Hello, I am facing a great problem with African Scammers. Specially, when they place orders using different different credit card numbers. Any advice?
What Exactly are you selling? It would be wise to use the GeoIp Tool http://www.geoiptool.com/Before distributing what you are selling. Make sure that they are not using proxies or VPN's either. And if your billing system you are using if you do use 1 is compatible with MaxMind I would advise looking into getting that.
hello! i'm new here. (first post) i have been fooled by these nigerians once. i hate them! they have ordered over 20 pieces of gadgets accessories from me, that was early 2008. they told me that they would pay me through western union. and then i have received a fake western union email. there goes fake control number and the email says that the payment was "pending" and i will only able to get the money IF and ONLY IF the customer had already confirmed that they have received their order. i didn't know it was a scam at first. i told them that i can't ship it without even downpayment, then told me that i should send their money back instead if i can't ship it. we were arguing. i haven't received any payment yet, how can i refund then? they even told me that would report me to NBI! i was 18 then, i was scared. then i found a site and i have seen the order number indicated there. it was EXACTLY the same order number he gave me! well, the email just differ from the recipient's details! i just hate nigerian people. i'm sorry if i generalizing, but that people really had made their image WORSE. well, there's just one advice that i can give you. don't take any order from any nigerian. even they could offer you the best deal ever, don't trust them.
Use caution when shipping to an address that is different from the address assiciated with the credit card.
There is real problem with CC and Identity theft in many African countries. It's not just Nigeria anymore since they know that we are aware of Nigerian scams, they now operate out of many surrounding countries. It sucks to have to penalize legitimate businesses and honest people, but it is so bad, with no recourse for action against fraud, that you really have no choice but to not do business in the area of the world. I would highly recommend against doing business in that area of the world...it's really bad over there.
Africa, Middle East, Russia and most of Asia are the scam hotspots. I think if the developers of the internet had the foresight of what would eventually happen, these areas of the world would not have been hooked up.
That's a little harsh, and as much as I try not to put everyone in the same basket just because of the actions of unscrupulous individuals, you really have to be careful doing business with locations that are hotbeds for phishing, piracy and identity theft. Many African countries, and Russia are pretty bad. India (and I know there are a lot of Indian webmaster here so don't take it personally) and Pakistan are also getting pretty bad with CC scams. It's not so much that their criminal minds are so much different than anyone else's, actually many of the scams are old, it's that you can't catch them and recoup any loses. Personally, I don't do any monetary transactions from certain countries, ever, and usually use an escrow service for things like domain sales and such.