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Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

Graham1982 — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:22:29 GMT

Hi:

This issue appears to be closed now. However, last year I had a sideline of selling pre-used top-end mobile phones such as Motorola A1000 and other PDAs. My main cutomers were in Eastern Europe or other dare I say "developing" countries. As a result I recieved a lot of attention from dodgy scammers that eminated from Nigeria. On each ocasion they would put personal information into the email correspondence they had with me such as this is for my poor uncle with one toe who cannot walk very far etc.

The fact that the buyer here has stated that he is buying these speakers for his son in such a way would suggest to me that this is a similar scam.

In order to avoid such issues I would put into the advert I will not sell/ship to Nigeria. Once I got quite annoyed and stated something like "I am not stupid, I will not ship to your long lost uncle in Nigeria who has one leg and has to walk 100 miles to get to his house every day". Perhaps it was rude, yet it did the trick. The auction did not get ruined at the last minuite whereas the previous six had.

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

StUrrock — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:09:24 GMT

Thank you guys for your welcome messages.

Yes the car is a 5 series and lovely it is too!

Regards

St Urrock

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

Wings — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:27:07 GMT

Thank you, Jonnie. PM has been sent to you.

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

JC — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:13:25 GMT

Wings:

Dear All,
Thanks for the advice. Guess I will give this one a pass and look for another buyer.
Wings

Hi Wings,

I have had some interest from a guy in Japan for my 6000s. The postage is too great from the UK though. I can pass you his details if you would like them. I would ask his permission first of course. Let me know. Either PM or email me.

Jonnie

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

Wings — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:33:10 GMT

Dear All,

Thanks for the advice. Guess I will give this one a pass and look for another buyer.

Wings

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

Stars — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:40:14 GMT

Welcome to BeoWorld St Urrock! Is it a 5 Series in your Avatar?

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

Jandyt — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:06:07 GMT

Yes, welcome St Urrock1
Love the photo' in your avatar.
Why do I get the feeling we are going to hear a lot more from you?

Andy T.

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

Medogsfat — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:41:57 GMT

Too much doubt for my liking here.

There's nothing to stop them putting in a paypal claim after receiving the speakers which will really mess your paypal account up. The only way round this would be get the buyer to agree to a 30 day wait after payment before sending the speakers as by this time the right to claim will have expired.

Personally I wouldn't deal with anyone from Nigeria simply on the reputation of being a scammers hotbed.

Chris.

PS. Welcome to Beoworld St Urrock

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

jjihonor — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:15:20 GMT

Hi everyone, I feel in the best position to respond to this; being Nigerian and all.

I agree that there is a lot of fraud perpetrated by Nigerian scammers, however, as Lee pointed out, there are a lot of decent ones as well. This particular case though is definitely dodgy: The phone number is a Lagos number not an Abeokuta one. It's very odd that he would be buying his son B&O speakers as well. Credit cards are still not so widely used in Nigeria as well. Zip codes are not really widely used in Nigeria either.

So, yes, I wouldn't go near it either!

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

StUrrock — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:04:10 GMT

Hi,

Couldn't agree more please be careful. As a B&O dealer I once had £18 000 transfered into my bank account from a gentleman overseas. I decided not to release the goods immediately. 3 days later the bank clawed back the money and said it was a fraudulent transaction.

Good Luck

St Urrock

Ps Argyle Moss, where are you? I think Beoworld now has 2 Argyle fans!!

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

Justin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:36:24 GMT

I assume the G in his name stands for Glaxo.... Given he therefore has net assets of around $50billion I'm sure there's no problem - NOT!!

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

9 LEE — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:25:11 GMT

If in doubt - leave it out..Bank Transfer or nothing, as has just been said. Although there are of course plenty of honest people in Nigeria, the vast majority i'm afraid have made me extremely suspicious when dealing over the internet!

Lee

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

Peter — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:24:04 GMT

Agree - wouldn't go near it.

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

Stonk — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:14:33 GMT

I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. There's every chance that a dodgy credit card will be used for the transaction that doesn't show up initially but Paypal themselves will do a claw back from you leaving you without speakers and owing money. I've heard of this before and Paypal officially do not offer their services in Nigeria. This means they would not help you in the event of a fraudulent transaction.

Insist on direct bank transfer or nothing.

Steve

Re: Another Nigerian Scam?

Keith Saunders — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:05:19 GMT

Well, maybe or maybe not..

The University he is talking about is likely to be the mini-campus in Isale-Igbein right in the centre of Abeokuta, the Capital of Ogun State.

There is really two points I noticed, first is the phone number starting 1 (702) yet the area code in that area is (234) and as far as I am aware Nigeria does not use Zip Codes.

Just let him pay by Paypal, if you get your money, then fine, provided he does not complain to Paypal that he did not get his goods.