Lets take part in an e-mail bank scam.

[Valkysas]

I recieved this e-mail.


Greetings,
I am Mr David Thambo Manager of Bills/Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department of Old Mutual Bank South Africa. I have been directed to
contact you after due consideration and consultation to assist us in a
proposition for the benefit of both parties involved.
So if you are interested please reply with your full name and telephone
number i will offer you 25% for your assistance.
For more information contact me with: dvdthambo43@yahoo.pl
Regards,
David Thambo


three times today. Obviously, Mr. Thambo is very serious about this.

My reply is up to you.

[hitogoroshi]

Thambo sent the same message to me. Lying *******.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

i used to get weird email scams like these, i had a good chuckle and then deleted it. lets come up with something convincing.

lol i got it now. send him back an email saying that your the real Mr David Thambo Manager of Bills/Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department of Old Mutual Bank South Africa.

[Jamos]

The words "bad idea" come to mind. So in conclusion, email him gay porn and laugh about it.

[KumoShinagi]

Full Name: HAM TANGINGBO
Telephone: 666-555-5555

Reply with those details. :D


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Best I can think of.

[Duel]

Scare him by saying you work for an anti-email scam organization and threaten him with prison.

[Ryner]

Set up various email accounts, tell him you're on the run from the FBI and can't use the same account for too long, and can he contact you at ___? See how long he keeps emailing your new account.

[Sampson]

Give him a fake name, but a real phone number. Keep playing until he gives you some real information you can **** with about.

[Jamos]

I got it! Give him your neighbors name and phone number. That would be hilarious.

[Ryner]

I got it! Give him your neighbors name and phone number. That would be hilarious.

Let's not be jerks, here.

[Denmo]

As if the fact that it's from South Africa wasn't indication enough of it's scaminess.

I'm with Ryner's suggestion.

Or reporting it to Dateline so they can do another "To catch a Scam Artist" special.

[Valkysas]

I asked him "25% of what?"

[Fushigi na Renamon]

I woulda been like "Yeah, well you and your e-mail scam can kiss 25% of my butt!"

[Chad]

Funny name + Rejection Hotline?

[JPS]

I talked to these guys before to se how far theyd go, we got as far as him wanting me to fill out a check for $5,000 so he could "finish up some business" and promised "you'll get it back when the transaction is completed."

[Smurf Taco]

String him along to try to get some money out of him... Say you don't have a bank account and there's a processing fee or something. Or a fee for a money order or something. There are some creative people here, I'm sure we could make it last a while.

[JPS]

Tell him to join pavilionboards, tell him theres some real suckers there:lol

[Duel]

I actually talked to a scammer over the phone.

[Jamos]

Let's not be jerks, here.
But I never get to be the jerk. :(

Funny name + Rejection Hotline?
That would be an awesome idea.

[JPS]

My name? My name is I. C. Wiener

[BeeZee]

I like how there has been "due consideration and consultation" involved, but he doesn't know your real name.

Seriously, has anyone EVER fallen for this?

[Valkysas]

I GOT A REPLY.

25% of everything.

HOLY CRAP, EVERYTHING? SIGN ME THE **** UP.

What to I send back to make it sound like I'm totally buying into this?

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

ask him why you wouldnt get more? see if he ups the % lol

[Valkysas]

Why would I want that?

The whole point in this isnt to drive a scammer away, it's to see how far we can go.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

try to bargin, thats what a "reasonable" person would do.

or string your self along and ask what to do next.

[JPS]

Ask what "everything" entails, like an estimated sum of money, and ask him how soon you can get this done, because you need the cash because youre late on your payment on a beach house in Maui and it's in jeopardy of being reposessed.

[Red Dragon]

Say that you are willing to go 20% because you wish to support everything.

[Valkysas]

Say that you are willing to go 20% because you wish to support everything.
There we go. sent.

[Sampson]

http://www.419eater.com/

[Chad]

Yay! Let's all go scambaiting!

[JPS]

I find it kinda funny that they say that scammers operate throughout the world but all the scammers pictured are of african descent.:|

[Denmo]

They have a disclaimer explaining why.

[Chuck]

I'd have just rambled on about aryan supremacy and how apartheid was the best thing to happen in Africa since the slave trade.