Nigeran Money Order Scam

[lingyai]

Just a thought about adding a note about the Nigerian based scam that asks sellers to send goods to Nigera in return for a money order to the for sale area. I got any one of these emails in response to posting an ad. Now most board members will know it is a scam if they get simmilar emails but there might be a few that are new to the internet who don't know.

[fxm88]

For lots more information see http://www.2bangkok.com/2bangkok/Scams/Nigerian.shtml

[Jockstar]

Or check out this site.

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/login.php?...cc995eb47ddab0b

[p_brownstone]

A more recent innovation I have found in the last year or so is that, if you run a Business, you will receive an Email asking if you can ship your Products to Nigeria and, if so, do you accept payment by Credit Card.

Most people would assume that this is a guarantee of payment and agree to do business on that basis, however once you ship the goods the scammer will contact the Credit Card Company and claim that the goods were never received; the Card Company then reverses the payment transaction – they always seem to side with their own Customer, not the person or Business entity who was due the payment.

Patrick

[h90]

A more recent innovation I have found in the last year or so is that, if you run a Business, you will receive an Email asking if you can ship your Products to Nigeria and, if so, do you accept payment by Credit Card.

Most people would assume that this is a guarantee of payment and agree to do business on that basis, however once you ship the goods the scammer will contact the Credit Card Company and claim that the goods were never received; the Card Company then reverses the payment transaction – they always seem to side with their own Customer, not the person or Business entity who was due the payment.

Patrick

Patrick that is wrong! the creditcards are stohlen. We checked all our nigerian orders a while ago (but never shipped one).

The creditcards came from Switzerland, USA, France, Canada, Australia........ but never from Nigeria and of course the real owner of the CC don´t want to pay!

As well there are other tricks which are more dangerous:

Fake money order which need one week till the bank want the money back.

Instead of writing Nigeria, writing France. The french post is able to correct the wrong adress and forward to Nigeria, the creditcard is working and someone without experience might send. Almost always city is Lagos, so you can detect that.

I know that does not fit in that forum, but I write it anyway just in case I can help someone to not loose money.

[p_brownstone]

Patrick that is wrong! the creditcards are stohlen. We checked all our nigerian orders a while ago (but never shipped one).

Ah - OK h90 (may I call you "h"? )

I am sure you are correct, I sometimes get these Emails (and of course never respond) and imagined that the scam was operated in the fashion I indicated in my Post, however clearly the scammers are becoming even more efficient in their use of fake / stolen I.D.'s etc..

Having lived in Nigeria for 4 years I have a huge negative attitude towards that Country and it's citizens.

"The Giant of Africa"

On a side note; I'd love to see that clown Geldorf spend a few weeks there without his entourage and it's obvious connections and attractive Patronage - he'd soon drop any notion of "the Luminous Continent".

Patrick

Edited August 25, 2006 by p_brownstone

[tuky]

Just a thought about adding a note about the Nigerian based scam that asks sellers to send goods to Nigera in return for a money order to the for sale area. I got any one of these emails in response to posting an ad. Now most board members will know it is a scam if they get simmilar emails but there might be a few that are new to the internet who don't know.

This is why the Thaivisa.com moderating team do our best to edit out email addresses from posts.

The forum rules state:

2) Due to potential spam problems, email addresses are not permitted in posts or signatures.

thaivisa.com forum rules

These people have engines that scour the internet looking for email addresses, so when you come across a post that has /email address edited/ or similar you now know why.

Thanks Thaivisa for doing your best to look out for me

[JACKSON]

My experience that's the Nigerian send a Cashier Cheque to me and ask me to send for him in advance USD10,000 by Western Union. Once I have been received the Cashier Cheque I went to Bank In to the Bangkok Bank Ram Inthra Branch and it's took 30 days.

On the date the bank officer has been calling to me and I went to the Bank. The Bank Officer told me that's the Cashier Cheque is Farud.

Those Nigerian are the real bastard.

Thank you.