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Nigeria Detains 500 419 Fraudsters

Posted by timothy on from the bet-you-pray-real-nice dept.

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."

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  1. If they arressted 500 people by dcocos · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  2. Related links by JuggleGeek · · Score: 4, Interesting
    A woman was sentenced recently after having fallen for a 419 scam, and then stealing money from her employer (and their customers) to send to the scammers.

    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.

  3. Strange, I tought the government was in for it ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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.