Nigerian e-mail frauds targeted

Esav Benyamin

Esav Benyamin

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From the BBC News Online:

Microsoft and the government of Nigeria have joined forces to crack down on e-mail scams, many of which are known to originate from the African country.


In the most common type of fraud, email recipients are asked to pay a fee in return for a much larger sum of money - which they never receive.



The new agreement involves training and sharing information.

Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is currently investigating hundreds of suspects.


Nuhu Ribadi, executive chairman of EFCC, welcomed the partnership.

"They (Microsoft) will help us with one of the difficult areas, particularly when it comes to technology, and we will do the physical work of enforcement," he told the BBC.


"We have worked with them for the last six months now, and as a result of the work we have done, we are now going to bring a couple of companies to justice. Some people are being prosecuted right now."
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(The entire article is available at the link above.)


This crackdown has been going on for a while. I have no idea if it's at all successful, but we know it hasn't put the scammers out of business yet. :)
 
Esav Benyamin said:
This crackdown has been going on for a while. I have no idea if it's at all successful, but we know it hasn't put the scammers out of business yet. :)
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I would say they are effective; since the reward money being offered by the dead generals' families has decreased substantially :D
 
Well, they've had to live off some of that money since the last coup, or election, or however the generals ended up dead. :eek:
 
everytime i did receive such scam, i was always wondering who could answer to it and expect to have any money back...
I did found one site very funny where one guy answer, saying that he was a teenager from UK queen family, and so and so..they exchange plenty mails, the UK correspondant/princess never give any money but told them that her uncle (prince of Buckindam) was going to visit them in nigeria... etc etc.. after some month it ended, but the guy managed to drive them creazy... :D
 
I, for one, will be very disappointed if they disappear. Those scams and the various games played by the people scamming the scammers have provided me, and countless others, with endless amusement for many years.

I can still derive a small chuckle sometimes from reading some of those emails.
 
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