Re: FN-FORUM: OT: Your help is desperately needed

date posted 12th February 2008 10:10

On Tuesday 12 February 2008 10:46:07 Martin Wheatley wrote:

> Whilst it's not a scam it does look like one, only last night on tv

Not to me.

> there was a show about how the Nigerian scammers work, they spend months
> building up an image of someone and then suddenly there is an emergency

The 419ers work by exploiting other people's greed and promising them large
sums of money. Not just asking for it.

> and they need money. Your domain was registered by proxy, and there was
> no homepage - this shouts scam to most people as there are no obvious
> contact details with real names or addresses.

The main thing in this case is "have we seen this email address before?" and
"is it forged?".