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419ers Diversify Into Assassination Threats?

Posted by simoniker on from the nice dept.

Richardsonke1 writes "Just when you thought 419ers couldn't get any worse, now they are sending death threats, according to a story at The Register. The emails require you to 'produce a mandatory sum of US$40,000.00 {FOURTHY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS} only,into our account given below in nigeria within ninety six hours{96},alternatively you will be SNIPPED and GUNNED down during the period of our oncoming anniversary of fifty years.' All joking of 'snipping' aside, for those people who fall for regular 419 emails, this would terrify many gullible web users."

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  1. Re:Well then... by i_should_be_working · · Score: 3, Informative

    they do have alot of oil

  2. Oh wow, good call. by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't think they'd have to be convinced, I think it actually falls into the law, at least here in the US:

    According to Blacks (Law dictionary):

    A person is guilty of a felony if he threatens to commit any crime of violence with purpose to terrorize another or to cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of public transportation, or otherwise to cause serious public inconvenience, or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience. 18 U.S.C.A. 3077; Model Penal Code, 211.3.

    Sounds pretty clear cut. And this is one place where Bush's obsession with invading countries could actually work to our advantage.

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    1. Re:Oh wow, good call. by mattjb0010 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Section 323 of the Nigerian penal code:
      Any person who, knowing the contents thereof, directly or indirectly causes any person to receive any writing threatening to kill any person is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

      So no we're going to have start calling them 323s.

  3. Re:Maybe they've gone to far... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The United States Secret Service has been dealing with 419 scams in the US for years, and they even have a page dedicated to it.

    http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml

  4. This is not new by lone_marauder · · Score: 5, Informative

    Page 25 of this pdf has a sample of this scam from when it was sent via snail-mail in 1994.

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  5. Re:419 by ajs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even in jest. Even in part. It's neither funny nor reasonable to suggest sending an assassin after your political or financial enemies.

    Let's not even joke about the open source movement stooping to those levels, please.

  6. Re:Cheap ordnance by Firethorn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, we've ruined tanks by dumping concrete dummy bombs onto them from 40k feet. They weren't really 'destroyed', but enough stuff was sprung and dented that it wasn't usable anymore. We did that because they had parked them right next to a school.

    Kinetic kill devices are nice in that they aren't really dangerous after they hit.

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