11. “Hello, I am a Nigerian prince and I can make you rich beyond your wildest dreams.
I just need your phone number.”
OK, perhaps for this one on our list of funny online dating first message examples that get responses, you would have to be African American. After getting the response, you could go on saying you need her social security number, too, or the number of her credit card. Hey, you aren’t really a prince, so why not make a joke out of everything. Or are you…?