Beware of Nigerian Scam

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A number of French Gite owners are being targeted by Nigerians who offer to send a very large cheque as advance payment for their stay, on condition that the gite owner returns the money by transfer immediately on receipt of the cheque.  I was approached by somebody who claimed to be a Canadian, but his English was very poor and his address for the money transfer was in Nigeria!  I won't go into the full details, but his (long) e-mails were VERY convincing.  I subscribe to 'French Connections' and suspect that other FC subscribers may also have been approached.  Unfortunately, the FC website seems to have been 'dead' today, and I can't raise them by phone.  They must be having big technical problems.  Hope that nobody (trusting as ever) has already been caught.