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From: Virginia Bedford <vbedford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 3, 2005 10:20:00 AM EST
To: Multiple recipients of list talk <talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PRIVACY:: [Fwd: [IP] Nigerian Email Scammers Jailed]
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Here's a real life example that I received yesterday on how people can
be affected by scammers. This example is of a generation that is likely
less proficient in use of computers, but I'm imagining ten to twenty years 
down the road when we have will have folks who are computer savvy coming
down with this disease and doing all their scam responses electronically. 
There won't be stacks of magazines as "evidence" of them falling for
sweepstakes bating.

This is an email from a colleague:
I'm just now getting to this request. I have been out the past couple days with a family emergency of getting xxxxx declared incompetent to manage 
his finances. He has been nabbed by Canadian Lottery scammers, and has
pretty much blown his life savings. Right now, we are occupied with doing the leg-work to circulate the court-orders to all the various places that he can wire money out of the country. He has found them all, and we have physically had to prevent him from leaving his house to save what little 
money he has left. He is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. I'm not
looking forward to the later stages.




At 11:15 PM -0500 11/24/05, <mws@xxxxxxx> wrote:
When these "419" scams first appeared -- by letter and FAX before email 
became
ubiquitous -- the FBI was telling anyone who asked that they couldn't do anything because it involved the highest levels of the Nigerian government. If (still?) so the three guys who were sentenced must have crossed someone at the top. What is amazing is that anyone today could be so stupid as to take this sort of bait, and that a bank could have so few checks on large transactions that it could lose its shirt because of one greedy idiot on the 
inside.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradley Malin" <malin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Multiple recipients of list talk" <talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, 2005 November 22 10:34
Subject: PRIVACY:: [Fwd: [IP] Nigerian Email Scammers Jailed]
Some of you may recall Edo and my research on automatic detection of the Nigerian email scam. This story confirms some of the depth and economic 
strain the fraud has wrought.

-brad

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [IP] Nigerian Email Scammers Jailed
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:46:49 -0500
From: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
To: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Nigerian Email Scammers Jailed
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:39:38 -0500
From: Randall <rvh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: cyberia <CYBERIA-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>



http://tinyurl.com/95lt5
Nigerian email scammers jailed
Mon Nov 21,10:04 AM ET
A court has sentenced two men to a total of 37 years in prison for their part in defrauding a Brazilian bank of $242 million, the biggest scam in 
Nigerian history, newspapers reported on Saturday.

The sentencing of Emmanuel Nwude to 25 years and Nzeribe Okoli to 12
years follows negotiations in which they agreed to plead guilty to 16 of 
the 91 original charges, and to forfeit assets worth at least $121.5
million to the victims of the scam.
A third fraudster, Amaka Anajemba, was sentenced to two and a half years 
in prison in July after agreeing to return $48.5 million to the Sao
Paolo-based Banco Noroeste S.A., which collapsed after the theft.
"The activities of the accused persons not only led to the collapse of a 
bank in a foreign country, but also brought miseries to many innocent
people," Justice Joseph Oyewole was reported as saying.

The fraudsters obtained the money by promising a member of the bank
staff a commission for funding a non-existent contract to build an
airport in Nigeria's capital Abuja.
Scams have become so successful in Nigeria that anti-sleaze campaigners 
say swindling is one of the country's main foreign exchange earners
after oil, natural gas and cocoa.

These are the first major convictions achieved by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which was established in 2003 to
crack down on Nigeria's thriving networks of email fraudsters.

Typically fraudsters send out junk e-mails around the world promising
recipients a share in a fortune in return for an advance fee. Those who 
pay never receive the promised windfall.
Ranked the world's sixth most corrupt country, according to an index by 
Transparency International, Nigeria has given new powers to the EFCC
which is prosecuting about 200 fraud and corruption cases.
The anti-fraud agency has arrested more than 200 junk mail scam suspects since 2003. It says it has also confiscated property worth $200 million 
and secured 10 other convictions.



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