The Nigerian Email Scam Evolution




HomeBiz - Dirty MoneyI’m sure you’ve come across some Nigerian 419 scam emails and begin to get used to it, ignoring and directly hitting the “Delete” button as soon as you see one.

Those typical email scams from Nigeria usually require you to relocate some funds to some place abroad. Upon your response, they will ask you a bunch of information and also some cash to transfer the claimed money which usually comes from another country.

As many more people become more aware of this type of Nigeria email fraud, so do scammers unfortunately, who also response to the energetic development of the blogosphere and make bloggers their next objective. Usually they propose a website partnership enquiry in the following form:

  • Someone makes an offer to advertise on your blog (text links, ad spots)
  • Upon yor response, they will start the price negotiation (with over rated prizes)
  • I case you agree, you’ll have a check (that never clears) over the amount you agreed before (if you agreed $1000, you’ll get a $1500 check)
  • The scammers will claim the refund of $500
  • In worst case, you will send the refund and find out the check is a fake.

Here goes the old saying “If it’s too good to be true, it usually is

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Wayne Liew on 2008-04-05 17:04:18 said

I haven’t receive such kinds of offer before or maybe I had, but it just falls into the spam section of my e-mail account.

Anyway, I won’t get tricked after all :mrgreen: since I always check and recheck the details with my advertisers and I only accept PayPal as a method of transaction.

Also, I am not able to issue any cheques. Perhaps this is the reason I am not getting such scam mails.

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Louis Liem on 2008-04-06 11:51:49 said

I haven’t got one also, but there were countless ol’ version of these Nigerian scam type.
I agree on using PayPal, less hassle and very practical. I once responded to the scam and ask them to send the fund using e-gold instead :p ..

 
 
Ty Hurd on 2008-04-06 04:31:40 said

Good post. I’ve had these scammers actually send me a check that I never even asked for, then send me an email about how I owed them the difference. Right.

BTW, I found you through iBlogCup – voted for ya.

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Louis Liem on 2008-04-06 12:03:08 said

Welcome and thanks for the vote, Ty!
BTW, I didn’t know I’m on iBC again! I’ll go check it out!

 
 
Geoserv on 2008-07-30 18:09:48 said

STUMBLED!I have received probably half a dozen emails from people asking for a price to put text link ads on my site, I respond, but never get a response from them.Could this be part of this scam?Geoservs last blog post..FREE Pligg Template – Pliggup v9.9.0

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Louis Liem on 2008-07-31 00:11:53 said

Halfway scam in my opinion. Just mark them as spam next time :D

 
 
ремонт офисов on 2008-08-04 21:13:35 said

Круто, спасибо! ;)

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dimaks on 2008-09-10 22:39:33 said

i just received one yesterday. i knew it was such so i did not bother replying.. ah, and i made a post about one of it :) thanks for following me on mixx!

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