Slippery Scam Artists: The Nigerian Soapy Smith
Posted by Paul Woodhouse at November 11th, 2008
In terms of our marketing, not only am I omnipotent but I also have a certain omnipresence. By this, I mean I track every single email as it bounces about between all concerned parties. More often than not it just means I hold an extra saved copy of an email, but every now and again I’m forced to intervene if something looks a little wonky.
Library Photo of average Nigerian scammer
I’ll let Deborah, who performs sterling secretarial and accounting services from Butler Sheetmetal HQ, take over the telling of one particular instance of such an intervention from a few weeks back. She sent me the following email about some nefarious Nigerian:
Well, it all started yesterday morning when I arrived to start my duties in the meter cupboard. Matt asked me to ring [name removed so as to protect the innocent] to take payment for an urgent job. I read the original email enquiry and it had scam written all over it, but Matt had promised we’d ring back. So, I rang Michael who told me the normal procedure for making payment was for me to give him our bank details. I told him he’d have to pay by credit card and he said he would have to apply for one! In the meantime I had to go through all the rigmarole of getting a price from TNT to deliver to Lagos to be able to do a proper quote. TNT quoted £1323.00 to deliver to Lagos Airport, but they weren’t prepared to take it from the airport to its final destination. Twas a lot of messing about. Any road up, I think we’ve shaken him off now. Suppose there’s an outside chance he could have been genuine, but my gut instinct says not.
Anyway, back to deal with more
fools and time wastersrespected potential customers.
You’ve got to feel a bit sorry for some of our African cousins in some respects. Especially those round Nigeria, Ghana or the Ivory Coast whose major export appears to be the scam. Let’s be fair, your average Nigerian has a worse scam rep than the notorious 19th century confidence trickster, Soapy Smith.
Bad lad Soapy Smith
So let that be a lesson to anybody thinking of pulling a fast one.
Then again, things are a bit quiet by all accounts, so we could do with the work!
This one’s a bit tricky… We do have customers in Nigeria and none of the delivery companies will deliver past the airport it seems. I guess it’s a case of due diligence – there are SOME genuine customers over there, but there are a lot more scam artists just now!
Thank you for at least saying that the average Nigerian has a WORSE scam rep than Soapy Smith…
Jeff Smith, president
The Soapy Smith Preservation Trust.
Well do they? If I’m going to be proven wrong it might as well be by the President of the Soapy Smith Preservation Trust.
Hi, Paul.
Click on my name below and you will be taken to our website on Soapy Smith. Then you can decide for yourself, lol.
Dear Sir,
We are a well-reputed Trading company in Pakistan and deals in the following Scraps:
1- Stainless steel coils/sheets/strips/, type Aisi 200/300/400 series, secondary and surplus lots in thickness 0.30 – 6.0mm.
2- Pre-painted steel coils based on galvanized, e.g., CR, etc. secondary material.
3- Culled Rolled steel coils/sheets secondary quality.
4- Hot Hulled coils
5- Galvanized coils.
Also deal in ferrous and non-ferrous metals scrap like:
1- Shredded steel scrap 210 – 211.
2- Tin Canes pressed bundles.
3- Lms press bundles.
4- Hms 1 & 2.
5- All kinds of Aluminum scraps like, Aluminum Pvc cable, Aluminum foil 80/20, etc.
6- Copper scrap.
For further information and details please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thanks,
Warm Regards,
Mr.Umer Manzoor
(Marketing Executive)
Steel & Metal Resources.
38-Aftab Steel Markets,
Regent Cinema Road,
Gujranwala,
Pakistan.
Tel No: 92-55-3734155
Fax No: 92-55-3734156
Cell No: 92-321-2016825
E-mail: smresources@brain.net.pk & ehequipments@gmail.com
DEAR!
Our company imports and Exports Ferrous and Non-ferrous scrap materials for a long time.We would like to deal in scrap with you on long term basis as we are buyer of your company from Europe.We have our office in UK also. At present we are manufacturing aluminium alloy ingots in rotary furnace . We also trade for other different kinds of scrap materials. You can see all detail in our web site.
Any kind of Ferrous scrap
Compressor scrap
Aluminium foil scrap (factory rejection)
Aluminium Blind scrap
Aluminium spray can
Aluminium Alucobond (sandwich sheets) scrap
Aluminium window shutter scrap (foamy aluminium)
Aluminium Bottle Cap (used or unused) scrap
Aluminium UBC
Aluminium Cable scrap
ACSR CABLE SCRAP
Steel coils factory rejection B class and C class(attached pictures)
G I products All kind of.
Low percentage copper cable scrap
any other ALU items .
please email us and give us your price idea for below listed items or any item in which interest.
LIST
Aluminium Pure foil scrap
Aluminium foil scrap (factory rejection) 80/20
Aluminium foil scrap (factory rejection) 70/30
Aluminium foil scrap (factory rejection) 60/40
Aluminium foil scrap (factory rejection) 50/50
Medicine foil
yogurt foil
Aluminium sandwich sheets scrap
Foamy aluminium
Aluminium Cable scrap & Acsr wire scrap=depend on % and quality
Rdgs
——————
Mohammad Umar
Sales/Purchase
Representative
TEL. 92-55-4553772
FAX. 92-55-4274143
CELL: 92-345-6484030
Email:oomur123@yahoo.co.uk
Web: http://www.br-metals.com
18-B, SMALL ESTATE NO.2
GUJRANWALA
PAKISTAN