The Nigerian email scam
It comes to you by email:
“I am Mr. Paul Agabi,” it says. “I am the personal attorney
to Mr. Harold Cooper, a national of your country, who used to work with Exxon
Oil Company in Nigeria. On the 21st of April, my client, his wife and their
only child were involved in a car accident. All occupants of the vehicle
unfortunately lost their lives.”
Amazingly enough, rich dead guy left behind millions of
dollars—and your correspondent wants you to have it! If you’ll help
Mr. Paul Agabi get those millions out of the country, using your bank account
as a parking spot, he’ll share the dough with you.
So you get excited. You write back. Maybe you make an offer
on a house in Connecticut.
But then a funny thing happens: Mr. Agabi asks you to send some
money to him, to cover bribes to officials. It’s only a couple hundred bucks,
so you send it.
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