Nigerian Shopping Site Scam
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I wanted to alert people to this scam that is going around on social media. Somebody has created shopping sites which are registered in Nigeria to a man named Smiley Chinedum. These websites are offering people clothing at a substantial discount. It appears some people are receiving merchandise which they believe is proof that this is not a scam. Anyway here is all the information I've gathered:
The freebie Facebook group I was in posted some Tweets from this account: https://twitter.com/BeauDeals
The most recent site promoted by that Twitter was <removed>
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I googled that address and also found this: https://sites.google.com/site/00scams/smiley?overridemobile=true&tmpl=%2Fsystem%2Fapp%2Ftemplates%2F...
"Smiley Chinedu" matches up to the name of someone in that Facebook group, who is convincing the admins of the group to post these "deals" which they think are "Glitches" as to why they are such a good deal.
Smiley Chinedum Uhegwu, Lives in Ibadan, Nigeria: https://www.facebook.com/smiley.ch
Another site being promoted is <removed> which is also registered to the same name and address as above.
Anyway people are putting their credit cards on these websites. The group admin said she used Paypal. I've looked and I don't see a way to report scams like this on Facebook. I don't think they would really do anything about it anyway.
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Maybe this post would better belong in the "Managing Risk and Fraud" forum, but I did not see that at first.
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