Nigerian Connection

There are people on the internet that is out to take your money from your pocket and put into theirs. A lot of it is not by fair or honest means. When the same people and scams keep rising up their ugly head and people are still falling for these scams. I listed two of the common ones below.

The first one I every heard of was about five years ago. A business person in the United States was has cashier check from a Nigerian businessman. As a token of good faith the business person in the United States was to keep half of the value of the cashier check and send other half back to Nigeria. The unsuspecting individual that kept half for helping out a businessman in Nigeria got a call from his bank saying the cashier check is a fake. This person was left minus a large some of money.

The new one I saw, more recently, was done through Craigslist.org. An email would be sent to the seller from someone supposedly that was at the other end of the United States. For their trouble of packaging and shipping the item being sold would be paid an extra $50.00, for their trouble. An email would come that was from Money Gram or USPS saying, “When we receive shipping confirmation, they will a money order for the full amount. They would also send a FedEx shipping label. Of course the money order would never arrive.

A bright red flag needs to be raised about what is going on. People who surf the World Wide Web must be made aware the dangers from different types of phishing emails. Violence has occurred among family members because of falling for these scams. We need to put them to a stop by not falling for them.