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Regarding Nigerian scams...we recently had an nice order from a customer in Japan. He asked us to use a specific freight-forwarder, which is not

Posted by MojaveMeg (aka Mojave) Jan 19 '09, 15:39

unusual for overseas orders. Then it got crazy...all we had for the forwarder was an email address. The response and quote came from an address in England. Still no alarm bells - until the forwarder asked us to prepay the $1,500 shipping charges by Western Union!!! When we suggested to the customer that we might get quotes from Fedex or DHL he was adamant that we use *his* carrier. We canceled the order.

I figure we'd have sent the payment and that's the last we'd have heard from either of them. The customer was using a yahoo address, and the carrier was on gmail. I google the phone number we were given and it showed up on a list of suspected British telemarketers!

No harm/no foul - but we will probably be running a special on the green frog products we'd already produced for his order :/

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Wow. I wonder how many businesses weren't as astute as yours and sent the money. - CovingtonCat Jan 19, 15:54 4
- Lots of companies out there looking for ways to save money means more skepticism with regard to strange payouts -- nm - Beryllium Jan 19, 16:00 3
  - I talk to people every day who are starting small businesses. I'm still amazed at how stupid many of them are (or unknowledgable to put it nicely). -- nm - CovingtonCat Jan 19, 16:13 2
    - Step 1, start business. Step 3, profit! -- nm - Mop Jan 19, 16:34 1
      - We're in the money! -- nm - Nigerian scammer Jan 19, 16:38

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