On route, the two associates that the scammer sent to pick up the charity money got most of their own money fleeced by both Nigerian and Cameroonian immigration officers, then one of them got sick, and then they got lost in an active war-zone. If that wasn’t enough the scambaiter then telephoned the original email scammer — who was safely back in Nigeria — and pretended to be a Sudanese policeman, telling him that his two associates had been arrested in Sudan and that he needed to pay a $80,000 bribe to release them. The scammer proceeded to sell his car and fly out to Sudan — via Germany — to release his associates, who, it transpired, were actually two members of his family. At this point he finally realised that he had been scammed.

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What happened to the two associates that went to Sudan is never established, but the scambaiter claims that news reports from the region point to the men actually being in jail there for real.

The full correspondence went on for about 8 months. It’s a long read but worth the effort, and it includes a post from the scambaiter in which he gives his reasoning for going ahead with such an ethically unsound scam.

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