23 - The Nigerian Email Scam

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ever wondered who's sending you those crazy emails from someone claiming to want share a large sum of money with you or be tracking you down for a huge inheritance? Why are they almost always supposedly from Nigeria? Why are they so poorly written? Find out who these scammers are, why the scam became popular in Nigeria, how much money they're making, who they're making it from, why they word them the way they do, and when the scam originated in this eye-opening edition of Timesuck.

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0:00.0	I got an email the other day from the United Nations Compensation Payment Unit New York.
0:06.7	The subject line read, 3.5 million UN Compensation Payments slash, are you dead or alive?
0:13.9	Three question marks.
0:15.8	And here's the well-written personal, and 100% legit sounding email they sent me accompanied
0:21.2	by somebody more talented than myself, tickling the ivories for a little dramatic effect.
0:28.8	Attention beneficiary.
0:31.7	Scam victims compensation payment.
0:34.8	Please be informed that your long-awaited compensation funds payment in the tune of 3.5 million
0:40.8	has finally been approved, but it has also been brought to our notice that a gentle man,
0:45.9	two words, by the name Michael Eiton, has just forwarded a new banking details claiming
0:52.3	he is your next of kin and you are dead so here comes the big question, Colin.
0:57.8	Did you authorize the above mentioned name to claim your funds?
1:01.5	Are you truly dead or alive?
1:04.2	I like how that's an option, you can reply back, I'm dead.
1:08.2	Is Michael Eiton, Eiton?
1:10.3	Oh, it was late in before now.
1:12.3	It was late in before now, it's late in.
1:13.6	Is Michael Eiton your next of kin?
1:16.6	If no kindly reconfirmed this information and get back to us with the below information
1:21.0	for verification as the wire will be done within 48 hours from this notice, your name,
1:26.4	current home address, country, occupation, telephone number, age, gender.
1:32.3	Got it very far, the gender.
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