LHarman Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Hello,this is a confusing one, I smell a great big fat smelly rat, what do you lot think,here goes... A friend of mine has advertised a room to rent in Sheffield, he has received an e mail enquiring about the room from a lady in Nigeria.She is apparently coming to England to take part in a photo shoot and will be here till April 07, and wants to rent the room.(stay with me!)He has been sent a cheque for a sum of £3500!!, and she has asked that he put the money in his account and to take out the months rent and bond(£940 in total), and to send the rest to her modeling agency in Nigeria, by western union money transfer so she can get her agency to buy her tickets to England, the cheque is from a bank in Lewisham, in another persons name........I thinks its a big money laundering scam, anyone else come across anything similar? sorry for the long post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medusa Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 It's definitely a scam- it was used through eBay a lot a while back. You are persuaded to send the remainder on to them, then the cheque is cancelled and you're a whole load of money down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynic Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 It looks like a scam. The cheque will clear but then get flagged as stolen, fake etc later on and the money deducted from the account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHarman Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 Money laundering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxen_Pith Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Complete scam!!! Flatshare.com and a few others have demontrations of popular scams, and this one, or variants of it, show up quite regularly. Tell you friend to stay well clear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxen_Pith Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Found this with a 2 second google search... http://no.easyroommate.com/misc/emailscam.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
never wrong Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 ANY DEAL OR EMAIL that even mentions nigeria is a scam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHarman Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 Found this with a 2 second google search... http://no.easyroommate.com/misc/emailscam.aspx spot on!cheers sheffield forum, not just there for the bad things in life........Ill tell him to give a wide berth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titian Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 and this: http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/169383 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barny_100 Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 ANY DEAL OR EMAIL that even mentions nigeria is a scam I'm amazed that any genuine business in Nigeria manages to trade in the West seeing as many people now think Nigeria = Scammers. A not unwarrented reputation unfotunately - the broken English and far fetched stories are great fun though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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