Nigerian Scams

Miss Maya Blue

Miss Maya Blue

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I have been receiving email scams from Nigeria on average twice a month.
They are always addressed to me personally and are a request for a date, and an offer of payment up front (before the date)

My concern is for girls who are new in the business. When people offer large amounts of money it is sometimes tempting to go along with it and supply your personal information.

I don't know if girls (and guys) know how to protect themselves. In my case, I subscribe to a service called Readnotify.

http://www.readnotify.com/

This service is helpful in a few ways.
One, it shows you where the email is being sent from. Two, when you send a response, it shows you how many times it was read, where in the world it was opened, and if an email is forwarded to anyone. (such as the police)

The service is very inexpensive (like $30 for a year)
and has been very useful in determining who is legit and who is not.

The email from Nigeria that I was sent most recently read like this

The first one:
On 5/24/07, opobond1111 jerry < opobond1111@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello,
How are you doing? Im daniel smith from the Canada presently
working with a construction firm in the Uk.i will be coming back home
soon cos i will soon be on vacation .so i ll like to have your service
for a night and if you are interested,get back to me. ASAP and state
your total charges for a night. I will like you to send me any of your pics.

And a second one in response:
Regards Hello
Concerning your service payment,i will be paying you with a
certified check as an overdraft payment which as upfront-payment to facilitate
this transaction as I'm always a busy man and i will not be having much
time to be dealing with cash. The payment will be issued out in your
name.And also i have a travelling agency company that take care of my
ticket & hotel reservation,insurance and picks up.So after you have
recieved the overdraft payment which will be sent to you.You will have to
go to the bank and cash your payment and send the balance to my
traveller company via western union after you have deducted your money for one
night service.you will send the balance to my agent so that they can
arrange for my trip to the states.i will want you to let me have your
contact address so that my payments will be delivered to you and not
getting into the wrong hands.And pls, let me know if you accept my offer by
sending me this contact for the for the service im requesting from you. Here are the details which i will be needing from you to send you your payment:
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CONTACT PHONE NUMBER:
ACCEPTANCE OF MY OFFER
I will be waiting to hear from you as soon as you get my email to
send me your contact address so that your payment can be mailed out to
you immediately.
Regards
Daniel.

NB..Can't wait to see you


Pretty transparent I know, but others have been more slick.
 
Good idea but would one really need "readnotify" to convince you an outrageous offer is in fact a scam?
 
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sometimes the offers are not all the outrageous.
sometimes there is doubt in your mind. readnotify clears up any doubt.
it is also useful in screening clients, particularly for girls that travel in the US
 
I get Nigerian scam attempts everytime I try to sell somthing expensive on ebay. They offer me double the price if I will ship to them first, saying they need it urgently to give as a gift to someone special.
 
There are many variants of these scams..

Greekster said:
I get Nigerian scam attempts everytime I try to sell somthing expensive on ebay. They offer me double the price if I will ship to them first, saying they need it urgently to give as a gift to someone special.
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I was on an online dating service and was contacted by a beautiful young model. We chatted and emailed. Her pictures looked authentic and she seemed quite nice and genuine.

She claimed to be from Pickering and mentioned a few local things that made me believe she was a Canadian girl.

Then she mentioned she had just started this incredible modeling tour through Africa. As soon as I heard that, I wondered if she was in Nigeria. I became suspicious. She had not asked for money but I wondered if this was a setup.

When I asked her where she was, she mentioned a few other African countires but I was still suspicious. We continued to chat and email back and forth.

As the tour continued, she would keep me posted.

The one day, she asked me to cash a cheque for her. She said that it was too difficult to access her bank accounts from her locale. The Modeling Agency would send me a cheque and I was to forward her the money.

So how was this a scam, I wondered? I gave her an address (which was really a P.O. Box) and she said she would have the Agency forward the cheque.

Then came the hook. "Oh, could you advance me some money since the cheque will be arriving soon"? Too much!

I asked her how much she needed, she said $5,000. Wild, eh? So I played along. She said that since the Modeling Agency handled the cheque, i should send the money to an Agengy contact IN NIGERIA! Oh really?!?!?!

So I went along. I said sure, the cheque should be here soon anyway. She gave me a name (probably her or an accomplice or a fake id she/he has). I told her the cheque is on the way. LOL!

She is still waiting...

When she next emails me, I will tell her I went bankrupt and if I could borrow some money.
 
I got a fake paypal payment from Nigeria several times. They do an excellent job making it look real except for one problem that if didn't existed I probably would have thought the payment was real and would have shipped my item to them: their grammar.

So I emailed them a lesson on English grammar.
 
Then came the hook. "Oh, could you advance me some money since the cheque will be arriving soon"? Too much!

I asked her how much she needed, she said $5,000. Wild, eh? So I played along. She said that since the Modeling Agency handled the cheque, i should send the money to an Agengy contact IN NIGERIA! Oh really?!?!?!

So I went along. I said sure, the cheque should be here soon anyway. She gave me a name (probably her or an accomplice or a fake id she/he has). I told her the cheque is on the way. LOL!

She is still waiting...
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Link to her pics ? If you don't mind sharing, that is.
 
The second I find she is from Africa or Russia and STILL LIVING THERE, I am done. Too much BS associated with them and it always comes down to money.

Feel free to contact me once your tour/student visa/job offer etc puts you in Canada.

Tracing the email headers is quite entertaining to help catch them in their lies.

i_am_good said:
I was on an online dating service and was contacted by a beautiful young model. We chatted and emailed. Her pictures looked authentic and she seemed quite nice and genuine.

She claimed to be from Pickering and mentioned a few local things that made me believe she was a Canadian girl.

