Nigerian scam update 7

In my last email, I promised Miss Angela I’d wire the money on the 29th. She wrote back to remind me to do it early because of the time difference. I also sent an email to the fraud people at Yahoo.com reporting the activities from Miss Angela’s email. Before they took action, I received this one mid-morning on the 29th:

Good afternoon honey, since morning i was busy preparing my travelling, i have finished braiding my hairs, and i have come to receive the western union information that i will use to receive the ticket and pucket money from you. the time now is 4:32pm and all offices use to close before 8:00pm.

I will be back soon to receive the western union information from you.

I remain yours ever,

Miss Angela Kennedy with all my love and kisses

Geez, she braided all of her hairs?? I felt mildly guilty in an all-dressed-up-and-nowhere-to-go kind of way. So I sent her a quick note containing an apology and a fake Western Union confirmation number. A few hours later, I got the reply below from a new email address (angelalovesrichardwilliams@yahoo.com):

Good morning honey

I went to the western union this morning with the number that you sent to me, and i gave the numbers to the cashier and the cashier checked and told me that the numbers is not correct, and she told me to give her the name of the sender and the name of the receiver so that she will use it to check if you send it and i gave her your name richard williams and my name angela kennedy and after checking she said that there is no money sent through the western union in that name, she also said that thet number you suppose to send to me must be 10 numbers but the numbers you sent is 9 numbers, she said that you did not give me the name of the sender, and that you did not give me text question and answer, and that you did not give me the address of the sender, and she started laughing at me because of the sudden way that i feel very bad.

So she said that i should tell you that there is a receipt of payment that the western union over there did gave you, that you should scan and send the western union payment receipt to me and that when you do that i should print it out and bring it to them and they will use the correct information in it to pay me the money.

My email address has problem and cannot open, so that is why i have created this email address angelalovesrichardwilliams@yahoo.com always reply me through this email address only. I will be back to print out the payment receipt from you.

I remain yours ever,

Miss Angela Kennedy with all my love and kisses

That was the last straw. I’m bored with her and pulled the plug:

You mean you actually went to the cashier? You must be a bigger fool than I thought!

I am tired of this game. Maybe if you were a better writer I would not be bored, but it is what it is. Do you really think I would send money to a stranger across the world for any reason? Let alone for the silly reason you gave.

You should be ashamed of yourself. A man hiding behind a woman’s name to get money. Why don’t you get a job and work hard like other people in your country? The problem with your other email account is that Yahoo shut it down for fraud after I reported you. They’ll shut this one down, too, “Miss Angela.”

Do you actually get money from this scam? How much money do you get? How many emails do you have to send before you get a “Richard Williams” who responds? Tell me the answers and I’ll publish them online. It will be interesting to see how a petty criminal works this scam.

And stop calling me “Honey!”

I might always regret not trying to work things out. Maybe I could have gotten her to send another picture, maybe of her doing a Vulcan salute or something. Maybe with a fish on her head. Or I could have turned the tables and asked her to send money to me! That would have been fun. Alas. ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved.