Hi, I'm new to this site, but i am not new to the web. I wanted to share this with all of you. This deals with Nigerian scammers, but it also deals with much more.
Here are a few things to look for....
1. The person is half your age....these scammers know that is enticing to people.
2. Broken English, although they have made advances they still blow it with this.
3. First contact, if they pop on you messenger, and you don't know them...then watch for 1 and 2 above.
4. The instant "i love you" nobody loves you from one email.
now...on to the bigger story....
What i'm about to tell you, i do not recommend. I've been dealing with this for a long time. I just want to make you aware of the dangers. This is bigger than the scammers, bear with me.
I have done this many times, I was contacted by a young lady who had a profile here. It no longer exists, i will explain. She did not contact me here, She hit me on messenger...here is your first clue, I never give out my messenger addy's...so i knew...exactly what was up. so i played the game, for two days, why? because if people waste my time, then i waste theirs, and i give them something they didn't bargain for. Is this mean? well maybe, but i have a ton of friends online, and i will not tolerate people who mess with them. By the end of the daylight hours today, I had them believing i was sending money via western union, and i collected two nigerian addresses complete. I'm going to submit this now, my next post will enlighten you further, and may surprise you.

Did you know that if they ask you to receive gifts, cash checks you can turn them into customs. I had applied for a job on a major job site. Got an email quickly that they wanted to hire me. If you read the details of the job they wanted you to cash their checks by putting them into your bank account and wiring them the money less 10%. I contacted the website and turned them in. They gave me the website for the Internet crime police. Yeah I didn't know they had them at that time. You go fill out a form and the attach the email and they check into it. I have also had them to also add me to their friends list too.

CEPHUS!!!!!! me too,bra. love playing tag with them when they get all worked up. They play the Christian angle..maybe I teach them too much, but I learn more than they do!! They try different angles too. BUsiness, banking, off-shore laundering stings...Nigeria is friendly to the dark side and everybody should chill ... Cephus is right, they back-door you and for the life of me, I don't yet know how they pick up IMs but they do. Click ignore and your pc should learn how to recognize the intrusion. Thanks Cephus! Boldness is worth a 10, bro!!

So, In following all of this, I used something that you can also use, If they mail you, and most of them use yahoo....in the email, on the top of the page on the right side, there is an options link, select that, click general preference. in the header option select show all, then save, and go back to the mail...the ip will be in brackets, copy that, click help, find report abuse, paste the ip, now, you have reported them.

i got so many emails and even talked a number of nigerian scammers as where one guy stol a check from a canada bank and wanted me to cash it,, i contact the company and found out it was stolen as there computer hacked into.. i sent the check back to the company, and along with that i had american express money order that so was so bogus i mailed those back, and a money order from a post office that was never filled out...but i do have one client that lives in the states from nigera and i know i can trust him, as he does act like the others i delt with

lol wouldee, I should say that i don't recommend everyone toy with them, it's just something i do, they also use msn, I'm not sure how to rip their ip from there because i've never done that. but i'm sure it's pretty much the same.

Mark, I have been dealing with scammers for 2 yrs. sadly I had a very bad experience with them, but found help! and recoverd most of my pride! What I will say is this.... Don't mess with them if you DONT know what you are doing!!! They are well trained at what they do, its how they make thier living! I know people that know people in Nigeria and I'm telling you DONT do it if you dont think you are strong enough to deal with it!



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When i get hit up by a young gorgeous women. I know right away its a scam. I insist on a photo of them with a newspaper showing the current date. They run like hell

There is one problem in obtaining the ip # and here is the problem. If they are using a network, It is near impossible to find them. in a network, every time they log on from a different computer, that machine logs in a new ip# is given. The only way to know which machine it came from, Is to contact the system administrator.
Now heres the deal, if someone is using a networked machine, from a reputable place of business to harass you....then that system admin will most likely give them up, they can look at the time stamps and determine which machine.

The problem with scammers is this is not a reputable business, and the admin of that system is there for one reason only, and you can bet there will be no sharing of the ip's. You can also bet it is likely they log in from a different terminal each time.

In the event the network is found, they simply log the host machine in through a proxy server, and it continues. This is why it's difficult to get rid of them. As Ruthie said up above there
Unless you are prepared to deal with them, the best thing you can do is let them know that you are aware of what they are, they will most likely move on to there next potential victim.

i was chatting with a lady once that wanted me to help her pay her rent.i told her no,after about 5 minutes of me telling her i couldn't,she asked if her friend sent me the money,could i cash it and western union it back to her (i knew something was up than),so i agreed,once i got the cashiers checks,i took them straight to them bank and had them check them out (each check was $4,500.00).of course they turned up bogus,so i had them track the guy and they turned him in.i let them keep the checks to train new employees on what to look out for