solution to Nigerian scam problem

[Todd Phenneger]

Dave and Others,
  I would HIGHLY recommend that you DO NOT DO THIS.
IT is not worth messing with these guys.  Banks do not look
favoribly on it and simply having a fraudulent cashiers check
deposited into your account will initiate a fraud investigation
for BOTH Parties.  That means ;you will be part of a Federal
Criminal Investigation by the US Secret Service.  The secret
service is not only in charge of protection of the President but
protection of the US Currency.
  Additionally, once this happens you will likely be listed in a
database and banned from that bank.
  Can they do that?!?! You ask.  In a round about sort of way,
YES.  Banks use a service to track Non Sufficient Funds
activites, delinquent acconts, etc.  They can not register you
in this if you were an innocent party.  However, a bank can
refuse to do business with a person if they deem that it is
dangerous or risky to do so.  It has been shown that once a
person engages with these "nigerian scams" that they will not
leave you alone.  That increases the chance that some day you
may fall victim to a scam and not even realize it.  Maybe not
intentionally, but that doesn't matter, it still hurts your
pocketbook and the Banks Bottom Line.
  Best to simply not engage them at all.  If you want to send
them pics of your Dogs Anus, thats your choice, but i would
change the return address on your Email and your name field,
etc, to make it difficult for them to see where the E-mail came
from.  I would highly recommend you not engage in any behavior
beyond that.
 Thanks for Listening

   Todd Phenneger
   Banker - US BANK
  FS: 84' 4000 TURBO Quattro


--- Dave Glubrecht <daveglu at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Better yet all who recieved the offers to accept them, get the
> known bad
> checks, put them in your account, wait two weeks.  This will
> start costing
> them $$ in sending the checks (I heard they often send them
> express) and try
> to get the banks to do something about it.
>    Dave G
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Myers" <robert at s-cars.org>
> To: "Mihnea Cotet" <mik at info.fundp.ac.be>; "Brett Dikeman"
> <brett at cloud9.net>; "ben swann" <benswann at comcast.net>;
> <quattro at audifans.com>
> Cc: <benswann at comcast.net>
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: solution to Nigerian scam problem
>
>
> > --
> > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> >
> > Address and subject line, please.  I have a couple of
> excellent pics ready
> > to go.  :-)
> >
> > At 07:24 PM 6/28/2003 +0200, Mihnea Cotet wrote:
> >
> > >ROTFLMAO, let's do it! :-)))))
> > >
> > >Mihnea
> > >
> > >At 12:43 28/06/2003 -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> > >>At 12:49 AM +0200 6/28/03, Mihnea Cotet wrote:
> > >>>Yup, agreed that this is most likely a scam, I've gotten
> the exact same
> > >>>email for my 2 3B ECUs for sale on the marketplace from
> Dave Coley of
> dave
> > >>>coley procurements (davecoleyprocurements at mail.com) ,
> yadda yadda yadda
> > >>>with the same "NB: email the pics" at the end of the
> message, which has
> > >>>really sounded strange to me from someone writing so
> politely to me and
> > >>>then just saying "email the pics"... that can't sound
> right!!!!!
> > >>>
> > >>>Man, is there a way to hang those people up somehow? Or
> to shoot them
> or I
> > >>>dunno????
> > >>
> > >>Absolutely.
> > >>
> > >>Next time you get one of these messages, post the address
> to the
> > >>list(along with the subject line so he can't weed 'em out
> by subject),
> and
> > >>we'll all send him pictures of our cars, as per his
> request!
> > >>
> > >>Oh gee, how about that, we already have one address:
> > >>
> > >>davecoleyprocurements at mail.com
> > >>
> > >>Tip: don't make the image too large, no more than a few
> hundred KB so it
> > >>won't get bounced by size; more messages will also make it
> more of a
> pain
> > >>for someone with webmail.  Lastly, don't feel any
> obligation to send
> your
> > >>best car pic, since the little bastards will probably turn
> around and
> make
> > >>a calendar or something.  A picture of, say, your
> wastegate frequency
> > >>valve will do fine.
> > >>
> > >>B
> > >>--
> > >>----
> > >>"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary
> > >>safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
> > >>http://www.users.cloud9.net/~brett/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >---
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> 6/25/2003
> >
> > _____
> >
> > One nation, under surveillance. :-(
> >
> > Bob
> > *****
> >   Robert L. Myers  304-574-2372
> >   Rt. 4, Box 57,  Fayetteville, WV 25840 USA  WV tag Q SHIP
> >   '95 urS6 Cashmere Grey - der Wunderwagen   ICQ 22170244
> >   http://www.cob-net.org/church/pvcob.htm
> > *****
> > --
> >
> >


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