When I worked for Pitney Bowes, I was contacted by a Nigerian man. He was in a lovely house with an office in the basement. He said he had a newsletter that he sent to other Nigerians and needed a mailing machine. He bought everything top of the line and gave us a $10,000 down payment (it bounced). Eventually, we repossessed the machine, after he used it for a few months. When we went back to the house/office, it was bare and the landlord was there. He had been ripped off, too. This was back in the mid 1980s, so obviously it's not a new thing with the Nigerians.