Nigerian fingerprint scam???

Pat A. Wertheim · Post by **Pat A. Wertheim** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:21 am

Has anyone been approached by a private security or forensics contractor from Europe with a proposal to participate in ballot verification through fingerprints in the most recent Nigerian election? A fellow examiner friend of mine was approached in exactly that way. He was asked to mail his passport with a substantial check to cover his visa fees. Once his visa was approved and issued, he would fly to Nigeria (at his own expense) to earn a healthy fee comparing fingerprints on ballots to catch people who voted multiple times.

Sounds to me like the Nigerian scammers are getting more imaginative and trying to carve their way into niche opportunities. Imagine what a creative identity theif could do with a passport! Has anyone else heard of this?

Ann Horsman · Post by **Ann Horsman** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:17 am

I have not but sure get a lot of lottery winnings, king's nephews with more money than they know what to do with and lost explorers who left a will with my name in it and lots of money waiting for me in a Nigerian bank, just send my soc #, bank account #, etc, etc, etc....

And if those Nigerian folks fingerprint their voters as well as the local banks and supermarkets do on personal checks your friend will have a lot of difficulty making ID's.

sharon cook · Post by **sharon cook** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:36 am

Mail your PASSPORT???? With a check???? Who in the world would fall for that? Anyway, I won't have to worry about this much longer...as soon as my $2,000,000 lottery winnings come in that I only had to send a check for $500 (for fees) to collect. It'll be here any day, I'm sure. And it sure wasn't Nigeria...I would never fall for that. It was the Bahamas.

Wish me luck!

Thomas Taylor · Post by **Thomas Taylor** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:50 am

Do I understand the job correctly? Fly to Nigeria, compare fingerprints on ballots, expose voter fraud, upset people with Kalashnikovs and machetes, and disappear from the face of the earth forever? Uh, okay, tell me again how much this job pays?

sorbitol · Post by **sorbitol** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:21 am

OK, me? I would get a toys-r-us play passport, put photo of sponge-bob in it, then mail it with $500 Monopoly money it.

But thats me.