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FUCKING CON ARTIST NIGERIANS

Monday, June 27th, 2005

I recently tried to sell my new Nokia via Amazon’s marketplace. It was listed with them for a number for weeks during which time I received literally dozens of emails from Nigerian conmen trying to get me to send the phone to Lagos. While most of these scams are child like in their simplicity and presentation (their spelling and grammar is worse than mine) some are actually quite clever. Like the attempts to mimic the automated response that Amazon sends when an item is sold legitimately. I have two pieces of advice for would be Amazon Marketplace users:

  1. Never have any dealings with Nigerians or anyone with West African connections
  2. Never ship an item without logging into your account via a fresh internet browser and checking that it has actually been sold.

Here are some of the email addresses they used:
bomaniphonestores10@yahoo.com; buyphoneonline@yahoo.com; christianah_lucy@yahoo.com; covetdon@uk2.net; da_taylor01@yahoo.co.uk; dammychi@yahoo.co.uk; deborah_scot@yahoo.com; donald_lisaworld@yahoo.com; eluksinfo@yahoo.com; famouse4all@yahoo.com; froofblack@yahoo.com; gbengalshstore@yahoo.com; george_x009@yahoo.com; georgepaipar@yahoo.com; graetkunle@yahoo.com; graetkunle@yahoo.com; janet_smith_03@yahoo.com; jenny_lopez080@yahoo.com; joshtels@yahoo.com; joydan005@yahoo.com; jtewright@gmail.com; kayboy1on1@yahoo.com; kaydees2002@yahoo.com; larry_jeff09@yahoo.com; lauramary01@yahoo.co.uk; lawwy_joe@yahoo.com; luisenrique198601@yahoo.com; lunasmith56@yahoo.com; macbetprin1@yahoo.com; mahmoodo@aston.ac.uk; mariecarr310@yahoo.co.uk; memoryfx@yahoo.com; nivis_james005@yahoo.com.au; owenstore2005@yahoo.com; pastor_andrew01@yahoo.com; razy4real2001@yahoo.com; rebecca_gonzalex@yahoo.com; kproject11@yahoo.com; smith_smithstore@yahoo.com; Steffany_Wallace@yahoo.com; sterwaydaylight@yahoo.co.uk; val_1cool@yahoo.com; visfinity4all@yahoo.com; vtaboi@fsmail.net; wildnasco5@hotmail.com; terryelectronic_inc@yahoo.com

I emailed Amazon and they were no help other than to suggest that I should not sell to con men from Nigeria. Well duh?
Today I gave up and took the listing down. So if anyone needs a Nokia 6630 it’s brand new…

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