Help me [censored] with a scammer

[NLSoldier]

I just recieved this email.

"MY Dear

I am Dr Collins Goodman. I am in charge of auditing and accounting section
of Bank of Ghana in West Africa with due respect and regard. I have decided
to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to
both of us at the end of the transaction.We had a foreign client Mr Hans
Schnettler. who deposited a huge sum of money (US$17.5million) with our
bank.

As it may interest you to know,please forgive my indignation if it might
offend without your prior consent through this channel;I got your contact in
a U.S Today News paper in a library departement of American embassay here in
Accra Ghana; when i was serarching for a reliable honest and trust worthy
person to entrust this business with i was sinply inspired and motivated to
pick your contact from many names i lists in I know you are capable to
champion a business of such magnitude without any problem.

Eventually, this client was among the victims of EGYPT AIR BOEING 767 FLIGHT
NO.990 that crashed on the 31-10-1999 in U.S.A but, since then we have not
had any body coming for the claims as the next of kin. A sitaution I have
monitored closely with my position in the bank.

Now, having monitored this deposit and managed it over the years before his
death, and hence nobody has showed up as the next of kin for the past one
year plus, I have removed the file to my private vault. I now solicit for
your assistance to present you as the next of kin as every other arrangement
has being concluded by me and I am only waiting for a foreigner to enable me
move the fund to his account. This does not have any risk attached to it as
all the internal documentations will be handled by me. I
therefore request you to confirm your interest by a return message and I
will furnish you with details. Your interest will be negotiable before we
commence the operation. I look forward to hearing from you.

My Regards,
Dr Collins GoodmanAttention:
From Dr Collins Goodman
22 St. Peters Avenue Rue
Accra Ghana."

How should I reply?

[Reef]

1. ???
2. have him send you a pic of him with an OOT/embarassing-related sign
3. post it in OOT

[Annorax]

Dear Gustavo,

My bank is a sock that fell behind the dryer.

Signed, Ratbert.

[Mondogarage]

"Dear Dr Collins Goodman,

With all kindly respect and gratuitous trustworthy conduct, I would much appreciate it if you were so kind as to send me a copy of the US Today News paper which mentions me, as my reliable and honest and trust worthy newspaper boy must have missed my house that day. Sending me this article does not have any risk attached to it as all the internal reading of the article will be handled by me.

In the alternative, if you show up on my doorstep with US$17.5million in small denominations, you may gladly leave with US$1.5million for your time and efforts.

[NLSoldier]

[ QUOTE ]
"Dear Dr Collins Goodman,

With all kindly respect and gratuitous trustworthy conduct, I would much appreciate it if you were so kind as to send me a copy of the US Today News paper which mentions me, as my reliable and honest and trust worthy newspaper boy must have missed my house that day. Sending me this article does not have any risk attached to it as all the internal reading of the article will be handled by me.

In the alternative, if you show up on my doorstep with US$17.5million in small denominations, you may gladly leave with US$1.5million for your time and efforts.

[/ QUOTE ]

heh this is pretty good but I dont want it to be quite so obvious that i know its a scam or he will probably not grace us with any amusing replies.

[DCopper04]

Your reply will not be read by a human. Don't waste your time.

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NLS,

the key here is to put yourself in the mind of someone who would fall for this and then send messages tailored to that. act interested, gullible but concerned. once his greed takes over the rest is easy

[Autocratic]

Dr. Collins,

I feel that before any transaction is made we must get to know each other as two best friends would. How has growing up with a plural name affected your social life? Holla back.

NLSoldier

[Mondogarage]

Set up a new hotmail or yahoo e-mail account, do not link it to any of your other e-mail accounts, and then do whas [censored] says. Play along. Ask for more info. Give a tiny fake piece of info or two when necessary. You can probably keep this up for six months.

Then ask him if he'll stake you in a satellite.

[1C5]

419eater.com will give some ideas.

1st email just say you are intersted, they hardly read the 1st email so make it short.

Then say you are a person of power, make something good up. Send pictures of yourself (fake ones obv)

Then once you have a few emails, tell him you need proof that he is really who he says he is. A picture holding a sign. And tell him what to write on the sign.

These can be time consuming depending how far you go but I did a few of these in the past and they were great fun.

My best ones were pretending I was the minister of a Church and I would donate money to him if he followed my church "requirements"

I was minister of the Church of Fish, Milk and Cheese" and needed a picture of the person holding a fish, some milk and chesse and then I would send the donation of $10,000 to the nice fellow.

I will dig up some pictures I got. They are pretty funny.