“Nigerian scammer that scam on valuable gadgets!”

This happened these few days on one of the ads I posted at Mudah.com.my. However, this scam issue kind of famous and had been happen throughout the year everyday not only at Mudah, but lelong, ebay, amazon and etc. They aim for valuable stuff like laptop, computer, palm phone, hand phone, PDA, car parts and etc.

Summary of how they scam you

1. They will search for victims throughout the net world wide from those famous site like eBay, Amazon, Mudah, Lelong and etc.

2. Once they found you, they will email you and tell you that they are interested on your goods and ask the price from you.
*they will accept any offer from you eg:actual price you put on net – RM2,000, they will accept the price even though you offer RM5,000 for that.

3. After your reply, the Nigerian will agree with your offer and mentioned that they will be using Bank to Bank transfer method to bank in the money to you. Then only shipping the product to them. They will also provide you the address to where you need to ship and who is the receiver. Everything looks very real but on the other hand, is just a scam from them.

4. You must provide them you bank account number and some bank details so that they can include in an bank transfer statement (fake one) for you.

5. For fasten the trade process, they will tell you that they are going to bank in the money now and within few hours, you will be receiving a fake bank credit transfer statement from a different sender email address. All the details are stated on the bank statement but with one condition to get your money, which is to send a soft copy of your shipping recipe to the bank to prove that the goods already sent out to the respective destination that the Nigerian gave earlier on in the email.

6. They will tell you that the money already transfer and ask you to ship the goods right away so that the deal can be success. If you believe it and send your goods, then that’s it la. You lost your goods and also a shipping fees with approximately RM500.

Below is the case study if you are interested to read on.

My personal experience on Nigerian scam!

1. I post an ads on Mudah.com.my for selling my DELL XPS laptop with a price of RM2,000 to RM2,300.

2. I get an email from a person call Carry.

Hi,
Happy New Year to You!!!
My name is Carry Ben,from United Kingdom, I want to buy your Item,
Firstly i will like to know the final price cost of your item and also
want you to tell me how many you have for sales,I am serious interested.

I hope to read from you fast.

Best Regards
Carry Ben

3. For a seller, you will definitely feel happy to receive this kind of email. So I reply him:

Hi,

YOu are from UK? So how are you going to deal and take the laptop?

Anyway, the price would not exceed RM2,300. What is your offer? If you
can pay RM2,300 for the laptop which includes of all the free stuff,
you can just take it.

However, I have only one laptop in hand.

Thanks

4. Now, Carry reply together with the offer and shipping address.

Thanks for your mail, what really happen is that i am sending the items to my Shop in Africa Country Nigeria…and i want you to use FedEx express post 3-4days delivery to Nigeria to send the item..and i will offer you RM4500…including shipping to Nigeria…so when the items ready let me know..and make sure you send me your bank account number so that i can send the money fast and you can do the shipping immediately.
Here is the shipping address of my Shop below;

Name: SEYI BOYE
Address: NO 7 ALAFIA STREET MOKOLA
City: IBADAN
State: OYO
Zipcode: 23402
Country: NIGERIA.
Tel:+2347033981379.

That is the address,
Thanks

5. Wow, for sure you will get shock with their offer of RM4,500 on your second hand laptop that worth around RM2,000. Well, I’m started to get suspicious and try to ask him some question regarding the trading process.

Hi Carry,

I not sure why you would purchase my laptop with that price and I believe have the technology also right? Anyway, if you are a serious buyer, you can bank in to my Public Bank

Eric Oye Eng Keat
xxxxxxxxx

Do let me know once the money already bank in and I will contact FedEx immediately for the shipping.

Thanks and regards

6. Then he will be replying you and telling you how the bank transfer thingy, and this is how they scam you actually, read it!

I understand you and i will go to my bank now to send the money …but what really happen is that my bank as policy of money transfer…what i mean is when i send the money my bank will email you with the confirmation of the payment, so that you can see that i have send the money and you have to send immediately the item and send the shipment receipt copy paper to my bank so that once my bank confirm the shipping receipt from you they can finally credit your account and you can receive the money…. i hope you understand me well..

