Re: insightjonathanliveApril 20 2008, 15:49:55 UTC
Yes, he is trying to scam you. This is one of several classics. If the government had any involvement with his money at all, as in the project was a government project, they would have taken whatever taxes they wanted from it before releasing it. In Nigeria you always get your money before anything is done.
This guy is trying to scam you... what I like to do with guys like this is play them along... keep asking questions... try and get them to do things for you so they think you took the bait and they just need to jump some hoops to get your money. I like to ask for stuff like copies of information, or ask for more of their personal information... at some point they start to lose interest and really start pressing you to send 'a deposit' ..a smaller amount to 'start the process'.
At that point, I sometimes will pretend to be part of a 419 (thats the number of the law that is being broken in Nigeria.. basically applies to scammers and fraud) sting operation that has used all the info he gave me to track down where they are located.. and now the whole operation where they are is going to be arrested tomorrow... I will even say there is no point running since there are spies who are in their operation that have collected everyones information as well to ensure everyone is caught. They get quiet pretty fast after that... and I have a good laugh :)
This guy is trying to scam you... what I like to do with guys like this is play them along... keep asking questions... try and get them to do things for you so they think you took the bait and they just need to jump some hoops to get your money. I like to ask for stuff like copies of information, or ask for more of their personal information... at some point they start to lose interest and really start pressing you to send 'a deposit' ..a smaller amount to 'start the process'.
At that point, I sometimes will pretend to be part of a 419 (thats the number of the law that is being broken in Nigeria.. basically applies to scammers and fraud) sting operation that has used all the info he gave me to track down where they are located.. and now the whole operation where they are is going to be arrested tomorrow... I will even say there is no point running since there are spies who are in their operation that have collected everyones information as well to ensure everyone is caught. They get quiet pretty fast after that... and I have a good laugh :)
Hope this helps
Jonathan
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