• Are there ANY honest Nigerians?

Posted: **29 Mar 2006 07:54 pm**

Just got this email. Im not 100% but im pretty sure it may be a hoax.

It may be from a serious buyer for my (car truck) which I havent placed an advert for who is incredibly stupid.

Hello,

My name is Rud ben am intrested in you ( car truck ) i will implore you to get back with the availability and the asking price as soon as possible..

I will want you to considerd it sale to me ok...

I look forward to read from you as iam online for your kindest reply..

Regards

1/10 for effort.

Posted: **29 Mar 2006 08:07 pm**

do you know what the funniest thing is ??
it always looks like this fellas written their message in their own language and than used some sort of online translator (babelfish etc ) to translate into english

you should never generalise people from the same race ,country etc ,there are good and bad ones .
there is even a rumour that there are clever americans

Posted: **29 Mar 2006 08:10 pm**

Clever Americans... whatever next?

Posted: **29 Mar 2006 08:12 pm**

I know there mst be some nice Nigerians, but all the ones ive had contact with are trying to rob me.

Im not commenting on Americans!

"hey your'e a Brit, do you know Elton John or the Queen?"

Posted: **29 Mar 2006 08:18 pm**

ebdl wrote:Clever Americans... whatever next?

Flying cows?

Posted: **29 Mar 2006 09:33 pm**

I heard this story before. I happened to someone from V3C. Someone from africa wanted to buy his car (360) for a lot of money. They had to exchange banking details to make the payment. The idea was he was trying to get money from his bank account by internet. I don't remember exactly, but don't trust it anyway!

Posted: **30 Mar 2006 12:12 am**

Just think, there must be some genuine Nigerian out there that just can't buy goods, because everybody thinks he's a scammer.

Posted: **30 Mar 2006 09:07 pm**

Do you recon hes sitting behind his comp thinking "why wont ANYONE sell me anything???"

Posted: **31 Mar 2006 10:53 am**

Nigeria leads the world in financial scams. Most of them are a lot more sophisticated than this one too! A lot of those attempts to con eBay traders actually worked in the early days. I guess it's a numbers game. Contact 10000 buyers and they might still get a couple of suckers.

There's plenty of very sound Nigerians about too. I knew quite a few in London, including my boss

Posted: **01 Apr 2006 08:16 am**

"Nigeria leads the world in financial scams"

Figures taken from 2005 Nigerian tourist board

Posted: **15 Apr 2006 03:05 am**

ebdl wrote:Clever Americans... whatever next?

Now that sounds as rare as hens' teeth! Or, as a great Canadian friend put it: We (Canadians) take it for granted that all Americans are morons until proven different!

The Canadians just LOVE their neighbours

Posted: **18 Apr 2006 08:48 pm**

ebdl wrote:Clever Americans... whatever next?

No no, you're thinking of Canadians...

cheers

James