Posted by fayeroe on December 13, 2008, at 12:31:42
In reply to Pardon me, posted by Partlycloudy on December 13, 2008, at 11:59:18
I read a blog about the Nigerian scams. After reading the tricks that the writer had pulled, I came up with my own.
I came up with an email address that just oozed Texas money..how could anyone not suspect this one? RichTexanEmpire?
I wrote back to one of the "counsellors" and asked if he knew someone who could do a wood carving of a beaver. He did!
I told him that I own several galleries in Texas and then I asked if the beaver could be wearing a ten gallon hat. It could!
I told him that I represent dozens of famous artists...When I listed them, I just slightly messed up their names. "Ven Gogh", "Picasa".. you get my drift and where this is going, don't you?
And I asked him if he was familiar with their works. He was!I asked for a sketch of the design for the ten-gallon hat wearing buffalo and he sent one! It looked like a cross between a rock with feet and a large dog with a porkpie hat on.
Then he asked for my bank info. I wrote back and told him that all of my money was in a "ghost bank" and it would be almost impossible for me to tell him that before I paid for the sculpture. He told me that he also kept him money in ghost banks.
Then he asked for a pic of a beaver. I sent that and a picture of a cowboy hat.
To make a hilarious story short, after two weeks I told him that I hoped he was busy whittling in the internet cafe in the Phillipines and "Ciao"....He was furious with "RichTexanEmpire". (I was between jobs) :-)
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