Three Nigerian 419 scammers nailed
p2pnet news | Crime:- “That’s a warning to people who have elderly parents,” said a p2pnet Reader’s Write to most recent post on Nigerian 419 scammers, going on, “watch out for them please, especially if they are just getting to learn what the internet is all about.
“The elderly have spent decades in a much more protected and smaller environment and have no realistic idea of how many evil people are ready to scoop money from them.”
Out story centred on the plight of a 65-year-old Australian widow, a first-time Net user it says was almost bankrupt, “after being seduced out of $60,000 in successive online romance scams”.
But elderly widows aren’t the only victims. Email is also replete with phoney lottery win announcements and at the end of last month, three men pleaded guilty to charges centering on pam email which promisedvictims millions of dollars from an estate and a lottery, says the US Department of Justice.
“In one scenario, the defendants sent emails purporting to be from an individual suffering from terminal throat cancer who needed assistance distributing approximately $55 million to charity,” it says, going on that in exchange for a victim’s help, “defendants offered to give a 20% commission to the victim or a charity of his or her choice. Subsequently, as part of the ruse, the defendants would send a variety of fraudulent documents, including a ‘Letter of Authority’ or a ‘Certificate of Deposit,’ making it appear that the promised funds were available, and pictures of an individual claiming to suffer from throat cancer”.
One of the sammers, aka Yellowman, went so far as to phoned victims, allegedly, “disguising his voice to give the impression that he was suffering from throat cancer,” says the DoJ.
Two were from Nigeria and one from Senegal, it states, continuing:
“The investigation was initiated by Dutch law enforcement authorities. After identifying victims in the United States, the Dutch authorities notified the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which opened its own investigation, resulting in the charges against the defendants.
“Three of the defendants were arrested in Amsterdam on February 21, 2006, and were subsequently extradited to the United States.”
They were:
Nnamdi Chizuba Anisiobi (a/k/a Yellowman, Abdul Rahman, Michael Anderson, Edmund Walter, Nancy White, Jiggaman, and Namo), 31, citizen of Nigeria;
Anthony Friday Ehis (a/k/a John J. Smith, Toni N. Amokwu and Mr. T), 34, from Senegal; and, Kesandu Egwuonwu (a/k/a KeKe, Joey Martin Maxwell, David Mark, Helmut Schkinger), 35, from Nigeria.
A fourth man, also a Nigerian citizen, Lenn Nwokeafor (a/k/a Eric Williams, Lee, Chucks, and Nago), “fled to Nigeria and was subsequently arrested by the Nigerian Economic & Financial Crimes Commission on July 27, 2006, pursuant to a United States arrest warrant,” says the DoJ.
He’s being held by the Nigerian authorities pending extradition to the US.
Also See:
Nigerian 419 scammers – Widow scammed in 419 con, January 15, 2008
US Department of Justice – Three Defendants Plead Guilty in “Advance-Fee” Fraud Scheme, January 30, 2008
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