Thursday, April 16, 2009

 

One Year Later - The Nigerian Scam Project

About a year ago, I noticed a huge trend in my junk-mail email folder - a ton of emails that were all direct, or indirect variants of the infamous Nigerian Email Scam.

I can't believe it's been a year since I decided to record down *every* spam email I got that promised me money.  Over the coarse of the year, I have received offers for money because I won the lottery, was a beneficiary in someone's will, soldiers in IRAQ needed someplace to send all of their stolen loot, and the laundry list goes on and on.  Sometimes I got all the money, sometimes I would only get a percentage, and sometimes I had to pay something out of pocket.  Most of the times, they required me to email them all my personal information, including bank account numbers, social security info, home address, phone numbers - you name it and they wanted it.

Every day for a year, I'd comb through my junk-mail and record down in Excel all this information.

The combined total of money offered to me from all the emails came out to:

$4,145,840,809.74

4+ BILLION dollars.

Out of that 4+ BILLION dollars, I was expected to pay out a mere $5,913.

I received unique (not duplicated) 402 email offers.

The largest offer I received was for $125,000,000 from a Bank out of Hong Kong.

The smallest offer I received was for $79,591 for an "International Awareness Program"

This was a fun project, but I'm glad it is over.  Recording down those emails every day got old really fast.

That's it for now.  I'd love to say "I can't come in to work today because I"m rich", but I've yet to see a penny of that promised 4+ billion dollars.  I think I'll hold off just a bit more before I buy my own personal Boeing 777...........

-Rev. Dr. Elparquito

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