[meteorite-list] New Subject - Nigeria

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Apr 20 16:04:59 2005
Message-ID: <00d801c545e4$37364250$6401a8c0_at_Dell>

I too have received this type of "delete immediately" boloney. Jerry
----- Original Message -----
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To: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>; "Meteorite List"
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Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Subject - Nigeria


> Hi Michael & List
> I have received several of these myself. None of them mention the exact
> product that I sell or what they want to buy. They only mention that they
> are interested in the "merchandise" I sell. Also all ask if I take credit
> cards and if I can ship FedEx or DHL. I would guess this is so they have
> their merchandise before you figure out that the cc is stolen.
> I stay as far away as I can from these scamsters and recommend that
> everyone else do so as well.
> Mike
> --
> Mike Jensen IMCA 4264
> Jensen Meteorites
> 16730 E Ada PL
> Aurora, CO 80017-3137
> 303-337-4361
> website: www.jensenmeteorites.com
>
>
>> 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.
>>
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