New Nigerian scam??

[TR Custom Parts]

Got this email last nite. Maybe I have found a new area to market our Turbo Regal parts. I'm sure there are lots of TR's over there. LOL!

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Hello,
I would like to do an email order of some products from your store but
first before proceeding to listing the products i want to order from
your
store i will like to know the following:

1. Do you ship to Nigeria?
2. Do you accept Credit cards?
3. What kind of courier service(company) do you use in shipping?
4. Do you accept large or small order quantity

I await your responce asap

 

[gn85]

Write him back and tell him there are no turbo Regals in Nigeria.

Sounds similar to this thread.

http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=141658

 

[TylerDurden]

mark you have got to play with this guy.....

 

[gnx7]

When this was a new scam about 2 years ago my friend sold an RX-3 to a guy back in the Midwest. The guy paid with a bank cashiers check and said to return the difference to him. We both thought it sounded really fishy. So my friend told him it had to clear thru his bank first before shipping the car/extra funds.

The check turned out to be fraudulent from a bank in the Midwest that the thieves most likely worked at.

Sad what our society has come to.

-Mark

 

[turbobuickman]

Notice how the prospective "buyer" uses terms like "store" and "products" and outlines the terms of sale/shipping before even mentioning the products. Its a generic email that can be sent to any owner of any store. The scammers dont even waste time to customize their emails. Nigeria is a dead giveaway. Plus, if this buyer had actually visited your site, they would have noticed that it says "accept visa/mastercard" all over it .

 

[tom h]

Those Nigerians are busy beavers. So little time, so much scamming to do

Maybe write back and tell him you'd be happy to ship "large order quantity" of "products", but you require a payment of $5,000 of american currency in advance, and you promise you will send him back the change after product is "shipped" .

 

[tom h]

I wonder how many of these "Nigerians" are really russians or romanians using computers with spoofed nigerian domains and addresses.

the eastern europeans are clever bastards and have the technical know-how.

Nigeria is an open sewer latrine