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Nigerian "Scam Police" Shut Down 800 Web Sites

Posted by timothy on from the had-to-pay-shipping-on-them-first dept.

Sooner Boomer writes "Nigerian police, in what is named Operation 'Eagle Claw,' have shut down 800 scam web sites and arrested members of 18 syndicates behind the fraudulent scam sites. Reports on Breitbart.com and Pointblank give details on the busts. The investigation was done in cooperation with Microsoft to help develop smart technology software capable of detecting fraudulent emails. From Breitbart: 'When operating at full capacity, within the next six months, the scheme, dubbed "Eagle Claw," should be able to forewarn around a quarter of million potential victims.'"

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  1. Love those letters by EdIII · · Score: 5, Funny

    I rather enjoy getting those letters. The last one I replied that I was extremely interested but that I had recently had a dispute with my Internet Service Provider and my access to email would be shut down soon. I would be more than willing to help them if they could send $98.43 to Time Warner Cable referencing account number ################.

    There are other variations. Such as I can help them get the money out of the country but I need more money to pay my lawyer to settle some estate disputes. Buy me a ticket to Nigeria and I will come there personally. My rich family members think this is a joke and I have been cut off from the family money but I can show them if I can just get to Nigeria and show them that this is real.

    My record so far is stringing these guys along for 2 weeks. They finally give up frustrated. I actually had one of them write me back asking to be left alone and stop sending him emails.

  2. Noooo.... by u4ya · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some king just died and his cousin needed my help and promised to repay me half a million dollars for my bank account information, which I sent of course, because I'm not an idiot. But just how the hell am I supposed to contact him now?

  3. Re:This isn't going to help by mc+moss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was it this professor at Harvard who sent 600k to nigerian scammers?

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/31/harvard_prof_scams/

  4. Re:In other news... by Gerzel · · Score: 5, Funny

    What? You mean that some of those scammers were ACTUALLY Nigerian? I had always assumed even that was fake...

  5. Re:This isn't going to help by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    My cat tried to achieve the same results by installing Vista.

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    Table-ized A.I.