Nigeria email scammer jailed
p2pnet.net News:- After oil, natural gas and cocoa, email scams are probably Nigeria`s biggest money earner.
Now a Nigerian court has sentenced a woman to two and half years in jail after she pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the country’s biggest e-mail scam case, the anti-fraud agency, according to Reuters, which goes on:
Amaka Anajemba, one of three suspects in a $242 million fraud involving a Brazilian bank, would return $48.5 million to the bank, hand over $5 million to the government and pay a fine of 2 million naira ($15,000), the agency said.
It`s the first major conviction since the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was established in 2003, to crack down on Nigeria’s thriving networks of email fraudsters, says the story, adding:
Anajemba, whose late husband masterminded the swindling of the Sao Paolo-based Banco Noroeste S.A. between 1995 and 1998, was charged along with Emmanuel Nwude and Nzeribe Okoli.
The notorious 419 scams, now rife around the world, started life in Nigeria where practitioners continue to thrive, the EFCC notwithstanding.
They even zoomed in on the tsunami disaster.
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See:-
Reuters – Nigeria jails woman in $242 mln email fraud case, July 18, 2005
continue to thrive – Nigerian-style 419 scam-spam, p2pnet, March 22, 16, 2005
tsunami disaster – 419 tsunami scams, January 7, 2005
July 18th, 2005 at 4:03 pm
I found a way to completely harrass these a-holes. These people have to have a way for suckers to reply to them. If you eliminate their communication channel, the spam run they just paid for is worthless.
Wheneve I get a 419 spam and it rquests that I send my reply to an email address (in the body of the spam), I foward that information to the abuse department of the host that supplied the email address.
Example 1: If the scammer asks me to send email to 419scam@hotmail.com I’d forward a copy of the spam to abuse@hotmail.com
Example 2: If the scammer asks me to send email to scamman@yahoo.com I’d forward a copy of the spam to abuse@yahoo.com
The 419 spams is the one type of spam where complaints actually seem to work. I very rarely receive this type of spam any more. Playing with these people and leading them on only allows them to keep their email account open, and that gives the fools who buy into their scam a chance to get suckered. Shutting the scammer’s email accounts down as soon as possible after their spam run will cause them to lose money. When complaints stop working, then I would recommend mailbombs denial of service and such.
July 18th, 2005 at 6:39 pm
I was emailed and CALLED by one of these nigerians a few years back. I still hold the fake check for $15,001 for a car they “wanted to buy” from me i was selling on carsdirect.com
they wanted me to cash the check and western union them back $5,000 for fees it would cost to have the car picked up.
they banked on me actually having 5 grand in my bank account though.. my bank would have laughed at me if i had gone in and tried to pull out money on that check without it clearing first.
these guys aren’t all great swindlers.
July 18th, 2005 at 7:47 pm
yaa dear .
courtesy of a young man here in britain.
well i really wanna know what is gonna be the very out come of this arrest of that young nigeria lady. i can be contacted on ivan50green@yahoo.co.uk.
July 19th, 2005 at 12:43 am
That his uncle was the heir to 20 million dollars which is held in a bank in the US, but because of all of the scams they can’t access it, without a $5000 deposit ‘honest money’ If you will send them $5000 they will give you $1,000,000 dollars. They will send you a check for that amount and release the funds as soon as your 5k arrives. This will enable him to pay his bail, and fine.
July 19th, 2005 at 1:36 am
lol
im still holding onto my check… i show it to everyone when this kinda stuff comes up.
July 19th, 2005 at 8:32 am
I find it totally incomprehensible that ANYONE ever fell for one of these absurdly simple-minded scams! I receive them regularly and usually delete them right away; but last time, I decided to have a little fun. I replied to the email completely in French, expressing my dismay and amazement that the poor people of “L’Afrique de L’Ouest”, especially those in Nigeria and “Cote d’Ivoire” seem to have so many problems trying to access their millions. I predicted they would soon be in prison, trying to avoid the unwanted attentions of a rather large Zulu from “L’Afrique du Sud” or some burly Swahili from “L’Afrique de l’Est”. Having then clicked the SEND button, I forgot about it until the next evening when my FireWall application advised me that there had been 43 efforts to access my computer through gate 40!!!