{"id":3867,"date":"2026-06-15T21:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3867"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:32:18","slug":"a-real-live-nigerian-prince-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3867","title":{"rendered":"A real, live Nigerian Prince Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3866\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260615-Nigerian-scam.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3866 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260615-Nigerian-scam-218x300.png\" alt=\"typical Nigerian scam letter\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260615-Nigerian-scam-218x300.png 218w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260615-Nigerian-scam-745x1024.png 745w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260615-Nigerian-scam-768x1056.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260615-Nigerian-scam.png 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 85vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click the image to enlarge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Friends, I have arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Someone paid real money to mail me my very own <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advance-fee_scam\">Nigerian Prince scam<\/a>.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t seen one of these in years, and never before have I received one via the US Postal service.\u00a0 They have always been via email, which makes sense because it&#8217;s cheap.<\/p>\n<p>But this wonderful communiqu\u00e9 was printed on the best 8.5&#8243; x 11&#8243; bog-standard printer paper that money can buy, lovingly edited to include the finest factual and grammatical errors (&#8220;Reputable Bank&#8221;, a Canadian COVID victim in February of 2020, strange misuse of quotations, commas, and capitalization, etc), and directs me to communicate with a superb free email account.\u00a0 They even included a black and white clip art picture.\u00a0 I&#8217;m amazed at the cheek of it all.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not anyone until someone spends real money on scamming you.\u00a0 I&#8217;m flattered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I have arrived. Someone paid real money to mail me my very own Nigerian Prince scam.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t seen one of these in years, and never before have I received one via the US Postal service.\u00a0 They have always been via email, which makes sense because it&#8217;s cheap. But this wonderful communiqu\u00e9 was printed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3867\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A real, live Nigerian Prince Scam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[980],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fluff","tag-scams"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-10n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}