Help ! Nigerian scam ?

Poor nigerians

 

Oh, no ! Somebody already fell for his scam. He said that he has received packages before and the paperwork was different. That's stupid from him, because he said that this was actually for his friend, yet he still has received a package in Nigeria ( He claimed that he lives in my country )
Anyway, this is what he received ( poor woman fell for his stupid scam ) .

 

The amount of money they make from scams like this are incredible.

 

still laughing at shit street. keep us informed

 

So, the ''bank'' sent me an e-mail that the tracking number doesn't work. I said to them that you have to wait a day until the tracking information gets updated. Looks like I'm going to have to make another fake document.
I'm quoting the banks e-mail : ''We want you to know that we have receive your shipment details but not yet confirm the tracking number from you we want you to know that we have to confirm the shipment track number first before we can activate your money to your account.

The reason why we have to confirm the shipment track number from you is that some thing like this have happen to us some times ago and the Seller don't make the shipment he just send us the shipment details and we activate the money to his account and the buyer don't get her item and we are the one pay the buyer back so we don't want this kind thing to happen to us again that is why we have to confirm the shipment track number first so we are giving you 100% sure that once we confirm the shipment track number from you your account will be activate immediately.

Hope you understand us better now.''

That's some proper English coming from a bank, huh ?
Gonna update everyone tommorow.

 

Do indeed keep us posted. This has definitely interested me.

 

Just keep leading them on and wasting their time.

 

Don't forget to try and get your trophy picture. Good luck.

 

I get calls from scammers with accents all the time. One of these days I'm going to answer the phone with "7-11 recruitment office, Sanjay speaking how may I help you?"

 

Thread delivers

 

Go on...

 

Just sent the bank this fake tracking number screenshot. Waiting for him to reply.

 

To be fair, it's best just to ignore anyone with such a story. NEVER give your bank details, or indeed any personal details. They could still set up Direct Debits in your name.

Could you try using the edit button rather than double... or even quintuple posting in future though, please? ;-)

 

There are many clues in the first posts to show it is totally a scam, however there are some stupid people out there who are gullible and may fall for such a scam.

Irrespective of being Nigeria or wherever, alarm bells should sound with any of the below, let alone all of them:

* "reserved" means nothing, and a bank would say "pending"; whatever, it means it is not paid. A bank would never "reserve" funds from an account anyway. There was never a transaction in the first place.
* You can always track status, if it says not it's because it's a scam
* The email address is "consultant.com" which is not a bank, they haven't even made one character different, the first part of the email address is clearly a scam for people who skim read and stupid. A bank would NEVER have an address like that
* No such thing as "internet crime investigation"
* Grammar and spelling bad, always an instant give away
* These scammers know the only way you get a tracking number is when the goods are in transit, by then it's too late to cancel the shipment when they will not pay, which of course they have no intent to anyway.
* FBI image at the bottom?
* Easy enough to check credentials of a bank and contact them directly if you need to to confirm authenticity - scammers can't get around that as you'd be making the call to you not the other way around. Google is your friend.
* Nigeria. Nuff said.

This is so clearly a scam on so many levels.

As rule of thumb, don't deal with any dubious country, as sometimes the banks themselves are part of the scam, back-handers - they will process a payment and then when goods are on way, cancel transaction. Not worth the risk. Deal with Europe, States, whatever but not a 3rd world country or one that is known for being scammers.

 

but funny that they seriously still gave u a nigerian adress, which makes it very obvious. most other scammers stepped up years ago already and have found retarded people in western countries to receive the packages and resend them then to nigeria, romania and other places where scamming is popular.

if u really still want to keep this on for fun, drop a turd into a tiny box and send it to them.

 

Good idea, you reminded me of this http://www.shitsenders.com/order/

 

lovely!

 

All the anus laptops images are dead now

 

Dude seriously, send him a brick with a dog turd on it, and put the full price for a brand new Xbone on it so he ends up paying a shit-ton in import taxes

Thats what the goons did

 

I would send him a brick with a turd on it or something like that, but I just don't feel like spending my hard earned money ( BTW, I'm 14, so I don't have a regular job).
Anyway, the bank contacted me and this is funny, they said that they have just updated their rules, that means that I'm only going to get my money, when he receives his item.
Best bank ever !