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Nigeria Detains 500 419 Fraudsters
Traicovn writes "Nigeria's agency against economic and financial crime said on Monday that it had detained more than 500 suspects and seized property worth more than $500-million from suspected fraudsters. 'Presently we have over 500 suspects in custody, seized assets and recovered properties worth over $500-million with over 100 cases at various stages of prosecution,' agency chairman Nuhu Ribadu told a seminar. For the rest of the article, visit IAfrica. Personally, I like this 419 spoof."
Silly me, I had always assumed that at least most of the 419 scams just *said* that they were from Nigeria. More than a Half-A-Billion dollar cottage industry in a poor country like Nigeria and that was just what the fraudsters had left for the government to take, WOW, A whole economy based on stupid, greedy people.
The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
Is anyone going to do anything about the people who fraudulantly took 10bn last year for licensing software other people developed?
;)
I believe that they have a head office in Redmond.
They just need a way to get the $500 million out of the country. They heard from a mutual friend that you are a trustworthy person...
I rtfa, and I still am not sure what this is about.
Anyone care to explain it better?
"I only speak the truth"
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Of course we're hoping that these suspects are suspected by way of a fair investigation, and given due process and representation. As opposed to officials picking up a person at a cybercafe who used the same computer as a scammer had used 15 minutes prior. I have a friend in Africa who makes it his business to hunt down 419'ers and he says a lot of them are average joes, some employed and some unemployed, waltzing through cybercafes to send 419 emails.
I don't know much about Africa. It's a big continent, and I do know that a lot of areas are fairly lawless or corrupt way more than in corporate America. After RTFA, I don't see whether we can take justice for granted.
didn't bring in the guy who needed my help to wire transfer funds, I am anxious and still waiting to get my money!
and they had $500 million, that's 1 million per person in a country where the average per capita income is $290 a year, the scammers should have stopped while they were a head.
Jealous
I read the article. I was glad that 500 people were "detained" for fraud. I wasn't thrilled when I read the sentence "although the identities of those in EFCC custody are not formally revealed, observers noted that they included legislators, lawyers, politicians, bankers and public functionaries."
I hope this wasn't 419 rich people were detained while their government took $500 million of their money and other assets. Reading the article, it sounded all above board that the Nigerian government was doing this for the public good. I just felt terrified that I might be reading proganda. Is there any one that knows anything about the government of Nigera and their policies?
The topic would have been more readable had it been written like so:
Nigeria Detains 500 "419" Fraudsters
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"Nigeria Detains 500 419 Fraudsters"
I want to make a joke about that reading like >500,000 people, but I can't think of a snazzy punchline. Now I know how Bob Saget must have felt.
"Derp de derp."
jeez half a million , that's a significant chunk of their population</kidding>. but seriously, not that significant, how many people knew there were 137 million people in Nigeria?
1MM each ? Much more successful than I dared to think.
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We are the Nigerian authorities in charge of arresting Internet fraudsters.
We have recently arrested 500 of these and seized $500 million in assets. As we found your email address in their files, we assume you were one of their victims. Please send us your bank account information, so that we can refund you
one million dollars.
(insert pinky in mouth)
Nigeria Detains 500 419-Fraudsters.
Privacy is terrorism.
nigeria being famous for internet fraud is like, so totally gibson i can't even stand it. i bet their cell phone networks kick ass over anything you'd find in SoCal, as well ...
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With due respect I would like to disclose a transaction to you.I am Dr Zakk Zakkama, headof Nigerian World Bank Fraud and Antitrrust difision. Today we have closed thousand accounts valued at up to 50,000,000,000,000,00 under 419 investigation, however the money in those accounts will otherwise go unclaimed aunmless you can help me get them out of my war-torn country. Please send
bank informations for transaction to begin.
Plrease reply to my confidential e-mail address with favourable responce : zakk-zakkama@timedoctor.org.
Kind wishes and regards,
Dr. Zakk Zakkama
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Some people have hobbies where they pretend to be falling for the scam, just to see what kind of wierd nonsense they can get the scammer to do. This site has some funny pictures...
http://tbp.berkeley.edu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=303
More scammer-baiting can be found at http://www.419eater.com. And if you want more, just click on their links page - their are lots.
THANKS FOR THE EMAIL ME AM OK WITH U THIS IS THE INFORMATION FOR THE SHIPPING COMPANY FUNDS THE NAME AND ADDRESS IS HERE...
COLE JOHN
23 MARYLAND ROAD
MARYLAND
LAGOS STATE
NIGERIA
23401
SO GET BACK TO WITH THE INFORMATION FOR THE FUNDS TODAY...
Oh yeah! He has NO info on me. Now what do I do? Any suggestions? Should I send a tip to the FBI or file a complaint with the IFCC? Anyone have any suggestions of what I could do to dupe this con?
Well, what the hey. If anyone in the Chicagoland area wants to buy '93 Mazda MPV with 95K miles, check-out this ad or email me. Maybe at least something good like my selling the car will come-out of all of this, since no law agency will care about this most likely :(
Having heard quite a few Nigeria stories from the police, I was certain that the Nigerian government was cooperating in the fraud. Using it as a way of financing their country.
The police told me that people that get on an airplane and go to Nigeria don't even get in the country: they get robbed on the airport, threatened never to come back again and put on the next plane back.
Sure, it looks like a nice thing, but I wouldn't give much about arresting 500 people in Nigera. It's so currupt already, there's probably nothing to do about it. Would drug-producing countries just stop up because we tell them to (therefore reducing their hard to earn income) I don't think so.
well, "seized property worth more than $500-million" would support that argument - first they "cooperate", then they collect their revenues :)
um, but i came here to spend some mod points - d'oh!
I hope I didn't brain my damage.
I love it! Committing one crime just to fall for another. Ah, sweet justice.
There should be an Orwellian term for this woman, maybe "doubleplus stupid"?
Wish I still had some mod points to kick you're way. There's something not right here. It's hard enough to believe that one group of 419'ers could hit half a billion dollars. It's harder to believe that in a country so poor the local gov't couldn't be bought off to look the other way (unless they were planing to snatch the money). And why the heck would a banker do this kind of thing? He's got access to a bank, he can embezzle as much as he wants.
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