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Pastimes : Nigerian Scam Baiting - Let's Discuss the Modalities
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To: Hoatzin who wrote (9)12/18/2002 8:26:18 PM
From: Bill Ulrich  Read Replies (1) of 131
 
It's been said (and somewhat documented on the penny threads) that crooks are the easiest to scam. We'll have to put on our creative thinking beanies. This is probably too much work, but I had considered that you could scan a personal check, then overlay completely new data including (especially!) the MICR data at the bottom. Print some off. Write him one or two for a few grand. See what happens. Check clearance between Nigerian and US banks can't be too fast I should think. 10-14 days at least? And then there's the routing back to Nigeria that it was denied. So, I should think he's got 3-4 weeks between depositing a check to figuring out that it's bogus.

So, armed with that, you could negotiate some money out of him. Isn't there usually an "expense recompensation" component that they talk about in these scams?
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