Why is it that lately I've been seeing a rise in scams originating from Africa? Whether it be via email (I have 10 million dollars, you send me 30k and I'll give you 5 million) or like what my staff in HK received - a fake check from some bank in Nigeria asking for commercial samples shipped to Nigeria. They asked me if they should cash the check - I took a look at it and knew it was a scam.

First the dumbass wrote it out in British Sterling Pounds. As an American company, we work on US Dollars and no other denomination.

Second the fool sent the fake check in such a large sum that makes no sense at all for some small QTY of commercial samples.

Third the guy is from OMO OLORO COMMERCIAL SYNDICATE - using a YAHOO! address. If he is so big, and the largest commercial distributor in Nigeria with millions of pounds in cash from large international investors in the UK and Europe, why use a Yahoo! address?

Last but not least, when asked to wire transfer the funds, the guy squirms and whines about the cost when he complained that he spent a large sum of money preparing and sending the international check.

Do those people really think people are that stupid? That's a rhetorical question, I know there are people that stupid, but some scams are just too obvious.

 

Obviously if people are still falling for these scams, they're still going to try. Same reason if 1 out of 300,000 people respond to a spam email, out of millions of emails sent, that still makes it worth it.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by thunderchicken
Obviously if people are still falling for these scams, they're still going to try.

 

I recently wondered how someone could sleep at night doing this shit....... now on ebay it seems like every day (or more) there is a "buy it now" car for way to cheap and "must get prior approval to bid" instructions with it.

then...of course... I am in the netherlands, please western union me just $1000 and the car will be shipped to you, bla bla bla.

Or the offers of buying your used car..... I will give you $15k for your $8k car.... please return the difference to the freight carrier...... bla bla bla.... so you lose your car and $7k.... great....

 

The sad part is that people still fall for this stuff, and while a sucker is born every minute, you can't cheat an honest man (person to be PC). The only ones that really get scammed are those that think they can get something for nothing.

IF IT'S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT USUALLY IS!

 

For a laugh check out the 419 baiting sites turning the scam on the scammers:

http://www.geocities.com/spamresources/419.htm#scammed

 

Wait a minute I just sent 10 k to get 250k was that a scam? I didn't think it was a scam because scams are usually larger than 250k.























































J/k

 

They're all from Nigeria

 

Mingster,

I have been getting alot of inquiry from people from Africa and Nigeria also. The previous manager got in trouble because he was stupid enough to approve a scam order which caused us 15k USD. The good side is hes gone and I am the new manager. Bwahhahaa!

I recently have a case that my customer told me: He was selling my product on ebay and someone in Nigeria sent him an order of 20 units and cost about 5k via western union. He received and email and transfer confirmation from western unit.....the email format and address is VERY VERY close to the original, just like a email from Western union. He shipped the units and now he is screwed. He is lucky that he had UPS held the product at Nigerian airport the problem is that UPS want to charge additional $400.00 to ship it back!!!

FBI and other agency is aware of this issues now. They suggest DO NOT accept Western union unless u call to verify. Only bank via transfer! NOthing else!

DaRKCrow

 

i remember a few years ago people would call clerks in our company and get them to semi approve some "internet yellow pages" advertising for $300 per year or so.... then when you don't pay they call you and tell you that they have a "recorded conversation" with whomever......... I got out of it because they didn't get a purchase order # or anything in writing from us....

We also had a place send us an invoice for about 100 lightbulbs for like $1000.00.... it was a "prepay" and we'll ship them to you..... the Accounts Payable department here is not that dumb so we called and they hung up on us.....