Caveat- New Nigerian Scam

Black Swan Designs · Post by **Black Swan Designs** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:03 am

Since we've been contacted for one of these Nigerian "orders", I thought I'd post a warning here as a public service announcement to other businesspeople who might not have heard of this one yet-

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Scenario: Vendors have been duped into shipping large orders to Nigeria, only to find they've been paid with stolen credit cards.

Synopsis: Nigerian scam artists are masters at defrauding those who live in other nations. They have been highly successful at this endeavor through the venerable Nigerian scam, and they just recently have begun scalping many via the cashier check scam. But of late they have seemingly also discovered the potential of "card not present" (CNP) credit card transactions. CNP sales offer enterprising thieves the opportunity to have the goods they are stealing shipped directly to them Ã¢â‚¬â€

D. Sebastian · Post by **D. Sebastian** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:10 am

Good catch Gwen.

:bump:

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:16 am

i second what sebastian wrote. I hate these nigerian scams, how they do it and feel nothing about the people they're doing it to.

Johannes · Post by **Johannes** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:06 pm

They are being active with this one, as well. We've been hit by them three times on two web sites. Figured I would do some checking before anything shipped, big orders from that part of the world set off all the alarm bells. Good to know it wasn't just us.

Thomas H · Post by **Thomas H** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:43 pm

If i get ANY big orders i get suspicious :sad:

Louis de Leon · Post by **Louis de Leon** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:04 pm

Not a nigerian scam, but another scam to look out for. Beware of fake escrow sites.

And this story comes with a happy ending, too.

http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/

Stacy Elliott · Post by **Stacy Elliott** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:20 am

Ok, so what was the happy ending?

Stacy

Ceawlin · Post by **Ceawlin** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 4:21 am

Giles,

He sent the guy in England a G-4 Apple Powerbook, in exchange for $2100. (sad, how he never got his money... :cry:

)

But, the Powerbook he sent was a binder, and the guy had to pay customs tax of 27% on the value to receive it from FedEx. :shock:

[img]http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/images/g4%20resized/topclosed.jpg[/img]

Stacy Elliott · Post by **Stacy Elliott** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 4:58 am

ED 007,

Yes, I read the entire thing...! But what was the happy ending? I was hoping for some ending.. It left me wanting to see the picture of the guy as he opened the package or a headline that the cops knocked on the Barbers door... Etc...

This ending just kinda, ended...

Stacy

Louis de Leon · Post by **Louis de Leon** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:10 am

Well, the scammer got scammed, y'know. Evil is punished. The jerk who tried to rip him off got what was coming to him.

...

Well...I like it anyways.

Gads I'm such a geek...

Niall · Post by **Niall** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:20 pm

Thanks for the post Gwen.

I just got one of these 'orders' myself just the other day. Took a couple of emails but I finally got them to tell me that it was being shipped to Nigeria and that they wanted to bump the order from a few hundred to several thousand dollars.

Just didn't sound right.