Hot dang, finally hit the big one....$1.5 million! NOT!

[John Schmidt]

Got this email today. Don't know why they bother sending it to individuals, the US Gov't. already has all the info these clowns need. Just send it without all this middle-man stuff. Hope they don't hold their breath waiting for my response. I guess there's a lot of suckers out there they make money off of or they wouldn't be doing this. But an inheritance from someone in Nigeria?  Really?   
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Greetings, The auditors have handed over your US$1.5million inheritance payment authorization file to Mr. J. E. George of the debt settlement commission in Nigeria, you are to reconfirm your full names, contact address and direct telephone numbers to Mr. George of the debt settlement via email ( debts0002@mynet.com ) for the remittance of your US$1.5million inheritance payment which has been programmed in ATM card for delivery to you.

Yours.
Mrs. Janet Michael.
Payment Coordinator.
NOTE: YOU ARE TO FORWARD REPLY/INFO ONLY TO Mr. George'S EMAIL :  debts0002@mynet.com

[DIGGER]

Iffin you don't want it I'll take it......

[cookiedough]

I haven't gotten something like that in a long time, but ticks me off they usually target the elderly for some reason who may get taken advantage of their kindness to send money.  I doubt many people get taken in life and would hope common sense would prevail though. 

My mom living alone has alzheimers and she does open her mail herself still and pays her bills luckily pretty darn good still, but at least the junk mail she does get she leaves on the counter along with the other bills so I just have to toss the junk mail away every few weeks I see her.  I know she knows it is junk mail, but for some reason,  she doesn't toss it away and wants me to do it all. 

 Some may say she lives in the stone age with no credit card, pays cash for most everything (basically groceries and prescriptions is about it) besides bills needing a check still mailed out (no autopay),  no internet or computer ever since she wouldn't have a clue, and she still gets my dad's small pension check mailed thru the mail no direct deposit, although she was forced by the govt. to get the social security check direct deposited which is good since is the bigger monthly check.  I doubt many of us could live like that, a generation almost gone by the wayside, although I worry sometimes when I find very large amounts of cash in her purse when she does go grocery shopping with my brother who takes her once per month.  A younger fellow than us could surely outrun us long distance if becomes a purse snatching.  Sometimes I think the simpler life is long forgotten which is sometimes not a bad thing to have (the simpler life).  Heck, my parents when both alive would still be having the rotary phone in their house if it wasn't for me buying and installing new and bigger button push button phones.  She does like caller id though which she uses to not answer the phone if she doesn't remember the 2-3 people who call her is all being my brother and me and the neighbors who do some stuff for her like taking garbage to recycling center every few weeks.

[FLAVALK]

Did you every notice there seems to be a ton of millionaires in Nigeria just itching to unload cash?  

Several years ago, I responded to one of these emails and called the person a scumbag scammer. He replied and let me know in short order that he WAS NOT a scumbag. 

[Moonshot_1]

Can't believe you passed up such an opportunity.

[Wizzard]

Sounds like the call I got a few years ago wanting to know if I would contribute to the floods in Palistan.
I told the caller I would love to , but my hose won't reach that far!

[Jess from VA]

You should respond that you want to do a straight trade..... for the Brooklyn Bridge (which you own personally).  They should contact one of your agents, either Mr Peter Gozinya, or Mr Mike Hunt.  

Or tell them that you don't need that much money:  If they send you $10K in cash, they can keep the rest.  

In reality, I would never respond in any way to something like that.  However tempted.