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• DeletedSpam
  It also seemed staged to me but funny nevertheless. I believe anyone who watch this will realize it´s suppose to be a joke... except those who were/are/will be scammed by this kind of schemes. If you ask me I think it can even be considered pedagogical.
  Thanks for the laughs :)
  
  http://deletedspam.co.cc
• Angela
  Good to know there aren't dick heads in the UK. Can't say the same for the US.
• David Mark
  ATTN:
  Dear Sir/M,
  I am Mr.David Mark. an Auditor of a BANK OF THE NORTH
  INTERNATIONAL,ABUJA (FCT). I have the courage to Crave indulgence for this important business believing that you will never let me down either now or in the future. Some years ago, an American Mining consultant/ contractor with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, made a numbered time (fixed)deposit for twelve calendar months, valued $12M.USD (TWELVE MILLION US DOLLARS) in an account. On maturity, The bank sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, The bank sent another reminder and finally his contract employers, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation wrote to inform the bank that he died without MAKING A WILL, and all attempts by the American Embassy to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore, made further investigation and discovered that the beneficiary was an immigrant from Jamaica and only recently obtained American citizenship. He did not decla re any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank deposit paper work. This money total amount$12M.USD ( TWELVE MILLION US DOLLARS)is still sitting in my bank as dormant Account. No one will ever come forward to claim it, and according to Nigerian Banking policy, after some years, the money will revert to the ownership of the igerian Government if the account owner is certified dead. This is the situation, and my proposal is that I am looking for a foreigner who will stand in as the next of kin to beneficiary, and OPEN a Bank Account abroad to facilitate the transfer of this money. This is simple, all you have to do is to OPEN an account anywhere in the world and send me its detail for me to arrange the proper money transfer paperwork, and facilitate the transfer.The money will then be paid into this Account for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me, 35 % for you and 5% for expenses that might come up during transfer process. There is no risk at all, and all the paper work for this transaction will be done by me using my position and connections in the banks in Nigeria. This business transaction is guaranteed.And the first phase of the transfer will be ($4M.USD)FOUR MILLION DOLLARS as advised by our insider in the bank.If you are interested, please reply immediately through my personal email sending the following details: (1) Your Full Name/Address (2) Your Private Telephone/fax Number. Please observe the utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest some of my share in your country. I look forward to your earliest reply.
  Yours,
  Mr.David Mark.
• Carlos
  Oh my!
  
  Quentin Tarantino is the winner!!!
• Fuzz
  Dude they gave the money to a project that was running bottom up to help stop the forcible removal of the clitoris and labia. Quit your bitching.
  Anyway anyone with half a brain still knows how to spot a scam. Just send a fake bank acct. if you really wanna go with that .001% chance that someones trying to really give you cash; it's not like they actually checked that guy's acct. number for validity.
• Clark Cox
  I have to disagree with everyone who claims that this is irresponsible. Anyone gullible (and greedy) enough to fall for one of these scams deserves what they get.
  
  Protecting the stupid from their own stupidity only encourages more stupidity. (and yes, the man in the video, assuming that this wasn't staged, was stupid; kind and giving, but stupid)
• David Mark
  Except for your mom right?
• 5318008
  Irresponsible or not, anyone who replies to those e-mails thinking that they'll suddenly become rich deserves what they get. Nothing in life is free.
  
  The REAL irresponsible act was to give the money to Nigerians. Their chief export is theft. There are hundreds of more worthwhile charities that could have benefited from that cash.
• Grant Robertson
  I agree with many here that this was entirely irresponsible. It almost seems as if they set this whole thing up to influence gullible people to be even more gullible.
• Adrian
  @Dwayne Litzenberger and Jason Zandri. You both just stated that it is unethical to give people money! Money that ended up going to a charity. Think about that. What planet are you on???
  
  Society needs to stop protecting idiots so much. If you're dumb enough to email your bank details to a complete stranger you deserve to have money taken from you.
  
  If someone knocked on your front door and said "Could I have your debit card and PIN please? I'll wire you $100,000 when I am done with them." Would you give them your card? NO! Of course you wouldn't. And if you did, no one would sympathize with you. Why is this any different?
• steve
  Awesome!!!
• Jon
  I want to add that Nigerian spammers ask for bank details to seem more legitimate; they make their money by asking you to pay made-up fees, not by cleaning out your account.
• Me
  Who's to say that the bank account information that he gave in the email had any money in it. Is it not possible to set up more than one bank account for the purpose of security?
• RBC
  How ironic that they donate all that money to a Nigerian aid cause, and this video will doubtless put many of the more gullible people to send their money to the wrong sorts of people.
  
  the fact that they required their banking information just flabbergasted me, since they did not deposit it into an account and just walked up with a briefcase.
  
  they may as well have asked him for his social insurance number and mortgage information.....
• Jennifer Woodson
  Haha I never really thought about it that way before.
  
  Jenn
  Ultimate-Privacy.Net
• Jennifer Woodson
  Oh wow, I never really thought about it that way before LOL
  
  Jess
  www.online-invisibility.net.tc
• Dwayne Litzenberger
  I agree with Jason Zandri. What a stupid, irresponsible, and unethical thing to do! Not only will this almost certainly increase the number of scam victims, but the small handful of people who respond to spam make it profitable. These people are the reason why everyone else gets hundreds of thousands of spam messages per year. Spam responders should be educated or punished, not rewarded and encouraged.
  
  Shame on these folks at Mother London.
• mjc
  You gotta be shittin' me...? These two jackasses just legitimatized the process, so now even more dumb people, having heard of this "awesome" stunt, will lose even more money to unscrupulous turds overseas. Yeah, Merry Christmas to you, too, you short-sighted dim wits.
• Jason Zandri
  This is very irresponsible - I don't care if the end result is that the money went to a good cause.
  
  Now that these idiots have pulled this stunt I wonder how many people are going to be, as they said in the video, “stupid enough” to reply to the billions of scam emails that are already circulated in the hopes they’ll find the “real” one.
  
  Let’s forget all the people that don’t realize (somehow) that the run of the mill emails like this are all scam and fraud – we now have had an actual event; people are going to believe they have lotto like luck to find the one real email from all the spam.
  
  So irresponsible as far as I am concerned as now the scammers and spammers have a video to link to and a whole new campaign to use to encourage people to part with their sensitive information.
  
  If you part with your full name and all the details to your personal information (bank, credit card, etc) you run and astronomically high probability to lose money over the infinitesimal chance to get free money.
  
  Don’t do it.
• jethelred
  It looks very staged. What are the odds that the guy that's greedy and stupid enough to risk it is going to then throw the money at a small NPO that helps a vastly different demographic and that he (most likely) has no personal attachments to? In the real world, none.
  
  I'm proving that I'm the wrong kind of person for this sort of experiment, aren't I?
  
  Bugger.