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Man Arrested in Australia Over Nigerian E-mail Scam

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the urgent-proposals dept.

slasher_14 writes "A 39 year old Sydney man has been arrested over the Nigerian Scam. Simultanious raids were conducted in two homes by police, who siezed computers and documents. Over the last 6 months, Australian police have tracked about 1.5 million dollars. The man faces Dubbo Local court today, charged with 17 offenses." Hopefully this means my inbox will be seeing less of these e-mails.

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  1. Bit player by Carnildo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    17 offenses? $1.5 million? Sounds like he's a small-time wannabe. Don't expect any noticable reduction in the number of scams in your mailbox.

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    "They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
    1. Re:Bit player by frankthechicken · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's not just the money, it's the fact there were that many people willing to give up information so easily that makes it so scary. It just shows why security is so bloody hard to maintain. You cannot ever have a truly secure system whilst relying on people who don't know the power/value of their OWN personal information, let alone someone else's.