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#99747 - 03/02/06 12:46 PM
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Karmen Byrd
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Here is an email I received today. Have anyone else received one like this...
Subject: dog puppies for sale
From: "thomas murphy"
Date: Thu, March 2, 2006 8:50 am
To: A1CUjayne@aol.com
Priority: Normal
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Hi,
I have 12 years experience in breeding dogs.
I have 38 German Shepherd puppies for sale. I have 21 males and 17 females. They are from German Bloodlines with titled pedigrees. Their Grand Sire is Rikkor Von Bad-Boll. They will have their first set of shots and all of their wormings will be up to date.
us$100 per one.
Also i have 44 english bulldogs puppies for sale.AKC,champion bloodlines,20 males and 24 females.
Unit price is US$130
And 16 chihuahua pups for sale.
9 males and 7 females.
unit price is US$110
Do call me on : 234-8028660694 or reply for more details and pictures.
Thanks,
Thomas.
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#99748 - 03/02/06 12:51 PM
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Angela Washburn
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Loc: Brooksville, FL
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friend of mine got this today, looks more scam or byb.
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#99751 - 03/02/06 02:10 PM
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Anna Carson
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Do call me on : 234-8028660694 or reply for more details and pictures.
234 is the country code for .........Nigeria. What a shocker.
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#99752 - 03/02/06 02:42 PM
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Charlie Snyder
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Did a Google on the number. Got five hits. The number has been used by 'Fred Malvin' to sell X-Boxes and canola oil, 'Alisha Habby' for X-Boxes, and cell phones in England & Spain.
You would think people would be wise to this junk now. However a nurse down in Canton, OH, got left holding the bag for $30k on the fake money order scam. Saw recently where some elderly doctor in California blew $3 million on the inheritance scam. UCI Psychiatrist Bilked by Nigerian E-Mails
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#99753 - 03/02/06 03:07 PM
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Connie Sutherland
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Did a Google on the number. Got five hits. The number has been used by 'Fred Malvin' to sell X-Boxes and canola oil, 'Alisha Habby' for X-Boxes, and cell phones in England & Spain. ...You would think people would be wise to this junk now. However a nurse down in Canton, OH, got left holding the bag for $30k on the fake money order scam. Saw recently where some elderly doctor in California blew $3 million on the inheritance scam. UCI Psychiatrist Bilked by Nigerian E-Mails
Just want to alert people that Kuwait has become another hotbed of the kind of rip-off that has been coming out of Nigeria.
A Buddhist zendo for which I do accounting received two offers to get funding from a Kuwait "millionaire" wishing to give funds to churches around the world.
I believe that if I hadn't told the dog people in that zendo about the scams we've all read about, they might have believed this scam. It was comparatively well-done. But it was so reminiscent of the dog-purchase scams I had described to them that alarm bells went off instantly.
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#99754 - 03/02/06 08:12 PM
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ShelbyAllen
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Well...considering English Bulldogs generally sell $1000 + due to the fact that they have difficult deliveries that normally end in C-sections.....I'd say SCAM.
Word of caution: these same ads are popping up on online classifieds AND internet-versions of newspapers. A man had an English Bulldog for $130 with paper..health info...and pic included with dog. SCAM! Sad thing is...it was posted in a po-dunk online newspaper.
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#99755 - 04/11/06 08:36 PM
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Daniel Flores
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234 is the country code for .........Nigeria. What a shocker.
What is up with Nigeria and dog fruads?!
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#99756 - 04/11/06 09:01 PM
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Connie Sutherland
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234 is the country code for .........Nigeria. What a shocker.
What is up with Nigeria and dog fruads?!
It's not just dog-related........it's all kinds of email schemes.
Why Nigeria?
According to ConsumerWebWatch.org., QUOTE:
Why Nigeria?
In November, the FBI's Operation Cybersweep identified Ghana, Latvia and Romania as the most common sources of 419 fraud, after Nigeria. Why there? Keith Lourdeau, deputy assistant FBI director for cybercrime, says certain scam techniques become parts of the culture in certain countries, almost functioning as cottage industries. "Historically, they could do it in those countries and get away with it. There wasn't any law enforcement addressing it."...... END QUOTE from
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/fraud-investigation-checks-in-mail.cfm
And from http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Nigerian/nigerian_auction_scams.htm :
QUOTE: Why Nigeria?
Many of the scams in the last few years have come out of Nigeria. Henderson explained why.
For one reason, he said, Nigeria is a former British Colony, so most of the population speaks English. But Henderson added that much of it has to do with the country's past.
"I suppose it has to do with the history and customs of the country itself," said Henderson. "Just as Mexico is known for bribery and fixes, any impoverished country has the potential for graft. This means an industry can be established and protected from legal interference."
He added, "They have a lot of educated English-speaking good-natured men who find themselves without employment opportunities but an entrepreneurial desire to succeed."
But he concluded that, to be fair, the Nigerians in no way have the market cornered on such scams.
"America is rife with the same concept, but they just use different advance fee fraud techniques such as fake credit card offers, cramming and boiler room investments," he said. "The Nigerians just found a formula that works and has remained identifiable to the country. American scammers just change the company names more often, obscuring the repetitive, continuous nature of their ongoing and equally destructive operations."
He also said both the American and Nigerian government are ineffective at stopping the scammers, but the Nigerians have so little in terms of resources that it is likely that the scams will never go away. END QUOTE
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