Nigeria Scams run from Clearwater Fla

[mssheila]

Anyone heard of Internet relay? It's a service for deaf and speech disabled people where they connect to an operator who will call anyone the deaf person asks.... the operator then relays the call between the deaf person (text user) and the hearing person (typing back what they say). I'm a relay operator now, and the Nigerians are ALL OVER relay. THey call homes and businesses trying to buy things with stolen credit cards. More on the scam at this forum run by operators. http://www.aimoo.com/forum/freeboard.cfm?id=548516&NoCaches=Yes

It's very lucrative for them, and extremely detrimental to the person scammed. It's often times dollar amounts in the thousands... as they buy in BULK. Read more at link.

 

[Boatswain'sMate]

What looks too good to be true, generally is. Takes care of a lot of scams that try to get you to pay up front to be given money, whether an inheritance, the Nigerian scam (especially the Nigerian scam), etc.

I remember awhile ago there was a hysterical web site of someone who went the full distance with one of the Nigerian scammers - kept dangling the money, then asking for another assurance, or having a problem, or putting it into the wrong type of account, etc. It was hysterical!

I remember that site! They scammed a bunch of the Nigerians, getting really far into it with some of them. They used the name David Lee Roth and even sent the scammers a picture of the real David Lee Roth . . . Here's the site:
http://www.geocities.com/scamjokepage/

 

[Rocky]

Hi Rocky,

I must have missed something, but who is the grndfather and how is he involved with Capitol One?

Scandi

now I'm confused, grieving father or Grandfather?

 

[Rocky]

I got the same type of letter and I am a Capital One carrier also.

have you ever done an electronic pay by check, by either computer or phone?

 

[scandi]

Oops! I meant father.

Scandi

 

[Rocky]

I remember that site! They scammed a bunch of the Nigerians, getting really far into it with some of them. They used the name David Lee Roth and even sent the scammers a picture of the real David Lee Roth . . . Here's the site:
http://www.geocities.com/scamjokepage/

I wonder if anyone shown on that site recently lost a family member in a plane crash...

 

[Rocky]

Oops! I meant father.

Scandi

well he was the scammer calling me on the phone, very persistant about how I don't need to do anything, the money would be transfered directly to my account.

I told him I need that money to bring peace to the world and then asked him if he believed in Angels..etc...

He made a promise to an Earth Angel to help. He bet his families life...

and then he stole from the one he promised to help...

the same day he did it, a plane crashed in Nigeria


I'm not sure if he got his database directly from Capitol One, but his opperation in Clearwater Florida is connected with a collection agency that has access into everyone's public records.

It shouldn't be too hard to track down who was making calls or emails from Capitol One to Clearwater Florida...

 

[Boatswain'sMate]

I wonder if anyone shown on that site recently lost a family member in a plane crash...

I hope none did, but I'm sure all of them will begin contacting people and using that plane crash in their complicated money-transfer stories.

 

[BarnGoddess]

Amraan, what do you carry in your wallet?

wouldn't happen to be Capitol One now would it?

I don't have Capitol One in my wallet, but since I pay my provider $4.00 extra each month to filter my e-mail for junk and viruses, I still see Nigerian type scams. I don't open them, but delete them as quickly as possible.

Rocky, I may have misread one of your posts early in the thread, but I thought you gave this scammer fake bank info and fake credit card info. If that was the case, how did he get your actual information? This is bothering me.

I have also had calls offering me free trips and vacations, but they're usually attached to time-share deals where you have to sit in meetings being hammered to buy. I just say no-thanks and hang up.

Before the BarnGod and I got married, someone wormed his bank info out of him and hit his bank account for a hefty amount. The bank had to replace it because they had orders not to allow any money out without a signed agreement for any individual non-check transactions. This scam was run out of Henderson, Nevada. The FBI closed down the operation.

 

[Rocky]

well I gave him fake info, the next day, I was called by the Clearwater group to reconfirm my banking info because I had won a free trip to Disneyworld, when they called they told me what I had given to the scammer, and then read off to me what their system said was correct...

 

[Rocky]

wooooah...

