A tale about how I almost went into charity work and did not give a Nigerian boy a Canon lens.

The other day, having decided to sell a Canon EF 28-135 mm f / 3.5-5.6 IS USM lens, which has been idle for several months on a shelf and covered with a millimeter layer of dust, I posted an ad on Avito.ru. A few hours later, a certain Mrs. Susan Williams responded to my ad and assured me in broken Russian that she seriously intends to buy my lens for a very seductive amount of $ 360 (a little higher than the one I indicated on Avito), and also pay the shipping cost abroad in the amount of 100 dollars.
I will cite here our correspondence:

Susan Williams susanw87@gmail.com
Is the product still for sale?

Dmitriy
The lens is sold, as a gift, a hood and a light filter. box and all documents in stock

Susan Williams susanw87@gmail.com
how much do you have for sale and what is the cost in US dollars
how much do you need for sale
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Dmitriy
1 piece, $ 335

Susan Williams susanw87@gmail.com
I will pay you $ 360.00 for the goods and $ 100 for shipping abroad ... I will send a PayPal payment to send me my PayPal email, so I can send a payment now. I'm waiting for a PayPal email, so I can send the payment, and you can send the goods

I will pay you $ 360.00 for the item and I will send you your paypal email so I can send you the payment now. the item and you can ship the item

Dmitriy
to which country will i need to send the parcel?

Susan Williams susanw87@gmail.com
Here are the details of the package.
Name Daniel Olusegun Peter
Address No. 22 Adams Street Dugbe
City Ibadan
Oyo State
Zipode 23402
Country of Nigeria.
I am waiting for a PayPal email, so I can send a payment and you can send the goods
This is the shipment details
Name Daniel Olusegun Peter
Address No 22 Adams Street Dugbe
City ibadan
State oyo
Zipode 23402
Country Nigeria.
I’m waiting for the paypal email so I can send you the item

After what I saw, I had great doubts about the good faith of her intentions, especially because of the address of the country to which I was supposed to send a package with a lens, moreover, a completely different name was indicated there, which allowed Suzanna to be brought to clean water. It was necessary only to break through this name and address in Google and voila, here they are, fraudsters from Nigeria. My last message to Susanna was a laconic wish of good luck in all of her (or his) endeavors.

And here is the information that I found by searching for these Nigerian scammers:

In some cases, allegedly a man wants to give his beloved son a gift that lives in Nigeria. In another case, this is an English pilot, whose daughter lives in Nigeria, and he also wants to give her a gift. In the third, most interesting situation, our Nigerian says that he himself lives in Scotland, but wants to send the purchased camera to the house for orphans in West Africa as an act of charity (they say, donate something useful for the development of children). Well, the scenario, I see, in all cases is almost the same, only the heroes change.

He also always asks you to send your goods using the services of Russian Post or EMC (he refuses from FedEx and DHL) and asks for your bank details or PayPal email address, for which he must transfer the agreed money.
Those “lucky ones” who manage to send their belongings later receive a letter from the user RoyalBankOfScotland.com, which states that the agreed amount was deducted from the account of the Royal Bank of Scotland and that the bank will transfer the amount to the account immediately after receiving confirmation from you goods. In this case, the bank assures that the buyer (Nigerian) will not be able to cancel or cancel the payment.

Naturally, neither the day nor the week after the money comes to the account, and the bank says that they need to check the delivery first, and that the delay of the transfer is due to this.
After the fraudsters make sure that the fish is on the hook and the parcel is sent, they again resume the correspondence on behalf of the bank, apologize for the delay and say that for some reason they have written off the invoice for the unspecified amount and a few hundred dollars more and offer to send this surplus to the bank. At this place, even the most naive people, in my opinion, should think and not rush to continue to give them their blood savings.

Lastly, I will say that the first reports of fraudulent activities relate to February 2011 and continue to appear on the Internet to this day , since then quite a few Russians and residents of the CIS have been killed by the actions of these cunning Nigerians. Faced with a similar situation, I did not remain indifferent and decided to make life easier for people who decide to sell items that are expensive for them using free advertising boards or online auctions (especially it’s worth being vigilant to the owners of photographic equipment), therefore I collected the names and addresses known at the moment, under which crooks seem to be:

Name Daniel Olusegun Peter
Address No 22 Adams Street Dugbe
City ibadan
State oyo
Zipode 23402
Country Nigeria.

NAME: Jide Lanre Bosede
ADDRESS: Under G Area
CITY: Ogbomoso
STATE: OYO STATE
COUNTRY: NIGERIA
ZIPCODE: 234038
PHONE NUMBER: +2348060983416

lucazsandra@gmail.com
Name: Desmond Oladele
Adresse: 32 bamigbase road
Cit: Ibadan
State: Oyo
Zip Code: 23402
Country: Nigeria

danielluis505@gmail.com
Name: Adefisoye Titus
Address: No 56 Odi-Olowop Street
City: Osogbo
State: Osun State
Zip code: 23435
Country: Nigeria

Name: Mr Julious Mathew.O
Address: No 21 Faith Lord Highway Ministry
City: Ogbomoso
State: Oyo
Country: Nigerian
Postal code: 210001

leejosh2003@gmail.com
Name: Odewale Olas
Address: No. 2, Dugbe Road
Postal Code: 23402
City: Ibadan
State. Oyo state
Country: Nigeria

williams robert <wllmsrobii02@gmail.com>
Name: Ola Williams
Address: No 8 Iremo Road Enuwa
City: ile-ife
State: Osun State
Zip code: 234036
Country: Nigeria

Name: Mr.misson onuwa
Address: 21 Samanda road
City: Ibadan
State: Oyo
Country: Nigeria
zip - 23491
tel - 2348131608000

Name: Sani Danjuma
Adresse: No. 21 Samonda Road
City: Ibadan
State: Oyo
Country: Nigeria
Zipcode 23402
Telefon-Nummer: 2348131608000

nick vincent nickvin11@gmail.com
NAME: Kate Francis Oha
ADDRESS: Idi Oro
CITY: Ibadan
STATE: Oyo
COUNTRY: Nigeria
Zip Code: 23402

There is also one simple piece of advice on how to avoid such a situation - Stay alert. Firstly - as a rule, people who want to buy photo equipment from you on the websites of online auctions do not have a rating and only registered yesterday-today! Secondly - as a rule, amounts of 1.5 are offered, or 2 times more than the real value. The money is sent in some magical way :) Demand that money be transferred via Western Union (it will start moving out - a fraudster). Thirdly, they either ask that they buy EMC from you or by selling it (as a rule, a package sent via EMC can be easily traced both to fraudsters and victims). And thirdly, if you like to communicate, communicate with fraudsters, it is possible to get a deposit of 10 dollars from them, for example, and also to be lost.
But in general, that's all that I can advise.

PS: The Prosecutor's Office, the Police and other organizations in 99% simply clog the bolt, and in 1% of the type makes a request, but refuse to initiate a criminal case.