This has nothing to do with an s2000 but I would like the word to spread as much as possible so people like my wife can have a better idea on what goes on around the world.

To make a long story short, we have a 4 bedroom house and we rent out the rooms to students or people our age. We meet our current roommate through roommates.com and received another inquiry from a prospective roommate from the same service.

She was a female who was from London and had her masters and wanted to move to Omaha because she had a job in modeling lined up for her. She sent us pics, asked my wife questions, so all was good. She said she wanted to pay a years rent up front which is not uncommon and told my wife the funds would be sent.

My wife had told me she was from London, but never told me she was talking to her from Nigeria. My wife has never heard of these scams from Africa but I have. The lady sent my wife 5 money orders(USPS) for $950 each.

My wife tells the lady that she had received the money orders. Soon after, the lady tells my wife that her mother died and she needed the money to pay for the funeral.

What happens next is obvious to all, but at the time my wife felt sorry for the lady. The lady requested that the money be sent western union to help pay for the funeral.

My wife sent 2 money orders in the amount of 2000 each. One went through and the other was stopped before it was received by the lady(thank God).

This whole time I have been so busy and did not ask my wife many questions about this girl. I wish I had because it could have saved us 2grand because I have heard of these scams from Nigeria. This is just a whole new twist to these scams and they are getting smarter.

I am leaving out some details because the story is long enough. Be careful and don't trust people over the internet!

We are out 2240 including fees from western union. If they did not catch the second transaction we would be out 4240!!!

Take care all..

Chris

 

crazy nigerians

 

I don't get it.
anyhoo.. wrong forum. You should ask a mod to move it.

 

Crazy. Why are so many of these scams from Nigeria and not another poor country?

 

Yeah that sux. This scam is similar to the I'll buy your car scam, but I'll give you $5k extra but you have to send me back the change. These scames are becoming too common, something needs to be done to improve money orders.

 

Sorry to hear about that.

When I did internet car sales, someone from Nigeria wanted to transfer 1.5 million dollars to one of my bank accounts to get it out of the country. They said I could keep half. They had a whole sob story to about how her husband was just killed and her son is to young blah blah blah.

 

S2000 talk?

 

Sorry to hear that; you need to check out:

http://www.419eater.com/

It's a whole site where people called "scambaiters" lead these scammers on and in some cases, get the scammers to send THEM money. It's pretty funny. Read up on the one about the "Clan of the red breast". It's damn hilarious.

 

Maybe I'm just clueless (another reminder for me to be more careful with that kinda thing) but what happened to the 5 money orders for $950? Are they invalid or something? Just curious and sorry to hear about your misfortune.

 

Again, this has nothing to do with an s2000.
I hope this will spread the word so people like my wife can hear about it. A lot of people look here. People like me only look on a few forums. 3 for me.

The bank has no idea that the money orders are counterfeit. Western union called my wife and informed her about the scam.

Any day the money orders will come back and we are responsible fot the 4750. The bank already has put a hold on the $4750 on our account. If we didn't keep documentation, the bank could have prosecuted us for depositing fraudulent money orders.