Cyber Scams

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good thing i saw this! i just got this from a laptop i was trying to sell:
Hello,
I am very grateful to hear back from you.I am a medical doctor Residing in bronx .I am buying this item as a gift for my nephew that was currently transferred from the us to West Africa,working for Human Development Agency under World Health Organization W.H.O. I will be paying you with paypal, They are very fast and reliable.Please kindly get back to me with your,paypal full name and email address so that i will send you the money using paypal.i travelled to (rome) italy, for a conference that is why i can not do this transaction here in state.
Once you receive the payment,you will ship the package to my nephew via us postal service . I will be paying $550 for the item and the shipping cost.Please get back to me so that i will proceed with the payment.
Hoping to hear from you as soon as possible.
Regards,
[philipoperez3@gmail.com]

Heh, I'm right with you on that. I got scammed 3 months ago and it sucked! I'm trying to do something about it but it doesn't seem much will happen =/

Hmmm..... I have to be honest, I almost got scammed at the start of the year. I was desperate to sell some stuff to get rid of a student loan and advertised some stuff on the buy and sell, which is like ebay but concentrated more towards Ireland. I made the mistake of thinking that I could dodge the scammers from ebay.
The guy didn't really sound like the usual type of scammer but something stuck out like a soar thumb. He said that he was attempting to buy this ps3 from me and sell it on. He said he was living in manchester in england and left contact details knowing well from my advert that a student in need of cash wouldn't call a number from another country.
But google was my friend and the area code was actually attached to nigeria so I stopped communicating with the guy. I received a cheque in the post a month later for 1000euro, that was well over the original agreed selling price. I had emailed the guy telling him that I wasnt going to cash the cheque and he kept spamming my emails with, send me the product or cash the cheque, cash the cheque. I eventually got sick of it and sent him a rather large email describing in detail how easy it is for the authorities to track him, outlining the privacy policy for yahoo and how if a mail account is used for illegal activities or suspected of fraudulent use the information on the user can be given to the authorities. I then explained what information would actually be passed on, I explained the differences between wan and lan ip addresses and jokingly asked him whether he was scamming people from an internet connection which was attached to his name and what an idiot he is if that was the case. I reported the guy and told him I was not going to cash the cheque or post him the ps3.
Strangely enough the emails stopped coming, just when I was starting to have fun freaking the guy out.
This method of conning people, conning them by letting them know you are a scammer but not letting them know you know is a common one. They want you to feel you are getting a good bargain. Its definitely put me off trying to sell my stuff online. . So if your selling something online and they send you a cheque for twice the amount advertised/agreed just report them..... especially if the cheque comes from nigeria.. lol

i am smart with my money and my business.

i have never gotten scammed because i work(freelance) under my rules... plus i went to school with complete liars so that also prepared me :D

I am a Nigerian, and we will continue doing 419 until we are heard....Overseas people watch out...

I just saw this on TV (apparently it's a month old), but I tried adopting out my baby turtle on petfinder.com.

Boy was that a nightmare. In under 24 hours I got two e-mails offering to ship my "pet" (didn't actually specify name or animal) out to California and that I would get a check later. They were riddled with awful grammar (just like in your video) and I had heard of people sending out their pets and getting bad checks, so there was no way my pet was going anywhere.

I had to sit down and think, "What would someone do with a free pet? Sell it on the black market to China as food or what?"

Woah!

I think "LIVE me alone" was a very nice touch.

I just got this email and was reminded of the pod:

From: Kwan-ho Kim 07530871390@orange.net
To: kimkwanho@yahoo.com

Good Day

This letter might come to you as a surprise however, there is no need to worry, it was out of desperation and Curiosity that made me to contact you.

I am Mr. Kwan-ho Kim (Director of Operations) of the Hanvit Bank in Seul of S.Korea. I have a business proposition involving the transfer of a large sum of money which I know will be of mutual benefit to both party, and I believe we can handle to together, once we have a common understanding and mutual co-operation in the execution of the modalities. Should you be interested, please contact me via this email address kimkwanho@ymail.com after which I will furnish you with more information. Please endeavor to observe utmost prudence in all matters pertaining to this issue.

I wait in anticipation for your fullest cooperation. I am available to entertain any questions concerning the clarity of this transaction.
Your timely response to this mail will be highly appreciated.

Mr.Kwan-ho kim

I still do not understand how people remain uninformed about the workings of these Nigerian conmen and conwomen. It is truly indicative of a society that does not pay attention to the news past what is going on in Brittany Spears/Paris Hiltons life. Scams like this have been around since the late 90's and everyone from 60 minutes to Oprah have reported on the topic and informed the public how the recognise the signs.

Be that as it may, by the time I hit post another 3 people will have been scammed by some Nigerian.

These are called 419's and everyone working in Nigeria is familar with their tactics. they work from Nigeria, London, Amesterdam, and Houston. They con people out of millions of $ every day, all over the world. You are correct in watching for the wording and awkard English, as it is usually a dead giveaway.

My roommate got scammed the same way. And the Voodoo part was pretty funny lol.

what a lamo! I am so gullible and I cant believe I got scammed! I was on a mission to share this experience with others and to my surprise, learned that BILLIONS of dollars are lost worldwide over cyberscams like this one. good think it was just my printer...and Ipod, and not thousands of dollars...thanks to current and the vanguard team, I got my "revenge" (sort of) by passing on some helpful hints to avoid people like stinkin' "morgan cole from new york!!"

This all started when Angela came to me one day asking where the nearest FedEx office was located. I had no idea she was about to "sell" her stuff to a scam artist! Turns out her bad luck was to Current's advantage, as we were able to do a story on this ever-present problem, using a genuine first-hand account.

Sometimes alternative television comes about when we can't figure out how to cover something in the conventional way. We'd been thinking about doing something regarding cyberscams for a while, but everything that we started became too bogged down in abstraction, like trying to do a story on lightening on a sunny day. It seemed best to leave the topic to an entity with deeper pockets than Current, like Nova or 60 Minutes. Then lightening struck Angela in the form of a Nigerian scam artist. And the Special Agent in Charge of the Los Angeles FBI office proved to be a good sport and agreed to do the interview sitting in the middle of the floor, with Angela's laptop between them, rather than from behind his desk, as is usual. And Rawley Valverde's reading of the e-mails from scammers was not only brilliant but done in one take.