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Posted By: Bill Carton - the Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: A new twist on an old internet scam (Margaret MacGillivray)
Thursday, 27 October 2005, at 3:45 p.m.
> The postmark is Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
LOL! These things started in snail mail - you probably guessed. For a time, the volume of letters arriving from Nigeria with FAKE postage stamps was immense.
From http://www.glenstephens.com/nigerian.html
"Eight out of 10 bags of mail we receive from Nigeria contain fraudulent letters" said Frank Umoski, USPS Operations Manager at JFK Airport in New York.
"Linn's [Stamp News] says the stamps are produced by colour photocopying a sheet of genuine airmail stamps. Sure enough, the stamp off my letter (illustrated nearby) would not fool a blind goatherd. The colours are terribly poorly registered, being a few mm out of alignment, and very "garish". The colour photocopier serviceman must have gone on holiday in Nigeria! (Maybe some cretin sent him $100,000?)
The stamp had been "perforated" crudely with what honestly looks to be a sewing machine. That had not worked too well, so the sender has cut it out with scissors anyway. I lifted up a corner to see if it was pre-gummed. Thin paper like photocopy paper, not stamp paper, and no gum ... just a trace of glue paste.
What a rough lot. The "cancel" also appeared to be fake. It tied the stamp to the envelope with a "Lagos Nigeria" cds, but it had no central date line. It looked like it was a rubber stamp. So, what we have here is a blatant postal forgery used on the International mail, pushing a dodgy scam, and cancelled with a forged canceller. Nice items for the stamp collector to put away.
The Linn's article even had an example of a fake postage meter label inscribed "Lagos" and "Postage Paid". A pretty dumb thing to fake, as postage meters are NOT used in Nigeria! "
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