Geriatric Punks

419 Eaters

posted by Dick Septic on April 30, 2004

419 Scams are those annoying e-mails that you get, usually from someone's widow in Nigeria, asking for money under some pretense of eventually getting a share of the x-dictator's x-wife's fortune.

This guy writes back to them, sometimes posing as a business man, sometimes as clergy, and baits them into sending him photos of themselves as proof of their legitimacy, under the pretense of sending them the cash they asked for.

And so they don't just send a random posed photo, he asks them to prove their identity by following very specific instructions on how to pose for their photo; such as "pose with a large loaf of bread on your head" or "hold up a sign with my name, Phil Mycrackin, on it."

The results are hilarious.