Ridiculous 419 scam from alleged defector from North Korea

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Eric

I’ve been receiving 419 (advance fee fraud) email from Nigeria and other countries since 1998, and anyone with the slightest bit of common sense recognizes these emails as scams.  Normally I don’t give them a second thought, but today I was surprised to receive one from someone claiming to be a North Korean citizen who has defected to South Korea.  There isn’t any country more implausible than North Korea from which someone might have a large amount of liquid assets to transfer.

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One Response to Ridiculous 419 scam from alleged defector from North Korea

  1. Johnny Danger says:
    February 16, 2007 at 8:10 PM

    Unfortunately 419 scams and scammers are still going strong.

    Luckily there is a group of people out there on the internet putting a damper on their scams!

    Check out http://theScamBaiter.com

    These guys get even with these crooks, and sometimes even get them arrested even though they are in Nigeria.

    They are also avidly fighting eBay scammers as well, a terrific group there.

    FOX Television interviewed them some time back, the video is on youtube:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4J-iYT7CK4

    Last year at one time they got a group of scammers arrested; I think the count was around 50 or so.

    There is a lot of funny stuff there too, you have to see what they make these scammers do to get “paid”, check out their “mugu museum”

    http://thescambaiter.com/forum/vbimghost.php?do=userlist

    Johhny D

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