419er needs $2k to buy portrait of Queen

Found on The Register on Thursday, 20 September 2007
Browse Pranks

Calling all true patriots: one of the Lads from Lagos has got himself into a right royal state and needs a quick $2k to fulfil a lifetime's ambition to hang a pic of Her Imperial Majestyness Queen Liz II on the wall.

A pleseant day to you, how are you doing,i want to ask you for a favour that is very important to me, though i dont know your state, and how you"ll take it, but honestly it is very important to me, pls can i get $2,000 from you, i need to purchase a 1960 state of the art portrait of the queen of england, it is about the oldest and best around specially when she was young, i have been longing to see one all my life, study and work on it, it was recently Auction by the museum of Lagos, Nigeria west africa.themyths of the painting is that it was painted and presented to the museum by the queen during her visit the country,during the their colonial years.

Ok, someone random should transfer $2000 to Nigeria just because Deepak wants a picture? Honestly, where are the good old 419er scams with nillions of dollars from the ex-king or president, or the insane amounts of money you could make from oil investments? Imagination really is suffering in this technological world.