• In case most of you have not noticed, I made changes to the donation amounts as well as the durations for all of the paid membership levels. Things are winding down here, and this seems to be the most prudent way to deal with the "end of life" period of this site.

    Contributor level members - $10 per 30 days
    Sponsors - Eliminated
    Benefactor level members - $25 per 30 days
    Endowment level members - $50 per 30 days

    Account Upgrades Page
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

Anyone see the special on CNN?

varnyard

varnyard

Extreme Tegu Breeder
INVALID email address
Joined
May 15, 2005
Messages
3,792
Reaction score
24
Points
0
Age
118
Location
earth
Did anyone watch the special on robbing banks on CNN last night?

They said the Nigerian scammers are now working right here in the good old USA under excepted Visas. They said there are over 30,000 Nigerians living now in the Houston Texas area right now. However some of them are honest, while others are now scamming Americans.

They also said that many of these scammers have been deported, only to return under a different name to run a scam once again. It must be real easy to change your name and get another Visa in Africa. :rolleyes:
 
I didn't see the special but this is not new. They have been in the US doing identity theft for some time. When my father was getting frail and receiving home health services (mid 1990's or so), the agency sent a "very nice" Nigerian guy who wound up stealing a new credit card that came in the mail that my father never saw. He also stole some checks and the banks were out thousands as we only found out when the statements came in later. He had a network of people and had sent a check for $10,000.00 to someone in California who deposited it, withdrew $9999 and some cents in cash (just below the threshold for reporting to the authorities and also not closing the just opened account). Another, smaller check was negotiated at a branch of my father's bank. A third check, also for $10,000.00, was just being presented for payment and was returned to sender.

Several months later they presented a check from a long closed account to a bank in Antwerp for $100,000.00 That one they made a call on. :p

My father wound up being made totally whole but the banks were out on the credit card and the checks. The police questioned the guy but he was slick, admitted to nothing, and the surveillance tapes from the banks of course showed other people. The agency said they couldn't even fire him though needless to say they sent someone else to help my father after that. LOL.
 
Jim, that is just nuts. I do not understand why our borders are not stronger. These guys have been doing this for years. Surly they have a background, looks like we are open to anything.

What really kills me, are the ones that have been deported. Why are they not checked through the finger print database before allowed to enter back into our country? :shrug01:

The way they talked on that program, America is ripe for the picking. :ack2:
 
Back
Top