This falls in to the "never ceases to amaze me" category.
How many red flags do you see?
From the Gloucester Times on Dec. 31, 2007:
Online car sale is a scam - Jessica Bensen
A Gloucester woman reported falling victim to a scam while trying to sell her car online.
The woman told police that a man in Nigeria had offered to buy the car, and sent her five money orders, which she deposited in her bank account. Then the man requested that she send her own money order to the shipping company to have the car sent to Nigeria.
It was only after she had sent out a Western Union money order that her bank called to let her know that the money orders she had received from the man were fake.
The woman told police that the name she had been given was Richard Williams, of Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.
She reported the incident to police at 12:24 p..m yesterday, in the hopes that others would not fall victim to the same scam, according to the police report.
Where has this woman been for the last umpteen years? Once again it goes to show that even a bit of common sense has bitten the dust.
3 comments:
Oh dear, what a shame.
He got his car and she paid for it to go to Nigeria!
She's done the right thing though, others may not fall for it now.
I actually know someone right here in California that got suckered into the Nigerean scam, and he was a business owner!
He lost a fortune.
The money orders are worthless, and our government wont deal with the Nigerean government, so he is out of luck.
Unbeleavable that people are still falling for that scam.
I often wonder if it is more obvious to me with being involved with WHOA. Yet still, why would anyone in Nigeria want to purchase something from the states? They have their own stuff!
Not to mention that there has been soooo much coverage on tv and in the news about scams.
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