how can you tell a scam on the internet from Nigeria?

Answer 1

1) if they ask to send you a check or payment for more than the item you have for sale

2) if they ask you to mail or give the overpayment to the person who will be picking up the item

3) if the email seems fishy, ask for a phone # and use 411 or similar to identify its source. Anyone who is legit will give you a phone # and address. Beware of someone who will ONLY offer a cell phone #, as these are highly portable and crooks may utilize them.

Alot of scams come with fake IP addresses so it looks like it is eminating from Petak Tiqwa, Israel.

Answer 2

Any unsolicited Lottery winning nothice (as in you never bought a ticket) or email from anyone you never heard of talking about alot of money for you to have in exchange for giving away personal information (to park money for anyone) is a guaranteed scam. If you have already sent personal information to these people they will steal your identity and any money you send, you have lost forever. If you have been a victim of any Nigerian scam you can report them to the U.S. Secret Service and you can find their website with a simple Yahoo Search. You really shouldn't count on seeing your money ever again though. There is no prize to win, and these names are merely aliases used by those who are attempting to fleece you of your money. You cannot win any lottery without buying a ticket.

This nonsense has all of the signs of a scam. There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades. The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy. But this is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question. Also, any email that uses all-caps is definitely a scam.

If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud.

Answer 3

If it is on ebay and even mentions Nigeria... tell them where to shove their scam

Answer 4

check with the better business bureau. Read the news papers they are all scams dont be a sucker.

Answer 5

if you receive email from someone saying that his relative has died and left billion of usd but because he is underage he will need you help to transfer the amout to you.
just report any simililar lies to appropriate authorities.