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Me: (I’m not an English nazi here, I’m a gullible victim)

hello miss favor

my name is george and I’m 27. i am into music, travelinng and cats.
can i see your pictur?

PenPal: (sent from Senegal)

My Dear ,
I am more than happy in your urgent reply to my mail.How was your day?.
mine was cool over here in  Daker Senegal.
My name is favour  Sarweh am from libaria in west Africa and
presently i  am residing in the refugee camp here in dakar as a result of
the civil war going on in my country.My late father Dr Sarweh was the
personal advicer to the former head of state before the rebels attacked my
house one early morning killing my mother and my father. It was only me that
is alive now and i managed to make my way to near by country Senegal where i
am leaving now. I would like to know more about you. Your likes and
dislikes,your hobbies and what you are doing presently.I will tell more
about myself in my next mail.
Attached here is my picture,
Hoping to hear from you soonest.
Thanks.favour Sarweh

I’ll keep you posted on the progress we make, but I expect an inheritance/winning hook in the next email.

In case you are wondering why do I bother, I’m bored This fraud (Nigerian scam) is pretty hard to stop, but we can have a little bit of fun sending these scammers  on a wild goose chase. The sport is called scambaiting and if you want to have some kicks write a short email to [email protected], I’m pretty sure lil miss favour will write back

Have fun and don’t forget to play safe.

Go here for some scambaiting tips.

LATER EDIT:

Dearest love,
Good day to you and how are you getting on?.I do hope that you are catching
up with the goodies of the day in full.Mine here is very hot and like you
know we are living in the refugee camp here in  Dakar Senegal. In this camp
we are only allowed to go out only on Mondays and Fridays of the weeks.Its
just like one staying in the prison and i hope by Gods grace i will come out
here soon.

We don’t have any relatives now whom we can go to all our relatives ran away
in the middle of the war the only person we have now is Rev charles david
who is the pastor of the (Christ The King Church) here in the camp he has
been very nice to me since i came here but i am not living with him rather i
am leaving in the women’s hostel because the camp have two hostels one for
men the other for women.

The Pastors Tel number is (00221 OR +221767433861) if you call and tell him
that you want to speak with me he will send for me in the hostel. As a
refugee here don’t have any right or privilege to any thing be it money or
whatever because it is against the law of this country.I want to go back to
my studies because only attended my first year before the tragic incident
that lead to my being in this situation now took place.Please listen to
this,i have my late father’s statement of account and death certificate here
with me which i will send to you latter,

Because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a leading
bank in Europe  which he used my name as the next of kin,the amount in
question is $3.5M (three Million five Hundred Thousand USA Dollars). So i
will like you to help me transfer this money to your account and from it you
can send some money for me to get my travel ling documents and air ticket to
come over to meet with you.I kept this secret to people in the camp here the
only person that knows about it is the Rev rend because he is like a father
to me. So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and
don’t tell it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and the money if
people gets to know about it.

Remember am giving you all this information due to the trust and love i
deposited on you.I like honest and understanding people,truthful and a man
of vision,truth and hard working.Mean while i will like you to call me like
i said i have alto to tell you.I will like you to call me like i said i have
alto to tell you.Have a nice day and think about me.Awaiting to hear from
you soonest miss favour sarweh
Yours favour in love.
Thanks,