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Microsoft Helping Nigeria Fight Scammers
encodics writes "News.com is carrying a story today about how Nigeria is asking Microsoft for help in fighting scammers." From the article: "Microsoft will provide technical expertise, training and other security resources to Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is tasked with fighting cybercrime in the country. Nigeria was initially slow to respond to the problem of '419' e-mail scammers operating in the country, who were duping unsuspecting Internet users out of thousands of pounds by promising a share of the secret multimillion-pound fortune of a deposed African dictator. "
Those unsuspecting internet users were basically robbed while attempting to commit a crime, were they not?
Everyone who got dupped should be procecuted for thier crimes not smothered with pity.
According to those Nigerian money scams were 8% of the total, with an average of two-and-a-half grand lost per victim, in 2004.
(I can't say this group isn't overstating the problem to boost its own importance, but those are stats, anyway.)
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
Yes, you know, these: £££.
If I have nothing to hide, you have no reason to search me
http://419eater.com/
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Has info about scambaiters, kind of a funny effort. But the question must be asked, do 2 wrongs make a right?
article links from last year:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3887493.s
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/13/16
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