Then she mentioned she had just started this incredible modeling tour through Africa. As soon as I heard that, I wondered if she was in Nigeria. I became suspicious. She had not asked for money but I wondered if this was a setup.

When I asked her where she was, she mentioned a few other African countires but I was still suspicious. We continued to chat and email back and forth.

As the tour continued, she would keep me posted.

The one day, she asked me to cash a cheque for her. She said that it was too difficult to access her bank accounts from her locale. The Modeling Agency would send me a cheque and I was to forward her the money.

So how was this a scam, I wondered? I gave her an address (which was really a P.O. Box) and she said she would have the Agency forward the cheque.

Then came the hook. "Oh, could you advance me some money since the cheque will be arriving soon"? Too much!

I asked her how much she needed, she said $5,000. Wild, eh? So I played along. She said that since the Modeling Agency handled the cheque, i should send the money to an Agengy contact IN NIGERIA! Oh really?!?!?!

So I went along. I said sure, the cheque should be here soon anyway. She gave me a name (probably her or an accomplice or a fake id she/he has). I told her the cheque is on the way. LOL!

She is still waiting...

When she next emails me, I will tell her I went bankrupt and if I could borrow some money.
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Maya: I never rely on any automated program to verify if an email is legit or not.

I rely on my smarts and think: if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and lives in wetlands, its a friggen duck! (in other words, if you don't have CIH then you don't get to see the booty).

BTW: the cheque cashing scam is old news. What happens is many people have a 5 grand limit on their bank accounts where the bank allows you to cash a cheque without waiting for it to clear from the home branch. By that time you've sent the money off to whomever and the cheque bounces putting YOU on the hook for it.

BTW: if you get one from the deposed nigerian general's wife who wants you to handle their $12 million estate, ummm ignore it.
 
I'm curious still as to how some of these "offers" are more believable or worth pursuing than others? Do you really think you hit the hotmail jackpot and someone's gonna help you if you help them?

After all the warnings & after all these years, I'm saddened to hear people are still getting duped.

Next time I hear of someone getting conned...too bad, so sad!
 
tboy said:
BTW: if you get one from the deposed nigerian general's wife who wants you to handle their $12 million estate, ummm ignore it.
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Yes, they really shouldn't be still emailing on that one, cuz I am already handling it. I am going to hobby like it's 2099, once I get my cut! :D
 
That guy is so stupid anyways if you read the e-mails his first one says he was from Canada (apparently where he is returning) and in the second one he says his agent will arrange for his trip to the States. lol He is not very clever at all and has no idea where he is going.
 
I was selling a car last year and put an ad in craigslist just to see if it get any bites. 20 min. after I put the ad in I got a response offering me $1000 more than my asking price. The sender told me he was a diplomat in africa and was moving to London and wanted a car to be there when he arrived. I told him that the car isn't street legal in the UK because its left hand drive. He siad he still wanted it and would send me a cashiers cheque for my price +$1000. I told him I would only accept US cash. He then siad that he had already sent the cheque. He sent me an address in London to send a money order $2000us to cover customs fees. He didn't have my address yet. At this point I decided to have fun with him. I told him that I would accept his deal if he would give me US cash and an attractive young girl. I then stated that I was glad that he was diplomat because I had to dispose of the body of a compeditor of mine who died in an unfortunate swimming accident, the body would be in the trunk of the car and could he let it pass through customs without any problems. He sent me an email saying that he was mistaken about the left hand drive and no longer needed a car and thanked me for communicating with him.
 
blackdog said:
I was selling a car last year and put an ad in craigslist just to see if it get any bites. 20 min. after I put the ad in I got a response offering me $1000 more than my asking price. The sender told me he was a diplomat in africa and was moving to London and wanted a car to be there when he arrived. I told him that the car isn't street legal in the UK because its left hand drive. He siad he still wanted it and would send me a cashiers cheque for my price +$1000. I told him I would only accept US cash. He then siad that he had already sent the cheque. He sent me an address in London to send a money order $2000us to cover customs fees. He didn't have my address yet. At this point I decided to have fun with him. I told him that I would accept his deal if he would give me US cash and an attractive young girl. I then stated that I was glad that he was diplomat because I had to dispose of the body of a compeditor of mine who died in an unfortunate swimming accident, the body would be in the trunk of the car and could he let it pass through customs without any problems. He sent me an email saying that he was mistaken about the left hand drive and no longer needed a car and thanked me for communicating with him.
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I encountered the same thing when I was selling an old rusted out 87 Honda Civic for $50 last year. Only it was a guy from "Iceland". He wanted to send me a cashier's cheque... blah blah blah. I said cash only. After all, it's only $50.
The guy went on about his business (mentioned he had people in Canada) and he was busy... blah blah blah. Me: Oh, you have someone working for you in Canada? Then tell them to go to a bank machine, withdraw $60, give me the $60, and I'll give $10 back. CASH ONLY!

His response... blah blah bl [DELETE]

But I like your 'body in the trunk' thing. LOL. I'll have to remember that.
 
THE LANDLORD VERSION


When I have available apartments for rent in my triplex I usually put them up on Craigslists. This past year I put up an ad for my one bedroom and got a response from someone wanting to wire me $5000 for the apartment but I needed to pay for the shipping of his possessions from Nigeria.
I thought it was great that this guy was going to send me $5000 without even seeing any photo's of the vacant apartment. Sheesh...
 
Nigerian version of Russian roulette.

Have you heard of how they play the Nigerian form of Russian roulette?They get 6 gorls to give 2 guys blow jobs. One of the girls is a canibal! :eek:
 
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