Would like to know where in Nigeria can you cash in your money order?

Question

Lagos...have somethere that wants me to cash their money order and send it back to them....now is that strange or what...i may think it is a scam to get my full name and address...u think?

oops have someone there.....

Do the bank there in Lagos take money order to cash in? Or can they use Hotels to cash in their money order?

Answer 1

Please BEWARE...Do NOT cash any money orders for them!

Here is a quote from a site I found talking about how a man was charged for changing money orders and getting others to cash them. Here is a quote from the site that I am attaching the link for below:

Such an altering scam, which inspectors call "raising," works because the people who change the denominations are getting more sophisticated and have better printers and scanners, said Inspector Smith, a spokesman for the services' Fort Worth division. The scammers, who also counterfeit the orders entirely, sometimes collect the money by using people they encounter on the Internet or in "lonely hearts club" chat rooms, he said. They persuade a person to cash the orders at banks – where not all tellers recognize the telltale signs of fraud, such as discolorations, missing security watermarks and ink bleeds. "They are looking for people who are easily duped," he said, speaking generally and not about Mr. Emuagbonrie.

I hope this info helps you and causes you to be extra cautious and even possibly pass the persons info who contacted you onto autorities. It is VERY illegal.

:-)

Answer 2

It is a scam. Your bank will take some time to find out it is a fake money order. In the mean time you will have sent the money overseas. Once the bank catches it, they will hold the money back from your account.

BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL DEALING WITH ANYTHING FROM NIGERIA!!!!! Especially the oil money scam or any financial instrument. There is a similar scam whereby they buy something from you and send you a money order over the amount and ask you to send back the difference. Don't DO IT!


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Dax Desai
Investment Mgr
www.dnainvestments.com

Answer 3

The 'without cash in Nigeria, only money orders' is another scam. Typically it is posted on a chat site like Myspace.com. The scammer often poses as a young woman who went to Nigeria with only money orders and cannot find a place to cash them. She asks if you can cash them and wire the money to her. Sound familiar?

Answer 4

Scam

Answer 5

NOPE! Don't want anything to do with Nigeria and their scams.

Some there would like to deposit $30.000.00 into your account because they have some shady money to export. You get to keep 25%. DUHHH!

They also have a tanker of oil that can't leave their port until they get some money for customs. You get a cut. DUH!

sic: Rep. Jefferson, LA. Cold cash! (in the freezer), From Nigeria.

Answer 6

Don't do it. I used to work for an online payment company where a lot of people oversees were stealing peoples indentities and sending checks to people in the US. They would ask the people to cash the checks (promising that they would give them a portion of the money), and either to wire the money to them or send it to them in another form. A lot of people fell for it and sent the money to them, and then the original checks bounced. They were out of the money and charged lots of fees from the bank. So there it goes again, if it sounds to good to be true......it ususally is.

Answer 7

Don't do it unless you want to lose your life's savings over this known scam.

Answer 8

What i don't understand is why ANYONE would "fall" for something SO stupid...I mean, this isn't even english or full sentences...dumb.

Answer 9

What kind of scam is this one???

Answer 10

Oh yeah. I remember this I have a rich Uncle who died................ Ok well let me tell you were to cash it BBB.