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Louisana Police Bust an Infamous Nigerian Email Spam Scammer (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: You have probably at some point been contacted via email spam by someone claiming you are the beneficiary in a will of a Nigerian prince. As the scam goes, all you have to do is submit your personal information and Western Union some funds to process the necessary paperwork, and in return you will receive millions of dollars. One of the people behind the popular scam, Michael Neu, has been arrested by police in Slidell, Louisiana.
This may come as a shocker, but Neu is not a prince, nor is he Nigerian. He is a 67-year-old male possibly of German descent (based on his last name) who is facing 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering for his alleged role as a middle man in the scheme. According to Slidell police, some of the money obtained by Neu was wired to co-conspirators who do actually live in Nigera.
This may come as a shocker, but Neu is not a prince, nor is he Nigerian. He is a 67-year-old male possibly of German descent (based on his last name) who is facing 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering for his alleged role as a middle man in the scheme. According to Slidell police, some of the money obtained by Neu was wired to co-conspirators who do actually live in Nigera.
Gullible people were NOT his only victims. What about everybody who does not want to receive unsolicited shit mails in their inbox all the time? This crap keeps getting through all the SPAM filters and makes email a useless joke. Anybody participating in the misuse and abuse of the email system should be punished heavily, they are beyond redemption.
If I had a DeLorean... I would probably only drive it from time to time.
This crap keeps getting through all the SPAM filters and makes email a useless joke.
Nonsense. These "Nigerian" scams are the easiest things in the world to filter out. The are actually specifically designed to look like obvious scams, and the misspellings and even the claim to be Nigerian are intentional fabrications.
You see, for these scammers, the worst thing in the world is to waste time on semi-intelligent people who may fall for the initial hook, but then turn skeptical when asked to front money. So they only want to deal with the stupidest of the stupid. So they design a scam that only a total idiot would fall for, in order to separate the idiots from the herd.
If your filter isn't triggered by "Nigerian prince", then you deserve to be spammed.