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Fighting the Nigerian Money Scam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the laughter-is-the-best-medicine dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One of the most notorious spams, the Nigerian Money Scam, or 419, has reared its head again with the recent arrest of a California woman who embezzled $2.1 million from her law firm. However, anti-spammer Brad Christensen has apparently been having some success scamming the scammers. This exhibit contains some of his more successful exchanges. It seems he even managed to get some of the Nigerians to fly around the world to meet him. All in all, Bravo!"

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  1. Woman in California? by $carab · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm ashamed to say the stupid embezzler is actually from Michigan (my home state). "Detroit" and "Royal Oak" are places in South-East Michigan. Just because "Berkeley" was mentioned doesnt mean the story was from California. Sheesh.....

    1. Re:Woman in California? by Scutter · · Score: 3, Informative

      Not to mention, "Berkley" != "Berkeley".

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  2. Google cache of site by BlueStreak · · Score: 1, Informative

    That site went down awefully quickly, so here is the cache on Google

  3. The best 419 scam gone awry.... by MSBob · · Score: 3, Informative

    has to be the famous buddy weiserman. Read the entire message log as it's truly hilarious (esp. the multimedia content). Get it here

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  4. WRONG STATE! by zentec · · Score: 3, Informative


    Re-read the article, it's a Rochester Hills Michigan woman, working for a law firm in Berkley Michigan as posted at www.freep.com. Also known as, the Detroit Free Press.

  5. They Don't Actually Fly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    All the Nigerian scammers have relatives in other countries, who they use as agents for pickups. They don't actually leave Nigeria themselves.

  6. Re:Scamming the Scammers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    That's not William Shatner. It's some guy who doesn't even look close to looking like Shatner. Sheesh, we call ourselves geek, yet routinely misidentify our leaders.

  7. Re:Another 419 example by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Also see the spam letters for some older correspondence.

  8. Another reply... by sheetsda · · Score: 5, Informative

    Heres another humorous reply. I take no credit for it(it cites a slashdot posting interestingly enough).

  9. What you can do about it by mdubinko · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to the U.S. Secret Service: """If you have been victimized by one of these schemes, please forward appropriate written documentation to the United States Secret Service, Financial Crimes Division, 950 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20223, or telephone (202) 406-5850, or contact by e-mail.

    If you have received a letter, but have not lost any monies to this scheme, please fax a copy of that letter to (202) 406-5031."""

    -m

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  10. Re:The link to the site is slashdotted... by Traicovn · · Score: 2, Informative

    The exhibit is still available at http://quatloos.com/brad-c/directory01.htm
    Picked that up through google cache ;) Apparently they are trying NOT to get /.'ed? I don't know. The rest of the site seems to work ok....

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  11. in Canada by rakerman · · Score: 3, Informative

    You should forward all "nigerian scam" emails to wafl@phonebusters.com

    This rather unintuitive email address stands for "West African Fraud Letters". PhoneBusters.com is a joint effort between various Canadian policing organizations. And sometimes they catch people, which is nice.