Nov 12, 2004

Stay the hell out of Nigeria.

At work, we've recently had some tough times online with credit card frauders from Nigeria. I mean, what the shit? We thought this was just an isolated incident when we recieved an order on our online store for ten of the same t-shirts, to ship to south carolina or something, but then we called the guy again and he said he wanted them shipped to Nigeria, where his international store is. We were a bit skeptical, but we didn't want to deny someone their purchase, so we sent it on it's way. Later, we got a call from a lady saying that she got a charge on her card, and she'd never even heard of our company or anything. We later tracked it back to the order that we'd just sent, and tried cancelling it, but it was too late, and it was out of our control then, or something like that. Then we went online and saw all these other people that had problems with orders from Nigeria, and supposedly, millions of dollars of... well, crap have been stolen from the US by Nigeria. Then just yesterday, we got an order for 100 watches to be sent to georgia, i think. Well, we don't even have 100 watches, but where as the t-shirts only cost us about $100, this one would've cost us $3500, so we didn't ship it and called the credit card company, reporting fraud. I feel like i'm on CSI or some shit. The cop that busted so much ass out on the street, that they had to have me solve crimes from my office. I'll be back out there soon though, so watch out Nigerians.
In other news, i think i've finally thought of some ideas for my book, so i'll try to begin writing it shortly. It will probably be more of a collection of small stories, but if there's anything good in there, i'll try to post it or give you guys access.
That's all i got for now. Have a good night.

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