The Nigerian Scam

a conviction and an inside look

[Rugles]

This is great insight as to how the scam works on ecommerce sites. The FBI took down a ring and reveals details.

[biz.yahoo.com...]

Stolen credit cards, US addresses and lots of victims. Were you one of them?

[diamondgrl]

You mean all these Nigerian customers we're getting are not genuine?

[Raymond]

So I guess it is impossible to tell if an order is fradulent from the help of these "shipping clerks"?

[Rugles]

Ya, the re-shipping scam is the most important part of the article for WebmasterWorld members. There was a discussion about re-shipping about couple months back, and we came up with a list of tip offs for fraud orders.