419 scammers US extradition
p2p news / p2pnet: Three suspected Nigerian 419 email crooks are being held Amsterdam until they can be extradited to the US. A fourth man is on the run, says CNET News, going on:
"A grand jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Wednesday charged Nnamdi Chizuba Anisiobi, Anthony Friday Ehis, Kesandu Egwuonwu and another unnamed defendant with one count of conspiracy, eight counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud. Anisiobi also faces one count of bank fraud.
"According to the Justice Department’s charges, New York-based victims of the e-mail scams lost more than $1.2 million to the fraudsters.
Perpetrators spam thousands of emails, "offering a large sum of money and attempt to dupe them into paying fees beforehand," says the story. "The criminals then pocket the cash and shirk their end of the fake bargain."
The three captured spammers face up to 20 years in a US jail for mail and wire fraud, 30 years for bank fraud, and five years for the conspiracy charge, says the story, adding:
"Dutch authorities, which initiated the investigation, are no strangers to dealing with suspected Nigerian scammers. In 2004, their bust of a suspected ring yielded 52 arrests. Last year, a Nigerian court sentenced a woman to two-and-a-half years in prison after she pleaded guilty to conspiring in what was called the nation’s biggest scam case ever – a $242 million fraud incident involving a Brazilian bank."
Microsoft recently boasted it was working with Nigeria to help stop 419 scams.
How successful are its efforts? Not very, if the output is anything to go by. p2pnet gets tons every day, and we’re sure we’re very far from being alone.
Yes, we know we could filter them. But they’ve almost become bizarre art-forms, deliberately naïve, weirdly phrased and badly spelled. And the fact the email scammers manage to hook so many marks speaks volumes in and of itself
Here’s a try-on from today’s batch.
My Dearest one,
I am very glad to hear from you. I am Sabina Nkono the daughter of late Mr Charles Nkono.
My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory coast, my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip .
My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on November 2004 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Seven million five hundred thousand United State Dollars.USD ($7,500,000) left in one of the prme bank in Abidjan he used my name as his only Daughter for the next of Kin in depositing of the money.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates. That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where i will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management Sir, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
1) To assist me claim out the cmoney in the bank where my late father deposited the money.
2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 22 years old.
3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit in your country.
Moreover, sir i am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/ you indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within fourteen (14) days you signify interest to assist me. Anticipating to hear from you soon. I am happy to have somebody like you as a gaurdian.
Thanks and bless.
Best regards,
Sabina NKono
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Also See:
email crooks – Nigerian scammers nailed, February 23, 2006
CNET News – Four men charged in Nigeria e-mail scam, March 23, 2006
stop 419 scam – Microsoft: 419 cop, October 14, 2005
every day – p2pnet’s lottery windfall, February 18, 2006
March 26th, 2006 at 2:10 am
The web owner of ZUG.com replied to one of these scam e mails as a joke just to see how long he could scam them back!!! It’s was quite funny what he told them while scaming them back!!!
March 26th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Why would I need a “foreign partner” to get my money out of a Nigerian bank? Surely you just go for a holiday in the US/UK and wire the money to yourself there.