The Nigerian Scam.

Never have I come upon a scammer before in my life. So once I met one today, the first thing that flashed across my mind was, "I must blog about this!". This is a very text heavy post but worth to read! It's a valuable lesson I learned today and I want to share with you all, hoping none of you will fall for this!

So the story begins like this. I wanted to sell off my Salvatore Ferragamo bag because the husband likes gambling and borrowed a huge sum of money from the loan shark. They come to my house and poured red paint and gasoline everyday to blackmail us to return the money. So I have no choice but to sell all my valuable belongings.

LOL!!! Actually my sis said that bag looks like aunty to me. I wanted to sell it off so I have more money to buy more things during my Europe honeymoon =P I brought it to a few second hand luxury shops but none of them want to buy it because it's not a classic edition and not many people look for Salvatore Ferragamo bags. Bloody hell! So I decided to seek for the last resort, post and sell online!

After a few days, I checked my inbox and still nobody email me about the bag =( I guess I must be too free so I clicked my spam mailbox to clear it and saw this email from this particular person called Alice Loh. Her email goes like this:

From her first email, I thought it was a local Chinese educated person judging from her English. Then, from her second reply, she mentioned she is now currently residing in UK. I was surprised that her level of English can survive in UK. OK not like my English is any better (that's why I'm in Malaysia, ah-ha!). I further replied her email for more details.

I asked if she will be transferring the money to me in British Pound since she mentioned she is in UK. But she did not answer and directly gave me the recipient address in Nigeria instead. (Fishy point: This nigger must have no idea about the currency converter). I wanted to post with courier service like DHL or Fedex for better security and safety. But she insisted me to post with registered post instead. I felt something amiss because if you buy something expensive overseas, for sure you want to have it delivered to you with trustworthy courier service. But I didn't think much about it, I thought she was just being plain kiam siap. So I made the effort to go to the post office, queued up and asked for the price.

After that I sent the total cost to her and she gave me a rather stupid reply. Didn't I mention the amount I gave her is with registered post? Why is she telling me she prefer registered post again?! I gave her my details and the next morning I received her email saying she has banked in the money and her bank already sent me a notification email. The fun part began! Check out the email from "the bank"!

*yellow highlights with red fonts are my remarks.

I was like..seriously? What bank is this? Not even a hint of the bank logo in the email! And don't make me start about the look and feel of this email. So unofficial and Ebay-ish. The choices of multiple fonts and different font sizes! OMG! And the Federal Bureau of Investigation!!! LMAO!!! The moment I saw the FBI, that's it! FBI is a government agency in the United States of America, not United Kingdom! Do your homework before plotting a scam! And I believe the FBI have better things to do like catching world most wanted criminals, solving X files or tracking aliens, rather than looking for internet scammers, duhhh....

And no bank, I say NO BANK will ever try to threaten people by saying giving the grace of 24 hours to ship the item or else you will face the consequences. I believe a civilized and established bank will not come out with such rude remark. Sounds like I'm given 24 hours to turn myself in or the FBI will come banging down my door and drag me away for interrogation.

Smile Bank does exists. I Googled and it's an internet bank in the UK. BUT! Their email and contact number  are definitely not those stated in the email. I further Googled and london.com is a free email domain, like hotmail and gmail.

And of course that bald guy is not Dr. Robert Benson. Poor dude, he must be some random guy this scammer picked online. Probably from Facebook.  

Luckily I brought this up to Kelle. She helped me to search online and found this forum talking about this famous scam called The Nigerian Scams. There is even a Wikipedia page for this notorious scams here!

People shared their experiences in the forum and all the stories are the same! But with different names. Saying they are based in UK but wanted the item to be shipped to Nigeria, some to the boss' kids, some to the brother, some to the nephew. And they also received the same email from "the bank".

Feeling furious, Kelle asked me to trick back the scammer and let her taste her own medicine. We decided to fraud a fake shipment receipt.

Sibeh jialat angry when the scammer accused me for giving her fake receipt that doesn't exist and doesn't make sense. Ya, though the receipt was indeed fake but just felt boh song got accused by some scammer that was trying to cheat me. You are in the midst of cheating and still have the balls to accuse people.

During the morning when I received the email from "the bank", when I was still wasn't sure if it was a fraud, I sent them an email to confirm if it's not a scam. They never reply at all. Until I told the scammer later in the evening that I have already sent the receipt to the bank, they finally reply. (Fishy point: All the emails from "the bank" always came after the scammer's email. Such a "coincident") This is the email from "the bank".

A bank doesn't need to explain to the customer for their late reply. Who does that?  And look at the horrible grammar and spelling! Attanding? Regading? Adivice? This is absurd! Afterwards I decided to forward the fake receipt to "the bank" and miraculously they replied me after a few minutes saying the tracking number is invalid blablabla. Since this was going nowhere, I decided to tell the scammer I called the REAL Smile Bank (though I didn't) and found out there were no such transaction made. At first she tried to cover up, but I got impatient and wanted her to admit she is a scammer. So I brought up the forum. Look what she said!

I felt so accomplished for breaking her pot! I wished her to have a nice day (sarcastically) and she replied me wishing me to have a bad day! So childish! What is this? School kids verbal fight? LOL! I could feel her fury!

For you calling me a cheater is totally a joke. I just fraud a fake receipt to let you taste your own medicine.You are a cheater yourself plotting online scams to cheat people's money and valuables. You don't call people a whore when you yourself sell your backside to men for money. Don't throw stones at me if you are a sinner yourself. Feeling angry? You should. This is exactly how all your other victims feel, 10X worse because you evilly cheated their money and valuables!

I think my last sentence just totally killed it! FBI! LOL! I just have to rub it in! Joke of the century! She messed with the wrong person. Maybe she is not even a she but a group of Nigerian men, who knows. But one thing I know, in all the emails there were not even a single full stop. I had to read 2-3 times to decipher what he/she was trying to say.

Seriously, do better research if you want to scam someone. And take the effort to write better English and fraud better fake emails please. Make more effort if you want to succeed in life. Oh wait, you're just a pathetic idiot sitting behind the computer screen browsing shopping websites looking for preys to con. No wonder you're such a loser. I'm not any regular bimbo that you can simply cheat. If a couple of perverted men can't trick or con me when I was 16 and 18 (read my encounters with perverts here), I think a lousy scammer like you can't get me anywhere now that I'm 26 and married. I'm no aunty! Don't play play!