I changed all my banking yesterday to get the mess cleared up, and guess who called today from Clearwater Florida


I have been selected for a pre-approved Bank First Mastercard, let me confirm your address...

The only group that had the address he used was the scammers...

He called me on a blocked ID...

my heart is racing...

 

[BrendaStar]

Rocky........

did you change your phone number? Perhaps an unlisted number is in order.

 

[Rocky]

Rocky........

did you change your phone number? Perhaps an unlisted number is in order.

It's my business cell phone they keep calling on...

 

[Rocky]

hmmmm

now I just had a call from someone local visiting from Florida that wants to drive a new car home...

our expert on Nigeria scammers said I have nothing to worry about...

My Hinky meter is going wild right now...

 

[scandi]

Rocky, stay off the telephone! LOL If I were being hounded like this I would certainly close my bank account, hire an attorney and keep my money in his clients trust account with an agreement I could get a regular amount for it on agreed days of the month and say a 5 day notice to withdraw it all. See them get around that!

Whoops, got excited and this posted by itself

I was going to also say I forgot your birthday yesterday and hope you did relax and enjoy it with your family. :HappyBday Krams for you :HappyBday

Scandi

 

[Rocky]

Rocky, stay off the telephone! LOL If I were being hounded like this I would certainly close my bank account, hire an attorney and keep my money in his clients trust account with an agreement I could get a regular amount for it on agreed days of the month and say a 5 day notice to withdraw it all. See them get around that!

Whoops, got excited and this posted by itself

I was going to also say I forgot your birthday yesterday and hope you did relax and enjoy it with your family. :HappyBday Krams for you :HappyBday

Scandi

Today is my birthday, you aren't too late for giving me a smile...

 

[Greywing]

hmmmm

now I just had a call from someone local visiting from Florida that wants to drive a new car home...

our expert on Nigeria scammers said I have nothing to worry about...

My Hinky meter is going wild right now...

I said you don't need to disappear in the witness protection program. I'd suggest you contact Capitol One and give them the info to see if they can get an arrest. Nigerians will ALWAYS save the info and pass it on. Get that statement put on your credit bureau files - watch your credit bureau for unauthorized inquiries. If you want to sleuth a bit then see if you can find out what car dealership they were at, what credit info they were using, etc. Contact your local LE but I doubt that they'll be able to do much. You, my friend, are a victim of Nigerians and everything they are doing is typical. Unsettling and unnverving to be sure.

 

[Rocky]

well I put a block up with Experian, nice thing is, they cleared up my credit report to get ready to scam me... I closed it down before they tried...

the shocking part was the day after opening a new account, they were already calling me

 

[BarnGoddess]

Rocky, I think I found your Nigerian lawyer. He's a young Nigerian sitting at a cyber-cafe in Lagos with others just like him, looking to scam some money. I found this in the Rocky Mountain News today. I googled for a good link as it was a news service posting:

http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=SCAMMERS-12-26-05

snip:


LAGOS, Nigeria -- In a steamy Lagos Internet cafe, thumping with the bass beat of Nigerian rock videos on a TV overhead, barrister Olayinka Okwudili sits writing an urgent e-mail about his financial crisis.

If you believe the letter, he's a prominent Lagos barrister who needs to move some money. It is possible, however, that this young man in artfully distressed jeans and a T-shirt is not, in fact, a barrister, but he is distinctly unwilling to discuss the matter.

Similar young men, alone or in pairs, are at many of the computers around him in a middle-class residential neighborhood of Africa's busiest city, some of whom can be overheard discussing the exact turn of phrase they need for their letters, which seek "dear friends" in "far off lands" to help them with the "very urgent matter of $10-million" tragically left in the account of their "very dear late father." You know the letters, of course. If you have an e-mail account, you have received one from an apologetic correspondent (likely to be either the child of a recently deposed African leader or a recently dismissed middle manager in a government ministry) who acknowledges he or she does not know you personally but nevertheless seeks your assistance with a financial transaction.

More at link. Some of them do get arrested. Read about it.

 

[Rocky]

LOL - Barister Jude...

I've seen many of his emails