Nigerian scams

[John Foust]

At 02:03 PM 9/16/2004, Innfogra at aol.com wrote:
>A news story on the local TV told a story of a T Shirt company that got an 
>offer similar to purchase the 9000 T shirts and paid with two credit cards. One 
>went through but the other bounced and the owner of the business found out it 
>was fraud before he shipped it, overseas.

A few months back, I received a few calls of the variation where
they were using international TTY relay operators, pretending to
be deaf.  They wanted to order hundreds of hard drives.  I made it
clear to the operator that this was a scam.

- John