I first contacted the "seller" through Alibaba.com messaging on 10/12/2009. The seller had a listing as "Mr. Super Fones".
I subsequently communicated with the seller via email.
I ordered 35 Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB for which I was quoted a price of $4,000. I was instructed to send two (2), $2,000 payments to: Philip Santos (WESTERN UNION MTCN 8517753837) and Willem Theron (WESTERN UNION MTCN 8027906883). I did so on 10/14/2009. All Western Union payments were sent to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Once those funds were received, I was informed that I would have to pay $1,500 additional for customs, but that the company wanted to help me out and they reduced the request to $1,200. I informed them I did not have that much money and they responded with a request for $800 which I paid to Willem Theron via Western Union on 10/19/2009 MTCN 479-343-3962.
Once those funds were picked-up I was informed that I would have to pay an additional $750 for an import license and Western Union the funds to:
Name : Daniel Mathew
Address : advance trading house Computer villa
City/State :Gwagwalada Abuja
Zip : 23409
Country : Nigeria
Test Question : For What
Answer : iphones
in addition to a copy of my passport.
I have NOT done so as now I am certain that I am a victim of fraud.
The originating ISP of all emails from advancetelecom@live.com is 217.194.147.131,
General Information
Hostname: 217.194.147.131
ISP: SkyVision Holdings Ltd.
Organization: Cyberspace Link 1 Abuja
Proxy: Suspected network sharing device.
Type: Unknown
Geo-Location Information
Country: Nigeria
State/Region: 11
City: Abuja
Latitude: 9.1758
Longitude: 7.1808
matthew-Daniel, Eyitope oyinkan. Head, Corporate. Transformation. Ugbabe, ... Gwagwalada, FCT, Abuja. Tel: 09-8820015, 8820033. GSM: 08027613509, 08055361889 ...
www.firstbanknigeria.com/ annualreport/ 2009/ documents/ fbara09-section-company.pdf