I've finally arrived

I got my first Nigerian order email.

[BarryStCyr]

My website has finally been noticed by the Nigerians.

Got an order or 100 Blood Pressure Monitors from a medical instrument supply company.

I am an affiliate of a large online retailer.

(I know the answer to this question already.)

Wouldn't a medical supply company be able to find the devices it wants at a better price than at an affiliate retail site.

Yeah for me.

[weeks]

Yeah, I know what you mean. Six months ago I created a new business email address working for a client. It was wonderful for about, oh, 10 days I would guess. Then the spammers found it. But, really, it hasn't been too bad so far, and I have zero filters on it.

[DamonHD]

Hi,

Well before (Internet) email existed I used to get the Nigerian scam letters on paper, so nothing is new.

But I guess you can mark it as some kind of rite of passage.

Rgds

Damon

[Syzygy]

We used to publish official import and export journals in the UK and got hit with letters and faxes on a regular basis (how stupid - we were publishing on behalf of official trade bodies!). Dealing with commercial attache's at foreign embassies was a regular part of the daily business back then and I used to fax them straight to the Nigerian Embassy.

Way before then I recall working at an office equipment reseller - my first job in London - and "businessmen" (seemingly always from Nigeria) would just walk in off the street and state that they wished to buy substantial amounts of goods from you.

The idea being that you'd ship whatever it was to them having agreed that payments would be made via letters of credit.

Inevitably the LC's would be fake.

Syzygy

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

**!$£%£ &^*!£$£"!

These guys really annoy me. I know that some people see this as being funny but it is no joke. These are genuine, 18 carat fraudsters and they should be treated as such.

If anyone is looking for a volunteer to pull the trigger I will do it ;o¦

[digitaltoast]

Yeah, I have a site manager who will insist on baiting them right up to the line. IIRC, there was a woman who made a blog from doing this too.

Good for him, but I had to say I think he's treading on dangerous ground. As someone above said, these people are proper fraudsters.
But they are also proper gangsters with real good guns and real good connections...

PS - last time I looked, fraud was Nigeria's third biggest export!
Stay safe out there :)

[Bewenched]

We used to get alot of Indonesia orders, but after the tsunami over there we haven't had one to turn down. Sad to think that such a horrible natural disaster is what it took to make the scammers go away.

[opifex]

I'm waiting for all the garbage from Romania ..... one entire "directory site" was heavily perused in one visit last week ... at least 500 pages. Already went through the Nigeria and Angola phases for items as distinct as specific cell phone models to generally attempting to scam hotel owners into paying for promotion of their hotels in Lagos!