21 May
2007
21 May
'07
5:09 p.m.
On 21 May 2007 at 13:36, Alexandre Souza wrote:
A great friend of mine bought some videogames from
a company in Nigeria.
It has all the components of a scam. But he asked me to help, so here I am
trying to help. The nigerian man says everything is in his possess, but
wants a $500 reshipment fee (?!) to ship it to UK (and only later, send to
Brazil, go figure!). Of course I'm trying with him to have a pick-up in
Nigeria, solving at once this problem. I can reward someone who is willing
for help.
Be very very careful. One of the aspects of these Nigerian scams is
to use a number of intermediaries (and shipment drops) to launder
stolen merchandise or fraudulent money transfers. Your friend, even
if he winds up with the merchandise (which is doubtful), could find
himself in legal trouble.
See some of the variations here:
ttp://0035666.netsolhost.com/Nigerian/bogus_orders.htm
To be very candid, I suspec that the merchandise in question doesn't
exist.
Cheers,
Chuck