald Regshun", owner of an upstart fetish-porn company, and needless to say they read my long-winded and humorous star names and film descriptions and still emailed me back, calling me as I signed, "Hugh G. Regshun".

Simply put, they'll do and say anything to entice or push you into sending them money. ANYTHING.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

It should suprise no one that someone who would clean out someone's bank account would lie about who they were in order to do so.

If they weren't the useless dregs of humanity to start with, we would have no conversation here.

[Nyoibo]

There's a couple of pictures on heaven666 of nigerian scammers pics trying to convince people, one is of a guy with a candle in each hand butt nekkid with his laptop tied around and dangling from his twig and berries, they will seriously go to ridiculous lengths to get peoples money.

[guywithashovel]

Several years ago I got a random IM on Yahoo from a guy in Nigeria who wanted me to send him $100 to help with his college tuition. At the time, I wasn't aware of any "Nigerian Money Scams." I still didn't send him any money, though. I just said "goodbye" and disconnected.

[ben_who]

www.419eater.com

Careful when you go in there. It has a way of eating up time.

Love, Who?

[tropicsgoddess]

I"m pro military, just not pro-Iraq war.

Same here and it's so disgusting to deceive people under the guise of a good person/entity!