Email Scam Cartoons and Comics

Beware of sophisticated, hard to detect e-mail scams.

"....and then it turned out that the e-mail I ignored that I got from the Nigerian bank offering me £200 million was REAL!"

"I'm an inheritance from Nigeria. I just need your bank account, I.D., and a thousand dollars to complete the transaction."

'Gone phishing.'

'When you've found some change for the gas meter have a look a this email you got from some bloke in Africa asking you to safeguard 13 million dollars...'

"All that spam from African diplomats offering you $15 million - they're him."

'Any collateral other than this letter from a Nigerian banker's widow?'

"Our email marketing campaign got a response from someone in Nigeria who wants to send us four million dollars. Should we deposit that in the company account, or is it better to use Paypal?"

The REAL Victims of Spam

'I know those big money deals from NIGERIA are a scam, but this e-mail is from NEW GUINEA!'

Colonel Gaddafi has been reported to be attempting to transfer billions of pounds worth of assets from Libya

Any luck finding a new credit source?

'Uh-oh -- Bush found out about internet scams, and now he wants to invade Nigeria.'

'It from Nigerian Banker's widow, Kemosabe.'

The origins of the Email Money Scam...

Super Highwayman.

"This might be a scam."