Nigerian Scam

slowen

I think these scams are funny and do they think people are stupid enough to supply them with the bank details to get their money to you but really it is to wipe your account out

Turning_into_scrooge

peter_the_piper wrote:

I'm beginning to feel left out, I haven't had one for weeks. They're always a good laugh.

I'm feeling totally isolated, I have never received one of these :rolleyes:

chrisw

Rex_Mundi wrote:

Next time you get one of these, you might want to try here
http://www.419eater.com/forum/

It's another forum devoted to these kinds of email scams. Some people play them along for months. There are loads of tips on how to wind the sender up, and some of the accounts of months of email wind up are hilarious.

I've now spent 3 hours reading that site, missed Corrie and my wife is moaning so I'd better log off.

Brilliant!

pug_in_a_bed

I was selling a pair of glasses on ebay and out of the blue got an email from someone in china who was interested in staring an import export glasses business with me !!??? on the basis of me selling ONE pair of glasses from 1982!

these people are thick!

wendytiggermad

busy2005 wrote:

I own a small internet business and have just been thwarted by a nigerian customer.
I received an order which was all paid for from a nigerian customer. Since the payment went through they have been hassling us by email asking us to help them get 6 sony ericson phones and ship them to nigeria. Payment will only be made by credit card which is so obviously an act of fraud and so obviously we refused to help them.
Unfortunately the payment for the items they ordered had been processed
by worldpay before we had the chance to reject it leaving me feeling quite sick. The order was £45 not a lot I know but I feel sure that some time soon I will receive a chargeback which will end up costing us a further £25.
The order is sat here waiting to be dispatched but obviously since this transaction is more than likely an act of fraud we are not going to dispatch or we stand to loose over £100. As a small company this is an expense we could do with out so I just wanted to warn any other internet retailers about this problem.

Like this one
Hello seller,
This is Jero stores located down Usa, am interested
in your items which i saw on Amazon community and am
willing to purchase 3 of this items to my one of my
customer who live in Africa, so i will like to pay you
through Paypal, and i dont mind adding the sum of
50pounds to your total amount, so i will like you to
reply back to this mail, and if you are willing to
sell this items,kindly mail me back with your paypal
account and the total amount plus shipping fees to
Africa.
I await your reply asap
Thanks,
Jero Junny

trisontana

Another twist on this scam is where they send you a third party cheque for much more then the price of the goods. They ask you to pay this cheque into your bank, pay for the item out of this cheque and send the balance of the amount back to them. So you pay the cheque into the bank and it seems to clear, but after a few weeks it finally bounces and it then turns out that it was a forged cheque. In that time you have sent the scammer the original goods, plus the balance of the money and you lose the whole lot.

Several cases like this have been featured on the BBC Three Counties Radio consumer programme . One guy lost about £5,000. The actual cheques do look genuine. One was from Centrica and was supposed to be a dividend payment cheque. Other ones appeared to be from well-known British companies , but they were all forgeries. So be warned.

oscardog

Go to "Scamorama" and the tears will be rolling down your cheeks at how people "play" these con artists.

Diamond.

mallard

Like many i have my fair share of these messages. But the funniest come into my university account, as someone who works in healthcare education - it kind of goes "you know i have had a total cerebellectomy and recovering well but in need of a cash transaction to reconnect my neurones! My wife left me shortly after surgery taking all my hard earned cash and whilst i was without a cerebellum i had no idea that she was leaving me in a desperate sitaution. I have now recovered from being a quadraplegic through the miraculous intervention of Paypal so perhaps you can help me on my journey of nerve reconnection........"

We get some howlers and if they realised what they were writing they would know that all we would do is laugh!

Mallard

ADAM001

i actually got one of these through the internal messaging on this site,they are even registered to this site! scumbags! do they expect to con people like this,with bad spelling and grammar, and sob stories that are so far fetched youd never believe!

mallory_knox

BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT WEBSITE!
I cant wait to get my next Mugo - I have a new hobby!

Mallory