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(Date Posted:05/14/2006 1:22 AM)

We'd like to hear your story if you have been scammed (or if there has been an attempt to scam) your business. Or through a personal ad, Ebay, etc... Every single day, all day long, Nigerians are making brazen attempts to scam U.S. businesses and individuals by using IP relay and offeringpayment viastolen credit cards to purchase merchandise. Most often, if the scam actually goes through, the business/person finds out too late that the merchandise they have shipped was not paid for, and the credit card company will not allow the funds to go through. Or they got a phony money order.If this has happened to you, please tell us your story. Often times, operators can help you with the problem of how to avoid it in the future. Operators can help you identify the difference between a fraud call, and a legitimate person needing to use relay.

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(Date Posted:06/05/2006 4:32 AM)

It took 3 calls over a 2 week period before an order was placed.


The "customer" gave me a card number and asked for the approval verification number.  He then asked me to ship it to Ghana.  That's when the bells went off.  I informed him that we didn't ship internationally and he was ok with that...he would have UPS or FedEx pick it up.


After the call was over I called my CC processing company.  They were no help but they did give me the phone number to the issueing bank (in the USA).  Since the only address given was in west Africa they thought it was a bit strange and to "seller beware".


Needless to say, I voided the charge.


The next morning I had an idea...


The freight company just left with 260 lbs. of carefully boxed scrap metal shipped "bad guy's expense" all the way to Ghana.


I feel better now.
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(Date Posted:06/05/2006 6:03 AM)

CLASSIC... hahaah  Nice job.  Glad you caught the scam and it didn't hurt you at all.....

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(Date Posted:06/05/2006 6:11 AM)

That was great thinking! I'd love to see the look on the mugu's face when he opened it.

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(Date Posted:08/02/2006 7:39 AM)

That's classic I love that idea.

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(Date Posted:09/12/2006 1:08 AM)

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We'd like to hear your story if you have been scammed (or if there has been an attempt to scam) your business. Or through a personal ad, Ebay, etc... Every single day, all day long, Nigerians are making brazen attempts to scam U.S. businesses and individuals by using IP relay and offeringpayment viastolen credit cards to purchase merchandise. Most often, if the scam actually goes through, the business/person finds out too late that the merchandise they have shipped was not paid for, and the credit card company will not allow the funds to go through. Or they got a phony money order.If this has happened to you, please tell us your story. Often times, operators can help you with the problem of how to avoid it in the future. Operators can help you identify the difference between a fraud call, and a legiti

I had a similar thing happen last weekend. I got the IP relay call requesting price for "paints" to be shipped to Alaska. I thought this was VERY strange as we are a retail paint store in So Cal. I gave them our email address because the relay calls were becoming so anoying. They wanted to put $1500.00 of paint on a credit card which was not unusual, but they wanted to put $500 more on the card to cover the shipping. They wanted me to wire $500 by Western Union to the  shipper.I told them we did not do business that way and let me contact the shipper. Well that's when it got  stranger. The shipper's email address contained the same last name and bad spelling  as the original contact  person. That's when I contacted the Sprint  IP customer service rep and she faxed me a TIP sheet that had ALL the warning sings that I was seeing - Alaska, a church group, the shipper address is in Ghana, they wanted it done fast, (before the card was reported stolen) very poor grammar & spelling. This was a first for me, but I caught on before they conned me out of any money. Spread the word.
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(Date Posted:09/15/2006 1:05 AM)

I'm so glad that you were able to see this as a scam.  SO MANY people don't.  Very easy give-aways are right in plain sight, but people just don't seem to catch them.  In your case, for example.... Your business is in California.  They wanted this paint shipped to Alaska.  Why don't they just buy it in Alaska?  As I understand it, most paint isn't something that is hard to find.  It isn't a specialty item that is unique to one store in the country.  Why did they call you, all the way in CA? 


That's one give-away.  There are so many more.  We have a thread somewhere, and I'll try to find it for you..... on "How to tell if it's a scam"....

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(Date Posted:01/23/2007 3:51 AM)

Yep.  I had the same exact issue as the person at the paint store.  They wanted the merchandise for their chuch in Alaska and wanted us to add money to the CC transaction to cover shipping.  I told them that it wouldn't be possible.  The person couldn't even spell their name the same way twice!
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