This is not a racial attack.  The scam by no means needs to start from Nigeria, it can be from any country.  Usually it involves someone asking for assistance in funneling their money legitimately into another country.  And wouldn’t you know it – they want to share some of it with you.  Once you respond with your name and other personal information they continue to drag you into the scam.

But be sure: at some point they will ask for money!

They may even send you forged or ‘doctored up’ money orders to cover or even over-compensate for your expenses.  It won’t take long for the bad money orders to be found or to bounce, but by that time you will have already sent the money.  If they can milk you for more – they will.  Or you may never hear from them again.

There was no money, no legal laundering operation – just some chump trying to get you to send him money.

How to protect yourself against the Nigerian Scam: Well, the easy thing is to delete the e-mail without even reading it.  You should ask yourself why someone with 14 million(or however much they claim to have) would contact you by a spam e-mail.  Wouldn’t someone with those resources send a representative in person, know you by name already, and have a better method of contact than this – an e-mail without even having your name on it?  Also – how many people did he send this invitation to – 100 million?  Then your cut should be 14 cents.  It sounds too good to be true – and it is.  Be wary of anyone that asks for money for any reason.  If they have all these funds they should be able to arrange to have all fees looked after.

How to get revenge: If you really want to stop these people – you need to be bold, brave, and fearless.  You must play their game to a certain extent and hurt them where it hurts most – the pocketbook.  I say that we should one and all respond to such garbage e-mails.  Of course – don’t give them personal information(make up false identification) and never send them money.  If millions responded you would instantly shut them down.  Think of it – how many people get tricked by this scam? One in 1 million(probably far less)? If the charlatan had to respond to 1 million e-mails, send 1 million pieces of paperwork and pay for 1 million stamps, make millions of forged checks to trick 1 person and make back $5,000 – he would be at least a million or two in debt.

The time and resources to weed out the one person willing to pay would not be feasible.  I take it a step further and suggest that the government should head up an agency(with me as director) to combat such issues.  All it would take is 1 government worker per city willing to respond to all such e-mails with bogus data.  Its simple, easy, and effective. As long as there is money to be made running scams – they will continue.  Destroy the funding and you destroy the scam.

But please don't stop here.  This is just one vicious assault against the scamming industry.  I beg and plead with you to read my other scam stoppers so that you can be a real force to be reckoned with.  Knowledge is power and the power you have will stop the bad people cold.  Read on please using the links at the top.