Nigerian Scams
Well.. I am a would be victim of a Nigerian scam. The actual scam started a couple of months ago, but the events leading up to a scam started over a year ago. I have been talking to a man... We'll call him Ralph. He starts talking to me on Yahoo messanger. I got really annoyed with him, he didn't speak in the American way that I liked because I can talk about things and not have to explain them. Sometimein the course of this, he starts telling me he has feelings for me (How? I wonder, he didn't know me) So I play along, I'm like "Yeah, whatever, ok". He even said he could send me some money.. All I had to do was get an ink jet printer to print out the checks, I told him I couldn't afford and ink jet printer so he dropped it and told me that he was going to have his clients send packages to me to sell.. So I'm like "Yeah, whatever" not beliveing a word. A few months ago, he starts talking about needing things for his store and he has "Clients " all over the US who owe him money. Well, after he talks about that, I start getting packages.. MP3 players, shoes.. Even got flowers. Ok, so Ralph starts asking if I got packages. I tell him yes, I am confused and angry now. All the invoices on the packages are from different people and plus I got some letters a few days before the p[ackages saying that something I ordered could not be shipped as they had to verify credit cards... Ok.... I am supposed to box up all this shit and send it to him (He claims he lives in the UK) Where in the hell he got my address, I don't know. So the packages start arriving and I'm supposed to send it all to him, he gives me a Nigerian address and he all mad when I question him. He got mad when I questioned anything about all this. He emailed me a prepaid label to attach to the box and send all this stuff. I find out that the label was purchased on a fruad acount, I tell him this and he insist he has nothing to do with it and that he is sending me a cashiers check so I can send the stuff to him. He kept telling me that it's a cashiers check so I should be able to cash it the same day I get it with no problems. He told me to take the checks to a check ashing place as opposed to a bank and to take the checks to different places. I get these checks, and they just scream "I'm fake" They were too plain to be a cashiers check, the post mark on the envelope said August 8th and the date on the checks said Sept 14th, and it had Cashier's Check printed on the in big letters. So I take them to my bank, I inform them before hand that I truly believe these checks are fake and that I had no intention of taking any money from them until they came back good. They bounced yesterday.. I have the number for the check fraud unit of the FBI. I am going to try to prosecute the people doing this.. I have my reasonable intelligence that saved me from going to jail over this.. But you can bet there are a bunch of dumb suckers out there who are cashing these fruad checks and going to jail.
