Scuba Equipment Scam

Usually the Nigeria scams deal with checks... They'll pay with a bogus check
above the purchase price (for some bogus reason) and then expect a check
from you for the difference in overpayment... I suspect similar things could
be done with credit cards... Personally, I would be suspect of *anything*
originating in Nigeria...

A quick search via Google for [nigeria "credit card" scam] returned this
(among others):
http://blog.glennf.com/archives/003809.html

Basically, if it smells fishy, it probably is...

I have several times gotten email purportedly from scuba retail stores in
various third world countries wanting to purchase scuba equipment to be
shipped to them and paid with credit cards. Now, I know this is a scam of
some kind, but I am curious as to how it might work. Here is the latest
attempt:

"Good day sales,
i will like to purchase some of your products and i
want you to mail me the cost of shipping international
to my store in lagos nigeria via Global express(EMS
3-5 days) and i would be paying with my credit card
please i would also need your feedback concerning my
enquiry and i will be paying for all shipping of the
order.
thanks..
NB:i will like to know if you sell in small or large"

Has anyone on the NG seen this con played out?
Just Curious.

--
Safe diving,

Dale Bennett
Captain Dale's, Inc.
Enterprise Marine, Inc., Dive Charters

Typical Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud. They'll send you a bogus cashiers
check and expect you Western Union cash back for their "shippers". The
check will bounce later. A lot of banks recognize these fake checks now.

For the humour in all this see http://www.419eater.com

-bp


On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Cpt. Dale Bennett wrote:

> I have several times gotten email purportedly from scuba retail stores in
> various third world countries wanting to purchase scuba equipment to be
> shipped to them and paid with credit cards. Now, I know this is a scam of
> some kind, but I am curious as to how it might work. Here is the latest
> attempt:
>
> "Good day sales,
> i will like to purchase some of your products and i
> want you to mail me the cost of shipping international
> to my store in lagos nigeria via Global express(EMS
> 3-5 days) and i would be paying with my credit card
> please i would also need your feedback concerning my
> enquiry and i will be paying for all shipping of the
> order.
> thanks..
> NB:i will like to know if you sell in small or large"
>
> Has anyone on the NG seen this con played out?
> Just Curious.
>
>

In article <wvQhd.455888$mD.235375@attbi_s02>, Cpt. Dale Bennett
<captndale@comcast.net> wrote:

€ Has anyone on the NG seen this con played out?

[snicker]

--
"We're going to rush the hijackers."
-Jeremy Glick, aboard United Airlines flight 93, September 11, 2001

"Cpt. Dale Bennett" <captndale@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:wvQhd.455888$mD.235375@attbi_s02...
>I have several times gotten email purportedly from scuba retail stores in
> various third world countries wanting to purchase scuba equipment to be
> shipped to them and paid with credit cards. Now, I know this is a scam of
> some kind, but I am curious as to how it might work. Here is the latest
> attempt:
>
> "Good day sales,
> i will like to purchase some of your products and i
> want you to mail me the cost of shipping international
> to my store in lagos nigeria via Global express(EMS
> 3-5 days) and i would be paying with my credit card
> please i would also need your feedback concerning my
> enquiry and i will be paying for all shipping of the
> order.
> thanks..
> NB:i will like to know if you sell in small or large"
>
> Has anyone on the NG seen this con played out?
> Just Curious.

Not too hard to figure out. It's not his credit card.

"Lee Bell" <leebell@ix.remove.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:ccXhd.681$Gm6.173@newsread3.news.atl.earthlin k.net...

> Not too hard to figure out. It's not his credit card.

<BIG, WET, SLAP>

But, hey, I got some shit I need to sell...

We run a hydraulic parts business, and according to our credit card
merchant services, you should watch out for Indonesian buyers, because
they've had experience from those jokers. These buyers are usually
fake, or use stolen cards. I don't know how true it, because it's all
hearsay from their customer support.

Hi
They will want stuff fast and usually a couple of thousand's worth of stuff
they can easily sell on
The card (numbers) will go through the machine then after you've sent the
stuff, be rejected by the credit card company, we had one attempt from the
Far East but checked it out with the card company before sending & the name
& where they lived didn't add up to the delivery address.
Some poor soul had his card stolen while on holiday & they were milking it
before it came up as a declined transaction.
If we hadn't taken advice, we'd have been caught out, I hope this helps
someone else
Hilary



"Cpt. Dale Bennett" <captndale@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:wvQhd.455888$mD.235375@attbi_s02...
>I have several times gotten email purportedly from scuba retail stores in
> various third world countries wanting to purchase scuba equipment to be
> shipped to them and paid with credit cards. Now, I know this is a scam of
> some kind, but I am curious as to how it might work. Here is the latest
> attempt:
>
> "Good day sales,
> i will like to purchase some of your products and i
> want you to mail me the cost of shipping international
> to my store in lagos nigeria via Global express(EMS
> 3-5 days) and i would be paying with my credit card
> please i would also need your feedback concerning my
> enquiry and i will be paying for all shipping of the
> order.
> thanks..
> NB:i will like to know if you sell in small or large"
>
> Has anyone on the NG seen this con played out?
> Just Curious.
>
> --
> Safe diving,
>
> Dale Bennett
> Captain Dale's, Inc.
> Enterprise Marine, Inc., Dive Charters
>
>

Just so you'all know just how bad it can get, I was selling a large
rotational molding machine and received an inquiry from an Egyptian
rotomolding company. Someone in the industry clued me in to them, so to
insure that I wouldn't get burned, I required an irrevocable letter of
credit. However, even with those, it can be possible to not get paid,
depending upon the way the letter is set up and the requirements for Proof
of Delivery, etc.

Fortunately my bank advised that, while they could handle the transaction,
they were not expert and advised that I use a bank that deals with this
stuff every day. After the bank set up the conditions for the L.O.C.,
using an intermediary clearing bank, the Egyptian company realized that
their funds would not come back to them, no way, no how, and I never heard
from them again.

Moral of the story: a little knowledge can be dangerous, and it's NEVER a
sale until the check clears.

PS> be careful with wire transfers and giving out your bank account number!

Bart F.



On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:39:25 GMT, Cpt. Dale Bennett
<captndale@comcast.net> wrote:

> I have several times gotten email purportedly from scuba retail stores in
> various third world countries wanting to purchase scuba equipment to be
> shipped to them and paid with credit cards. Now, I know this is a scam
> of
> some kind, but I am curious as to how it might work. Here is the latest
> attempt:
>
> "Good day sales,
> i will like to purchase some of your products and i
> want you to mail me the cost of shipping international
> to my store in lagos nigeria via Global express(EMS
> 3-5 days) and i would be paying with my credit card
> please i would also need your feedback concerning my
> enquiry and i will be paying for all shipping of the
> order.
> thanks..
> NB:i will like to know if you sell in small or large"
>
> Has anyone on the NG seen this con played out?
> Just Curious.
>



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I strung along one 419er, he even eventually called me through a AT&T TDD
Relay. (phone-for-the-deaf-terminal). He "promised" my check was in the
mails about 4 weeks in a row, guess the authoritise were on them pretty
good. I never got his fake check, and finally stopped hearing from his
most "urgent requests". He also went through 2 email address in that
time.

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Jammer Six wrote:

> In article <wvQhd.455888$mD.235375@attbi_s02>, Cpt. Dale Bennett
> <captndale@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> € Has anyone on the NG seen this con played out?
>
> [snicker]
>
>