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Originally Posted by vintagedge
I can only speak from my experience but every one of these type of e-mails has been to ship items to Nigeria. I am not sure why there would be a shipping address to Nigeria if this was a scam from the United States.
vintagedge
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I Totally Agree, but why did jestep write:
On some of my sites, it has gotten so bad, that we have had to completely block all of APNIC and the RIPE network blocks. RIPE contains most of Europe, including England, France, Germany, Spain, etc. This is millions of potential customers and IP addresses, but the cost of fraud outweighs the value of the transactions from thse locations.
i.e. the whole of Europe and Africa, as I have said this problem is worldwide, including the US. Great, start a thread on fraud blaming the whole world except your own country. Maybe we should all look at our own doorstep first before blaming the rest of the world.
But hey lets get realistic here would you really ship anything to Nigeria, the answer must be a big no. But would you ship anything from England to the US, the answer is a big yes. Hence loads of transactions based on trust and good will between our two countries. In a lot of cases these transactions are fraudulant.
Steve