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^^ Let's not forget that Brampton is a major Nigerian ex-pat community.

I also show a driving school at that address:

http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Ontario/Brampton/6-Star-Driver-Resources-Ltd ...

Good luck with the update.

Yes, that's me. I don't warn as Frodo. You'd have to be very silly to hand out names... a fact you seem to have grasped.

A quick search turned up:

Dearest Beloveth, I am john Olowu an Orphan,My late Father was a loving,caring and hard working business man who died unfortunately in an auto crash.Before the sudden deat ...

Any info the scammers gives you about himself is likely to be false. So you won't have their real names and addresses. Maybe you can get a Nigerian cell number, but so what? They often buy stolen ...

I've also seen these morph into "love scams". The scammer claims to be a model from South Africa who just wants the room for a short stay. "She" sends a photo and when the advertiser of the propert ...

Please try and phrase your question in the form of a question.
It would also be helpful if you could explain the background to this money order deal. At first glance, your chat transcript appears ...

In a blatant attempt to expand this lonely looking section, I thought we might post some victim replies. They do represent feedback and they are useful as well as providing a warm & fuzzy... I s ...

The point fungus was making is that these scammers view themselves as Christians. That doesn't mean they have the same view of Christianity as you. Somehow they pervert and twist their beliefs so a ...

...AND WHAT A COLLISION I WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE
WEDDING OF MY FIRST DAUGHTER... Laughing

Glad we could help. By the way, Randy, you might be interested in checking out sites like www.419eate ...

Perhaps the most obvious sign of a scam is that the scammers don't really know what they're "buying" - nor do they care. It's all about getting a randomly chosen business to send them money - and may ...

Captain Igloo is right. The scammer is most likely male and if you were to insist on a phone call, he would arrange for a female friend of his to pretend to be the girl in question. This is very com ...

Hi Ballig,

Thanks for the chat log. From the way he writes it's *very* similar to the way scammers approach victims when they do so via chat. The only hint that he might be genuine is that he wa ...

Hi Shiftleft,

Welcome to Scampatrol forum. You were right to be suspicious as the letter is definitely a fraud. The letters they send are based on standard formats which makes it easy for us to ...

Hi Ballig,

Welcome to Scampatrol forum. It's nice to hear of someone being careful! You said that the man who contacted you has changed his story. This is usually a bad sign. I'm assuming h ...

These scammers are being investigated. Could you please post a copy of the emails they sent to you.

Welcome to the forum, residentofoz, and thanks for posting your experience!
Well done for spotting this scam. As you have found out, there are a few varieties out there and they follow a pattern: ...

This is another example of a scammer that claims to be an anti-fraud organisation. If you have lost money through an Internet scam, you can expect to receive a fake letter offering to recover your mo ...

A victim I warned about a previous scam, has given permission for me to post an Instant Messaging session she had with a scammer.
The victim was smart enough to ask if the new proposal was a scam ...

Yes. If you run an IP trace on the various scam letters you receive in your baiting box... you'd be surprised how many Abachas and Wang Qin's are actually the same bunch of scammers. It's a kind of ...

Thanks for the feedback, guys! I've now revised the article to incorporate your great suggestions. See the edited 2.0 version above.
I've also posted a modified version to 419legal, at the suggest ...

If you're not familiar with 419 fraud, you may think an Internet scammer is just one man in an Internet Cafe, trying his luck with a cheeky grin and a letter he scribbled down in 5 minutes. In reality ...

This a good video story on 419 fraud that the BBC's "Go Digital" programme recorded back in March.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3368761.stm

Scroll down and click the video button 1 Mar ...

Here's another link which should work for anyone having problems.
See the two links under Video on the right-hand side of the screen.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1076607329 ...

I could post the article I wrote on how 419 fraud gangs operate. (I wrote it for a journalist to use.) Is that the sort of thing you want?