Bloggers - Beware of possible Nigerian Online Advertising Fraud
 

This is mainly for mainstream bloggers with tons of traffic, but worth the post so that you all can pass it along

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Tony Hung has a post that is worth keeping in mind if you are approached by someone wanting to place display or text advertising on your blog - it looks like Nigerian Email Scammers are targeting site owners with offers to buy advertising. They send them a check (a bad one) as payment that is for an amount higher than the agreed value of the deal and when they ask for a refund the site owner is left out of pocket. Tony has the full details.

Criminal masterminds. We're too smart for them here though :)

thats crazy

yet, I was getting hundreds of those, but I thought it was just to collect valid e-mails.

anyone that would take a check for advertising on a blog is an idiot to begin with, unless it is from a reputable company with plenty of references

Lol, thats the exact same method they use to try and scam a few thousand times a day on Craigslist. They auto respond to thousands of auctions with a desire to secure the product being sold, then send them a bogus check saying for more and ask them to send the difference back to them.

agreed

thanks for the heads up tho

every time I hear Nigeria mentioned the word scam is always close behind

I got the same email except the fucker wanted his overpayment refunded in Euros.

Exactly, and if someone sends me a check with a wrong ammount, I trash it and ask them to resend it. All payments of $500+ from people I don't know by wire only. If someone doesn't have a proper bank account to send a wire :321GFY Below $500 paypal is fine. Call me paranoid.

Different names but the same BS game.

I get an email every other day looking to buy banner or text ads, I have never answered them I fingered they were all some sort of scam. I googled the name and company name and could never find anything

We had a guy try that scam on us, We told him to send us a cashers check and he said no problem then he sent this check.

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/9...0800000ef1.jpg

Funny thing was he didn't ask how much the ad cost or tell us what to put in the ad:1orglaugh

also heard of the one where they overpay on a car bought on ebay and ask to send the difference back.