[meteorite-list] New Subject - Nigeria

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Apr 20 13:37:19 2005
Message-ID: <00a501c545cf$9d34d7c0$6a01a8c0_at_DrCollman>

Michael-

Of course they are scams! I have been geting those literally every day for
YEARS.

Literally everyday I get spam email from these guys about "buying your
products" and "do you ship to ..." in addtion to the ones that begin "I am
the mighty potentate, the son of ....."

Also, scams to buy medicines.

Literally every day, several times a day. Two already this morning.

There is nothing enigmatic about them. They want your money.

It is hard to block them because they use stolen email addresses and they
send sometimes with slightly different subject lines.

Below is one I got a few minutes ago. Look familiar?

-Walter

hello,
  i will like to place an order to be shipped to my client in lagos
nigeria via ups express.
             you will be authorised to bill my credit card for the cost
including the cost of shipping.
      please get back to me with your website so that i can give you the
items needed.
regards,
james.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>
To: "Mike Farmer & Melody" <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>; "Meteoriteshow"
<meteoriteshow_at_free.fr>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Subject - Nigeria


> 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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Received on Wed 20 Apr 2005 01:37:24 PM PDT