A pathetic Nigerian Illuminati scam
You have probably received this email in the last few days.
Well, I contacted the scammer and have been able to get some useful info.
The scam goes on as any other Illuminati scam - they send you many buzzwords promising you money, fame, etc. hoping you are dumb enough to avoid any of the numerous red flags you have already encountered. The scammers usually ask you for your personal information, such as DOB, country, age, gender, and info which they’ll sell to other scammers.
They’ll ask for your photos too, and some of the wiser, more intelligent will request a specific pose or stance in the image. For example, this scammer, who goes under the name Alexander Montana, asked me for a photo with my left hand on my forehead. Oddly specific, I know.
Well, this scammer wasn’t so wise because he fell for my Grabify link, revealing his location.
| Date/Time | 2022-12-22 14:59:13 UTC |
|---|---|
| IP Address | 197.210.226.160 |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Orientation | portrait-primary |
| Timezone | Africa/Lagos GMT+1 |
| User Time | Thu Dec 22 2022 15:59:16 GMT+0100 (West Africa Standard Time) |
| Language | en-US |
| Incognito/Private Window | No |
| Ad Blocker | No |
| Screen Size | 360 x 820 |
| Local IP | 10.27.118.189 |
| GPU | Mali-G52 MC2 |
| Browser | Chrome Mobile (98.0.4758.101) |
| Operating System | Android 10 |
| Device | Infinix Note 7 |
| Touch Screen | Yes (5 touch points) |
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; Infinix X690B) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.101 Mobile Safari/537.36 |
| Platform | Linux armv8l |
| Referring URL | no referrer |
| Host Name | 197.210.226.160 |
| ISP | Loading… |
Investigating further, I found out the scammer was incompetent and stole the email script from others - a script that isn’t even good.
One example:
Seeing that there are infinite amounts of the same posts on the internet (posts with the same script and formulation), I knew I couldn’t just find the scammer on Facebook. So, I sent a message to him asking for his WhatsApp phone number, hoping I could find a Facebook scam post with the same phone number included. That plan fell apart pretty quickly because why the hell would he respond now knowing I just scambaited him?
Another funny thing I found out is after I sent him the Grabify link, he sent me this (caution, don’t go to the link):
Alaye (which he misspelled) is a code word scammers use to reveal if the person they’re texting with is also a scammer.
To be continued I guess…