hello i have been approached with a similar offer from a sweden person
i am going to go allong with it, cash the money order, and not send money back i wil keep the money in a sppecial account and make him come after it. Id liek to see him try to sue me and when they discover it was counterfit i wil have the money to give back.
if he is genuine then im sure he will want to come pick up his truck. i wil take notes of this whole process heh here is the text i recieved """

Hello,

Compliment of the season top of the day am
marcus pharrell a citizen of sweden ,i was surfing
from the internet why i now come across your ads on
the via internet so i will like to ask if you really
want to sell this and i will like you to know that my
method of payment is a american cashier check drawn in any
american bank so i will like you to get back to me with
your last price so as to asap payment to you
fast......Stay Cool And
God Bless........marcus......

here is my reply:

Hello,
Thanks for the reply i willl like you to know that am okay with the price ,so i will like you to send your contact info so as to make payment to you before the first person..Stay Cool God Bless ............Marcus.............

"gawab.com" <rolling@gawab.com> wrote:
hello Marcus.
i am selling the truck for $2500 but someone offered 3000 for it on payments
im considering that offer too, so the sooner you reply the beter because i sell to the first person who has the money
thanx
Marc

 

Your bank will withdrawl what they gave you or at least hold you responsible to return it.

 

i had the same thing happen to me besides the money order wasnt real so i didnt get anything

 

The check will never clear your bank. It will show up as cleared, but about 5 days later it'll bounce. That's part of the scam. Don't mess with these folks, they're part of the same gang that has killed at least 15 US businessmen in different scam:

Luring the businessmen across the Nigerian boarder without a passport and then they can't get back. Then they try to get money from them and if they can't: dead. The only way to deal with them is to ignore them.

 

hmm yea i gues so i just wanna get back at them maby an IP trace to ISP or report to cyber crimes or somethin hehe
but likley bre ignored
thanx

 

Reporting does no good either since they are offshore. They keep coming from the same ISP, who doesn't cut off their access (probably afraid of dying!). The Nigerian government won't stop them either.

 

I would think that a little finagling with the router tables for the servers that connect to the system would effectively cut them out of the web.

 

I block IP ranges as they become known. They just come back under a different range. Ignoring them is the best action.

 

What I was thinking was for the people that control the IP addresses and router tables to block out that server or even the whole of Nigeria until the Nigerian government does do something.

 

im also thinking that they may not be overseas at all, (have the victims checked the postmarks?) also when it came to explaining how he wanted to pay, his gramer and typing suddenly became correct and clear heheh
my "offer" was suposedly from a sweedish student that never said where he actually was ) pretty bad typing and grammer for a "student" lol

 

i had someone from England contact me about a car i was selling. i knew it was a scam but i went a long with it also. got the check(it was no good) the bank froze my account until i called them to tell them what was going on. i got the check via FedEx. so i called them and gave them the tracking number. it came from Nigeria. i also got a call from a transport Co in KS to pick up the car. i told him what was going on and he couldn't believe it. he's now wise to the scam. i gave my bank all the info and they are going to report it to the FBI.

 

Eric,

Companies that handle routing don't play any political or policy games like that. They just route. It is up to the end customer (user, ISP, host) to decide what they want and what they don't. What if my company dealt with legitimate business in Nigeria? It would be cut off completely.

 

Yes it would You would scream and so would that company. That would add more pressure on the Nigerian government to clean up the mess! It seems that some servers are being blocked out in various ways anyway. Blocking a whole country would just up the ante. Besides, there are also other ways to communicate. We used the telephone, snail mail, fax etc, b4 the internet.

 

Again, major routers leave it to the receiver. What if they start blocking the USA because they don't like Bush? Or the state Georgia because a group of scammers live there?

 

It might get interesting I don't see much of a chance of the examples you list happening. Some countries already have blocks but things work out in the end thru negotiations and reforms. It is all polyticks