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Re: Another scammer story (PG-13)
« Reply #14 from previous page: September 05, 2005, 02:44:55 PM »
Having worked in Nigeria earlier this year (Lagos and Port Harcourt), I can tell you that scamming is a way of life there.  They're not just scamming us via the internet but even themselves.  You can buy lottery tickets on the street where the top prize is a US Green Card!  Billboards advertise for people to sign up to start a new life in the UK or USA (for a fee I'm sure).  The sad thing is, they don't regard themselves as crooks for scamming us, but think it's our fault for being greedy and falling for the BS to start with.

That said, there are a lot of honest and hard working Nigerians over there.  Always remember, that the language of Nigeria is ENGLISH, so if someone is writing you a sob story and claims to have millions of dollars in the bank yet can't spell for toffee then they're full of crap.  Most Nigerians in top jobs went to British style schools in the country or even to University in the UK.  Their English is better than mine!
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Re: Another scammer story (PG-13)
« Reply #15 on: September 05, 2005, 03:00:51 PM »
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Re: Another scammer story (PG-13)
« Reply #16 on: September 05, 2005, 03:04:36 PM »
In a way this reminds me of an expose documentary I saw about a Canadian lottery scam about a year ago. People in the UK were receiving letters saying that they'd won the Canadian lottery and if they sent a certain amount of money to some p.o box they'd get their millions of dollars. The programme sent an undercover crew over to Canada and the general tone was one of outrage against these evil fraudsters.

Surely though it has to be said that in this (as with the Nigerian scams) that they wouldn't work if there wasn't some sort of greed on the part of the person being scammed. Not that I'm condoning this sort of thing but surely alarm bells must ring if a total stranger in another country is telling you that you've won a lottery you've never entered or they want you to be the recipient of an oil baron's legacy?  
 

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Re: Another scammer story (PG-13)
« Reply #17 on: September 05, 2005, 03:45:15 PM »
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Surely though it has to be said that in this (as with the Nigerian scams) that they wouldn't work if there wasn't some sort of greed on the part of the person being scammed. Not that I'm condoning this sort of thing but surely alarm bells must ring if a total stranger in another country is telling you that you've won a lottery you've never entered or they want you to be the recipient of an oil baron's legacy?  


You would think so, but this is sadly not the case.  I personally know two people who have been involved in a Nigerian scam.

The first was the owner of a local "Redneck" bar I frequent.  He's a nice chap, owns a computer for email and downloading porn and runs a rather scruffy looking establishment but with a friendly atmosphere (at least it is once they've got to know you).  Anyway, he got an email from a guy "needing help" in Nigeria, but he didn't think it was a scam because what he had to do sounded like it had no risk.  He was asked to provide his mailing address to receive a cheque for $10,000.  All he had to do was pay it into his bank account, withdraw $8,000 of it and mail it to an address in Miami.  For his kind assistance, he could keep the remaining $2,000.  As he wasn't being asked for money upfront or for any bank details, social security numbers, etc, he agreed.  Well, the business cheque arrived, he paid it in and sure enough, $10,000 appeared in his account.  He withdrew the $8000 in cash, but was getting a bit concerned because his online friend kept badgering him with emails "has it arrived?", "Have you sent the money yet?", etc.  As you can guess, the cheque turned out to be forged and the cheque number had already been used before.  The $10,000 was deducted from his account (with bank charges for a NSF cheque), but fortunately he still had the $8000 cash.  Anyway, my bar-owning friend being the cheapskate guy he is, refused to give the money to the bank and kept it.  The bank has closed his account because he's overdrawn by about $7,0000+ and keep sending him letters asking for the balance.  The guy in Nigeria was promptly tood to **** himself and then threatened to send some "underworld" types around unless the money was mailed to Miami.  My mate simply invited him to send his friends around and assured him that he was an excellent shot and looked forward to killing them.

Second case was a buddy with my company that works in Houston.  He made friends with a rather sexy looking (in the photos) Nigerian woman who wanted him to help her get some clothes and goods mailed to Nigeria for her because she couldn't get any quality stuff in the country.  My friend agreed to act as a mailing address for her and all sorts of designer clothes and shoes started to appear at his appartment.  In return, he was asked to pick out some goods that he wanted and he chose a DVD-VCR combo player and sure enough it arrived.  Now, all he had to do was box it up and Fed-ex it too her along with a customs slip that claimed the goods were cheap samples.  Again, my friend dragged his feet a bit and discovered that he had been in receipt of goods ordered using stolen credit cards.
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Re: Another scammer story (PG-13)
« Reply #18 on: September 05, 2005, 03:57:53 PM »
Wow, I stand corrected. There was me thinking it was purely people trying to get your bank account number. It seems these scammers have lots of fingers in lots of dirty pies. I suppose it's not really the sort of thing that's going to go away either.
 

