Received this email

[AnotherDev]

I received this email today
Hello there,

I'm very pleased to contact you regarding my order inquiry.

I would like to place a gift order for a friend based in Ibadan,Nigeria Africa.

I would like to know if i could email you the list of items needed.

Thank you and i look forward to reading from you soonest.

When I see "Nigeria" I always think of a scam but this email was actually emailed to me using my contact php script on my website so I'm now hesitating.

Worth replying in your opinion?
It's weirdly worded and very vague.

[Frozen In Ice]

I received this email today
Hello there,

I'm very pleased to contact you regarding my order inquiry.

I would like to place a gift order for a friend based in Ibadan,Nigeria Africa.

I would like to know if i could email you the list of items needed.

Thank you and i look forward to reading from you soonest.

When I see "Nigeria" I always think of a scam but this email was actually emailed to me using my contact php script on my website so I'm now hesitating.

Worth replying in your opinion?
It's weirdly worded and very vague.

Scam.... that simple.

[Anlino]

If it isn't scam, he will probably get back to you.

[Robert Cummings]

Perhaps he wants to order them and then scam you into refunding him or some such weird thing. I have no idea. Hilarious though.

I would keep your business where it counts: europe and america, with possible japan and korea.

[Midnight Synergy]

Not every Nigerian is a scam artist. :cool:

He could just be trying to place an order via e-mail. I'd just send him a friendly reply back with the link to your online order page and a note that he can supply his friends' e-mail addy for the purchase in order to send it to him.

If it goes any further, you can always drop it then - but for now it seems innocent and friendly enough.

[Mike Boeh]

I would take Patrick's course of action. Probably a scam but who knows. At least it isn't a Nigerian prince looking to put $300k in your bank account :)

[george]

I once received an email from Nigeria, he wanted to know how much it cost to ship the CD to him... Someone from my order processor told me to be cautious about people from Nigeria. A lot of the time they order the software with stolen information/credit card and then they make copies of the software and sell it.

Of course you should still send him a friendly reply, just be cautious...

[Ricardo C]

I would take Patrick's course of action. Probably a scam but who knows. At least it isn't a Nigerian prince looking to put $300k in your bank account :)

He was a Duke and it was $5 mill, thank you very much :mad:

[Anthony Flack]

But on the other hand, it must be tough to be a poor bastard stuck in Nigeria, and nobody will even sell you anything. I know I get annoyed that no ebay seller in the US will ship anything to me (in Japan), but compared to someone in Nigeria I've got it really good. But on the other hand, well chances are good it is a scam, aren't they?

Glad I don't live in Nigeria.

[simonbowerbank]

Yeah and im glad im not the Duke of Nigeria

[Phil Steinmeyer]

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never mind...

[AnotherDev]

Quick precision: The guy is from London saying he wants to place a gift order for someone in Nigeria.

The fact the email seems "generic" with no reference to an actual product makes me think it's really a scam.

[1EyedJack]

Take a look at the post on the bottom of this page:

http://www.internet-fraud.com/cgi-bin/fraudforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=107&forum=DCForumID8

It is almost identical to the mail you got.

[bas]

I think that the probability of being a scam is near the 100%. They always use this text, maybe with some little differences, but with the same main idea (to buy for another person who is from somewhere blah blah blah...).
I wouldn't take the mail very seriuosly.

[arcadetown]

Response = delete. Scam probability = 99.99%. Best case is waste of time, medium case is you'll end up on con artist spam list, worst case is you'll be conned somehow.