"Thanks for your urgent reply .I think we should proceed to payment. There is this client of mine who is in states now, he is about giving me a cheque of $5000 he his owing me, i will then instuct him to forward the cheque to you so when you cash it you send the change to me while am still in Africa , i think i really need it here in Africa , if this is ok by you i will like you to send the following information so that my client will use the information to forward the cheque to you".

YOUR NAME IN FULL.

YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS .

YOUR PRSONAL PHONE NUMBER.

If all this information is given my client will then send the cheque to you . hope to here from you asap,so i can get my shipper prepared too.

Possible Response: A MGNOC visitor done this and he said he has stopped receiving such messages.

I sold a vintage bicycle a few months back and received a flood of these Nigerian offers to sell them the bike and send them the "change".  I kept ignoring them but finally couldn't resist.  I replied to a few, and when I replied I used poor English, misspelling, incorrect capitalization and punctuation.  I got two of them to send me the checks, which were cashier's checks supposedly from Wells Fargo Bank. I took one to Wells and they told me it was a bad forgery (surprise!).  Anyway, I told the morons who sent them to me that I had cashed the checks and decided to keep the money and my bicycle, and not send them anything.  I never told them their checks couldn't be cashed.  I kept the checks as a little souvenir.  Their replies were hilarious (death threats, telling me they'd call the FBI, etc, all in bad English); the way I look at it they had to spend money to send the checks over via FedEx, so I'm putting a small dent in their idiotic scam.