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By: Karthik :+: Under: Blogs, Business, Cars
On: ⋅ January 24, 2008 ⋅

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After scamming noobs on the internet asking for their bank account information, the Nigerian ‘businessmen’ got smarter. Soon they were creating fake websites and phishing information from unsuspecting customers, asking E-Bay sellers to part with their goods and now they are after Tata Nanos.

Jalopnik, one of the regular feeds I have subscribed to received an email from Belema West, apparently the President of and organization named GrassRoots Peace Ambassadors Forum, who wanted to buy 300 Nanos for his senior ‘civil servants’ to be used in the NigerDelta area in Nigeria.

From: Belema West Date: Jan 23, 2008 10:17 PM Subject: Biz package (300 of ur cars for senior civil servent in the NigerDelta area in Nigeria. To: tips@jalopnik.com

good day sir,
my names are belema west sorry to distourb you. sir, for
a start, 300 of ur cars (tatanano)for senior civil servent in the
NigerDelta area in Nigeria.i want to be the mediator betwin ur company
and government.in de NigerDelta area, if ur company is interested u
have to come down to nigeria lets meet face2face and talk
biz……………… e26nbsp;

thanks

Belema West.
President:GrassRoot Peace Ambassadors Forum

If phishers are upbeat about the Nano, it should be a hit, right?

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3 comments for “Those Nigerians man”

1: Runa | January 24, 2008, 5:35 pm | Direct Link

Dear mr. Karthik,
I can get you the same nanos free due to the fact that my late grandfather the Grand Panjandrum of new kapurthala died and left me stock in Tatas on condition that they be given by me to a motor racing blogger whose name begins with “k”.By amazing coincidence I discovered theis blog.However ,in order to send them to you I will need stock transfer fees of $ 10,000 upfront. You send me the money, i send you the stock, you get the nanos, sell them to belema- we all is very very happy.

2: Santosh | January 25, 2008, 8:32 am | Direct Link

Runa,
That was funny. I’m still ROFL. But seriously, “US dollars 10,000″ upfront? I’ve gotten offers where my fees were less than “US dollars One thousand only”