[meteorite-list] New Subject - Nigeria

From: Meteoriteshow <meteoriteshow_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Apr 20 13:59:05 2005
Message-ID: <017b01c545d2$9e9e9990$6396e052_at_bebees>

Hi to both Michael!

Yes it is true that many "spam" e-mails are coming from Nigeria, to propose
some wonderful looking deals, that 99.99% of the times are ways to get
information about you, your bank, your account number, letter heads and so
on... Some years ago, those highly suspect enquiries were sent by fax to
companies that are exporting to Africa including Nigeria; I received a lot
when I was an export salesman in a company making packaging machines, as I
was in charge of the sales in Africa. On their request, I reported some to
the French Embassy in Lagos, providing tel and fax numbers I had from the
messages received, and they were always leading to empty offices for rent,
where those thieves were sitting for few hours or days, just to try and
catch some fish.
So the best advise I have about those e-mails is to try and tune your
"outlook express" or whatever in order to refuse those messages, and to
delete straight away the ones passing through.
Best wishes,

Frederic - meteoriteshow


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>
To: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>; "Meteoriteshow"
<meteoriteshow_at_free.fr>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Subject - Nigeria


> Michael,
> Man, you need to stay up on the common scams.
> These are people wanting to buy anything using STOLEN credit cards.
> First warning should be when they ask to buy "your product". They don't
even
> know what they want, just anything you can ship using stolen credit cards.
> Best to avoid any business with Nigeria.
> Mike Farmer
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>
> To: "Mike Farmer & Melody" <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>; "Meteoriteshow"
> <meteoriteshow_at_free.fr>; "Meteorite List"
> <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Subject - Nigeria
>
>
> > Hi All,
> > Since the last survey of the list resulted in 26% of the members
> > responding that they considered themselves meteorite dealers, I post
> > this to the entire list:
> >
> > I have received six or eight inquiries from NIGERIA - all
different
> > individuals, asking weird questions about buying "my products" - such
> > as: Do I ship to Nigeria? Will I take a direct bank wire, etc. The first
> > one
> > I tried to accommodate, but then received additional inquiries from
> > others in Nigeria. After that, I strongly suspected I was receiving
> > some sort of spam hustle (like the never ending posts, often in all
> > CAPS, about some widow from some obscure country who's dead
> > husband left her 26.8 million dollars and if I would just let her wire
> > it to my bank account she would happily give me 5% or the like). As
> > a result, I am no longer responding to any inquiries "from Nigeria."
> > In any event, I wonder if others on this list who have commercial
> > web sites have been getting multiple enigmatic posts from Nigeria?
> > Best wishes, Michael
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."
> > -Herb Cohen
> > --
> > If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
> >
> >
>
>
>
Received on Wed 20 Apr 2005 01:58:54 PM PDT