American is arrested after scamming three Nigerian men

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Once he's released from jail he'll be offered a chair as Professor of Scamming studies at the University of Lagos

Was one of those scammed that Nigerian prince who emails people to wire him cash? Because that would be like totally ironic.

That's what I was thinking. That the only Nigerian person who could afford to fork over that much money would be one who had worked as an internet café scammer of Americans! Lol!

Revenge!

Three princes with one scam?Damm he's good.

Oh, the irony of this story!

Somebody fell mugu.

Like ten years ago there was a magazine article (maybe it was in Rolling Stone?) about a club of folks in Texas who scam Nigerian scammers through the web (for fun, not for profit), just for revenge kicks.

It chronicled the odyssey of one of their Nigerian victims.

They had the guy convinced that he would receive a million dollars from an American Lutheran church to fund some kind of charity that he claimed to be involved in (and they pretend to fall for it).

They persuaded him that he had to travel half way across the length of the Sahara to go a particular bank in Khartoum Sudan to pick up the money. And they and the guy kept in touch. The result was an entertaining several day email diary of his journey. He would hire drivers, and then the "Church" would fail to wire him promised out of pocket money. Which would cause him to get his ass physically beaten by the angry drivers getting stiffed. And finally.... battered and bruised he arrived in the big city bank in the Sudan, and while he waited in the bank lobby to get his money the Texas folks wired the bank president what they claimed was a message from him saying "this is a robbery. I an sitting in your lobby right now, and have a concealed AK 47. And will spray the place with bullets if you don't fork over a million dollars!" And he ended up spending time in a Sudanese jail.

Somehow the guy made it back home to Nigeria, and resumed working at the internet café doing his Nigerian prince scams.

A year later the Texas group sent him a friendly e-mail to check up on him. He replied saying "you folks from Chad are all a bunch of low lives,and I'm not speaking to you anymore." Apparently he had figured out that it had been some kind of scam on him, but he had pegged it to the country of Chad, and didn't realize that the perps were Americans.

419 Eater has lots of scambaiting stories. Do not try this at home.

The best scams these days are the phone calls from the IRS, Pakistan division.