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Re: Another scammer story (PG-13)
« Reply #19 on: September 05, 2005, 04:32:40 PM »
My favorite was the sad tale of the Nigerian astronaut who has been stranded in orbit on Mir ever since 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.  

The ever resourceful Nigerian Government stepped in but since they don't have a bilateral trade agreement with Russia they can't post them the necessary cheque for the $25million needed to hire a Soyuz for the journey home, so you - in return for a small royalty - are being recruited to bank the cheque and pay the Russians for a space capsule.

Just how the unfortunate Nigeral has survived fourteen years of solar flare activity, not to mention the destruction of Mir in 2001 has yet to be satisfactorily explained....
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Re: Another scammer story (PG-13)
« Reply #20 on: September 05, 2005, 04:44:55 PM »
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I only opened an Ebay account myself to buy Amiga stuff and so far have found all the sellers to be really, really good. Efficient and willing to answer idiot questions after I've bought the items. Is scamming really that rife?


on ebay you just have to be careful who buys.. I just recently started not allowing 0 feedback (newbies) to bid on my auctions.  That usually weeds them out.  Then the obvious feedback to see if they pay on time etc.   Usually the scammers just send you a message and want to buy the item right away with a payment that is way over what the item is worth.    Just look at it this way in regards to the internet and sales/purchasing.. "if its too good to be true, then it probably is".


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Re: Another scammer story (PG-13)
« Reply #21 on: September 05, 2005, 04:58:51 PM »
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My favorite was the sad tale of the Nigerian astronaut who has been stranded in orbit on Mir ever since 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.  

The ever resourceful Nigerian Government stepped in but since they don't have a bilateral trade agreement with Russia they can't post them the necessary cheque for the $25million needed to hire a Soyuz for the journey home, so you - in return for a small royalty - are being recruited to bank the cheque and pay the Russians for a space capsule.

Just how the unfortunate Nigeral has survived fourteen years of solar flare activity, not to mention the destruction of Mir in 2001 has yet to be satisfactorily explained....


ROTFL!!!  Classic!!!  I've never heard that one.

Off topic, but I noticed you're from Colchester.  I was stationed at McMunn Barracks for a couple of months back in '86 (I think) and Colchester United would let us into the football games for 1 pound if we showed our ID cards so I used to go to the home matches and lend my support.  One cold night, my home team of Swansea City were visiting and I went along to watch.  I went to the away end and showed my ID card and the girl said I had to pay a fiver.  "Bugger that", I though and went to the home end and got in for a quid.  I sat there on my own with the Colchester fans and Swansea scored!  I leap in the air, "Yessssss!!!!!!" and looked around at the sea of confused skinheads around me and quickly sat down again.  Thankfully Colchester won 2-1.  :-)
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Re: Another scammer story (PG-13)
« Reply #22 on: September 05, 2005, 05:06:29 PM »
I suppose I should be pretty safe then, I don't plan selling any Amiga stuff. I actually got a load of my crappiest games together to sell once but backed out at the last minute. You can never have enough beer mats and games like Space Ace may come back into fashion one day.

Perhaps that scammernaut is eating cheese.
 

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Re: Another scammer story (PG-13)
« Reply #23 on: September 05, 2005, 08:25:28 PM »
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Re: Another scammer story (PG-13)
« Reply #24 on: September 05, 2005, 08:51:32 PM »
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My fave scammer has to be the guy that tried to defraud someone of a Powerbook on ebay, he ended up paying $550 import duty to HM Customs for a modified ringbinder. Full story.

:lol: those guys just had waaay too much fun with that!

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Re: Another scammer story (PG-13)
« Reply #25 on: September 06, 2005, 03:17:46 AM »
Nice way to play that scammer MagicM!
I and a friend got similar scam contacts
from ebay and autotrader web autions.
I didn't bother to play. I just responded....
"bid and win, items ship when payment's recieved and confirmed"
Of course there were no further emails.

@Doobrey
Great story about the p-p-p-powerbook. That was a laugh.
But I wonder what happened to Jeff, I hope he's ok.
Maybe the scammer sent some bad guys to his address.

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