It looks like the Nigerian email scam is catching on in China....

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ultramegabob

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Indiana
Dear Sir/Ma,

Please can I have your attention for a moment? Would you like to work online from home
temporarily and get paid weekly? Our Newlighting Electronics is a Company based in China
and we are into Manufacturer of electronic ballasts which are applied for horticultural
lighting, commercial lighting, street lighting and building lighting which we supplied
worldwide. We produce various Electronic Ballast & its accessories. We need
representatives in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom who will be in charge of
all our payments from the United States, Canada and United Kingdom clients/customers.

Most of our customers pay through their Equity Line of Credit accounts, Bank wire
transfer, Credit Cards, Certified cheques, Cashier cheques and money order which are not
negotiable here in China. This brings our quest to employ a credible and trustworthy
fellow as our representative to handle our payments. This would not affect your present
job but serve as another stream of income to your good self. Being our representative and
assisting us in processing the payments from our clients shall earn you a weekly salary
and commission of about 10% of every payment you assist us with.

Due to the fact that we can not process the US/Canadian/UK Credit cards here in the
Taiwan, we have lost in the past about $125,000 of net income each month because of money
transfer delays. Most of our clients/customers who purchase our products need to pay
large amount of money through their Equity Line of Credit account and this is the reason
we also need a representative who has Equity Line of Credit account to receive large
amount of money for our company. Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and
help us with the payment process. You are not involved in any sales.

If you are interested, email us back with the requested information below.

Name:
Address:
Tel:
Mobile:
Cell:
Age:
Marital Status:
Sex:

Best Regards,

Emma lee(Mr.)
 

Fulthrotl

~Autocorrect is My Worst Enema.~
i know we don't wire banks in nigeria.... but....

i know we don't wire banks in nigeria.... but....

banks in nigeria all want to wire me.... is that electrically related?:D

we do use the internet to communicate with this forum, and that involves electron
flow, right? it is kinda odd, but i've noticed a huge electron flow from hong kong,
starting saturday morning.... the electron flow of nigerians expatriats sending
emails from hong kong, is running about 150 a day for me.

it's wierd, usually a few a day show up, from all over, but now it's over a
hundred a day, all from .hk places....

anyone else having a dead short of nigerian electrons?

ok, george, i'll shut up now.... :D
 

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After discussion amongst the moderators, we've decided to re-open this thread at the OP's request. Please try to keep it as relevant to the forum as it is now, which is slight but still somewhat relevant.

I apologize to Randy and Bob for the delay.
 

ultramegabob

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Indiana
The reason why I posted this originally, is that most email scams are kind of generic that could go to anyone, but this one is pretty specifically aimed to electrical contractors...
 

Fulthrotl

~Autocorrect is My Worst Enema.~
I wonder how they were able to target you (as an EC) directly? That is odd.

truth be told, you weren't targeted, any more than a shotgun blast targets
people with individual pellets.

the fact that it concerns electrical components is in my opinion, pure coincidence.
of all the gin joints in all the towns... :smile:

as a general heads up, the "419 scams", so named becuase they refer to the
419 portion of the nigerian legal code, are all advance fee scams.

they many ask for detailed personal information, however that is not used for
identity theft, as might be thought. most of the people involved in this have
neither the technical ability nor the resources to commit identity theft.

it's all about a couple things.... needing a small "advance fee" from you, to
facilitate release of funds, or needing you to cash checks for a handsome
commission. those are most always cashiers checks, and can take up to a
month to bounce, by which time, you have sent them their portion, and you
are out whatever you sent them.

does anyone actually DO this silliness, i thought? yes. in the united states alone,
there is in excess of $150,000,000 reported a year. and that is just what's
reported.

as for me, the only reason i posted about it here is 'cause starting last saturday,
i've been getting about 150 of these emails, per day... and i was wondering
if anyone else here is getting that kind of flood....

as mentioned in another post, there are now websites such as 419 eater, where
people joust with the overseas thieves, for sport.

for a view of what that looks like, you might consider looking here:

http://www.419eater.com/html/abu_moses.htm
 

mxslick

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Location
SE Idaho
Why waste your time being a pirate when all you need is to send emails?:roll:

Because I get to dress up, sell swords and have fun on the weekends. :D That's me on the right.

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gndrod

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Location
Ca and Wa
Pencil intensive

Pencil intensive

as mentioned in another post, there are now websites such as 419 eater, where
people joust with the overseas thieves, for sport.

for a view of what that looks like, you might consider looking here:

http://www.419eater.com/html/abu_moses.htm

I read that whole scenario, and as I am somewhat of a documentation freak, even the initial map and pc card schematic diagrams sent to Moses and the Chief were pretty shoddy. Wow, just reading the whole thing was labor intensive.
 
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