7. Of cause I know that it is a SCAM for sure! Well, let us play the game together and see what they will do. But I did offer him to use Western union which is world wide fund transfer place and see what he respond. End up, he ignore my email.

8. After that, I received an email from Bank of Essex and below is the content:

BankOfEssex®
to me, carryben_2009

show details 12 Jan (1 day ago)

Sign in for Online Banking
Online Banking

Bank Of Essex® Transfer Payment Notification Approval
( MYR 4,500.00 )
ffffddd

=========================================================================
*MONEY TRANSFER APPROVED*
==========================================================================
Dear Eric Oye Eng Keat,
Congratulations! The acknowledgment of the TRANSFER placed by {Carry Ben}, Who is interested in acquiring certain {Items} to have a Bank Of Essex® Online Payment Money sent to you as payment for the item has been successfully processed and has consequently been APPROVED. The financial details of the transaction are stated below:
———————————————————————————————————————————————-
*FINANCIAL DETAILS*
(NOTE: All amounts are in MYR)
———————————-
AMOUNT
TRANSFER :

MYR 4,500.00
=================================

———————————————————————————————————
TRANSACTION ID : 600412941530 DATE 12 – 01 – 2010
———————————————————————————————————

==================================================================================
***PLEASE NOTE***
The Money Transfer will be delivered to your contact information below, Please verify that the Bank Account (As entered by the buyer) are correct:

Country

Bank Account Number

Auction Item

Buyer’s Name

Status

Bank Name
Date Of Transaction.

Malaysia
xxxxxxxx

Laptop
Carry Ben
Paid
Public Bank

12,01,2010
If there is an error in the information, Please email our representative at SupportsOnline@Accountant.com

================================================================================
***ATTENTION***
Next 1-3 days when you confirmed the proof shipping receipt to us your account will activate.
Our policies for United Kingdom citizens that wants to transfer any amount out of United Kingdom Bank is that we have to confirm the shipment of the item after we have sent our transfer notifications to him by email, and we received the valid proof of it, then we contact our Transfer Dept to finally activate your account with the transferred amount. After this you will be notified again that you can now have your payment cashed without any delay.
We introduced these policies so as to safeguard our citizens while involving themselves in transacting a business outside the United Kingdom.
Therefore, we urge you to proceed with the shipment of the package(s) to your client and scan the proof of shipment to us fast.

*SHIPMENT VERIFICATION*
You can have the shipment confirmed/verified in any of the following ways:
***PLEASE NOTE***
Due to the fact that Bank of Essex processes thousands of orders daily, Bank of Essex RECOMMENDS contacting the Customer Support Representative that has been assigned to this particular Order directly. This ensures speedy verification of shipment as well as prompt dispatch the Money OrderSM. Send shipment tracking details to : SupportsOnline@Accountant.com
You can give the buyer of your auction item the TRACKING NUMBER of the shipment and once he/she verifies the shipment, he/she will also notify us immediately.
Please do not let your buyer gain access to this Payment Approval Notification.
*CUSTOMER SUPPORT*
If you have any questions, Please feel free to contact the Customer Support Representative that has been assigned to this particular Order at: SupportsOnline@Accountant..com

Note: We do not provide the transfer activate now until we receive the shipment details from you.

Regards.

Online (Payment Direct)
Tel: +44-702 407 6910
Fax: +44-703 196 7069
Bank of Essex Group.

9. Well, is damn obvious that this is a super duper STUPID scam that most people will realize. However, I did reply him with lots of NICE words and some NICE finger photo to that bank email address (fake one as well).

Warning to all online shoppers and sellers

I received this kind of emails not once but a lot just on my cute little laptop advertisement at Mudah. I would like to alert everyone on this stupid and scamming behavior by those F***ing Nigeria. They will normally said that they want to buy this item and ask you to ship it to Nigeria for their husband, son, uncle or whatever shit it is. Just F them and block them. You don’t want to spend your time on that. But if you want to feel the real experience on this issue, try it, why not? haha, you will feel surprise on how they trying to scam you.

FYI, you can google it with the keywords like nigerian scam, nigeria scammer and etc. You will surprise with it.

Happy Reading.

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