spam mails when you post an ad looking for a dog or something they say they will send you the breed of your choice as long as you send the shipping fees. Why cant the govenorment stop this over there? and if their so poor where are they getting internet from???let alone a computer.. have any of you been tried to be scammed by the Nigeria people or cameroon people?
2007-09-18 18:59:27 · 5 answers · asked by flowerlegz 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
They do it because they can.
They do it because it is NOT illegal in their country.
They also know that you, from North America can do nothing about it. Their government will not even try to find them, even if it IS illegal, as they have more important things to worry about, like disease epidemics and half of their population starving to death.
They do it because as P.T. Barnum once said, "There is a sucker born every minute."
If something seems too good to be true it usually is. These types of scams have been going on for years. In the 1950s there was the "Irish Sweepstakes" scam. This still runs today over the internet.
Rule number 1... If you didn't buy a ticket, you didn't win the lottery. It just doesn't happen.
Rule number 2... There is no dead executive with the same last name as yours with 300 million dollars in the bank that they will give you half of. People don't give away free money.
Rule number 3... They don't need YOU to collect payments for them. This is not any type of legitimate business. International banking has existed for over 80 years.
Rule number 4... they don't need your personal information, EVER.
Rule number 5... NO bank will ever contact you by EMail and have you "Verify your password" ... it just doesn't happen.
Right back to, If It Seems Too Good To Be True, It Probably Is!... I find it hard to get upset when people get ripped off by these scam artists, because usually you have to VERY greedy AND VERY stupid to get taken in by them.
2007-09-18 19:20:39 · answer #1 · answered by dr.dryice 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some people from Cameroon and Nigeria are just like the people in the US, or Canada, or anywhere else that try to defraud you. I am sure many more Americans are defrauded by Americans than by Nigerians. I know the people that have successfully cheated me have been Americans, and I have spent most of my professional life living in other countries.
While the example you are using is simply trying to cheat you, if you are gullible enough, most of the Nigerian scams that one sees or reads about, when they are successful it is because the recipient is willing to do something dishonest to make a buck - so it is kind of fitting I guess that would be cheaters get cheated.
2007-09-18 20:49:03 · answer #2 · answered by Sp II Guzzi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those countries are so poor that is about the only income they are able to bring in. Nigeria actually does a pretty good job of cracking down on such crime rings... But when that is the only job there is what else are people there going to do?
And I've run into people from in Nigeria in chat rooms... They aren't all bad... But some are.
2007-09-18 19:04:31 · answer #3 · answered by disruption_grey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both and a few more. A king wants to give me money; a woman who is in the hospital says her attorney has died and she can't pay her bills until she can get the money from her estate, but she WILL pay me back; another needs help for an orphanage; one's husband is deathly ill, etc. Oh, and I'm constantly winning things I have to pay a fee to receive. I really don't know how they all get away with it. I just SPAM them all.
2007-09-18 19:07:59 · answer #4 · answered by CarolSandyToes1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the people pulling off the scams tend to be well-educated: they have to be to speak enough English to scam you. They also have money, too, and nice cars. It just seems that those societies encourage corruption. I wonder what they're teaching their children?
2007-09-18 19:07:27 · answer #5 · answered by Katherine W 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