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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Many years ago, before I'd heard of the Nigerian prince scam, someone emailed me asking for help to transfer 180 million out of an African country. I had no reason to think this wasn't a genuine (if slightly dodgy) foreign national trying to involve random internet weirdos in a scheme to raid his country's treasury.

I wrote back saying "sorry, wrong address" because I ain't fuckin' with Inland Revenue.