Tuesday, June 13, 2006
A scam that sometimes begins in chat rooms
"International reshipping scams"
What can possibly go wrong with helping that cute man or woman in Nigeria, the one who's been complimenting you and sending you flowers, to get a shipment from a US company that doesn't take international orders? All you have to do is accept the shipment at your address, rewrap it, and FedEx it to Nigeria.
Well, of course the Nigerian placed the order with a stolen credit card, which means the paper trail points straight to you if someone makes a criminal case out of it.
Don't you feel sorry for honest people who live in Ghana or Nigeria? They're being cut off from the rest of the world, and they can't even work around the problem because the crooks have gotten to the workaround first.
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What can possibly go wrong with helping that cute man or woman in Nigeria, the one who's been complimenting you and sending you flowers, to get a shipment from a US company that doesn't take international orders? All you have to do is accept the shipment at your address, rewrap it, and FedEx it to Nigeria.
Well, of course the Nigerian placed the order with a stolen credit card, which means the paper trail points straight to you if someone makes a criminal case out of it.
Don't you feel sorry for honest people who live in Ghana or Nigeria? They're being cut off from the rest of the world, and they can't even work around the problem because the crooks have gotten to the workaround first.
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