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New scam: "Your product requires registration"

 
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winelight
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PostPosted: Sun 23 Jan 2005 13:11    Post subject: New scam: "Your product requires registration" Reply with quote

Who it is targeted at:

Legitimate businesses, exporters, probably in East Asia.

How the scam works
1) Lad poses as an importer to (usually) Nigeria.
2) Lad contacts a manufacturer by email, says he wants to buy lots of stuff from them.
3) At some point in the negotiation, lad says "oh, I just realised your product is not registered in Nigeria. You need to contact a lawyer to sort this out for you. Here is one who can do it, this is his email address".
4) Asian businessman contacts lawyer (who is really the lad, or perhaps another member of the gang).
5) Lawyer demands a fee...

Difficult to detect or disrupt
It's not going to be easy to find people operating these scams, or disrupt their activities, because they are only targeting legitimate businesses.
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klaasvaak
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PostPosted: Fri 28 Jan 2005 11:15    Post subject: Reply with quote

This scam is a pain in the ass.
The scammer places an advert on www.alibaba.com (or something similar) , that he wants to buy goods (sugar, marbles and tea are used a lot) and the seller contacts them first. The problem is that no company checks the buyer/scammer. This could be done by going to your local chamber of commerce and ask for info about the scammer/buyer.

If you want to bait these guys look for odd adverts on online trading places, like alibaba and trade-india

edited: typo


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churchmouse
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PostPosted: Fri 28 Jan 2005 18:39    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some time ago I saw lots of the lads on these sites and couldn' tfigure out what they were doing.Thanks for the alert!
NOw it's obvious that they were setting up the scams.
Thanks for clearing up this mystery!
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winelight
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PostPosted: Fri 28 Jan 2005 18:41    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks klaasvaak, that's useful information and we know how to bait them now.

EDIT: except that they only accept quotations from paid members.

Clever!
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klaasvaak
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PostPosted: Sat 29 Jan 2005 10:33    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
This could be done by going to your local chamber of commerce and ask for info about the seller.


typo: seller should be buyer/scammer
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klaasvaak
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PostPosted: Tue 01 Feb 2005 13:11    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting:

See what happens when you tell the scammer you have looked up the company at the chamber of commerce

Quote:
From: xxxx
To: xxxxx.
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: RESPOND URGENT


ATTN:RADICAL EXPORTS.

PLEASE YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO CONTACT OUR CHEMBER OF COMMERCE AS THEY HAVE NO ANY RIGHT TO DECIDE FOR OUR CONTRACT AS THIS IS NOT A GOVERNMENT AWARD CONTRACT AS WE ARE SUPPLING IT TO THE WEST AFRICA REFUGEES FOR THE YEAR PACKAGE FROM OUR ORGANIZATION AND WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE PROCEDURE OF OUR COUNTRY AND ALSO THIS THE PROCEDURE FOR A CONTRACT.
SO KINDLY PROCEED AND CONFIRM IF YOUR COMPANY IS READY FOR THIS CONTRACT SO THAT WE CAN APPLY IMMEDIATELY TO OUR BANK FOR THE ARRANGEMENT FOR THE TRANSFER OF YOUR FUNDS AND AS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMPANY HAVE ALREADY APPROVED YOUR COMPANY AND I HAVE THE RIGHT TO CANCEL THE CONTRACT AND AWARD IT TO OTHER COMPANY WHO ARE READY TO FOLLOW THE PROCEDURE.
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lew_skannen
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PostPosted: Tue 01 Feb 2005 14:33    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slap the prick. We have whatever rights we want.
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